High-speed rail link to connect provincial capitals in China

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High-speed rail link to connect provincial capitals in China

Staff Reporter

2014-03-09

China is building a high-speed rail link to connect almost every provincial capital in the country and shrink the travel time between them to less than eight hours, said Wang Mengshu, deputy chief engineer of state-owned China Railway Group Limited.

Beijing has decided to spend 600 billion yuan (US$98 billion) this year to build the high-speed rail link, which aims to ensure people can travel between the provincial capitals, with the exception of Lhasa and Urumqi, within eight hours and reach Beijing from any one of them in the same amount of time, said Wang.

The link between Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, to Chongqing is set to launch this year. It will reduce the travel time between the two cities to three hours from the previous 17-hour train ride. People can reach Beijing from Chongqing via another link in two and half hours, compared to the previous train journey of 24 hours, according to Henan-based Dahe Daily.

The section between Zhengzhou to Anhui’s capital Hefei has completed the preliminary planning stage and been approved and is likely to begin construction soon. The Chinese government also plan to build a link between Zhengzhou and Shandong’s Jinan and as well as to Shanxi’s Taiyuan.

 

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