page_title: Rail transport in China
section_title: Rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Rail transport in China / Rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 东风11G型柴油机车牵引25T型客车穿行于广州市郊。
context_page_description: Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in China. As of 2015, the country has 121,000 km of railways, the second longest network in the world. By the end of 2018, China had 29,000 kilometres of high-speed rail, the longest HSR network in the world.
  Almost all rail operations are handled by the China State Railway Group Company, Limited, a state-owned company created in March 2013 from dissolution of the Ministry of Railways. It was converted into a joint-stock company and placed under the control of the Ministry of Finance in June 2019.
  China's railways are among the busiest in the world. In 2019, railways in China delivered 3.660 billion passenger trips, generating 1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres and carried 4.389 billion tonnes of freight, generating 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres. Freight traffic turnover has increased more than fivefold over the period 1980-2013 and passenger traffic turnover has increased more than sevenfold over the same period.
context_section_description: As of 2013, China's rail inventory included 21,100 locomotives, a net increase of 261 from the year before. Electric locomotives were 55.0% of the total, with diesel locomotives accounting nearly all of the remainder.  In 2011 there were 19,431 locomotives owned by the national railway system.  Another 352 locomotives are owned by local railroads and 604 operated by joint-venture railways.
  The inventory in recent times included some 100 steam locomotives, but the last such locomotive, built in 1999, is now in service as a tourist attraction while the others have been retired from commercial service.
  Among the most common types of Chinese locomotives are the DF (Dongfeng or "East Wind") diesel series, the SS (Shaoshan) electric series, and the HX (Hexie or "Harmony") series.  In the first decade of the 21st century, China began to import and produce AC/DC-AC transmission electric locomotives; the most numerous of these are the HXD series "Harmony" locomotives for freight loads. Most modern trains, for example for the China Railway High-Speed service, are either imported or produced in China using technology transfer agreements.
  In 2013, there were 60,600 passenger cars, 85.9% of which were air conditioned. The Harmony Express electrical multiple units totaled 1,411 sets and 13,696 cars.   Freight cars totaled 710,100.  In 2011, there were 52,130 passenger coaches and 622,284 freight cars.
caption: A DF11G diesel locomotive pulling passenger trains on the Guangzhou–Maoming Railway in suburban Guangzhou in 2008.
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