Hunan province to experience growth boost

Fast progress: A bullet train is seen in Beijing. Hunan has become the eighth provincial-level region boasting all cities being connected by high-speed rail service, thanks to the nation’s intensified efforts in the infrastructure sector. — China Daily/ANN

BEIJING: With more bullet trains coming in and out of stations in the cities of Yiyang and Ningxiang recently, the Central China province of Hunan has become the eighth provincial-level region boasting all cities being connected by high-speed rail service, thanks to the nation’s intensified efforts in the infrastructure sector.

On Sept 6, the rail section that is part of the Chongqing-Xiamen High-speed Railway between Hunan’s Yiyang and its provincial capital Changsha, a key line of the rail network in China, began operating.