New high-speed railway line operational in east China (2)

Construction workers of the Anqing-Jiujiang high-speed railway get on a train at the Huangmei East Railway Station in Huangmei County, central China's Hubei Province, Dec. 30, 2021. A new high-speed railway section linking Anqing City in east China's Anhui Province, with Jiujiang City in east China's Jiangxi Province began operation Thursday. The 176-km line, with seven stations along its route, will reduce travel time between Anhui's capital Hefei and Jiangxi's capital Nanchang to two hours and 22 minutes, according to China Railway Shanghai Group Co., Ltd. The Anqing-Jiujiang high-speed railway has a designed speed of 350 km per hour and is connected to China's vertical artery of the Beijing-Hong Kong Railway. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)