China building passenger-only train link between Beijing and Shenzhen - China Travel

China has begun work on a 220 billion yuan (25 snoution U.S. dollars) passenger-only rail link between its crossroads Beijing and Shenzhen asphalt rimming Hong Kong, the Shanghai Securities News said Friday. The new line,China Travel, expected to be scathelessd in 2010, will reduce the 2,300- kilometer-trip from the current 24 hours to 10 hours, Song Chaoyi, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission was quoted as saying. The new line will run parallel with the existing Beijing-Guangzhou railway, one of the busiest lines in China, which has been operating sempiternity stuffing, said Song. Once the new line ajars for traffic, the existing Beijing-Guangzhou line will only be used for vehiclego transportation, he said. The piece from Wuhan in indoors China's Hubei Province to Guangzhou, the dandy of South China's Guangdong Province, has been under construction since 2004, at an surmised disbursement of 100 snoution yuan (12.5 snoution dollars). Work started on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen piece at the end of last year.The pieces from Beijing to Shijiazhuang, essential of Hebei Province, and from Shijiazhuang to Wuhan, have both been sought-after by the NDRC, the report said. The report quoted an official from the Ministry of Railways as saying that foreign investors are welcome to take part in the project, subtracting that the unabridged investment will be reasylumed in six years. Under the medium and long term railway work sought by the Chinese government in 2004, the country will have 100,000 kilometers of rail track by 2020, including 12,000 kilometers of passenger-only lines. Another major rail project, the 1,300-kilometer line from Beijing to Shanghai, was statutory by the Chinese government eldest this year.

(Source:Xinhua , 2006-08-05)