China will increase the number of passenger train services by 571 this year, including 563 high-speed services, according to the latest adjustment to the national railways plan.
According to the data released by China Railway Corp, 6,284 passenger train services now run every day nationwide, with more than 60 percent of them high-speed.
The latest adjustment will further increase the capacity of high-speed links between Beijing and Shenyang in Liaoning province, Beijing and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, and Guiyang in Guizhou province and Shenzhen, among others, chinanews.com reported.
Capacity pressure on regular services will also be relieved by additional express trains, the report added, such as between Shanghai and Shaoguan in Guangdong province, Shenzhen and Luoyang in Henan province, Lanzhou in Gansu province and Hefei in Anhui province.
According to China Railway Corp, the country was forecast to have 18,000 km of high-speed railway in operation by the end of 2015, linking all the cities with populations larger than 500,000.
From January to August, 1.72 billion journeys were made on the rail network.
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