The single railway is 231.76 miles (372.98 km) in length and was built from 1996 to 1999 to carry coal from Shanxi Province.
[1][2] When the Hanji Line began operation in 2000,[1] it had a designed annual transport capacity of 20 million tons of goods a year.
[1] The line is operated by Hanji Railway Company Limited, a state-owned joint-stock company based in Liaocheng with the Ministry of Railways, Shandong Province and Hebei Province as shareholders.
[1] In 2008, planning began for a second track and electrification of the line, which would increase annual carrying capacity to 80-100 million tons.
[1] On 10 December 2014 the section between Handan and Liaocheng began being used for long-distance passenger trains.