{"id":19029,"date":"2011-01-10T05:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T21:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=19029"},"modified":"2011-01-10T05:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T21:31:31","slug":"beijing-shanghai-high-speed-railway-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2011\/01\/10\/19029\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway Ahead Of Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beijing to Shanghai High-Speed Railway is scheduled to begin operation in the middle of June 2011, one year ahead of its original schedule &#8212; according to a recent announcement by the minister of railways, Liu Zhijun.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Construction started on the 1,318-kilometer railway in April 2008 and it will cut the journey time between the two cities from the current 10 hours to less than five hours.<\/p>\n<p>Liu said that a new-generation bullet train, with a speed of 380 km per hour will run on the high-speed rail link. The railway will be able to transport 80 million passengers a year.<\/p>\n<p>With a total investment of CNY220.9 billion, the Beijing to Shanghai High-Speed Railway is expected to put competitive pressure on the airlines that serve this route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beijing to Shanghai High-Speed Railway is scheduled to begin operation in the middle of June 2011, one year ahead of its original schedule &#8212; according to a recent announcement by the minister of railways, Liu Zhijun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12847,12759,12848,12849,12764],"class_list":["post-19029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-airline","tag-beijing","tag-bullet-train","tag-high-speed-railway","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}