China State Railway Group Company, Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. China Railway operates passenger and freight transport throughout China with 18 regional subsidiaries. By September 2022, the total assets of China Railway Group are CNY 9.06 trillion (USD 1.24 trillion).

History

Under the Chinese Corporate Law, China Railway Corporation was reorganized into China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. on June 18, 2019, instead of Industrial Enterprises Owned by the Whole People. This meant the

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would act as an investor on behalf of the state and the company would be led by a board and managed by board-chosen executives.

Logo

The China Railway logo was designed by Chen Yuchang () (1912–1969), officially adopted on 22 January 1950. The whole logo represents the front of a locomotive. The upper part of the logo represents the Chinese character 人 (people), while the lower part represents the transversal surface of a rail. The logo means that China's railway belongs to the people. The lower part represents the character 工 (labour), means that China's railway belongs to the working class. The "CR" logo is used on the

Fuxing (train) Fuxing () (also known as the CR series EMU, or as the Fuxing Hao) is a series of high-speed and higher-speed EMU trains operated by China Railway High-speed (CRH) and developed by CRRC, which owns the independent intellectual property ri ...

along with the China Railway logo.

Companies

There are 21 primary subsidiary companies under China Railway. As of 2008, approximately two million people work in China Railway.

Second tier subsidiaries

International operations

International trains

China Railway operates passenger trains from China to Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, and Vietnam. Also operates freight (cargo) trains to these countries plus Laos. Currently all international passenger trains are suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. File:Beijing to Pyongyang train.jpg, The

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passenger train with the

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* 401/2, Suifenhe–Grodekovo * K3/4,

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)–Moscow * K23/4, Beijing–Ulaanbaatar * K27/8, Beijing–Pyongyang * K4651/2/3/4, Hohhot–Ulaanbaatar * K9795/6,

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* K9797/8, Ürümqi–

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* Z5/6–T8701/2, Beijing West–

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(transfer station)– Gia Lâm (Hanoi)

Services to Europe (New Silk Route)

China Railway ran

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services to 15 European cities, including routes to Madrid and Hamburg and the experimental East Wind service to London to test demand. The Chinese government refers to the two-week route, starting at

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and with trains to London traversing Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France, as the

Belt and Road Initiative The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road ( zh, link=no, 一带一路) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 150 ...

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must be transferred several times, as different, incompatible, rail gauges are used in different regions, and the same

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cannot be used throughout.

Africa

China has been investing in and helping to rebuild railways in Africa. Below is an incomplete list of rail projects.

List of directors general

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(2013–2016) * Lu Dongfu (2016–2018) * Yang Yudong (2018–)

Footnotes

References

External links

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The official ticketing website for China Railway－12306.cn
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China Railway Corporation official website
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