Passengers pass through ticket gates to board a train at the Shengzhou Xinchang Railway Station in Shengzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 27, 2026. China's first high-speed railway controlled by private capital has handled more than 100 million passenger trips as of Saturday, less than four and a half years after it began operations in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to railway authorities.

Stretching 266.9 kilometers with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the railway links Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou with the cities of Shaoxing and Taizhou. Since its launch on Jan. 8, 2022, the number of daily scheduled cross-line train services has doubled from the initial 17.5 pairs to 35, with more than 43,100 pairs of trains operated to date. (Xinhua)