Associated Press/Xinhua, Chen Yehua – In this photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, a bullet train G80 leaves for Beijing from the Guangzhou South Railway Station in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. China has opened the world’s longest high-speed rail line, which runs 2,298 kilometers (1,428 miles) from the country’s capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in the Pearl River delta in southern China. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Yehua)
On Wednesday, China opened the world’s longest high-speed rail line.
The opening of the 2,298 kilometer (1,428 mile)-line was commemorated by the 9 a.m. departure of a train from Beijing for Guangzhou.
Another train left Guangzhou for Beijing an hour later.
Now it takes only half of the time to travel from Beijing to Guangzhou.
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