{"id":35497,"date":"2018-10-31T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35497"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:20:27","slug":"china-to-relaunch-one-of-worlds-fastest-bullet-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-to-relaunch-one-of-worlds-fastest-bullet-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"China to relaunch one of world\u2019s fastest bullet trains:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/china-to-relaunch-one-of-worlds-fastest-bullet-trains\/article19537065.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China to relaunch one of world\u2019s fastest bullet trains<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After cutting back the speed of the Beijing to Shanghai bullet train following a deadly crash, China is set to relaunch it again.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The world\u2019s fastest bullet train<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New generation trains will service the route starting next month, making the 1,250-km journey from the capital to Shanghai in just 4 hours, 30 minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest trains were unveiled in June and have a top speed of 400 kmph.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China first ran trains at 350 kmph in August 2008, but cut speeds back to 250 \u2013 300 kmph in 2011 following a train collision near the city of Wenzhou that killed 40 people and injured 191.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has laid more than 20,000 km of high-speed rail, with a target of adding another 10,000 km by 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has spent an estimated $360 billion on high-speed rail, building by far the largest network in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China to relaunch one of world\u2019s fastest bullet trains: Context After cutting back the speed of the Beijing to Shanghai bullet train following a deadly crash, China is set to relaunch it again. The world\u2019s fastest bullet train New generation trains will service the route starting next month, making the 1,250-km journey from the capital&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-to-relaunch-one-of-worlds-fastest-bullet-trains\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China to relaunch one of world\u2019s fastest bullet trains:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704764563},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}