| 16-21 Passenger and Freight Traffic of Principal Trunk Railways (2004) | |||||
| Name | Passenger | Passenger- | Name | Freight | Freight Ton- |
| Traffic | kilometers | Traffic | kilometers | ||
| (10 000 | (million | (10 000 | (million | ||
| persons) | passenger-km) | tons) | ton-km) | ||
| Beijing-Shanghai | 10562 | 60239 | Beijing-Harbin | 8274 | 35131 |
| Xinjiang-Rizhao | 395 | 1621 | Beijing-Shenyang | 1887 | 87073 |
| Shanghai-Hangzhou , | 6071 | 39282 | Harbin-Dalian | 3705 | 78526 |
| Hangzhou-Ganzhou | Tianjin-Shanghai | 5495 | 103255 | ||
| Yingtan-Xiamen | 714 | 6573 | Shanghai-Hangzhou | 255 | 6650 |
| Beijing-Kowloon | 4380 | 37853 | Beijing-Guangzhou | 7264 | 143011 |
| Beijing-Guangzhou | 12814 | 96795 | Datong-Taiyuan-Fenglingdu | 14289 | 37018 |
| Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan | 875 | 2136 | Taiyuan-Jiaozuo-Liuzhou | 8955 | 72307 |
| Shijiazhuang-Dezhou | 556 | 2214 | Beijing-Kowloon | 3882 | 66796 |
| Jiaozuo-Liuzhou | 1741 | 9841 | Lanzhou-Urumqi | 3570 | 75861 |
| Bingjing-Baotou | 1604 | 7275 | Harbin-Manzhouli | 3980 | 27471 |
| Baotou-Lanzhou | 546 | 3155 | Harbin-Suifenhe | 1364 | 19047 |
| Taiyuan-Datong | 533 | 1345 | Bingjing-Baotou | 4865 | 58649 |
| Fenglingdu-Taiyuan | 1407 | 4514 | Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan | 4457 | 21947 |
| Lianyungang-Lanzhou | 5365 | 41756 | Shijiazhuang-Dezhou | 408 | 13269 |
| Baoji-Zhongwei | 95 | 1651 | Hangzhou-Ganzhou | 3306 | 54525 |
| Lanzhou-Urumqi | 1105 | 18017 | Lianyungang-Lanzhou | 6940 | 114753 |
| Lanzhou-Qinghai , | 375 | 2163 | Qingdao-Jinan | 2039 | 19715 |
| Qinghai-Tibet | Beijing-Qinhuangdao | 584 | 11365 | ||
| Zhuzhou-Guiyang | 1480 | 15453 | Xinjiang-Rizhao | 3153 | 27306 |
| Baoji-Chengdu , | 2361 | 12432 | Baoji-Chengdu | 1358 | 24790 |
| Chengdu-Chongqing | Chengdu-Kunming | 2259 | 30516 | ||
| Xiangfan-Chongqing | 1817 | 12375 | Datong-Qinhuangdao | 607 | 87120 |
| Guiyang-Kunming | 1078 | 4159 | Zhuzhou-Guiyang | 2260 | 45007 |
| Nanning-Kunming | 476 | 754 | Guiyang-Kunming | 2208 | 22983 |
| Chengdu-Kunming | 1394 | 5483 | Baotou-Lanzhou | 5253 | 30374 |
| Beijing-Qinhuangdao | 1120 | 7579 | Qinghai-Tibet | 942 | 7054 |