Fuxing bullet train with greater capacity debuts

A longer Fuxing bullet train made its debut on Saturday whose 17 cars make room for 90 additional passengers.

The train, which carries a maximum of 1,283 passengers, travels on the Beijing and Shanghai high-speed rail line at a top speed of 350 kilometers per hour. It has 22 business class seats, 148 first-class seats and 1,113 second-class seats.

The first of these longer Fuxing trains left Beijing on Saturday at noon and arrived in Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station at 4:36 pm.