China starts its 2252-Km long Shanghai-Kunming bullet train line

China has started a line that links the country’s prosperous eastern coast to the less-developed southwestern part of the country. It is the Shanghai-Kunming line which is 2,252-Km in length and will cut down travel time from Shanghai to Kunming from 34 to 11 hours. The line goes through the five provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 28 December 2016.

The maximum speed of the train is 330 km per hour and, the line is also the longest east-west high-speed railway in China. A longer rail line that stretches north to south is the 2,298-Km Beijing-Guangzhou line - that was put into operation in 2012.
China has built more than 20,000-Km of high-speed rail lines and, as per plans of the the government. it will increase to 45,000-Km by 2030.
With the launch of the Shanghai-Kunming line, the country’s high-speed rail grid has taken shape, connecting almost all provinces on the Chinese mainland. China is aggressively marketing its bullet train technology in different countries, including India.


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