China starts work on Beijing-Shanghai express railway
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Updated: 2008-04-18 14:00
BEIJING -- The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway with a designed speed of
350 kilometers per hour started construction on Friday.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd L) attends the ground-breaking ceremony of
the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in Beijing, April 18, 2008. The
railway, which will be completed in five years and run at 300km/hr to 350
km/hr, would cut travel time between the Chinese capital and the country's
leading financial hub from around 10 hours at present to about five hours.
[Xinhua]
The 1,318-km line, upon its completion in five years, would reduce the trip
between the two metropolitans to five hours and lift the one-way transport
capacity to 80 million passengers and more than 100 million tons of cargo
annually, said the Ministry of Railway.
Attending a ceremony here, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced the formal
start of the construction.