New highspeed railway lines will link Shanghai with well-known tourist sites Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) and Wuyishan starting from July 1, China's railway authority has announced.
Passengers will be whisked to the Wuyi Mountains in northern Fujian in just three hours and 17 minutes, while a trip to the UNESCO-listed Yellow Mountains in Anhui, made famous by countless artistic and literary representations, will take up just four hours and 46 minutes of your time.
Until July 1, a train journey from Shanghai to Huangshan will, as before, take nearly 11 hours, while a trip to Wuyishan will last over nine hours.
Other new rail links that will be opened July 1 include a highspeed service that will take you from Shanghai to Fuzhou in four hours and 32 minutes (down from six hours 33 minutes)and Xiamen in six hours and twenty minutes, almost two hours shorter than before. Another line will also take passengers to Guizhou in just nine hours.
Excuses are about to run out for Shanghai residents who have been telling themselves for months/years that they'll hit up the mountains but never have the time.
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