Railways across the country sent 1.77 billion passengers in the first half of the year, with a maximum of 19.661 million passengers a day.

CTOnews.com, July 9 (Xinhua)-- according to the official account of China Railway, the country's railways carried 1.77 billion passengers in the first half of 2023, of which the number of passengers sent on April 29 reached an all-time high of 19.661 million.

In terms of trains, in the first half of this year, the country's railways operated an average of 9311 passenger trains a day, and additional night high-speed trains, moving-sleeping trains and general-speed passenger trains were added during the holidays.

As for cross-border trains, cross-border trains on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail line currently cover 68 stations in 49 cities in the mainland, running 182 trains a day and transporting 6.087 million passengers as of June 30. As for international trains, the China-Laos Railway carried 33000 passengers from April 13 to June 30.

In addition, the number of lines previously reported by CTOnews.com to support railway ticketing and time tickets has increased to 51, the coverage of railway smooth codes has increased to more than 3400 EMU trains, and the number of stations providing Internet food booking services has increased to 79.