GREAT SIGNIFICANCE
Shen Wenjing, from the city of Jinan in Shandong Province, who works in Beijing, said she rarely went back to her hometown as her work is too busy.
"I don't have many vacations and the journey back home is too long," she said.
But with the imminent opening of the link on June 30, she said hometown becomes much nearer.
"It takes less than two hours to reach my hometown from Beijing. I can go back home after I finish work on Fridays in the future," she said.
China has a blueprint to build a safe and efficient transportation network during the five years ending 2015. This will include the construction of more high-speed rail tracks. The country's high-speed rails covered a total of 8,358 kilometers by 2010, and the mileage will expand to 45,000 kilometers by 2015, according to the government plans.
The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway will also become one of the eight high-speed railway corridors crisscrossing the country by 2015.
The link has connected Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, and 11 other cities each with a population over one million in four provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.These regions have more than one fourth the nation's total population.
He Huawu said in the long term, the line will be of great significance to the economic and social development for regions along it.
Cities have been eying the boost to tourism along the line that covers a total of nine world heritage sites, including the Great Wall and the Imperial Palace in Beijing and Mount Tai in Shandong.
Vice Minister of Railways Hu Yadong earlier said with the opening of the new link, the old Beijing-Shanghai Line can increase freight transport capacity by 50 million metric tons per year.
On June 20, seven cities, including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and Jinan jointly established a tourism alliance with a common vision to boost the industry.
Jia Yuanhua, a professor with the Beijing Jiaotong University, believes the line, apart from improving travel conditions for people, will also stimulate the deepened exchanges economically and culturally between different regions.
Zhao Guotang said one noteworthy impact from this modern line, will perhaps be felt on the changes it can bring to the patterns of thinking for the Chinese living in different regions so that the development gap between theses regions can be bridged.
Shen Wenjing, from the city of Jinan in Shandong Province, who works in Beijing, said she rarely went back to her hometown as her work is too busy.
"I don't have many vacations and the journey back home is too long," she said.
But with the imminent opening of the link on June 30, she said hometown becomes much nearer.
"It takes less than two hours to reach my hometown from Beijing. I can go back home after I finish work on Fridays in the future," she said.
China has a blueprint to build a safe and efficient transportation network during the five years ending 2015. This will include the construction of more high-speed rail tracks. The country's high-speed rails covered a total of 8,358 kilometers by 2010, and the mileage will expand to 45,000 kilometers by 2015, according to the government plans.
The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway will also become one of the eight high-speed railway corridors crisscrossing the country by 2015.
The link has connected Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, and 11 other cities each with a population over one million in four provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.These regions have more than one fourth the nation's total population.
He Huawu said in the long term, the line will be of great significance to the economic and social development for regions along it.
Cities have been eying the boost to tourism along the line that covers a total of nine world heritage sites, including the Great Wall and the Imperial Palace in Beijing and Mount Tai in Shandong.
Vice Minister of Railways Hu Yadong earlier said with the opening of the new link, the old Beijing-Shanghai Line can increase freight transport capacity by 50 million metric tons per year.
On June 20, seven cities, including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and Jinan jointly established a tourism alliance with a common vision to boost the industry.
Jia Yuanhua, a professor with the Beijing Jiaotong University, believes the line, apart from improving travel conditions for people, will also stimulate the deepened exchanges economically and culturally between different regions.
Zhao Guotang said one noteworthy impact from this modern line, will perhaps be felt on the changes it can bring to the patterns of thinking for the Chinese living in different regions so that the development gap between theses regions can be bridged.
