The Exhibition Centre Station of the East Rail Line Cross-Harbour Extension service residents on May 16, 2022. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

The MTR’s East Rail Line Cross-Harbour Extension - connecting Hung Hom station in Kowloon with Admiralty station on the Hong Kong Island via the new Exhibition Centre station - officially opened on Sunday. The extension reduces rail journey between the two stations from 19 minutes to seven minutes.

China Daily's Calvin Ng took the photographs.