China will start building a new high-speed railway linking Xi'an and Chengdu, two major western China cities, at the end of the year.
High-speed trains began traveling between the eastern Chinese cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou Tuesday morning, the latest milestone in China's effort to build the world's fastest rail network.
Sprint Nextel and its Clearwire Corp venture will begin offering their high-speed wireless services from November across some of the busiest US cities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A high speed railway will begin running between the cities of Haikou and Sanya on southern China's island province of Hainan from November 2010.
On July 6, the first railway tracks were laid for the new Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway.
A high-speed rail line linking Fuzhou and Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province went into operation Monday, as the part of Shenzhen-Shanghai high-speed railway.
Fujian will later in April host China's fourth high-speed railway that will connect the capital city Fuzhou and the economically dynamic Xiamen.
A high-speed railway linking central China city Zhengzhou and northwestern city Xi'an, went into operation Saturday.
A fund allocation application for building the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway was approved by the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Saturday, Hong Kong-based Wenweipo reported.
A high-speed railway linking Xi'an with Chengdu has won approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planning agency, the China Railway First Survey and Design Institute said Friday.
A high-speed railway linking Chengdu and Chongqing will be built in the first half of 2010, local authorities in Chongqing announced Thursday.
The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, arguably the world's fastest train journey at a speed of 350 kilometer per hour (km/h), started operations on Dec 26.