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China starts selling bullet train ticket

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BEIJING, April 14 -- Tickets for China's new high-speed trains went on sale on Saturday as the first bullet trains will hit the track next Wednesday, said a spokesman for the Ministry¹ of Railways here Saturday in Beijing.

On April 18, 280 bullet trains, which can travel at speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour, will be put into operation between the country's major cities. A total of 514 such trains will be in use by the end of this year.

The base price for the tickets is slightly higher than ordinary trains, according to the spokesman.

At a press conference Thursday, Vice² Minister of Railways Hu Yadong said raising the speed limit will help boost passenger and cargo³ capacity on the nation's 77,000-km railway lines by 18 percent and 12 percent, respectively.

Travel time between major cities will be slashed⁴ by up to 50 percent. Currently, express trains in China travel at an average of 115 kilometers per hour.

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1 ministry
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。 We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

2 vice
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
参考例句：
He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。 They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 cargo
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
参考例句：
The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。 A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

4 slashed
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减
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Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。 He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。来自《简明英汉词典》

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