金秋时节，在中原大地，一辆“复兴号”高速动车组列车正疾驰在济郑高铁濮郑段上，乘客不到一个小时便从郑州回到濮阳。

今年6月份，济郑高铁濮郑段正式开通，郑州东到濮阳东最快52分钟就可到达。这不仅填补了豫东北地区高铁空白的历史，还意味着河南所有省辖地市实现了“市市通高铁”。

从“十”字到“米”字，十年间，广袤的中原大地上，一座座象征希望与梦想的高铁站拔地而起，一张“米”字形高铁网从宏伟蓝图变成美好现实。

穿城而过的高铁改变着人们的出行习惯和生活方式   摄影 李新华

铁路路网越织越密

十年来，中国铁路郑州局集团有限公司管内铁路营业里程从2012年的3184.1公里增加到2021年的4726.1公里;高铁运营里程从2012年的707.1公里增加到2021年的1887.1公里，增长1.67倍。路网越织越密，承东启西、连南贯北，为城市高质量发展和区域协同发展注入了源源不断的活力。

2012年9月28日，郑州东站开通运营。当年年底，京广高铁全线贯通。河南的高铁时代飞速而至。郑州成为普铁、高铁“双十字”枢纽，“米”字形高速铁路网的框架也由此搭建。

开站之初，郑州东站全站仅有郑西高铁、京广高铁两线，日均发送旅客不足5000人次。随着2014年、2015年郑开城际铁路、郑焦城际铁路相继开通，2015年末，车站日均发送旅客达2.7万人次。2016年全年全站旅客发送量达1814万人次，日均6.3万人次。2019年、2020年，郑渝高铁郑襄段、郑阜高铁及郑太高铁先后开通运营。高铁、动车、城际、普速“四铁联动”，郑州东站运输经营节节高。2019年，全站发送旅客3100万人次。2021年4月3日，郑州东站发送旅客20.6万人次，创历史新高。今年6月20日，随着郑渝高铁、济郑高铁濮郑段的首发列车从郑州东站开出，河南“米”字形高铁网从纸上蓝图变为地上通途。

从2010年2月郑西高铁正式投用，到2022年6月济郑高铁濮郑段建成通车，这个“米”字形高铁网，不仅承载着无数中原人民对美好生活的期待，也正助力中原经济实现高速腾飞。如今，以郑州为中心，高铁1小时覆盖全省省辖市，2小时连通京津冀及周边省会城市，4至6小时通达长三角、粤港澳、成渝等全国主要经济区，形成了覆盖中部、辐射全国的高铁出行圈。

摄影 李新华

运输服务水平大提升

一个“米”字，承载着中原人民对更美好生活的期待。高铁带动着当地旅游、文化、娱乐、餐饮、住房等产业升级，也改变着人们的出行习惯和生活方式。发达的高铁网带来了全新速度，缩短了城市间的距离，越来越多的人过起了“双城生活”。郑州至开封、焦作、新郑机场的城际铁路实现公交化运营，旅客“说走就走”的梦想照进了现实。推行“铁路e卡通”，简化购票模式，增设专用安检通道、候车区、站台，协调地方政府加密接驳公交班次……一系列贴心举措，持续降低着人们追梦的时间成本。

十年间，郑州东站日均发送旅客量和日均开行列车数量均增长了近20倍。如今，每两三分钟就有一趟高铁列车从这里开出。高铁通达四方，旅客出行的脚步越来越从容。站内旅客多了，但光顾人工服务窗口的少了。电子客票、刷脸进站、定期票、计次票、电子临时乘车身份证明……越来越多的业务实现在线办理，极大地节约了旅客购取票时间。

哪里有旅客需求，哪里就有服务提升。十年来，郑州东站的客运设施设备也实现了全面升级。旅客最直观的感受是，智能设备多了，候乘效率更高了。行走在41万平方米的高铁站内，人们能通过各类智能设备，快速、精准地找到目标检票口、候车区，或及时获得其他服务。

