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longest railway line in world opened on Wednesday. The line joins China's capital Beijing with southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. line is 2,298 kilometers long and stretches across half of China. first train left Beijing station at 9 a.m. and arrived in Guangzhou eight hours later. super-fast train travels at average speed of 300 kph and cuts journey time from 20 hours to just eight. It stops at 35 different cities along its route. total of 310 trains will run between two cities each day. one-way ticket for journey costs US$138. China's government hopes train will help country's economy as business people can now travel across country lot quicker.

Chinese media say bullet train service started on 26 December to commemorate birth of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong. train is also sign of China's plan to become the world's leader in high-speed rail travel. It already has 8,600 km of high-speed railway track, which is more than any other country in world. It plans to extend this to 16,000 km by 2015 and 50,000 km by 2020. China Ministry of Railways spokesman Zhou Li told reporters: " opening of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed line shows China's high-speed railway network has started to take shape." passenger who travelled on first train explained how proud she was of train, saying: "It's amazing China has developed so quickly".

 


 
 

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