Long-distance relationships come a little bit closer

Su Miaoquan has already planned his longest vacation of the year, the National Day Holidays that fall in the first week of October - three days will be spent visiting his parents back home in Wenzhou, two days shopping with his girlfriend in Shanghai and two days getting together with friends in Nanjing.

"Thanks to the upcoming Nanjing-Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway, I've got everything arranged," said the 28-year-old, who was born in Zhejiang's Wenzhou and took a job in Jiangsu's provincial capital of Nanjing.

A new high-speed railway that stretches across East China's Yangtze River Delta will cut the travel time between Nanjing to Hangzhou from four hours to about 70 minutes starting from July 1.