"The new operation plan prioritizes the market's demands and diversifies the services provided for ordinary days and peak periods," Zhu said. "The daily transport capacity of high-speed lines would be increased by 70,000 travelers, 3.8 percent higher than in the past."
The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, the busiest route in China, has transported 220 million passengers in the past three years, largely due to the high-speed service.
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All 18 branches of the company reported growth in passenger traffic, with the Nanning branch in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region ranking the highest with a rise of 46.8 percent.
New Lines
Construction of 14 new railway lines has begun, China Railway Corp announced on Monday.
・The new lines have a total length of 3,712 km, and will require an overall investment of 327 billion yuan ($52.7 billion), the company said.
・The company said the priority of this year's rail construction is new lines in the nation's central and western regions.
・In addition, to meet the demands of a booming e-commerce sector in China, CRC will operate six one-stop cargo trains between Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to move goods more quickly.
・China's commercial carrier industry has become the world's second-largest, delivering 9.2 billion packages in 2013, up more than 60 percent year-on-year The new service was to start on Tuesday.
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