High-speed rail network set to take global lead
By Xin Dingding | China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-08 07:52
Workers at the Lushan station in Jiangxi province lay tracks for the express rail running between provincial capital Nanchang and Jiujiang on Monday. The line is China's second inter-city express rail after the Beijing-Tianjin link. Hu Guolin |
China is well on its way to becoming the high-speed railway capital of the world, with 33,000 km of these railways currently under construction and about 70 projects slated to launch this year.
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