China opened the world's fastest train

The train line high speed in the world including Beijing and Guangzhou, will open onDec. 26. This is an " important step in building the Chinese rail network , "officials said. At an average speed of 300 km / h , the train will cover a distance of 2298 kilometers. Join the capital Beijing in the north to Guangzhou, the major economic center of the south. The trip will last for 22 hours to take only eight hours , said the newspaper China Daily. The line will have 35 stations , including large cities Zhengzhu, Wuhan and Changsha. They chose the date of December 26 for the opening because it is the anniversary of the birth of Mao, the agency New China. The line will be operating for the Lunar New Year holiday, the time of year that travel hundreds of millions of Chinese in the country. The opening of this line of high-speed train will leave behind the harmful consequences of the collision between two trains of this kind, which left 40 dead on July 23, 2011 near Wenzhou. The catastrophe had raised concerns about the safety of China's high-speed network. The accident also penalized the Chinese railway industry in foreign markets. The Chinese high-speed network is booming: created in 2007 and is the largest in the world. Of 8358 kilometers will end 2010 to 16,000 kilometers in 2020.