China News Service, Chongqing, December 24th (Reporter Han Luyue Yitong) At 9:15 on the 24th, the CR400AF Fuxing EMU departed from Chongqing Shapingba Station and headed for Chengdu East Station.
At the same time, the EMU of the same model also drove out from the opposite direction of Chengdu East Railway Station.
The operation of these two trains with a running time of 62 minutes marked the realization of high-speed rail transit operations in Chongqing and Chengdu, two megacities in the west.
The Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed railway is an important part of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail channels along the river. It is the main skeleton of the intercity railway network in the Shuangcheng Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, with a total length of 299.8 kilometers.
Since its opening to traffic in December 2015, the passenger flow of Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail has shown a rapid growth trend.
In 2019, the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail sent 31.85 million passengers, an increase of 15.07 million from 2016, an increase of 89.8%.
The picture shows the CR400AF Fuxing EMU departing from Chengdu East Railway Station.
Photo by Yue Yitong
"Currently, the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail has arranged 87.5 pairs of mobile vehicles, and there is an average of one train every 20 minutes between the two places. Except for the two hubs, the intermediate line of the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail will operate at a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour." The person in charge of the relevant department of the Railway Group Co., Ltd. told the reporter of Chinanews.com that after its completion in December 2015, due to the rapid increase in passenger flow, the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail has been operating on the original basis on the basis of infrastructure equipment and maintenance technology. , Disaster prevention technology, detection technology, electronic ticket technology and other comprehensive innovation and promotion, and now, the speed has been increased from 300 kilometers to 350 kilometers per hour.
The opening of the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail in 2015 shortened the space-time distance between the two megacities in the west, Chongqing and Chengdu, to one and a half hours for the first time.
At the beginning of 2020, the sixth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee proposed to promote the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing area twin-city economic circle.
Among them, strengthening the construction of transportation infrastructure has become one of the important tasks in the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region.
“While the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail meets the standards and speeds up and improves the quality, we are accelerating the planning and construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing mid-line high-speed rail. At present, the preliminary work of the project is progressing smoothly." The realization of public transportation, ticket purchase, public transportation, and service public transportation will make it easier for passengers to travel between Chengdu and Chongqing.