In the summer of 2011, a high-speed train began to run along the Beijing-Shanghai route. To denote them in China, the Latin letter G is used. The whole trip takes about 5 hours, which is half the time on a conventional train (marked with the letters D and T). They leave from Beijing south station, they develop a speed of more than 300 km per hour and are quite expensive. 2 class seats (sessile) costs about 85-90 $, 1 class (four-seat coupe) - 140 $, business class (or VIP seats) - 270-280 $.

Trains of category D are moving at a speed of about 250 km per hour, the T expresses give 140 km per hour. They pass the distance of Beijing-Shanghai in about 7-10 hours. Tickets for them are cheaper than for high-speed G, from 40-60 to 140 (T) or 215 (D) $. Prices depend on the type of place. On night trains it is best to take a soft sleeper (soft lying, analogue of our second-class car), on daytime it is quite possible to confine ourselves to the place of a soft seat (soft sedentary). With trains in which numbers consist only of numbers, it is better not to contact, neither cheap, but extremely slow and dirty