Shanghai Youth Daily
October 12, 2007

The top headline of today's Shanghai Youth Daily announces that the State Council has approved a proposal to construct an express railway between Beijing and Shanghai. According to the article, when the route opens in 2010, the journey from Beijing to Shanghai will be cut in half, to five hours, and the average train speed will reach 300 kilometers per hour.

The front page picture shows the closing ceremony of the Shanghai 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games.

Other headlines:

· Doris Lessing, who turns 88 in just over a week, won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday;
· The first East Asian Gene Map was published yesterday in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province;
· China's stock markets continued to climb: the Shanghai index passed 5900 points yesterday;
· The lunar probe Chang'e I has reached its launch site in Xichang, Sichuan Province. It is due to launch before the end of the year.