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On April 18, Premier Wen Jiabao announced the beginning of the con-struction of the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway, the longest express railway in the world that has been deliberat-ed over for 18 years. With a total investment of 220.9 billion yuan ($31.6 billion), it's the most costly construction project that the gov-ernment has undertaken since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.