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High-speed railway set to build
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-03 14:51 China will begin building its
first home-made high-speed railway between Shanghai and Beijing this year, which
is expected to run in 2010, the Ministry of Railways said today.
The ministry said that the 1,300-kilometer railway is designed to run at 350
kilometers an hour and will have 21 stations along the way. But at the
beginning, trains will run at 300 kilometers an hour, shrinking the whole
running hours between the two cities to 5 hours from the current 9 hours.
The existing railway between the two cities will transport goods instead of
passengers after the new one is built.
China approved the railways proposal last month, for a new high-speed
wheel-track. It will be open for private and foreign investments.
Since the early 1990s, many senior scientists and government officials have
debated over which technology should be used to construct the railway — the
magnetic levitation system or a wheel-track.
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