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India's priorities are grossly misplaced. Spending half a billion dollars on a statue is astonishingly idiotic and callous in a country where many tens of millions go hungry and where over 40% of children suffer from malnutrition. Vanity is a vice afforded by the rich but a crime by the destitute. Demonetization has been badly botched; GST reform is firmly stuck; Clean India, Skills India, and Make in India have turned out to be empty slogans. Modi has been a disappointment so far. What will 2017 bring?
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-operationalises-worlds-longest-bullet-train-line-1642663
Beijing: China started operations of one of the world's longest high-speed railways that links the country's prosperous eastern coast to the less-developed southwestern part of the country.
The Shanghai-Kunming line -- 2,252 km in length -- traverses the five provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan and cuts travel time from Shanghai to Kunming from 34 to 11 hours, China Railway Corporation said.
The maximum speed is 330 km per hour, Wang Jinda, a train driver was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The line is also the longest east-west high-speed railway in China.
A longer rail line stretching north to south is the 2,298-km Beijing-Guangzhou line, put into operation in 2012. China has built more than 20,000 km of high-speed rail lines.
According to the government's plan, the mileage will increase to 45,000 km by 2030.
The launch of the Shanghai-Kunming line means the country's high-speed rail grid has taken shape, connecting almost all provinces on the Chinese mainland.
China is also aggressively marketing its bullet train technology in different countries, including India.
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-operationalises-worlds-longest-bullet-train-line-1642663
Beijing: China started operations of one of the world's longest high-speed railways that links the country's prosperous eastern coast to the less-developed southwestern part of the country.
The Shanghai-Kunming line -- 2,252 km in length -- traverses the five provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan and cuts travel time from Shanghai to Kunming from 34 to 11 hours, China Railway Corporation said.
The maximum speed is 330 km per hour, Wang Jinda, a train driver was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The line is also the longest east-west high-speed railway in China.
A longer rail line stretching north to south is the 2,298-km Beijing-Guangzhou line, put into operation in 2012. China has built more than 20,000 km of high-speed rail lines.
According to the government's plan, the mileage will increase to 45,000 km by 2030.
The launch of the Shanghai-Kunming line means the country's high-speed rail grid has taken shape, connecting almost all provinces on the Chinese mainland.
China is also aggressively marketing its bullet train technology in different countries, including India.
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