Beijing–Shijiazhuang High-Speed Railway is a 281-kilometre high-speed rail

High-speed rail

High-speed rail is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions by the European Union include for upgraded track and or faster for new track, whilst in the United States, the U.S...

 line between Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

 and Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about south of Beijing...

 in China under construction since October 2008. It is expected to be put into service by 2012. The total investment is 43.87 billion yuan

Chinese yuan

The yuan is the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies. The yuan is the primary unit of account of the Renminbi.A yuán is also known colloquially as a kuài . One yuán is divided into 10 jiǎo or colloquially máo...

. The design speed is 350 km/h, and will cut the travel time between Beijing and Shijiazhuang from 2 hours to less than 1 hour. This railway is the north section of the future 2100 km high-speed Jinggang line

Jinggang Passenger Dedicated Line

The Beijing–Guangzhou Passenger Dedicated Line is a high-speed railway of the CRH passenger service, connecting Beijing West Railway Station and West Kowloon Station. It is 2080 km long. The Jingguang railway runs largely parallel to the line....

 connecting Beijing and Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

.