The Ministry of Railways (MOR) was a constituent department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
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 Ministry of Transport (safety and regulation), National Railway Administration (inspection) and China Railway Corporation (construction and management), in part addressing concerns about calls for independent supervision of the rail industry. It was dissolved that year.
History The Ministry's railway building was important in China's national industrialization campaigns, mass mobilization, and military logistics. Academic Elisabeth Köll writes that during the Mao era, the Ministry's railways "represented the speed, economic efficiency, punctuality, discipline, technological advances, professionalism, dedication, and heroism necessary to promote the ideals of the party and the government at large."
In 1989, the state took assets out of the Ministry of Railways and incorporated them to form a state-owned enterprise, the China Railway Engineering Corporation.
On 10 March 2013, it was announced that the Ministry would be dissolved and its duties taken up by the Ministry of Transport (safety and regulation), National Railway Administration (inspection) and China Railway Corporation (construction and management), in part addressing concerns about calls for independent supervision of the rail industry. The last minister was Sheng Guangzu.
Rail bonds MOR, acting as a corporation in the debt market, has sold 60 billion yuan of bonds in 2007.
For the year 2009, MOR planned to sell at least 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) worth of construction bonds to finance a large expansion of the country's rail network.
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.
Bureau or Agency Railway Network in ProvincesBeijing Railway BureauBeijing, Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi (part)Chengdu Railway BureauSichuan, ChongqingGuangzhou Railway Group Co., Ltd.Guangdong, HunanHarbin Railway BureauHeilongjiang, Inner Mongolia (part)Hohhot Railway BureauInner Mongolia (part)Jinan Railway BureauShandong, Liaoning (part)Kunming Railway BureauYunnan, Sichuan, GuizhouLanzhou Railway BureauGansu, NingxiaNanchang Railway BureauJiangxi, FujianNanning Railway BureauGuangxi, Guangdong (part)Qinghai-Tibet Railway Group Co., Ltd.Qinghai, TibetShanghai Railway BureauShanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, ZhejiangShenyang Railway BureauLiaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang (part), Inner Mongolia (part)Taiyuan Railway BureauShanxiWulumuqi Railway BureauXinjiangWuhan Railway BureauHubeiXi'an Railway BureauShaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, HubeiZhengzhou Railway BureauHubei (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
China Academy of Railway Sciences National Railway Administration