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FlightGlobal:

China’s leading online travel agency Ctrip has concluded a strategic investment in Boom Supersonic.

The Chinese company would not disclose the “amount and range” of its investment, except to say that Boom has so far raised$85 million, including seed investment, venture capital and investments from strategic partners.

With this investment, Ctrip aims to bring“faster travel” to China and to “promote supersonic flights” to its over 300million registered users.

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Daily Mail:

China's leading online travel agency wants to bring supersonic flights to the country's 1.4 billion population.

Ctrip has announced on Thursday aninvestment in US based supersonic airplane developer Supersonic Boom that willhelp build its commercial aircraft.

The airplane developer is currently building a supersonic airliner capable of carrying 55 passengers at Mach 2.2,which is equivalent to the speed of 1,451mph (2,335 km/h).

Boom boasts that this could cut travel timein half, meaning that a flight from Shanghai to Los Angeles would shrink to just over six hours, instead of the current 12-hour flight time.

travel agency 旅行社

conclude 正式完成

disclose 透露

raise 募集

seed investment 种子投资

venture capital 风险投资

supersonic 超音速的

commercial aircraft 商用飞机

airliner 大客机

boast 非常自豪地说

shrink to 缩到