On the morning of March 7, 2023, the mobilization meeting for the construction of the Zhanjiang-Hainan Haikou high-speed railway project was held in the Zhanjiang International Convention and Exhibition Center. Guo Xiong, director of the Reform Bureau, and responsible comrades from Xiashan District, Mazhang District, and Zhanjiang Branch of China Railway Second Academy attended the meeting.

The Zhanhai high-speed railway starts from Zhanjiang North Station in Xiashan District, Zhanjiang City, and connects to Haikou South Station by ferry after passing through Leizhou City and Xuwen County. With a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour, it has been successfully included in the 2023 construction plan of China National Railway Group and Guangdong Province.

The Zhanhai high-speed railway is part of the Baoyinhai high-speed railway that improves the national eight-vertical and eight-horizontal high-speed railway network. Recently, the plan for people crossing the sea has been adopted, and the conditions for the construction of bridges and tunnels crossing the sea have been reserved. After completion, a 2-hour traffic circle from Zhanjiang to Haikou will be built. Hainan's fast exit channel to the mainland is an important guarantee for practicing and serving Zhanjiang's strategy of "going towards Hainan" entrusted by the country. It is an important development pole and service for Zhanjiang to accelerate the construction of a provincial sub-central city and create a modern coastal economic belt The construction of Hainan Free Trade Port has important strategic significance. Editor / Zhao E