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A new high-speed rail link between Shanghai and Changsha in Hunan Province is scheduled to open before the end of the year, when the high-speed journey between the two cities will be cut to five hours from the current seven, reports Shanghai Daily.
A 931-kilometer section of the line between Changsha and Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, which is part of the Shanghai-Kunming High-Speed Railway, will become fully operational in 2017.
The new section will connect with the Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway by the end of this year, providing a faster link between the middle of China and the Yangtze River Delta.
The section will pass through Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces. While the trains can reach 350 kilometers per hour, the operational speed will be limited to 300km/h, said the Shanghai Railway Bureau.
China has the world’s longest high-speed railway network, which covered a distance of 10,000km of track by the end of 2013. And seven more lines are scheduled to be complete before the end of the year.
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