Wow, it's faster than a helicopter, said Luo Rongguang as Harmony Express G1049 facilitate access to the station in Wuhan and immediately began to gain speed.
Within a minute, was the beginning of the earliest train in the world, which at 120 miles per hour. When the Harmony Express or HeXi Hao, in the first round trip in a stable was 220 miles per hour as the green rice fields in Hunan, the breadbasket of China scrambled to the windows, inside the train was strangely silent.
In total Chinese manufacturing, but the technology of Siemens and Kawasaki, Harmony Express is faster than the Shinkansen in Japan, high-speed TGV-, and France.
The new HRC Wuhan-Guangzhou train travels an average speed of 217 miles per hour
During the review has reached speeds of nearly 250 miles per hour to 660 miles between Wuhan and Guangzhou, which is equivalent to a trip from London to Edinburgh and back in just three hours. The trip took almost 11 hours earlier.
It's just unbelievable, said Luo, go to a 33-year-old businessman from the eastern city of Ningbo, is the way to Guangzhou in factories.
In fact, Harmony Express is the first step in an epic 480 billion project to about 19,000 miles of new railway lines in the next five years to build, which is 8,000 miles of roads for high speed trains.
China, the United States and Japan, locked in a race to build roads super fast train. The three countries hope to trains, planes and cars as green, still form the backbone of local travel.
In the United States President Barack Obama has suggested the company's management - as part of a package of economic stimulus measures to build - or to update the 7100 miles away, may rapidly. But time and other details are uncertain, to contain China in front of the race.
Over five million Chinese have to train every day this month before today has gone through the new year, always on edge weekend trip with long queues at stations, airports and bus stations.
The routes of the high-speed trains will be implemented this year of the tiger, and within two years after the dramatic decline of the country, the spread of economic development on the land and bind all troubled areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang.
I took my first train recall in 1989, said Luo. He was one of the old machinery Green noise burst and traveled 30 mph. I traveled from Yichang in the province of Hubei, Xinjiang. It took seven days to make the trip. It was so hot that every session is a shirt, and the train was full of serving the refugee camp.
During the Chinese New Year trains across the country full of returning home from work, often taking with them large bags, Livestock and pans. More than 2.5 billion performed throughout the country with the greatest human migration in the world.
But aboard the Harmony Express, and the Wuhan brand new 1.5 billion French-designed train station, everything is perfect.
For some, it is one of the most visible signs of how far China has come. In 2012, the railroad, which is the foundation of Wuhan, the capital of production in China, Guangzhou, runs will be extended all the way to Beijing, so that passengers from one end of China to the other in the zip file below eight hours.
I never our parents offer this package, said Zhang Xiaowen, a 32-year-old woman of Dongguan in southern China, the collection was the son of nine years in a boarding school.
Ms. Zhang holds a dry cleaning store and whose husband operates a factory that is typical of the class of Chinese fast-growing East and high standards.
It is unclear how China plans to pay for the massive expansion of rail and air fares for harmony Express raised eyebrows. First class seats cost 780 yuan (72) in the second category is 490 yuan, the equivalent of wages one-two weeks for the worker.
But the construction-in-and-that-come approach has not yet been demonstrated. While other trains were sold days in advance of the brightest screens in Wuhan channel has offered hundreds of last minute tickets for most high speed trains.
Meanwhile, Chinese airlines have reduced their prices in an effort to compete with the new package. China Southern is a shuttle service between Wuhan and Guangzhou, and creates a tariff reduction of about the same price as the train.
The economic viability of new train routes, ranging from small importance for the Chinese government to intervene, but similar efforts in the United States. Currently, Amtrak means Express service, Acela nearly three hours between New York and Washington, often with an average speed of 80 mph.
The White House has improved 8 billion U.S. dollars (5.1 billion) in cash for the special behavior of the network, with President Barack Obama to an audience in Florida that the new trains will be quick and smooth, no need to Shoes undress. Thirteen courses in 31 Member States will take the money, but has been shown to use less than half the funding for a true high-speed trains, the rest will go to improve existing services.
Nothing shows the gap between competing economies over the news that a new U.S. $ 7 billion super-speed maglev train between Southern California and Las Vegas, are not guaranteed funding from the U.S., but China Export-Import Bank.
I never thought I would be able to take a train like this, said Fang Aiyun, a 77-year-old grandmother old when the Harmony Express moved to her hometown of Changsha. But you know, we should have the Chinese, what do other people. We can not afford it.
