With an investment of over 40 million RMB and a station area of nearly 2,000 square meters, the Haikou High-Speed Railway Station in Danzhou, Hainan, has been built for 8 years but remains unused, drawing national attention. Why was it built and left idle? The official response is quite straightforward: Haikou Station has a daily passenger flow of less than a hundred people, and if it were to be put into operation, the railway department would incur significant losses.
They even made an estimate that, if opened, it would lose around 5 million RMB annually, putting tremendous pressure on its operations! In fact, besides the unopened Haikou Station, Danzhou has two more high-speed railway stations with similarly dismal passenger numbers! Does a small city with a population of only a few hundred thousand really need three high-speed railway stations?
But don't be surprised, there's even more exaggeration.
The third-tier prefecture-level city of Guilin has astonishingly built 9 high-speed railway stations!
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