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High-speed train starts in China
Beijing, Dec 1 (IANS) The world's first high-speed train in
areas with extremely low temperature started operation in China Saturday.
Trains started at 9 a.m. Saturday to mark the operation of the
921-km line, reported Xinhua.
The high-speed railway with designed speeds of up to 350 km per
hour went into service after passing a two-month test during which the region
was hit by blizzards and harsh cold as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius.
"The operation of Harbin-Dalian high-speed railway signals a
great progress in the building of a high-speed rail network," said Lu Chunfang, vice minister of the Ministry
of Railways.
China has 8,600 km of operational high-speed railways.
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