The Number

200 million trips

Data released by China's railway authorities showed that train trips on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway had topped 200 million. Trips on the railway surpassed 100 million on February 28, 2013 and reached 200 million by 9:30 am Sunday, said the authorities. The 1,318-kilometer-long railway links the country's prosperous Pan-Bohai and Yangtze River Delta economic zones, cutting travel time between the two regions to less than five hours.