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Four hours from Beijing to Shanghai

Chinese hi-speed train ©AFP PHOTO

The new Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line will open this June, a year ahead of schedule, and will cut travel times between the two cities to three hours and fifty-eight minutes.
The 1,318-kilometre railway will substantially reduce the travel time between the two cities from ten hours to just under four. China estimates as much as 220,000 passengers will use the railway line each day - 80 million a year.
In Beijing, the terminus is reasonably centrally located, the new Beijing South station, Shanghai's new Hongqiao station, just west of the existing Hongqiao domestic airport, which is less central than Beijing’s, but the station links easily to the Shanghai Metro.
China also plans to invest 700 billion yuan (106 billion dollars) in railway construction this year, railways minister Liu Zhijun was quoted by the official Xinhua news agency.

Published 06.01.2011

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