BEIJING, Sept 28 (Reuters) – China has opened its first high-speed railway that skirts the coast of southeastern Fujian province near the Taiwan Strait and crosses an ocean bay, state media said on Thursday.
A bullet train departed from Fuzhou, the capital of eastern China’s Fujian province, on Thursday morning, marking the opening of the 277-kilometer (172-mile) Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou railway, Xinhua News Agency said.
The project will be China’s first cross-sea high-speed bullet train, crossing bridges across three coastal bays and reaching a top speed of 350 per hour, state media reported, citing the country’s China National Railway Group. km (218 miles). Railway operator.
Travel time between Fuzhou, an economic center and popular tourist destination, and Xiamen is less than an hour.
China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co Ltd designed this railway project, adding to the country’s vast high-speed rail network.
China will have 42,000km of high-speed rail in operation by 2022, and as of June 2022, the total length of high-speed rail, which regularly operates at 350km/h, is approaching 3,200km.
Separately, China unveiled its first commercial suspended monorail line in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, earlier this week.
Reporting by Bernard Orr and Beijing Newsroom.Editing: Christian Schmollinger
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