China put 581km (361 miles) of new railway lines into service in the first four months of the year, Xinhua reported.

The country saw 157.46 billion yuan (over $23.21 billion) in fixed asset railway investment in the period, up 0.6% year-on-year, according to China State Railway Group.

The country’s high-speed railway extended to 38,000km at the end of last year, which was 8,000km longer than the target set by Beijing in 2017.

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    Impressive really. Even beating your target by 8000 km.

    Ever since I was a kid there have been talks about a cross Europe super speed railway, and 25 years later there still is no concrete plan I think. Meanwhile China drops 38000 km. Crazy shit.

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      thankfully their BRI will bring these brrrrring productive forces to many other parts of the world

    • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
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        And here’s the train started moving : <center style=“white-space: nowrap”><marquee scrollamount=“21”>🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃</center>

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    My god is it amazing to see their progress and ingenuity

    on a totally unrelated note: is china accepting immigration and when can I learn Simplified Chinese quickly

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    I’m confused as to why the image is of a metro, not the CRH.

    I mean, it’s still nice, but, not the new line that was just completed.

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      Silly me! Just Searched and added the nice looking one! Didn’t do much research. So providing/linking any good photo of the latest one is appreciated. I’ll edit and add it to the main post

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    I’m sad that Europe stopped being ambitious about rail. Europe was an inspiration on rail transport once. But now it’s China.

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    Based! Long live China! Long live Chairman Xi, the leader of the free world!