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China's weekly story (2012.12.15-12.20)

（People's Daily Online） 10:46, December 22, 2012

A woman buys the first ticket of a high-speed train from Zhengzhou to China's capital Beijing sold at the Zhengzhou East Railway Station in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, Dec. 20, 2012. (Xinhua/Zhu Xiang)

Edited and translated by Huang Jin, People's Daily Online

The Beijing-Zhengzhou high-speed railway will start service on Dec. 26, connecting the functioning Zhengzhou-Wuhan and Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway to become the world's longest high-speed railway. It will take only seven hours and 59 minutes to travel from Beijing to Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, in the fastest train on the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway.