"Bejing-Wuhan rail line construction on track" from South China Morning Post

"Construction on the high-speed rail line between Beijing and Wuhan, Hubei, will finish and trains will begin running by the end of this year, the Ministry of Railways said in Beijing, the Wuhan Evening News reports. The 1,113-kilometre line will shorten the travel time between the two cities to just four hours, and will connect with the existing Wuhan-Guangzhou line to reduce the total Beijing-to-Guangzhou travel time to eight hours."