China plans to raise the speed of its bullet trains back up to 350 kph (217 mph), state media reported on Thursday, six years after a deadly high-speed rail crash prompted authorities to slow trains across the country.
Trains on China's high-speed rail network are designed to travel up to 350 kph, but Beijing ordered speeds to be cut to between 250-300 kph in 2011 after over 30 people were killed in a train crash in eastern Zhejiang province.
The Beijing News said the government planned to implement the increased speeds between Beijing...
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and Shanghai in September, which would cut travel time to 4.5 hours from up to 6 hours currently.
China's newest "Fuxing" bullet trains, which were unveiled in June and are capable of top speeds of 400 kph, will be used for that journey, it said.
China is home to the world's longest high-speed rail network which competes heavily with domestic airlines. Of China's 31 provinces and regions, 29 are served by high-speed rail with only the regions of Tibet and Ningxia in the northwest yet to be connected.

" The City Illumines truth and reveals reality. It dosent bring up new wonders into the scope of vision, but enables one to see what is already there, where this eternal light intersects the earth it is known as mighty 'KASHI' " - Diana-L-Ek
" Rivers know this there is no hurry, we shall get there someday " - Milne
" Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice old as all of them put together. " - Mark
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On the banks of eternal Ganges, the city of mighty Lord Shiva , beholding too many past with its own tradition and culture, where there is pure secularism, the home of 'Ustad BismillahKhan Shahab' , the city with inevitable history, what we call is 'Banaras' 'Kashi' from Varuna Ghat to Assi Ghat its 'now 'Varanasi' " - Bruce
Different picturesque HDR of Varanasi Jn. and Varanasi City Railway Station in monsoon.
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