🎉 MandarinHub is live: Mandarin schools and teachers get free featured listings for a limited time!
🏠Home 📚Learn 🎯HSK 💼Business 🏮Culture 🌏Cross-CultureNEW 🎬Films & Songs 🎓Study in China 🏫Schools 📖Teaching Materials 🌏Community
🤝Partnership 📮Contact Us ✍️Post Info 🔑Log in ✨Sign up
🌐中文版

Bullet train debuts on new railway in Tibet

In a nutshell

The first electrified railway in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region opened on Friday morning, linking (连接 liánjiē) Lhasa with Nyingchi. "Fuxing" bullet…

 The first electrified railway in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region opened on Friday morning, linking (连接 liánjiē) Lhasa with Nyingchi. "Fuxing" bullet trains will run at speeds up to 160 km/h. It now only takes 1 hour (小时 xiǎoshí) and 10 minutes (分钟 fēnzhōng) to travel from Lhasa to Shannan and 3 hours 29 minutes from Lhasa to Nyingchi.
 
时间单位 Time unit:
 
[shìjì] 世纪 century
[nián] 年 year
[jìdù] 季度 quarter
[yuè] 月 month
[xún] 旬 ten-day period/ten-year period
[xīngqī] 星期 week
[rì] 日 day
[xiǎoshí] 小时 hour
[kè] 刻 quarter
[fēnzhōng] 分钟 minute
[miǎo] 秒 second

📎 Content curated from public sources, for learning purposes. Original source