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Article: China: Railways key to China s drive for faster, greener economy.
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- September 19, 2008
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Byline: pinto03
China set one of its many records in railway construction with the opening of a literally breathtaking line over the 5,000-metre Tangu-la Pass on the Tibetan Plateau in 2006. Some 2,500 km away from Tibet on the eastern coast, it reached another milestone last month with inaugurating its fastest line for high-speed bullet trains. Engineers said trains were capable of reaching up to 350 km per hour on the 115-km run from Beijing to Tianjin, shortening the journey time from 70 minutes to 30 minutes. In China the transportation problems cannot be solved by cars and planes alone, said Yang Xinmiao, a professor at the transportation engineering ...