A new high-speed railway route has opened in North China, forming the last link in the high-speed rail network from the country’s north to south.
The line goes from port city Tianjin to coastal Qinhuangdao in Hebei Province, and its first train set off on Sunday morning from Tianjin. The nearly 300 kilometers long journey only takes about an hour and ten minutes, half the time it takes by regular trains. It connects with the Beijing to Harbin and Harbin to Dalian routes to the north, and the Beijing to Shanghai route to the south.