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  • A RAIL BETWEEN TWO CITIES: The Beijing-Tianjin Intercity train hurtles across the Yangcun Bridge in Tianjin, north China. The first intercity train between Beijing and Tianjin made its maiden journey on August 1, 2008. The new train can reach speeds of up to 350 km per hour and only takes 30 minutes to reach its destination (XINHUA)
  • STARTING FROM TAIYUAN: Passengers sit inside the CRH5 (China Railway High-Speed) train coded D2002 in Taiyuan Railway Station in north China's Shanxi Province. The Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan passenger line begin operating on April 1, 2009 (XINHUA)
  • HIGH-SPEED MEMORABILIA: A visitor holds an ink pen in the shape of a high-speed train inside the China Railway Pavilion at the World Expo site in Shanghai on June 18, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • NIGHT VIEW, FAST TRAIN: A replica of a CRH train sits outside the China Railway Pavilion at the World Expo site in Shanghai on June 24, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • ALL ABOARD: A passenger gets on a train on the Wuhan-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway on July 1, 2010. The time necessary to travel between Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, to Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, with a distance of 1,069 km, has been cut down from 11 hours to just three hours (XINHUA)
  • GATHERING AROUND: Students from the primary school affiliated to Ma'anshan Teacher's College travel to the World Expo site in Shanghai on the CRH train coded G5001 on July 1, 2010. The Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity Railway starts from Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province (XINHUA)
  • PLATEAU PROJECT: The Qilian Mountain is seen from inside the Qilianshan Tunnel on the Lanzhou-Xinjiang double-track rails in northwest China on August 8, 2010. The 9,515-meter-long tunnel stands at an average height of 3,700 meters above the sea. It is the country's highest plateau railway project (XINHUA)
  • SHIELD TUNNELING: Workers from China Railway 16 Bureau Group Co., Ltd. conduct shield tunneling work at the first high-speed railway underground diameter line tunnel project in Tianjin and Tianjin West Railway Station on August 30, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • LIGHTENING FAST: A CRH train roars past Jiashan County in east China's Zhejiang Province on September 28, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • PREPARING TO DEPART: A driver debugs the computer system of a new train, CRH380A, of the China Railway High-Speed (CRH) on October 20, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • THE FASTEST: Reporters take photos in the train CRH380A of China Railway High-Speed (CRH), which hit a maximum speed of 486.1 kilometers per hour on a test run, on December 3, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • SERVICE AT THE READY: Stewards of the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway talk with each other in between attending to passengers in a train on the Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway, east China, on December 6, 2010 (XINHUA)
  • CONSTRUCTION SITE: Workers pass by the oversize box-girder which was use to build Intercity High-Speed Railway from Wuhan to Xianning in central China's Hubei Province on December 6, 2010 (XINHUA)
China operates the world's longest high-speed railway network with a combined length of 7,531 kilometers and entered a high-speed railway era during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010).

The country's high-speed rail network has rapidly taken shape in recent years. For example, the time needed to travel between Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, to Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, with a distance of 1,069 km, has been cut down from 11 hours to just three hours. And what took other countries 40 years to accomplish in terms of high-speed railway construction has been accomplished in only 5 years in China. With some of the world's most advanced technology, China has created a high-profile, high-speed railway. From imported 200 km per hour high-speed trains to the domestically developed CRH380A train, with a speed of 380 km per hour, China's train fleet is vast and superior.

Moreover, intercity travel has been made easy -- the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity High-Speed Railway launched in 2008 gets passengers to and fro in about 30 minutes, and the Beijing-Shanghai line will be open soon providing similar convenience in intercity travel.
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