An insider's account of how high-speed rail developed in China

By the end of 2014, the length of functioning high-speed railway lines in China exceeded more than 16,000 kilometers, more than anywhere else in the world.

High Speed Railway in Color is a crowdfunded book about how the country developed its ambitious high-speed railway project.

The book is likely to hit stores in the second half of the year and has raised 30,000 yuan ($5,000) from the public within the first five hours of the project being announced on Zhongchou.cn, a popular funding platform in China established two years ago.