Hangyong Passenger Railway
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Hangyong Passenger Railway is a planned railway between Hangzhou
and Ningbo
, that spans approximately 150 kilometers, with a design speed of 350 kilometres per hour (217.5 mph). It is currently under construction, and is scheduled to open in December 2011.
Hangzhou
Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...
and Ningbo
Ningbo
Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...
, that spans approximately 150 kilometers, with a design speed of 350 kilometres per hour (217.5 mph). It is currently under construction, and is scheduled to open in December 2011.