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improve the economic performances of urban sectors, strengthen the economic potentiality of the city but also can help the city to meet the city's growing population and social development needs. As the economy in Ningbo is booming, the conventional railway, the Xiao Yong Railway, is unable to meet the demand for railway travel between the two largest cities in Zhejiang, Ningbo and Hangzhou.
Improving transportation conditions for economic development in a particular region is important. Since 21st century, China, especially for Yangtze River Delta, has been expanding its high-speed railway network dramatically. Also, this district has the highest level of overall economic strength in China. According to Brian D. Sands, high speed rail is considered to be the most visible form of new technology, which accelerates the transformation to an information based economy (Sands,1993). The development of inter-city high-speed railway offers increased opportunities of face-to-face communication among the knowledge-handing workers (Kobayashi and Okumura, 1999). With the expanding of urban scale and intercity transportation, the economic links and interaction between regions are gradually integrated.
Hang-Yong High-Speed Railway began its commercial operation in 2013, and it connects two big cities, Hangzhou and Ningbo. It passes through seven stations. The scale and logistical significance of China’s High-Speed Railway can create new opportunities in many sectors, such as car rental, consumer staples, retailers and brands, restaurant and catering, budget hotels and tourism. The impacts of the high-speed railway systems in the short-run and long-run can be very complex. We analyze Hang Yong High-Speed Rail’s impacts on the industrial structure in the cities along its line. The question is answered through a combination of case studies and literature review. Accessibility indicator is used to show the ease with which activities can be reached from a given location by using a particular transportation system.

1.1 Characteristics of the Hang-Yong High-Speed Railway

The Hang-Yong High-Speed Railway connects two major cities, Hangzhou and Ningbo. Literally, “Hang” is a short name for Hangzhou, and “Yong” stands for Ningbo. It spans about 149.8 kilometers and passes through seven stations: Hangzhou East, Hangzhou South, Shaoxing North, Shangyu North, Yuyao North, Gaoqiao and Ningbo South. If we draw a circle centered at Hangzhou on the map, with a radius of one hour’s drive, Ningbo and Shanghai will be found in that circle, as shown in the following figure 1. With the formation of Hang Yong High-Speed Railway, the One Hour Traffic Tour between Hangzhou and Ningbo becomes a reality. According to Yuhua Li, the chief engineer of this project, Hang Yong High-Speed Railway is the fastest, most straight and cleanest railway. Because there is little tiny fragment of stone, coal and other materials on the road, it is referred as the cleanest railway. （Figure 1）

Figure1. Map of the One Hour Traffic Tour
Hang-Yong High-Speed Railway started its commercial operations on July 1, 2013. The gross investment of this project reached ￥21.2 billion. With the design speed of 350 kilometers per hour (220 mph), the journey from Hangzhou to Ningbo will take only 53 minutes. If people choose the inter-city conventional train, it would take almost three hours. Hang Yong Hi