| 16-21 Passenger and Freight Traffic of Principal Trunk Railways (2006) | ||||||
| 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 | 12786 | 71085 | Beijing-Shenyang | 1661 | 83578 | |
| Xinjiang-Rizhao | 538 | 2293 | Harbin-Dalian | 3854 | 77809 | |
| Shanghai-Hangzhou, | 6043 | 45555 | Tianjin-Shanghai | 5504 | 88592 | |
| Hangzhou-Ganzhou | Shanghai-Hangzhou | 180 | 3528 | |||
| Yingtan-Xiamen | 758 | 7409 | Beijing-Guangzhou | 6784 | 141616 | |
| Beijing-Kowloon | 5286 | 46592 | Datong-Taiyuan- | 19425 | 42423 | |
| Beijing-Guangzhou | 13123 | 114020 | Fenglingdu | |||
| Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan | 594 | 1761 | Taiyuan-Jiaozuo-Liuzhou | 9469 | 81182 | |
| Shijiazhuang-Dezhou | 622 | 1844 | Beijing-Kowloon | 3929 | 96049 | |
| Jiaozuo-Liuzhou | 1428 | 10240 | Lanzhou-Urumqi | 4696 | 100075 | |
| Bingjing-Baotou | 1874 | 8299 | Harbin-Manzhouli | 5439 | 36388 | |
| Baotou-Lanzhou | 652 | 4378 | Harbin-Suifenhe | 1685 | 19510 | |
| Taiyuan-Datong | 651 | 1298 | Bingjing-Baotou | 3715 | 60077 | |
| Fenglingdu-Taiyuan | 1197 | 3983 | Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan | 5366 | 23754 | |
| Lianyungang-Lanzhou | 6795 | 50942 | Shijiazhuang-Dezhou | 668 | 16647 | |
| Baoji-Zhongwei | 127 | 1710 | Hangzhou-Ganzhou | 3555 | 52857 | |
| Lanzhou-Urumqi | 1322 | 23935 | Lianyungang-Lanzhou | 7474 | 116242 | |
| Lanzhou-Qinghai , | 383 | 2590 | Qingdao-Jinan | 1569 | 21176 | |
| Qinghai-Tibet | Beijing-Qinhuangdao | 431 | 13702 | |||
| Zhuzhou-Guiyang | 1679 | 19968 | Xinjiang-Rizhao | 3697 | 44202 | |
| Baoji-Chengdu , | 2784 | 11100 | Baoji-Chengdu | 1182 | 26165 | |
| Chengdu-Chongqing | Chengdu-Kunming | 2589 | 33916 | |||
| Xiangfan-Chongqing | 1950 | 6959 | Datong-Qinhuangdao | 1007 | 131446 | |
| Guiyang-Kunming | 1199 | 5839 | Zhuzhou-Guiyang | 2551 | 46879 | |
| Nanning-Kunming | 286 | 1120 | Guiyang-Kunming | 2459 | 21066 | |
| Chengdu-Kunming | 1555 | 6567 | Baotou-Lanzhou | 6024 | 37403 | |
| Beijing-Qinhuangdao | 1282 | 3965 | Qinghai-Tibet | 871 | 6447 | |
| Beijing-Harbin | 7830 | 36759 | ||||