January 19, 2008 (LPAC) - China will build a new high-speed railroad to link Guangdong Province, on the southeast coast, with Guizhou, one of its poorest regions, Lin Shusen, Governor of Guizhou, announced in the provincial congress yesterday. The 818 km railroad will allow trains running 250 km per hour to link the Guizhou capital, Guiyang with Guangzhou, on the coast. There is no link between the two cities yet, and the current trip can take as much as 20 hours. As important, the Guiyang-Guangzhou high-speed railroad will become part of the planned west-south high-speed trunk line in China. The Guiyang-Guangzhou line will be connected to the planned high-speed railway between Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province in northwest China, and Chongqing, the biggest industrial city in central-west China. Lanzhou is also an important station on the Second Euro-Asian Continental Bridge, between China and Europe.