![A passenger manages to buy the first high-speed train ticket from Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, to Beijing at Zhengzhou East Railway Station on Dec 20, 2012. Tickets for high-speed trains from Beijing to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou went on sale on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua]](U472P886T1D41478F12DT20121220143837.jpg "A passenger manages to buy the first high-speed train ticket from Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, to Beijing at Zhengzhou East Railway Station on Dec 20, 2012. Tickets for high-speed trains from Beijing to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou went on sale on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua]")
A passenger manages to buy the first high-speed train ticket from Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, to Beijing at Zhengzhou East Railway Station on Dec 20, 2012. Tickets for high-speed trains from Beijing to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou went on sale on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua]
![A passenger tries to buy a high-speed train ticket at an automatic ticket sales machine in Zhengzhou East Railway Station on Dec 20, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]](U472P886T1D41478F14DT20121220143837.jpg "A passenger tries to buy a high-speed train ticket at an automatic ticket sales machine in Zhengzhou East Railway Station on Dec 20, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]")
A passenger tries to buy a high-speed train ticket at an automatic ticket sales machine in Zhengzhou East Railway Station on Dec 20, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]
Tickets for high-speed trains from Beijing to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou went on sale after 10 am on Dec 20, 2012.
Passengers can buy tickets for travel between Dec 26 and 31. The 2,298-km journey time between Beijing and Guangzhou will be cut by 12 hours, to eight hours.
According to the Beijing Railway Bureau, the total price for the G trains, to run at 300 kilometers per hour, will range from 865 yuan ($139) to 2,972 yuan, while the price for the D trains, to run at 250 km/h, will range from 712 yuan to 2,130 yuan.
China now has more than 7,500 kilometers of high-speed railway line in operation, ranking first in the world.
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