Full Speed Ahead

The world's longest high-speed railway was put into operation from Beijing to Guangzhou on December 26, 2012. All densely populated areas lie somewhere along the high-speed network, which will continue to reduce time and costs as well as facilitate the flow of people and goods

Railway History The Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway covers a total of 2,298 km, running at a maximum speed of 300 km/h. At a time when other nations are simply content to bury any plans for high-speed rail in feasibility reports or too timid to cough up the funds to lay down a single track, China continues to illustrate to the world how serious it is about developing an expansive network of high-speed lines Full Story