World's fastest bullet train to operate next month in China

The world's fastest high-speed train with a maximum operating speed of 380 km per hour will run

on Zhengzhou-Xuzhou high-speed track from next month.

     The engineers behind the Zhengzhou-Xuzhou high-speed railway have succeeded in finishing a

 key interconnecting facility to link the railway with Beijing-Guangzhou and Zhengzhou-Xi'an

high-speed line, creating a seamless connection of high-speed tracks in China's eastern and

middle-western regions.

     After the new train is launched, the travel time between Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan

Province, and Xuzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, will be shortened from 2 hours 33 minutes

to about 80 minutes.

    Compared to the last generation of bullet trains, the new train's continuous operating speed has

increased 50 km per hour to 350 km per hour, and it has recorded a top speed of 400 km per hour

in its testing phase. In the future, the new generation train will be mainly used to carry passengers

in China.