China will again run one of the world’s fastest bullet trains. The journey between Beijing and Shanghai will be made at 350 kmph, covering 1,250 km in just 4 hours and 30 minutes, officials said on Monday.
Currently, it takes six hours to travel from the Chinese capital to the country’s business hub.
The new generation bullet train — the Fuxing — will make the trip (roughly the distance between Jammu and Bhopal) starting September 21.
It will be the world’s fastest commercially-used bullet train, China Railway Corporation said.
China began running its first 350 kmph high speed train between Beijing and Tianjin in August 2008 and opened at least three more high-speed lines nationwide in the following years.
But it reduced the speed to 250 — 300 kmph after a major accident in July 2011, when a train collision left 40 dead and over 190 injured.
The trains are entirely designed and manufactured in China, led by the China Railway Corporation.
China has the world’s longest high-speed rail network of over 22,000 kilometres, about 60% per cent of the world’s total.
