(Seeing in the twelfth lunar month, the first two days), January 21, 1996, the opening and operation of the Beijing West Railway Station. the




Beijing West Railway Station, referred to as the Beijing West Railway Station or Beijing West, is located near the West Third Ring Road in Beijing, is located in the Lotus Pond Road, Beijing Railway Terminal, completed in early 1996, is the largest in Asia modernization of railway passenger station one. Covers an area of ​​510,000 square meters, the construction area of ​​170,000 square meters, waiting the Ferris-storey 90 meters, was "goods"-shaped; entire station equipped with nine sites. Beijing West Railway Station, investment totaled $ 23.5 billion. China's largest population distribution center and transportation hub, hair passenger train has reached 70-90 pairs / day, 18-20 million average daily traffic during periods of peak daily traffic to reach 40-60 million / day, an annual covering the crowd of nearly 180 million times.
1996 January 21, 2011 10 30 AM, "Mao Zedong" the locomotive traction with "special" train slowly pulled out of the Beijing West Railway Station
; Premier Li Peng, the West Railway Station cut