According to 908 New Media, the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway officially began operations today (September 28).

The Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway is one of the "vertical" lines in China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, starting from Beijing Fengtai Station and passing through Xiongan, Shangqiu, Hefei, Nanchang, Ganzhou, Shenzhen and other places before terminating at Hong Kong West Kowloon Station.

Currently, the Shangqiu-Hefei section, the Hefei-Anqing-Jiujiang section, the Nanchang-Ganzhou section, the Ganzhou-Shenzhen section, and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway have all been completed and are in operation. The Nanchang-Jiujiang section is under construction, and preliminary work for the Beijing Fengtai-Xiongan section is being actively and orderly advanced.

Starting today, passengers in Hefei, Huainan, Shouxian, Fuyang and Bozhou in Anhui Province can take high-speed rail directly to Beijing Daxing Airport.

The high-speed train from Hefei to Daxing Airport departs Hefei Station at 6:56, arrives at Huainan South Station at 7:23, Shouxian Station at 7:34, Fuyang West Station at 8:05, Bozhou South Station at 8:34, and reaches Beijing Daxing Airport at 12:20.

From Daxing Airport to Hefei, there are three high-speed trains daily, mainly concentrated during midday and afternoon hours.

After the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway is completed and opened to traffic, the maximum operating speed will be 350 kilometers per hour.

In the initial period of operation, the railway department will arrange up to 64 EMU trains per day, all of which are cross-line EMU trains. The fastest travel time from Xiongan to Shangqiu is 2 hours and 27 minutes.

For the first time, cross-line high-speed trains will operate from Beijing West via the Beijing-Xiongan Intercity Railway, the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway, and the Shangqiu-Hefei section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway to Hefei and Huangshan North.

For the first time, Xiongan will operate cross-line high-speed trains via the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway, the Jinan-Zhengzhou High-Speed Railway, and the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway to Shanghai Hongqiao.

To meet the different travel needs of passengers, the railway department has implemented a flexible discount and differentiated market-based pricing mechanism on the Xiongan-Shangqiu section of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway, providing passengers with more choices. Specific ticket prices can be checked through Railway 12306.