China lays on extra trains to cope with Spring Festival rail passenger record BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's transport authorities will lay on up to 318 additional rail journeys each day, a record high, during the upcoming Spring Festival travel period, known in Chinese as Chunyun.

BEIJING, Aug. 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- EPIN Media, a member of the EPIN Holdings., held a promotion event ''China's Largest Railway Mobile Media'' in the Great Hall of the People on August 17.

First railway tickets from Beijing to Lhasa sell out fast BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The railway tickets from Beijing to Lhasa were snapped up on Wednesday, the first day the tickets were released to the public. The inaugural train leaves Beijing on Saturday.

Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Beijing, 10 May: Beijing South Railway Station, a 109-year-old depot that has served thousands of antigovernment petitioners who live nearby while their cases are heard by central authorities, closed at midnight Tuesday [9 May].

More than 2 million passengers leave Beijing by train during May Day golden week BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Over two million people will leave the Chinese capital by train for other cities during the May Day holiday, the municipal railway administration has predicted.