The Zhengzhou East Railway Station (simplified Chinese: 郑州东站; traditional Chinese: 鄭州東站; pinyin: zhèngzhōu dōngzhàn, ZZD[citation needed]), is a high speed passenger railway station in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. It is located approximately 3 km southeast of the International Conventional and Exhibition Centre in the Zhengzhou East New Area, between East Jinshiu Rd. and Shangdu Rd. on both sides of the New National Highway 107, on the junction of the North-South Jingguang Passenger Railway and the East-West Xulan Passenger Railway. Upon its completion in September 2012, it has become one of the largest interchange railway stations in China.

Station Facilities
The new station will cover an area of 219.07 hectares and have a floor area of 350,000 sq m. It will cost 4 billion RMB, have 16 platforms (2 side platforms and 14 island platforms) and 34 tracks (4 stub-end and 30 through). Platforms 1 through 8 will be for the Jingguang Line (Beijing to Guangzhou and Hong Kong) and platforms 10 through 16 will be for the Xulan Line (Xuzhou and Shanghai to Lanzhou and Xi'an). Platform 9 will be for general use. There will also be a VIP waiting room and station offices on the platforms. The station will have 5 levels: ground level, 2 above ground, and 2 below. There will be a great hall with access to parking and station exits. The lower level will have six connecting corridors to the Zhengzhou Metro.

 Introduction 

The station is located south to Zhongyuan East Road, north to Datong Road, and west to Fuzhou Street at Erqi District. It was first built in 1904 and reconstructed in 1953 and 1988 respectively. In 1999, two further reconstructions were completed and the station has its present look. It is at the junction of Longhai (Gansu–Lianyungang) Railway and Jingguang (Beijing–Guangzhou) Railway. Due to its position and the number of passengers, the station is called the "Heart of China's Railway Passenger Transportation". Every day it operates more than 330 trains heading to over 40 Chinese cities with a total of nearly 160,000 passengers. Accompanied by the operation of Beijing-Guangzhou High Speed Railway on Sept. 28, 2012, the station began to serve high speed type to Beijing West, Guangzhou South, Shenzhen North, and Wuhan.

There are two halls in the station building; East Hall and West Hall. There are 12 waiting rooms that can hold more than 15,000 passengers. All services are shown very clearly on the 243 electronic guide screens. The ticket halls, in which there are altogether 60 ticket windows, can be found in both the East Hall and the West Hall. Walking through the central passageway, passengers will see two stairways on both sides as well as two escalators. From there passengers can get to Waiting Halls 1-8 on the second floor, among which Waiting Halls No. 7 and 8 are for bullet train (CRH) passengers. There are 14 platforms and Platform 7 is for Bullet Types.

 Purchase Ticket
Passengers can buy tickets at the ticket windows upon arrival at the station; or book in advance from reliable agencies like TravelChinaGuide China Train Booking Center.

 Services and Facilities 
Luggage Storage: There are five luggage storage offices. They are located at the South and North Exits on both sides of the main building entrance and in the Ticket Hall. The fee is CNY2/item/day for luggage that is lighter than 10 kilograms, and CNY4/item/day for luggage that weighs over 10 kilograms.
Information Desk: The Information Desk is located in the entrance to the waiting hall, and staff is available 24 hours a day.
Stationmaster's Office: It's located on the second floor. Passengers can go there to find answers to their questions about railway operations. 

         Zhengzhou is one of the central cities in China which has a large and complex rail system named Zhengzhou Railway Hinge. It is regarded as the heart of the Chinese Railway System, lying at the meeting point of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, the Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway, the Beijing-Hong Kong High Speed Rail Line, and the Xuzhou-Lanzhou High Speed Rail Line. The two main passenger transport railway stations in the city are the Railway Station and the East Railway Station. They provide services to most large cities throughout China. Passengers can also take bullet trains from here to Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Guangzhou, Changsha, Wuhan, and Shenzhen

     When you get off a train, come outside of the station and want to get a taxi, you need to go to the taxi line, which is right across the sq., like almost everywhere in China, there are always so many people on the sq, you may not see the taxi line. the taxi from the taxi line are all having meters ON, if you just get a taxi from the road, you will need to negotiate a price first, and most likely the driver going to ask 3-4 times what you would pay for a metered taxi.

Mount Songshan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains of China, is of great historical and cultural significance. It was long being an important venue for the ancient Chinese emperors, kings and ministers to hold grand ceremony of worship of heaven to pray and say thanks for peace and prosperity. Also, poets, men of letters came here to propagate doctrines of the ancient sages; princes, dukes, ministers came here to deliver a sermon; Chinese and foreign tourists have been coming to admire the wonderful views.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty visited Songshan in the year of 110 B.C and gave an order to the 300 families to make up of the Songgao County; in the year of 682 A.D, emperor Tanggaozong ordered to build Fengtian Palace on the south of Songshan in order to visit the Songshan often. And then he ordered to set up Songyang County. In 696 A.D, Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty climbed onto the ridge of Taishi to do homage to heaven, and did homage to the earth on the top of Shaoshi. She changed the name of Songyang County to Dengfeng County, which in Chinese means "climbing and paying homage"; and changed Yangcheng County to Gaocheng County, which in Chinese means "succeed".

Since the reform and open policy, the Songshan scenery spot has greatly been improved. Eight scenery spots have formed here, including the Shaolin Temple, the Songyang Academy, Taishi Mount, the Fawang Temple, the Zhongyue Temple, Luya waterfall, the star observation platform, and the Shaoshi Mount.

In recent years, there are many new tour activities, such as, mountaineering, Wushu, archaeological studies, religion tour, astronomy tour, geological tour, forest tour, and customs tour, forming a comprehensive tourist system and the Songshan scenery spot has become a good place for sightseeing, mountaineering, adventure, research and recreation.

     Zhengzhou Er'qi Tower is one of the most prominent buildings in Zhengzhou city. It's said that if you haven't been to Zhengzhou Er'qi Tower, then you haven't been to Zhengzhou. This building was built in memory of the workers' strike on February 7, 1923. Zhengzhou Er'qi Tower is a twin tower which is 63 meters in height and totaling 14 stories, constructed with reinforced concrete. Each layer of vertex angles is decorated with archaistic cornices. The roof is covered with green glazed tiles. A clock with a 2.7 meters diameter stands on the clock tower which has been built at the top. The surface of tower connects two pentagons. Viewed from the east and west, it's a single tower; it's a twin tower when viewed from the south and north.