9月起北京到上海只需4个半小时

Beijing-Shanghai bullet train to run faster from September

A staff thrilled about the launching of the new bullet train at a naming

ceremony in Beijing, June 25, 2017. [Photo/VCG]

China's next-generation bullet train will start running at 350 kilometers per

hour between Beijing and Shanghai in September, cutting the journey by about 30

minutes, the People's Daily reported Thursday.

Services using the train, named Fuxing (Rejuvenation), currently run at 300

km/h and take about five hours.

The high-speed railway between the two cities opened on June 30, 2011, with a

designed maximum speed of 380 km/h.

In the past six years, the line has carried passengers on more than 600

million journeys.

Jiang Chenglong contributed to this story