More high-speed services added in 2016

China will increase the number of passenger train services by 571 this year, including 563 high-speed services, according to the latest adjustment to the national railways plan.

According to the data released by China Railway Corp on Sunday, 6,284 passenger train services now run every day nationwide, with more than 60 percent of them high-speed.

The latest adjustment will further increase the capacity of high-speed links between Beijing and Shenyang in Liaoning province, Beijing and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, and Guiyang in Guizhou province and Shenzhen, among others, chinanews.com reported.