New high-speed railway reaches Xinjiang
By Agencies | China Daily | Updated: 2014-12-27 08:09
Service will substantially cut times between Urumqi and Gansu province
China tied the far-western region of Xinjiang closer to the rest of the country on Friday, opening a high-speed rail line between its capital, Urumqi, and Lanzhou, in neighboring Gansu, nearly 1,800 kilometers away.
A bullet train departed from Lanzhou West Railway Station at 10:49 am, with female attendants in Uygur and other ethnic clothing serving 622 passengers.
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