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Central China: Hefei
Daily bullet train services: 280+
It's quite amazing to see a city transforming from a railway backwater to an important regional high-speed terminal, where Shanghai-Chengdu HSR intersects the newly built Hefei-Fuzhou HSR, the latter dubbed as the most beautiful high-speed railway connecting numerous UNESCO world heritage sites. Whereas, some people argue that such flourishing development of railways is all thanks to the incumbent PM and the former Chinese President, all from this province.
Central China: Changsha
Daily bullet train services: 400+
2.5 hours to Guangzhou, 5.5 hours to Beijing, 4.5 hours to Shanghai
Capital city of Hunan Province, Changsha is not just home to the most profitable satellite TV channel which is the perennial topic of Chinese around the world, but also the second city after Zhengzhou with two 350km/h trunk high-speed railways intersecting. The suburban intercity high-speed railway network is under construction, in a bid to merge three formerly separated cities into one 10-million-people metropolis.
Western China: Chongqing
Daily bullet train services: 200
China's youngest municipality, 30 million people, but until now, still lags behind in terms of high-speed railways due to the harsh geological conditions. The completion of the second Chongqing-Chengdu HSR is a good start, the first 350km/h line in Chongqing. A real 350km/h Shanghai-Wuhan-Chongqing-Chengdu trunk route is in urgent need, replacing the current 200-250km/h semi-HSR which is of full load. However, the negotiations and fightings among cities and counties along this corridor seem endless.
Eastern China: southern Zhejiang Province
Wenzhou: 200
Jinhua: 200
The people in Wenzhou are called the Jewish people of China. They are buying property and lands across the world, they are controlling a lot of local economies in foreign countries. In terms of high-speed railway, the upgrading of the old railway into a 250km/h semi-HSR shortens the distance of Shanghai-Kunming HSR and the costal HSR which links Shanghai all the way to Shenzhen and Guangzhou along the East China Sea.
Northwestern China: Xi'an-Lanzhou
Without the completion of Xi'an-Lanzhou HSR, the high-speed railway in Xinjiang and Gansu Province is still an isolated line though there are 160km/h overnight slow trains traveling all the way from Shanghai to Urumqi at night. Another problem is the commercialisation of high-speed sleeper trains which ensure a speed of at least 200-250km/h at night, otherwise very few will take a bullet train all the way from Xi'an to Urumqi, to say nothing of from Beijing all the way to Urumqi.
The anti-wind/sand/coldness CRH2G
in a series of test on Northeast China's Lanzhou-Urumqi HSR, which will be linked to the national HSR network when Xi'an-Lanzhou HSR is opened in 2017-2018.
Central China: Hefei
Daily bullet train services: 280+
It's quite amazing to see a city transforming from a railway backwater to an important regional high-speed terminal, where Shanghai-Chengdu HSR intersects the newly built Hefei-Fuzhou HSR, the latter dubbed as the most beautiful high-speed railway connecting numerous UNESCO world heritage sites. Whereas, some people argue that such flourishing development of railways is all thanks to the incumbent PM and the former Chinese President, all from this province.
Central China: Changsha
Daily bullet train services: 400+
2.5 hours to Guangzhou, 5.5 hours to Beijing, 4.5 hours to Shanghai
Capital city of Hunan Province, Changsha is not just home to the most profitable satellite TV channel which is the perennial topic of Chinese around the world, but also the second city after Zhengzhou with two 350km/h trunk high-speed railways intersecting. The suburban intercity high-speed railway network is under construction, in a bid to merge three formerly separated cities into one 10-million-people metropolis.
Western China: Chongqing
Daily bullet train services: 200
China's youngest municipality, 30 million people, but until now, still lags behind in terms of high-speed railways due to the harsh geological conditions. The completion of the second Chongqing-Chengdu HSR is a good start, the first 350km/h line in Chongqing. A real 350km/h Shanghai-Wuhan-Chongqing-Chengdu trunk route is in urgent need, replacing the current 200-250km/h semi-HSR which is of full load. However, the negotiations and fightings among cities and counties along this corridor seem endless.
Eastern China: southern Zhejiang Province
Wenzhou: 200
Jinhua: 200
The people in Wenzhou are called the Jewish people of China. They are buying property and lands across the world, they are controlling a lot of local economies in foreign countries. In terms of high-speed railway, the upgrading of the old railway into a 250km/h semi-HSR shortens the distance of Shanghai-Kunming HSR and the costal HSR which links Shanghai all the way to Shenzhen and Guangzhou along the East China Sea.
Northwestern China: Xi'an-Lanzhou
Without the completion of Xi'an-Lanzhou HSR, the high-speed railway in Xinjiang and Gansu Province is still an isolated line though there are 160km/h overnight slow trains traveling all the way from Shanghai to Urumqi at night. Another problem is the commercialisation of high-speed sleeper trains which ensure a speed of at least 200-250km/h at night, otherwise very few will take a bullet train all the way from Xi'an to Urumqi, to say nothing of from Beijing all the way to Urumqi.
The anti-wind/sand/coldness CRH2G
in a series of test on Northeast China's Lanzhou-Urumqi HSR, which will be linked to the national HSR network when Xi'an-Lanzhou HSR is opened in 2017-2018.
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