The Ministry of Railway initiated a plan to build a new passenger station in Wuliting, the northern part of the city in 1978.

[3][4] The Municipal Government of Jinhua reserved the land of 3,000 Mu in the West of the city as the proposed construction site in accordance to cooperate with the plan.

However, the Ministry of Railway announced to suspend the plan for the new passenger station in Jinhua, given the reason of "lack of funding" in a conference held in November 1990.

The Jinhua Government then began a massive campaign, including lobbying with stakeholders, members in National People's Congress (Yan Jici) and Political Consultative Conference in order to restart the plan for the new passenger station.

[8] Starting on November 30, 2006, Shanghai Railway Bureau began the experiments of long-locomotive-routing from Hangzhou to Xiangtang to improve the efficiency of the tracks, six passenger trains did not have to change the locomotive here by the time.

There were several trains suspended their passenger services at Jinhua West in accordance with the elevation construction.

The construction expanded the size of the waiting area to 4660 sq meters, numbers of the ticket counters from 12 to 24, re-decorated the interior and re-construct the bullet-train-like station building façade.

The first step of the reconstruction, the demolishment of Jinfa Tower which was located beside the south station building, was started on December 22.

However, the reconstruction of the south station building, which was planned to start in February 2015, was postponed until 2017 due to the negotiation with the relative stakeholders and the difficulty in construction.

The design was originated from the idea "train station is the gateway to a city", and was adopted with the Jinhua's local culture.

[11][21][26] The elevated waiting room connects the north and south station building with the size of 11,658 sq meters.

There are no crossover switches at throats of either direction which disabled the condition for having high-speed trains originated from Jinhua.