The service was operated between Beijing West and Zhengzhou on the Beijing–Guangzhou railway, with a travelling time of 6h 42m.

[1] The D-series trains, operated with CRH2A (was later replaced by CRH5A) EMUs, shortened the travelling time to 4h 47m.

With the completion of the Beijing–Zhengzhou section of the Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong HSR, the D-series trains on the conventional railway stopped services on 21 December 2012[2] and was replaced by the faster G-series trains on the new high-speed railway, which was opened 5 days later, on 26 December 2012.

On 28 December 2013, the timetables of the services were adjusted and a new pair of G-series trains (G559/560) between Beijing West and Zhengzhou East were added.

These trains provide non-stop services between Beijing West and Zhengzhou East with a travelling time of 2h 25m.

Beside the services mentioned above, the high-speed train services between Beijing and most cities in central, south and west China, including Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, Lanzhou, Nanchang, etc., also provide high-speed train connection between Beijing and Zhengzhou.