The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link has handled 15.032 million cross-border passenger trips in the first half of the year, representing an increase of over two million passenger trips compared with the same period last year, marking a growth rate of 16.1 percent, according to the Shenzhen railway authorities.
Statistics show that in the first half of the year, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link operated over 37,000 passenger trains.
The number of passengers traveling from the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station to the mainland reached 7.362 million, an increase of 967,000 compared with the same period last year, representing a growth rate of 15.1 percent. Conversely, the number of passengers traveling from the mainland to the West Kowloon Station totaled 7.67 million, reflecting an increase of over 1.12 million, or 17.1 percent, over the same period last year.
As a key part of China's high-speed rail network, the whole line of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link is 141 kilometers long, including 115 kilometers on the mainland and 26 kilometers in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
It offers direct rail services between Hong Kong and 44 destinations on the mainland, including cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Hangzhou, Nanchang, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shantou, Guiyang, Guilin and Kunming.
From Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, it will take a minimum of 14 minutes to get to Futian Railway Station in Shenzhen, a minimum of 47 minutes to Guangzhou South Railway Station, and eight hours and 56 minutes to Beijing West Railway Station.
Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong express railway handles over 15 mln passenger trips in H1
