{"id":35197,"date":"2004-11-30T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T15:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2004\/11\/30\/shanghai-will-lengthen-shanghais-maglev-train\/"},"modified":"2004-11-30T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T15:17:32","slug":"shanghai-will-lengthen-shanghais-maglev-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2004\/11\/30\/35197\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Will Lengthen Shanghai's Maglev Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"82\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/20041201-shanghaimaglev.gif\" width=\"107\" align=\"right\">Shanghai plans to extend the world's only commercially operating high-speed magnetic levitation (Maglev) line as part of preparations for hosting the 2010 World Expo.<\/p>\n<p><a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That will add eight kilometres to the current 30-kilometre Maglev link between Pudong International Airport and the city's eastern edge, chief Expo planner Wu Zhiqiang was quoted as saying in Tuesday's Shanghai Daily.<\/p>\n<p>The terminus will be in the heart of the Expo site along the shore of the Huangpu river just south of the city centre, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The US$1.2 billion (HK$9.36 billion) Maglev uses a powerful magnetic field to suspend trains slightly above the rails. Built with German technology, trains reach a speed of 430km per hour during the eight-minute trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai plans to extend the world's only commercially operating high-speed magnetic levitation (Maglev) line as part of preparations for hosting the 2010 World Expo. That will add eight kilometres to the current 30-kilometre Maglev link between Pudong International Airport and the city's eastern edge, chief Expo planner Wu Zhiqiang was quoted as saying in Tuesday's [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-35197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35197","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=35197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}