"The safety of China's high-speed railway is completely guaranteed"

"The safety of China's high-speed railway is completely guaranteed" Xinhua News Agency The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, which has attracted worldwide attention, will be officially opened for operation on June 30. Relevant departments of the Ministry of Railways are responsible for...

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The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, which has attracted worldwide attention, will be officially opened for operation on June 30. The person in charge of the relevant department of the Ministry of Railways said, "The safety of China's high-speed railways is completely guaranteed."

In view of the fact that my country's long-distance high-speed railway will be reduced from the original 350 kilometers per hour to 300 kilometers per hour, some people doubt that "this speed reduction is because the railway department has no confidence in the safe operation of the long-distance high-speed railway." He Huawu, chief engineer of the Ministry of Railways, said that the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway was designed and built in accordance with the technical standards of 350 kilometers per hour. We conducted dynamic acceptance, preliminary acceptance and safety assessment before opening the operation. Experiments show that the CRH380 new generation high-speed train meets our target safety and stability requirements in terms of traction power supply, communication signals, and track and under-track foundations. "Through a large amount of experimental data, it can be said with certainty that the safety of China's high-speed rail is completely guaranteed."

The Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway will implement a mixed operation mode of 300 kilometers per hour and 250 kilometers per hour. Li Jun, director of the General Department of the Transportation Bureau of the Ministry of Railways, explained that based on our analysis and research, it is the best choice for the Changchun-Changchang High-speed Railway to implement a mixed operation mode of 300 kilometers per hour and 250 kilometers per hour at the current stage. The relatively independent intercity lines between Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai and Hangzhou are relatively short, so implementing a speed limit of 350 kilometers per hour is the best option.

Regarding the issue of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail fares, Li Jun said that the basic basis for high-speed rail fares is that high-speed rail companies, in accordance with the provisions of the Price Law, comprehensively consider construction and operation costs, social affordability, and other transportation mode price factors to set trial prices and report them to the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Railways for filing. Regardless of the soon-to-be-opened Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail or other high-speed rail lines that have already been opened, the fares of the 300 kilometers per hour EMU trains that have been announced are about 5% lower than the fare levels of the 350 kilometers per hour EMUs. On this basis, relevant high-speed rail companies can independently determine floating fares based on market conditions within the scope of freight policy authority.