Up to now, Shanghai Kowloon Through Train has been operating for 15 years.

The West Kowloon Station, which is close to the Airport Express and connects land and air traffic, has also become the preferred destination for many transit passengers.

According to the statistics of the Immigration Control Point, as of September 30, the number of passengers entering Hong Kong via the West Kowloon station of the high speed railway have exceeded 300,000.

The 70 daily one hour short haul trains running between Guangzhou South, Shenzhen North, Futian and West Kowloon greatly facilitated the residents in Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area to visit Hong Kong.

At the very time of the 69th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the West Kowloon boundary checkpoint predicts a peak of visitors to Hong Kong on October 1 and 2.

September 29 was the seventh day of the official opening to traffic of the Hong Kong section of the G series high speed train. It was also the first weekend after the opening. The West Kowloon Station was crowded.

The reporter learned on October 1 that Shanghai Kowloon Through Train had experienced 3 speedups in the past 15 years. Its passenger flow volume has been increasing so far the accumulative total number of passengers traveling on it between Shanghai and Hong Kong has reached 1.7 million.

The State Council approved to set up a temporary port for Shanghai Kowloon Through Train on October 1, 2003. As the first port directly connecting Hong Kong long distance railway passenger transportation in China, Shanghai Railway Port marked that Shanghai had established an open port pattern with water transportation, aviation and land route developing simultaneously .

In the morning of October 1, Mr and Mrs Song, who specially flew from Ningxia to Shenzhen and transferred to the first train of Guangzhou Shenzhen Hong Kong Express Rail Link for National Day, accepted an interview of a reporter from China News at the West Kowloon station in Hong Kong and inquired such information.

It is reported that Shanghai Railway Immigration Inspection Station has signed the Agreement of Police Co movement Mechanism with stations throughout the journey of Shanghai Kowloon Through Train and has sent policemen to implement the monitoring activities on the train, achieving the full coverage of service and control in 1991 kilometers in the past 15 years.

Miss Wu, from Fujian Province, prepared to spend the Golden Week with her friends traveling from Hong Kong to Philippines. Pushing her luggage out of the gate on time in West Kowloon, she told the reporter without hesitation, I was afraid of not catching up with the plane, but I didn't think it would be so fast and that was more than enough!

Mr Gao, who took advantage of minor vacation to visit relatives in Hong Kong from Changsha, told the reporter that previously, the high speed railway could only travel to Shenzhen North, and he needed to take the subway to pass through Hong Kong, and then take urban transportation means. It was troublesome and time consuming to make transfers. Now, he can travel directly to the center of Kowloon and have lunch which was made by his children when getting home. He felt very happy.