Construction of the Hefei-Wuhan Railway, the first high-speed line in central China, has been completed after three years, said the government of Wuhan. The 350km line cost Rmb16.8bn to build and it will reduce travel time from eight and a half hours to two hours. Trains will run at 200 kph, the Wuhan government said.
The line is the middle part of China's first east-west high-speed rail link, the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu Railway.