高标定位创新发展

河南“米”字形高铁网，不仅见证了城市变迁，也一次次见证了“中国速度”：2016年7月15日，在徐兰高铁郑徐段，中国标准动车组完成时速420千米交会运行试验。今年4月21日，在济郑高铁濮阳至郑州段，我国自主研发的世界领先新型复兴号高速综合检测列车，创造了明线相对交会时速870千米的世界纪录。今年6月20日，就在济郑高铁濮郑段开通、河南“米”字形高铁成型的同一天，京广高铁京武段实现常态化时速350千米高标运营。

安全、高效、便捷、绿色，“米”字形高铁已成为河南的一张靓丽名片。2021年，《河南省综合立体交通网规划(2021—2035年)》提出，要打造轨道上的中原城市群。预计到2025年末，中国铁路郑州局集团公司管内高铁(城际)网覆盖面积将由8.38万平方公里增加至8.54万平方公里，覆盖20万以上人口城市将由94个增加至108个。

高铁，将给人民生活带来越来越多的美好期待。

郑报全媒体记者 张倩

【双语】

The asterisk-shaped rail network comes true

In the past decade, the length of railway managed by the Zhengzhou Bureau  Group Co., LTD of China Railway increased from 3,184.1 km in 2012 to 4,726.1 km  in 2021. The length of high-speed rail in operation increased by 1.67 times from  707.1 km in 2012 to 1,887.1 km in 2021.

The increasing number of railways has injected constant vitality into  high-quality urban development and coordinated regional development.

Zhengzhou East Railway Station opened on September 28, 2012. By the end of  that year, the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway was completed. Henan's  high-speed rail era approaches. Zhengzhou has become a hub of ordinary railway  and high-speed railway, and the framework of the "asterisk-shaped" high-speed  railway network has been built.

At the beginning, Zhengzhou East Railway Station only had two high-speed  lines, Zhengzhou-Xi’an High-speed Railway and Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed  Railway, which sent less than 5,000 passengers per day.

With the opening of Zhengzhou-Kaifeng Intercity Railway and Zhengzhou-Jiaozuo  Intercity Railway in 2014 and 2015, the station sent 27,000 passengers per day  by the end of 2015.

In 2016, the total number of passengers sent by the station reached 18.14  million, with a daily average of 63,000.

In 2019 and 2020, the Zhengzhou-Xiangyang section of Zhengzhou-Chongqing  High-speed Railway, Zhengzhou-Fuyang High-speed Railway and Zhengzhou-Taiyuan  High-speed Railway were put into operation successively. G-series high-speed  trains, bullet trains, intercity trains, common slow trains all appeared in  Zhengzhou East Station.

In 2019, the station served 31 million passengers. On April 3, 2021,  Zhengzhou East Railway Station sent 206,000 passengers, which hit a new  high.

On June 20 this year, when the first train of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing  High-speed Railway and the Zhengzhou-Puyang section of Zhengzhou-Jinan  High-speed Railway leaves from Zhengzhou East Station, the asterisk-shaped rail  network comes true from the blueprint on paper.

With Zhengzhou as the center, the high-speed rail covers the cities directly  under the central government in 1 hour, connects the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei  region and the surrounding provincial capitals in 2 hours, and connects the  Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Chengdu-Chongqing and other  major economic zones in China in4 to 6 hours, forming a high-speed rail travel  circle covering the central part and radiating the whole country.

The asterisk-shaped rail network promoted the upgrading of local tourism,  culture, entertainment, catering, housing and other industries, and changed  people's travel habits and lifestyles.

The developed high-speed rail network has shortened the distance between  cities, and more and more people are living a "twin city life". The inter-city  railway from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng, Jiaozuo and Xinzheng Airports has become  trains of mass transit type.

In the past decade, the average daily number of passengers and trains running  at Zhengzhou East Station has a nearly 20-fold increase. Today, a high-speed  train leaves every two or three minutes. When high-speed rail reach all  directions, the pace of passengers travel more and more leisurely. There are  more passengers in the station, but fewer people patronize the manual service  window. Electronic ticket, face check, regular ticket, counting ticket,  electronic temporary bus identification...... more and more business online  processing, which greatly saves the time of passengers to buy tickets.

Safe, efficient, convenient and green, the "asterisk-shaped" high-speed  railway has become a beautiful name card of Henan,which will bring more and more  beautiful expectations to people's lives.