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China's beauty by rail

2015-12-08 10:09

By (chinadaily.com.cn)

China's beauty by rail

A train runs across the snow covered mountains of the Juyongguan section of the Great Wall in Beijing on Nov 20, 2015. [Photo/IC]

Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, running from Fengtai district in Beijing to Zhangjiakou city in North China's Hebei province, is famous as the first China-built railway without foreign interference.

The railway, opened to traffic in 1909, has a total length of 201.2 kilometers, running across the Juyongguan section and Badaling section of the Great Wall.

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