Hong Kong West Kowloon Station Photo:CCTV
Ahead of the 27th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland on July 1, the city is set to open a crucial new tie with the Chinese mainland by launching high-speed rail services to Beijing and Shanghai.
Starting on Saturday, new overnight sleeper train services between Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai will be operated from Fridays to Mondays, facilitating business and tourism exchanges between the Chinese mainland cities and Hong Kong.
“We will take the overnight train departing around 6:30pm tonight from Hong Kong and arrive in Beijing at 7am tomorrow morning,” Timothy Chui Ting-pong, director of the Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong, told the Global Times on Saturday. He is among the…