HONG KONG: Celeste Lim is excited about her next work trip to Hong Kong. The Singaporean finance worker travels to the Asian financial hub several times a year for business, and often takes the opportunity to visit neighbouring Chinese cities.
With Hong Kong adding 16 new destinations to its cross-border high-speed rail (HSR) service from Jan 26, Lim can now choose to visit more cities in China by train.
“I come to Hong Kong all the time, but it was only in recent years that I started touring around mainland China as well; the HSR makes it quite convenient,” Lim told The Straits Times.
On her last work trip to Hong Kong in October and November 2025, she and her Singaporean friends travelled via the HSR to Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan in southern Guangdong province.
Destinations on the 16 new routes include some of eastern China’s tourism hot spots and business hubs, such as Nanjing and Wuxi in Jiangsu, and Hefei in Anhui, as we
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