| 16-20 Passenger and Freight Traffic of Principal Trunk Railways (2009) | |||||
| 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 | 14307 | 76423 | Beijing-Harbin | 1374 | 54956 |
| Xinjiang-Rizhao | 608 | 2149 | Beijing-Guangzhou | 6362 | 125268 |
| Shanghai-Kunming | 8353 | 76634 | Beijing-Shanghai | 5317 | 78615 |
| Yingtan-Xiamen | 780 | 6213 | Beijing-Kowloon | 3687 | 107469 |
| Beijing-Kowloon | 6967 | 60057 | Bingjing-Baotou | 5975 | 73657 |
| Beijing-Guangzhou | 14608 | 124773 | Harbin-Manzhouli | 4580 | 44493 |
| Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan | 461 | 870 | Harbin-Suifenhe | 1419 | 18741 |
| Shijiazhuang-Dezhou | 715 | 3188 | Datong-Qinhuangdao | 1139 | 112702 |
| Jiaozuo-Liuzhou | 1614 | 12879 | Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan | 5971 | 21377 |
| Bingjing-Baotou | 2217 | 9971 | Shijiazhuang-Dezhou | 379 | 17902 |
| Baotou-Lanzhou | 913 | 4817 | Taiyuan-Datong | 12350 | 21385 |
| Taiyuan-Datong | 1158 | 2666 | Fenglingdu-Taiyuan | 4960 | 22880 |
| Fenglingdu-Taiyuan | 1724 | 5787 | Baotou-Lanzhou | 8777 | 47351 |
| Lianyungang-Lanzhou | 8607 | 61379 | Xinjiang-Rizhao | 5487 | 56127 |
| Baoji-Zhongwei | 207 | 2292 | Taiyuan-Jiaozuo | 6297 | 10492 |
| Lanzhou-Urumqi | 1653 | 25115 | Jiaozuo-Liuzhou | 4114 | 83197 |
| Lanzhou-Qinghai, | 635 | 5517 | Qingdao-Jinan | 1276 | 25822 |
| Qinghai-Tibet | Lianyungang-Lanzhou | 8359 | 149399 | ||
| Baoji-Chengdu, | 2808 | 12680 | Shanghai-Kunming | 8290 | 134211 |
| Chengdu-Chongqing | Baoji-Chengdu | 732 | 26112 | ||
| Xiangfan-Chongqing | 1784 | 13792 | Nanning-Kunming | 1590 | 30567 |
| Nanning-Kunming | 596 | 3863 | Chengdu-Kunming | 2725 | 37352 |
| Chengdu-Kunming | 1479 | 6160 | Lanzhou-Urumqi | 2783 | 108578 |
| Beijing-Harbin | 7241 | 45246 | Qinghai-Tibet | 2130 | 14091 |