China has opened the world's longest high-speed railway lines, of which more than half the time required for the country's capital, north to guangzhou in southern China, the economic center.
On Wednesday the 2298 km (1428 miles) of line 9 o 'clock in the morning start a train from Beijing, guangzhou. The other train left guangzhou, Beijing an hour later.
China has enormous resources and considerable prestige, in its display high speed railway investment plan.
But in recent months it faced with high-key problem: a part of the line, then collapsed on the central China in March, and the rain in the summer of 2011 the bullet train collision accidents and deaths. The ministry of railways minister, who take the lead, the bullet train of construction, and the chief engineer, was held in an unrelated corruption investigation before the crash months.
The latest high-speed railway train will be the first to run in the 300 km (186 miles), total travel time about eight hours. Before this, between the two cities of the train is the fastest time more than twenty hours.
The bank also stop along the way, in the main cities, including provincial capital shijiazhuang, wuhan and changsha.
Every day more than 150 on high speed train will run in the new production line, the official xinhua news agency said, citing ministry of railways.
Railway is in China's transportation system important constituent, the government plans to build a case of high-speed railway has four things line and the line, to 2020.
The opening of the new line, so that China's high speed railway system total distance of more than 9300 km (5800 miles) - about half of the 2015 targets for 18000 kilometers.
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