Friday, August 1, 2008

It's superfast!

High-speed,Beijing-Tianjin train up and going: Welcome to the superfast age of the Chinese megalopolis.

Excerpt from the People's Daily, 1 August 2008 (http://pic.people.com.cn/GB/7598178.html)

北京8月1日电 今天上午,京津城际铁路通车运营1仪式在北京南站、天津站同时举行2。这标志3着中国第一条具有世界一流水平、最高运营时速350公里的高速铁路正式通车运营。

   京津城际铁路全长120公里,沿途4设北京南、亦庄、武清、天津等4座车站,预留永乐站,开行列车为国产CRH2-300型5和CRH3型“和谐号”动车组。线路投入6运营后采用公交7化城际列车和跨线列车混合开行的运输8组织模式,初期每天开行本线动车组列车47对、跨线动车组13对,共60对动车组列车,列 车最小间隔5分钟。

  京津城铁的建成9不仅使北京和天津这两个人口超过千万的特大城市间形成“半小时交通圈”,实现了同城化,同时也打开了中国铁路迈向“高速时代”的大门。据了解10,再过3至5年,将有京哈、京沪、陇海、哈大、京广等一大批高速客运专线贯通


1 yun4ying2 (verb): to be in operations
2 ju3xing2 (verb): to run/host (an event)
3 biao1zhi4 (verb): to represent
4 yan2tu2 (phrase): to run alongside
5 xing2 (noun): model (of machine)
6 tou2ru4 (verb): to cast/throw into (operation)
7
gong1jiao1 (noun): public transportation
8 yun4shu1 (verb): to transport
9 jian4cheng2 (noun/verb): construction
10 ju1liao3jie (phrase): according to reports/what is known

1 comment:

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