World’s longest high-speed rail line opens in China

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By Associated Press,

Dec 26, 2012 05:49 AM EST

AP Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 7:49 AM

BEIJING — China has opened the world’s longest high-speed rail line, which runs 2,298 kilometers (1,428 miles) from the country’s capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in the Pearl River delta in southern China.
The line officially opened Wednesday when a train departed from Beijing at 9 a.m. for Guangzhou. Another train left Guangzhou for Beijing an hour later.