Groundwork started Thursday on a high-speed passenger rail line that will link Shanghai with Hangzhou in east China with trains that can run up to 350 km per hour.
When service starts in 2011, travel time from Zhejiang's capital of Hangzhou to Shanghai will fall to 38 minutes from more than one hour at present. That group is building the 159-km line, which will have nine stations. Trains would run at three-minute intervals at rush hour.
Two other rail lines in the Yangtze "economic circle", which includes Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou, are also scheduled for completion by 2011. Once all three are finished, passengers will be able to travel between any two of these major cities within an hour, much faster than at present.
For example, the line from Hangzhou to Nanjing, capital of neighboring Jiangsu Province, will provide a 50-minute trip. At present, passengers must go by way of Shanghai, which takes as long as eight hours.
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