Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd. (GSRC) is the operator of Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway (Guang-shen Railway), the 152-kilometre railway link between Guangzhou and Shenzhen in

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

, China. The company is engaged in railway

passenger A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. The ...

and freight

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between Shenzhen and Pingshi and certain long-distance passenger transportation services. It also cooperates with MTR Corporation in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

in operating the Guangdong Through Train passenger service. The market capitalization of Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd. is around HK$5 billion in January 2016.

History

Guangshen Railway was the Chinese section of Kowloon–Canton Railway (Canton was the old name of Guangzhou). In 1949 the Chinese section was taken under the control of the new state. It was under the supervision of Guangzhou Railway Bureau (now

Guangzhou Railway Group China Railway Guangzhou Group, officially abbreviated as CR Guangzhou or CR-Guangzhou, formerly, Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corporation from 1993 to 2017 and Guangzhou Railway Administration from 1953 to 1993, is a subsidiaries company under the ju ...

). The railway was later incorporated as Guangshen Railway Corp. () in 1984.

Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd.

The company was re- incorporated in 1996 as a joint-stock company with limited liabilities. Its

H shares H shares () refer to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Many companies float their shares simultaneously on the Hong Kong market and one of the two mainland Chinese stock exc ...

were listed on the

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in 1996; the ADR of the H shares also listed in the

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in the same year. Its A shares were listed on the

Shanghai Stock Exchange The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shanghai, China. It is one of the three stock exchanges operating independently in mainland China, the others being the Beijing Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exc ...

in 2006. It is currently the only Chinese railway enterprise with shares listed in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.

Operations

United Kingdom

In June 2017 in partnership with MTR Corporation, the company was shortlisted to bid for the

West Coast Partnership The West Coast Partnership (WCP) is a railway franchise in the United Kingdom for passenger trains on the West Coast Main Line (WCML)(and branches thereof), between London Euston, the West Midlands, Shropshire, North Wales, Liverpool, Mancheste ...

franchise in the United Kingdom.Three shortlisted for West Coast Partnership franchise
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'' 22 June 2017

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