Date: 04/07/2011

China opens its 820-mile Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail link to the public this week ahead of schedule, just three years after construction began. Our China Correspondent, Peter Foster, was given an advance preview and details the journey.

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China opens its 820-mile Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail link to the public this week ahead of schedule, just three years after construction began. Our China Correspondent, Peter Foster, was given an advance preview and details the journey.

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