China's fastest bullet train

China's fastest bullet train has been launched last year on 26th October, making the 125-mile trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou in 45 minutes, thanks to a cruising speed of 220 miles per hour.
The silver, bullet-nosed trains, which look more like jets than rail cars, are part of a huge wave of infrastructure building that has accompanied China's growth. "Still in the works: more nuclear power plants, a gargantuan project to pump river water from the fertile south to the arid north, and a $32.5 billion, 820-mile (1,300-kilometer) Beijing-to-Shanghai high-speed railway that is scheduled to open in 2012," NPR reports.
Here in the United States, where the American love affair with the automobile continues, there's been plenty of talk about creating high-speed trains but not much action. Amtrak offers a service called Acela from New York to Boston and Washington, but it's not that much faster than its regular trains (though the cost is two-to-four times as much per ticket). Those trains can run up to 150 miles per hour, though they often travel at lesser speeds.