Dear MEL Topic Readers,
China to spend $438b on rail network in the next five years
Double the already world longest high speed railway system. That what
China is determined to do for the next five years.
High-speed rail (HSR) in China refers to railway train service at the
speed of 200 km/h or higher. It already has 20,000km long such services and is
going to add another 23,000 kilometers over the next five years.
The speed is not only limited to how fast the train travels but how
fast the railways will have been constructed. While it took over 50 years for
Japan to build 3,000 km Shinkansen railways, China has completed 20,000 km only
in eight years and another five years to double it. It was 1978, China’s Den Xiaoping
visited Japan and took a ride on Shinkansen. He seemed to have been strongly
impressed by then the world only high speed railway and might have left a
message to the future leaders to build one.
The country with the world largest economy and mightiest military, the
U.S. has ten aircraft careers but no high speed railway systems.
Enjoy reading and thinking what China will be like when you get your next
smartphone.
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