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The Starting Station for High-speed Trains Accelerates Jiaxing’s Development

Release date:2019-06-14 10:11

From July 10, 2019, passengers may take high-speed trains with Jiaxing as the starting station  to get to Beijing, Chongqing, Yunnan and Shanxi. Jiaxing High-speed Railway Station that used to be a stop not a starting station or a destination now serves as a starting station and a destination for high-speed trains. It is great progress for Jiaxing’s entrance to the integrated development of the whole Yangtze River Delta region. Meanwhile it provides more transport choices for local citizens and accelerates local railway construction.

It is known that trains means enormous wealth. The railway is the artery of national economy, and the high-speed train, safe, rapid, green and comfortable, is a driver of local economic development. As to some cities, once they have high-speed railways, they are thought as “pearls of necklaces”. If not, they will be regarded as the “stones near these necklaces”. If a city can act as a starting station for high-speed trains, it is meaningful. On the one hand, the starting station brings convenience to the passengers of Jiaxing, and local people can reach Shanghai and Hangzhou during rush hours, and entrepreneurs of Jiaxing are able to get to Beijing, Kunming, Wuhan and Chongqing directly by high-speed trains with Jiaxing as the starting station. On the other hand, that Jiaxing acting as the starting station and destination for four pairs of high-speed trains mirrors Jiaxing’s advantages as a key city along the G60 Sci-tech Valley and a regional transport hub, which is to further help Jiaxing develop into a central city in the Yangtze River Delta region.

However, a city as a starting station and destination for high-speed trains does not just mean more passengers, more specialties and higher reputation. If that is the case, the roles of the starting station and destination for high-speed trains in leading regional economic development is underestimated. Actually, as the mot important transport way among cities, high-speed trains can facilitate the prosperity of catering services, tourism, hotels, real estates and retails among cities, drive the flows of labor forces, talents, information and capitals among different regions and between urban and rural areas, which will push ahead with the industrial structural upgrading and the development of the modern service industry. High railways link large and small cities and strengthen their prosperity in regional competition.

 Therefore Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui are striving to realize transport connectivity to reinforce the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region. As a central city of the Yangtze River Delta, Jiaxing regards Jiaxing-Shanghai Railway construction as the No. 1 Project in linking Shanghai. This city is endeavoring to build Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo Railway and Shanghai-Zhapu-Hangzhou Railway, expand Jiaxing High-Speed Railway Station and optimize the planning of urban railway networks, etc. With the construction of more railways, this city will become a city developed in high-speed railway. That Jiaxing is approved to be the starting and destination city for four pairs of high-speed trains indicates Jiaxing now links Beijing, Kunming, Wuhan and Chongqing directly. “That all railways lead to Jiaxing” will surely attract more resources and make Jiaxing more dynamic and vigorous.

So, the starting railway station and destination for high-speed trains is more meaningful. Efforts are to be intensified to construct more railways through Jiaxing, make railways serve as the driver to enhance urban public services, optimize business environment, attract more innovation resources and top-end talents and make local people’s life happier and more hopeful.