Entering a High-Speed Rail Era

(YUAN RUILUN)

China operates a high-speed railway network with a combined length totaling 7,531 km, the longest in the world, said Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun. An experimental running of China's latest bullet train on the Zaozhuang-Bengbu section of the Beijing-Shanghai line reached a world record speed of 486.1 km per hour on December 3.

Several intercity rail lines, including Zhengzhou-Xi'an, Fuzhou-Xiamen, Chengdu-Dujiangyan, Shanghai-Nanjing, Nanchang-Jiujiang and Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railways, were launched this year.