Situated at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, the Shandan Horse Ranch(马场)station is located in Shandan county in the city of Zhangye along the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway line.

The expansion project of the station, where there were no passenger transport services before, started construction in March, 2021. A passenger terminal building covering an area of 1,080 square meters, two platforms and other facilities were built     1     part of the project.

Eight trains,       2     (head)for several cities including Lanzhou, Xi'an and Urumqi, will now stop over at the station     3     (pick)up passengers.

Yang Yifeng took the train eastward to Tianshui, Gansu, a trip of five and a half hours now.

“We used to take normal trains and then travel by bus from Tianshui to the horse ranch, with the journey lasting more than 10 hours. Now the trip is very     4     (convenience)," said Yang, one of the first batch of passengers.

Shandan Horse Ranch,       5     is under the foot of the Qilian Mountains, is one of the oldest horse ranches in the world. Horses     6     (raise)here since the Han Dynasty(202 B.C.-A.D. 220), and the tradition of horse breeding has continued for thousands of years. During the Tang Dynasty(618-907)reign,       7     number of horses in Shandan exceeded 70,000.

In recent years, with great     8     (achieve)in the ecological protection of the Qilian Mountains, Shandan Horse Ranch began to     9     (active)develop tourism.

Chen Jin, deputy head of Shandan county, said that with the opening of the station,     10     (tourist)from all over the country can come to visit the ranch more easily via the high-speed railway.

High-speed rail     1       (develop) rapidly in China since the mid-2000s. China's high-speed rail accounts     2     two-thirds of the world's total high-speed railway networks. China's rail     3       (ambitious) just keep growing. The latest addition to the country's railway network is a high-speed train line, connecting the cities of Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Fuzhou, all three of     4     are in Fujian Province.

The first train on this line started operating on September 28, 2023,     5     (depart) from Fuzhou, the province's capital. Travel time between Fuzhou and Xiamen,     6     popular tourist destination, will be under an hour. The new railway currently has 84 bridges, 29 tunnels,     7     a section of the track that goes over the sea, making it the     8       (country) first over-water bullet train. Official state news agency Xinhua notes that ground transportation in Fujian Province has been     9     (challenge) due to it mountainous terrain (地形) .     10     (make) the operation of this new line is a significant milestone for the province. China's continuous investments in its railway network will contribute to the country's overall economic growth and development.