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With the opening of the new intercity HSR in Guangdong Province, the total mileage of Chinese HSR(CRH) is rapidly marching towards 20,000 km benchmark. The coming major nation-wide timetable upgrade in May 2016 will add several hundred more railway services per day, among which a significant number will be bullet trains. One Chinese railway fan has drawn the most up-to-date HSR network map, let's have a look!
Outline
The four brackets in the lower left are detailed maps of networks around Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Pearl River Delta and Chengdu.
Yangtze River Delta
Main City: Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Jiaxing
Shanghai Nanjing and Hangzhou are among top10 cities with the most bullet train services, with 700+, 560 and 436 respectively! This region is arguably the biggest engine of Chinese economy, with GDP totalling around 2 trillion US dollars.
Pearl River Delta
Main City: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Zhongshan
Guangzhou (800 bullet trains per day), Shenzhen(500+), and HK in the future
The expansion of PRD's intercity network is exciting, but more trunk routes (>300km/h) are needed!
Shenzhen's high-speed railway will be expended south to Hong Kong soon, strengthening its status as the innovation capital of China, home to DJI and Huawei.
Central China: Wuhan
Wuhan: 400+ bullet trains per day
At the very centre of the Chinese economic map, Wuhan is where the Beijing-HK HSR intersects with Shanghai-Chengdu HSR. More intercity HSRs and trunk routes are coming!
Western China: Chengdu
Bullet trains per day 200+
At the westernmost end of Shanghai-Chengdu HSR, Chengdu is undoubtedly the heart of Western China's thriving economy. Not many services are brought in so far because most lines have opened only a small section. The epic Chengdu-Lanzhou, Chengdu-Xi'an, Chengdu-Kunming and Chengdu-Guiyang HSRs will make Western China much more bonding than before both distance-wise and economy-wise.
Northern China: Around Beijing
Beijing(600+ services)
Tianjin(500)
Shijiazhuang(250+)
Beijing seems still the end terminal so far without high-speed railways radiating north. But the Winter Olympics is coming! Beijing-Zhangjiakou-Hohhot HSR is finally in the making.
Northeastern China
Shenyang(300+)
Changchun(200+)
Harbin(200)
Dalian(150)
The most amazing fact about the current NE Chinas HSR network is the finalisation of a ring HSR on the Liaodong Peninsular, bordering North Korea. Shenyang, the provincial capital in the interior, Dalian at the tip of the peninsular and Dandong the bilingual border city, are finally linked together with rapid railway services every 5-20 minutes from 5am to 10pm.
(to be continued)
Outline
The four brackets in the lower left are detailed maps of networks around Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Pearl River Delta and Chengdu.
Yangtze River Delta
Main City: Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Jiaxing
Shanghai Nanjing and Hangzhou are among top10 cities with the most bullet train services, with 700+, 560 and 436 respectively! This region is arguably the biggest engine of Chinese economy, with GDP totalling around 2 trillion US dollars.
Pearl River Delta
Main City: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Zhongshan
Guangzhou (800 bullet trains per day), Shenzhen(500+), and HK in the future
The expansion of PRD's intercity network is exciting, but more trunk routes (>300km/h) are needed!
Shenzhen's high-speed railway will be expended south to Hong Kong soon, strengthening its status as the innovation capital of China, home to DJI and Huawei.
Central China: Wuhan
Wuhan: 400+ bullet trains per day
At the very centre of the Chinese economic map, Wuhan is where the Beijing-HK HSR intersects with Shanghai-Chengdu HSR. More intercity HSRs and trunk routes are coming!
Western China: Chengdu
Bullet trains per day 200+
At the westernmost end of Shanghai-Chengdu HSR, Chengdu is undoubtedly the heart of Western China's thriving economy. Not many services are brought in so far because most lines have opened only a small section. The epic Chengdu-Lanzhou, Chengdu-Xi'an, Chengdu-Kunming and Chengdu-Guiyang HSRs will make Western China much more bonding than before both distance-wise and economy-wise.
Northern China: Around Beijing
Beijing(600+ services)
Tianjin(500)
Shijiazhuang(250+)
Beijing seems still the end terminal so far without high-speed railways radiating north. But the Winter Olympics is coming! Beijing-Zhangjiakou-Hohhot HSR is finally in the making.
Northeastern China
Shenyang(300+)
Changchun(200+)
Harbin(200)
Dalian(150)
The most amazing fact about the current NE Chinas HSR network is the finalisation of a ring HSR on the Liaodong Peninsular, bordering North Korea. Shenyang, the provincial capital in the interior, Dalian at the tip of the peninsular and Dandong the bilingual border city, are finally linked together with rapid railway services every 5-20 minutes from 5am to 10pm.
(to be continued)
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