The Zhangjiakou-Hohhot high-speed railway is a

high-speed rail High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated railway track, tracks. While there is ...

way located in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It connects

Hohhot Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the Capital (political), capital of Inner Mongolia in the North China, north of the China, People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrativ ...

, the capital city of

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

, to

Zhangjiakou Zhangjiakou (), also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southwest ...

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

province. The line has a length of as a double-tracked passenger dedicated line, with seven stations situated along its route. Construction was commenced on April 28, 2014. Connection with the Beijing–Zhangjiakou intercity railway enables high speed rail services from the central region of Inner Mongolia to

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

, reducing the travel time between Beijing and Hohhot from nine hours to under three hours. The western section from Ulanqab to Hohhot East was opened on August 3, 2017. The section from Zhangjiakou to Ulanqab opened in December 2019.

Stations

Route description

Starting from , heading west through Wanquan County and

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. Continuing westward through Shangyi County before crossing the border into

's Xinghe County to . Further westward across the

Qahar Right Front Banner Chahar Right Front Banner or Qahar Right Front Banner (Mongolian language, Mongolian: ; zh, s=察哈尔右翼前旗) is a Banner (Inner Mongolia), Banner of Inner Mongolia, China, surrounding Jining District and bordering Xinghe County to the ea ...

to the Jining District to . Shadowing the route of the G6 Expressway the line then comes to in

Zhuozi County Zhuozi (; zh, s=卓资县) is a county of Ulanqab prefecture-level city, which in turn is part of Inner Mongolia, China. It has an area of , and in 2020 had about inhabitants. Administrative divisions Zhuozi County is made up of 5 towns ...

along with . Finally this line terminates at .

References

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