Rail cautiously gains speed

It has been one year since the fatal Wenzhou train crash dented China's enthusiasm for high-speed trains. Construction and operation of high-speed railway networks has resumed, but at a slower pace and in a more cautious manner.

Instead of mentioning the accident on Monday, the country's railway ministry announced China's completion of a railway to Lop Nur, a dried northwest lake where China exploded its first atomic bomb in 1964.

In Hangzhou, several hundreds kilometers from the accident scene, the waiting halls in the Hangzhou Railway Station are, as usual, filled with business travelers, home-bound students and tourists.