China has opened the world's longest high-speed railway line, run 2298 kilometers (1428 miles), from the country's capital in the north to guangzhou, in southern China's pearl river delta economic center.
The line is the official opening on Wednesday, when a train to start from Beijing, 9 am in guangzhou. The other train left guangzhou, Beijing an hour later.
A high-speed line 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.
Railway is in China's transportation system important constituent, the government plans to build a grid, high-speed railway, by 2020 4 things line and the line.
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