BEIJING Homme Nike Air Force 1 07 Basse Metallic Or Blanche Pas Cher , July 27 (Xinhua) -- China started tests Thursday to restore the maximum speed of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed bullet train to 350 kilometers per hour, six years after it was reduced to 300.
Departing Beijing South Railway Station at 8:38 a.m., a Fuxing bullet train completed the round-trip from Beijing to Xuzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province, about 700 kilometers away, in about four hours.
The speed hike will cut the Beijing-Shanghai journey to about 4.5 hours, about half an hour faster than the current minimum.
The test will pave way for a new schedule on the Beijing-Shanghai railway starting mid-September.
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The test on Thursday showed that energy consumption on the Fuxing decreased to 10 percent less than on the Hexie train (CRH380) when running at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
"The Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway is built to the highest standard in the world, while the Fuxing is designed and manufactured with an operating speed of 350 kilometers per hour. It is out of question for Fuxing to run on the Beijing-Shanghai line at such a speed from the point of view of technical safety, reliability and comfort," said Lu Dongfu, general manager of China Railway Corporation.
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China's Fuxing bullet trains were unveiled in June and are capable of top speeds of 400 kmh.
"The Fuxing was designed and manufactured in China, led by the China Railway Corporation. We hold the complete intellectual property rights of the new bullet trains -- electric multiple units (EMU) -- which have reached the world's advanced level," said He Huawu of the China Academy of Engineering.
The new EMU has completed 600,000 kilometers of running assessment and increased the design life to 30 years from 20, according to He.
The Fuxing has a monitoring system that slows the train in case of emergency or abnormal conditions. Telemetry allows a control center to monitor the train in real time.
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There will be a process for China to consider whether to speed up its whole high-speed network, though such a move may pose a challenge to railway management, He said, adding that the financial and social benefits must be considered.
Take the Fuxing as an example OFF White x Nike Air Force 1 Basse The Ten Blanche Pas Cher , energy consumption would increase 20-30 percent if the train improved its speed from 300kmh to 350, according to Du Yanliang of the China Academy of Engineering.
However, the speed hike will improve social benefits, as it will help ease ticket shortages on the busy Beijing-Shanghai line and save time for passengers.
China will open seven Fuxing trains in either direction of the Beijing-Shanghai line in its initial stage. The ticket price will not change.
The authorities will gradually increase the number of the new bullet train and adjust ticket prices in future, He said.
About one-third of China's high-speed railways were designed to run at a speed of 350 kmh, according to He.
Several countries, including Indonesia, Russia and India, have bought Chinese bullet trains.
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"The Egyptian government and the central bank have taken the right measures to rein in inflation, reduce the budget deficit and set the Egyptian economy on a path to stability and growth," Lagarde added in a statement.
The IMF Executive Board approved on Thursday the release of 1.25 billion which is the final installment of a second tranche of a 12 billion dollars loan to Egypt.
"We believe that these efforts will yield results," Lagarde added.
Egypt agreed a three-year, 12 billion dollars IMF loan program in November that is tied to ambitious economic reforms such as subsidy cuts and tax hikes.
Egypt received an initial 2.75 billion U.S. dollars tranche from the IMF last November.
Egypt's reform program began with a good start that contributed in increasing the country's cash reserve remarkably, said said David Lipton, the IMF first Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chair.
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The energy subsidy reform, wage restraint, and the new added value taxes, have contributed to reducing the fiscal deficit and saved more resources for social spending to support the poor, Lipton added in a statement published on the website of the IMF.
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