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Ministry of Railways: Slowing Down China's High-speed Rail

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The maximum speed of trains operating on China's rapidly expanding high-speed railway network will be limited to below 300 kilometers per hour by the end of this year, a reporter with the Beijing News learned from the Ministry of Railways yesterday. The ministry also said that the drop in maximum speed will also mean that high-speed rail tickets will be cheaper. The announcement follows the dismissal of the former minister of railways, who is under investigation for corruption and accepting bribes. The Ministry of Railways also announced, that as of June 1 this year, a real-name ticket-buying system will be introduced on all the multiple unit(MU) trains and that the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will start offering online booking service by the end of June.

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