Builders show their tickets after boarding the G5001 Shanghai-Nanjing High-Speed Railway on July 1.
Construction work on the Xuchang section of the 840 km railway began on Monday. The whole line will be finished at the end of 2011, connecting two capital cities - Shijiazhuang of North China’s Hebei province and Wuhan of Central China’s Hubei province. It is designed to reach a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, cutting the running time between Xuchang and its neighboring city Zhengzhou, more than 80 kilometers in distance, to a few minutes.
Two bullet trains simultaneously set off from Shanghai's Hongqiao Station and Hangzhou Station in Zhejiang province at 9 am on Tuesday, inaugurating China's latest high-speed rail link.
China's fastest high speed train rolled off the production line Thursday in Changchun, capital of the northeastern province of Jilin, a company executive said.
A high-speed railway linking central China city Zhengzhou and northwestern city Xi'an, went into operation Saturday.