Ministry of Railways (China)

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Ministry of Railways of the
People's Republic of China

中华人民共和国铁道部 Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Tiědàobù
Constituent Department of the State Council (cabinet-level)
Jurisdiction	China
Headquarters	Beijing
Parent agency	State Council

The Ministry of Railways (MOR) was a

.

The ministry was responsible for passenger services, regulation of the rail industry, development of the rail network and rail infrastructure in mainland China. The ministry was also in charge of the operations of China Railway which manages the railway bureaux and companies in mainland China.

On 10 March 2013, it was announced that the Ministry would be dissolved and its duties taken up by the

(construction and management), in part addressing concerns about calls for independent supervision of the rail industry.

History

The Ministry of Railways' predecessor was the

.

On 10 March 2013, it was announced that the Ministry would be dissolved and its duties taken up by the

Rail bonds

MOR, acting as a corporation in the

in 2007.

For the year 2009, MOR planned to sell at least 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) worth of construction

]

Railway bureaus and companies

There were 16 railway bureaux and 2 railway group companies under the Ministry of Railways. As of 2008, approximately 2 million people worked in the Ministry of Railways.^[3][4]

Bureau or Agency	Railway Network in Provinces
Beijing Railway Bureau	Beijing, Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi (part)
Chengdu Railway Bureau	Sichuan, Chongqing
Guangzhou Railway Group Co., Ltd.	Guangdong, Hunan
Harbin Railway Bureau	Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia (part)
Hohhot Railway Bureau	Inner Mongolia (part)
Jinan Railway Bureau	Shandong, Liaoning (part)
Kunming Railway Bureau	Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou
Lanzhou Railway Bureau	Gansu, Ningxia
Nanchang Railway Bureau	Jiangxi, Fujian
Nanning Railway Bureau	Guangxi, Guangdong (part)
Qinghai-Tibet Railway Group Co., Ltd.	Qinghai, Tibet
Shanghai Railway Bureau	Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang
Shenyang Railway Bureau	Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang (part), Inner Mongolia (part)
Taiyuan Railway Bureau	Shanxi
Wulumuqi Railway Bureau	Xinjiang
Wuhan Railway Bureau	Hubei
Xi'an Railway Bureau	Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Hubei
Zhengzhou Railway Bureau	Hubei (part), Shaanxi, Shandong

List of Railway Ministers

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Teng Daiyuan	October 1949	January 1965
2	Lü Zhengcao	January 1965	1966
Post abolished
3	Wan Li	January 1975	December 1976
4	Duan Junyi	December 1976	March 1978
5	Guo Weicheng	March 1978	1981
6	Liu Jianzhang	1981	April 1982
7	Chen Puru	April 1982	1985
8	Ding Guangen	1985	April 1988
9	Li Senmao	April 1988	1992
10	Han Zhubin	1992	March 1998
11	Fu Zhihuan	March 1998	March 2003
12	Liu Zhijun	March 2003	February 2011
13	Sheng Guangzu	February 2011	16 March 2013

See also

• China Railway Museum
• Liu Zhijun

References

External links

• Official website (in Chinese)
• China Academy of Railway Sciences
• National Railway Administration(in Chinese)