China's New Railway Plan: Further Increase Coal Transport Capacity

China's railways will implement their fourth-quarter train operating charts from midnight on Oct 11, CCTV reported. After the map adjustment, 5286 pairs of passenger trains are running on the whole route, 21 pairs more than the current map. There are 10,829 pairs of freight trains in operation, an increase of 41.5 pairs compared with the current figure.

In terms of freight transport, the plan has given full play to the role of heavy-haul railways and coal transport corridors, and further enhanced the ability to ensure access and energy supply. After adjusting the map, 10,829 pairs of freight trains were put into operation across the country, an increase of 41.5 pairs compared with the previous ones. Among them, the further increase of coal transportation capacity and the increase of cross-border freight trains on China-Laos railway attracted particular attention.

The plan will give full play to the role of heavy-haul railways and coal transport corridors, and further enhance the capacity of ensuring access and energy supply. Around the fourth quarter of the people warm winter brought by the coal transport demand, further increase the coal transport capacity.

Making good use of the electrification achievements of the double-track railway from Wubei to General Junmiao, adding 38 pairs of coal transport trains to improve the coal transport capacity of Xinjiang Zhundong mining area; The train operation structure of Linhe-Hami Railway and Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway was optimized, and 12 pairs of coal transport trains were added to improve the coal transport capacity out of Xinjiang. To optimize the train operation structure of Haole-Baoji to Ji 'an, Watang to Rizhao, Tangshan to Baotou and other coal transport corridors, increase the proportion of 10,000-ton heavy haul trains, and open three pairs of coal transport trains, so as to improve the overall transportation capacity of these coal transport trunk lines. To consolidate the needs of economic recovery and market demand in the passenger and freight off-season, we optimized the train operation structure of Beijing-Guangzhou, Beijing-Shanghai, Xiangyu and other high-speed railways, dynamically adjusted