China Soon to Apply Smart High-speed Bullet Train in Nationwide Rail System
China Soon to Apply Smart High-speed Bullet Train in Nationwide Rail System
What is China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR)? Generally speaking, a rail network that offers 200β350 kph (124β217 mph) trains is an HSR network. Now, China has the largest high-speed rail network in the world. At the end of 2018, there were about 25,000 kilometers (15,534 miles) of high-speed rail lines in service.
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- Passenger capacity: 1.5 billion people annually (data from 2016)
- Speed: 200β350 kph (124β217 mph), e.g. Beijing to Shanghai takes 5 hours to travel 1,200 km
- Facilities on an HSR train: non-smoking, adjustable seats, 220V AC sockets, Western/Chinese style toilets, free boiling/cold water, restaurant car, and a canteen bar
8 Popular HSR Routes and Maps in China
There are “4 vertical lines and 4 horizontal lines” for the main China HSR network. This means there are four northβsouth high-speed rail lines and four eastβwest high-speed rail lines. They are the basis for the China high-speed rail network.