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China Railway Hohhot Group

Chinese railway operator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ10921252 ↗
Source-derived summary

China Railway Hohhot Group, officially abbreviated as CR Hohhot or CR-Hohhot, formerly, Hohhot Railway Administration is a subsidiaries company under the jurisdiction of the China Railway (formerly the Ministry of Railway). The railway administration was reorganized as a company in November 2017.

It supervises the railway network within central Inner Mongolia.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “China Railway Hohhot Group” as chinese railway operator. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-11-19. The account is most persuasive where China, Railway and Hohhot can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as chinese railway operator. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10921252. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “China Railway Hohhot Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.