Bullet trains will link Chinese capital Beijing with six major cities from tomorrow according to First Daily, a Beijing newspaper.

The trains will travel at speeds of between 200 and 250 kilometers per hour between the capital and the six cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang, Changchun, Harbin and Qingdao, reducing journey times by an average of two hours. The journey between Beijing and Shanghai will take ten hours.

Ticket prices for the bullet trains will cost 50% more than the current express trains, which usually travel at 115 kilometers per hour.

Non-stop express trains would also start to operate between Beijing and the three cities of Nanchang, Nantong and Fuzhou. These are the first of a projected China 120 high-speed trains coming into service this year as part of a nationwide speed upgrade in the railway system. Some 17,000 km (10,655 miles) of new passenger and freight rail networks are expected to be added by the end of the decade. China’s 11th Five-Year Plan, which ends in 2010, calls for spending $190 billion on rail infrastructure.
Source: English People’s Daily Online