Jingguang Railway is a major artery railway in China, conneting Beijing West Station in Beijing to Guangzhou Railway Station in Guanghzou, Guangdong.

The railway is jointed by two sections. The northern section, “Jinghan railway”, is from Beijing to Hankou, and the southern section, “Wuguang railway”, is from Wuchang to Guangzhou. Jinghan railway was finished in 1905 and Wuguang railway was finished in 1936. Between Hankou and Wuchang, there is the Yangtze River. The two sections were finally jointed together in 1957 when the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was built and it was renamed as Jingguang Railway.

With a length of 2,324 kilometers, connecting the cities of Beijing and Guangzhou through 6 provinces, namely Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong, as well as dozens of large and medium-sized cities, and many other railways. Jingguang Railway has played an unusual role in the national economy of China. Even after the parallel Beijing-Kowloon Railway is completed, the Jingguang Railway still plays a huge role.

The electric locomotive traction is mostly used in the whole railway passenger carriages and freight passenger carriages. Since the first railway speed lift in 1997 until the fifth in 2004, the travel time of the pasenger carriage between Beijing and Guangzhou has been shortened from nearly 40 hours in the past to 22 hours. In the next openned Wuhan-Guangzhou Passenger line, it has became another leap to divert about 70% of the Jing-Guang Railroad passenger traffic. Electrification project began in the 1990s, the Zhengzhou-Wuchang section had been completed in 1992, the Beijng-Zhengzhou section began in 1993, completed in 1998, the Wuchang-Guangzhou section began in 1998, completed in 2001.