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Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in China.As of 2024, the country had more than 159,000 km (98,798 mi) [6] [7] of railways, the second longest network in the world.
The high-speed rail (HSR) network in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's longest and most extensively used – with a total length of 46,000 kilometres (29,000 mi) in the middle of 2024. [1][2][3] The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200–380 km/h (120–240 mph). [4]
Projected HSR network in China by 2020 and travel time by rail from Beijing to provincial capitals. China's high-speed railway network is by far the longest in the world.As of December 2022, it extends to 31 of the country's 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and exceeds 40,000 km (25,000 mi) in total length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in ...
Map of China's railway network in 1961. The launch of the Great Leap Forward in 1958 was intended to rapidly expand railway transport, but produced counterproductive results. [2] The shipment of freight, which was not quite 300 million tons in 1957, was targeted to reach 900 million tons by 1959 and 3 billion tons by 1972. [2]
China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the People's Republic of China. [2] China Railway operates passenger and freight transport throughout China with 18 regional subsidiaries. [3] By September 2022, the total assets of China Railway Group are CNY ...
422. Libya. 1912 to 1965 (peak length of 399 km [14]); (network under construction in 2008–2011, but works stopped, see Libyan Railways) 434. Malta. Had a railway line from 1883 until 1931 (11 km) and a three line tramway network from 1905 untill 1929 (circa 14 km) 470. Micronesia.
China Railway High-speed (CRH) is a high-speed rail service operated by China Railway. The introduction of CRH series was a major part of the sixth national railway speedup, implemented on April 18, 2007. [1] By the end of 2020, China Railway High-speed provided service to all provinces in China, and operated just under 38,000 km (24,000 mi ...
The Kunming–Singapore railway, also referred to as the Pan-Asian Railway, is a network of railways that connects China, Singapore and all the countries of mainland Southeast Asia. The concept originated with the British and French colonial empires, which sought to link the railways they had built in southwest China, Indochina and Malaya, but ...