More CRH Trains Enter Service as Sixth Accelerated Train Project Starts on April 18, 2007

Large-scale CRH trains are operational in China on April 18, 2007. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

More CRH trains enter service as sixth accelerated train project starts on April 18, 2007

A large number of China Railway High-speed (CRH) trains began running as China's sixth national railway speed-up started on April 18, 2007.

CRH trains were produced by several Chinese central SOEs including CRRC Corporation Limited and China Railway Signal & Communication (Group) Corporation Limited (CRSC).

According to international practice, a railway for both passengers and freight that can maintain 200 kilometers per hour or above qualifies as a high-speed railway.

As China's CRH trains can reach 200 kilometers per hour and 250 kilometers in some sections, China has entered the high-speed railway era, a milestone for China's railway equipment manufacturing industry.

Construction of Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, world's longest, starts on April 18, 2008

Construction of Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, started on April 18, 2008.

The railroad, running a total of 1,318 kilometers from Beijing South Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Station, was the longest high-speed railway built in one continuous phase to the highest engineering standards in the world at that time.

Twenty-four stations are set up along the railway which had a designed speed of 380 kilometers per hour.

Many Chinese central SOEs such as China General Technology (Group) Holding Co, Ltd, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, CRRC Corporation Limited, China Railway Group Limited, China Railway Construction Corporation Limited and China Communications Construction Company Limited joined in its construction.

The railway went into service on June 30, 2011 as the most heavily invested construction and engineering project since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Shale gas field opening on April 18, 2018 speeds up mass commercialization

Construction of China's first large-scale shale gas field -- China Petrochemical Corporation's Fuling Shale Gas Field -- was completed on April 18, 2018, accelerating the country's commercialization of shale gas.

The shale gas produced in the field is transported to the middle and eastern parts of China through pipelines built for the Sichuan-East Natural Gas Transmission project, and benefits over 200 million residents in more than 70 large and medium-sized cities .

(Executive editor: Li Shuling)