The country’s first “million-passenger flow” high-speed rail station witnesses the surging vitality of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Xinhua News Agency Client, Guangzhou, October 8 (Reporter Mao Xin) 1.049 million passengers - During the just-concluded National Day holiday, Guangzhou South Railway Station, known as the "super hub", once again set a new record, becoming the first railway station in the country with a single-day passenger arrival and departure exceeding one million. The reporter learned from the China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group that as of 0:00 on the 8th, 5.5943 million passengers had arrived and departed from Guangzhou South Railway Station, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, and also set a record high in passenger flow during the National Day holiday.

The high-level breakthrough in passenger flow is not only a concentrated release of people's travel demand, but also inseparable from the railway department's efforts to expand transport capacity, update facilities, and improve services. It is also a true reflection of the steady improvement of the transportation energy level of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the continuous burst of regional development vitality.

As one of the busiest high-speed rail stations in the country, the operating rhythm of Guangzhou South Railway Station can be called the "speed benchmark" of China's railways. During peak hours, a high-speed train roars out in only 40 seconds. Passengers lament that this is "turning the high-speed train into a subway." It connects Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and radiates inland. Passengers flow rapidly across provinces and cities, and the flow of people, logistics and information accelerates. During the National Day holiday, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail carried 135,000 cross-border passengers on the peak day, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%. The golden channel between Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong’s West Kowloon became increasingly smooth.

There is life behind the data. The heat in the station provides an opening for observing the surging vitality of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Since the beginning of this year, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been booming with both people and wealth:

The development momentum of the nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area is improving. In the first half of the year, the GDP totaled 5.95 trillion yuan, imports and exports increased by 20.9% year-on-year, and the level of opening up continued to rise; the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has repeatedly set passenger flow records, and the policies of "Hong Kong and Macau cars going north" and "Guangdong cars going south" have taken effect, making cross-border travel and logistics more convenient; people The momentum of talent gathering is also strong. After attracting more than 1.1 million college graduates in 2025 and handing in outstanding results, in just over eight months in 2026, Guangdong has once again attracted more than one million college graduates, locking in the annual talent attraction target in advance; the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" innovation cluster once again ranked first in the world...

Just one day before National Day, the Shenjiang Railway Hongqili Waterway Road-rail Bridge, the longest-span road-rail bridge in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, was successfully closed. Guangdong is actively promoting the construction of major transportation infrastructure, and the "Greater Bay Area on Track" is accelerating its formation.

Transportation connects the city, and the flow of people reflects vitality. The updated passenger flow data and the progress of major projects clearly outline the open, inclusive and vigorous development attitude of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The carrying capacity of the modern hub, the aggregate efficiency of the coordinated linkage of urban agglomerations, and the continuously optimized development ecology jointly build a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Here, every speeding train and every orderly exchange of people are vivid footnotes to the vitality and steady progress of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In the future, this land of innovation and development will continue to release agglomeration effects and radiation momentum, and steadily move forward on a new journey of high-quality development and high-level opening up to the outside world. (over)