Photo gallery: China holds test run on world’s longest high-speed rail

BEIJING - China has tested its 2,298km high-speed rail line, the longest in the world, as it prepares to start passenger service on Wednesday, Dec 26.

Bullet-trains on the line from Beijing to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou can run at an average speed of 300kmh. It will shorten the rail travel time from the capital to the Pearl River Delta to about eight hours from the previous 24 hours.