AI Posters: China's first PPP high-speed railway marks milestone of 100 MLN passenger trips

China's first high-speed railway controlled by private capital has handled more than 100 million passenger trips as of Saturday, less than four and a half years after it began operations in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to railway authorities on June 27, 2026.

Stretching 266.9 kilometers with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the railway links Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou with the cities of Shaoxing and Taizhou.

Since its launch on Jan. 8, 2022, the number of daily scheduled cross-line train services has doubled from the initial 17.5 pairs to 35, with more than 43,100 pairs of trains operated to date.

The railway has cut the travel time between Hangzhou and Taizhou from more than two hours to 74 minutes, and ended the history of no railway access in some county-level jurisdictions including Shengzhou.

During the 2021-2025 period, China's operating high-speed railway mileage increased by 32.98 percent from 37,900 km to 50,400 km, making the country home to the world's largest high-speed rail network.

By Cai Shiying