Photo taken on Dec. 10, 2009 shows an interior view of the under-construction Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province. The station costing more than 14 billion RMB yuan (2.4 billion U.S. dollars) was put into use on Dec. 20, 2009. It was the first station built for the Wuhan-Guangzhou high speed railway passenger special line. China operated a high-speed railway network with a combined length of 7,531 kilometers, the world's longest, said Chinese Railways Minister Liu Zhijun Tuesday while addressing the seventh World Congress on High Speed Rail held in Beijing, December 7, 2010. Liu said China's high-speed railways have been operating well, with reliable equipment and a good safety record. China's high-speed rail network has been developing quickly in recent years. A CRH380A train on last Friday set an operating speed record of 486.1 km per hour on a test run on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway. China plans to build 13,000 km (8,078 miles) of high-speed railway by 2012. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2009 shows two high-speed trains at the high-speed railway maintenance base in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua)
Photo taken on Oct. 20, 2010 shows a train CRH380A running out from the Hongqiao railway station, a terminal of the Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway, in Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua)
Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2009 shows a CRH (China Railway High-Speed) train coded D5558 from Wenzhou to Shanghai crossing over the Fenghua River Bridge on the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou High Speed Railway, which began operation as of the day with a design speed of up to 250km per hour, in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Peijian)
