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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, January 27 (Xinhua) — On December 26, 2025, with the opening of the high-speed railway (HSR) connecting the cities of Xi'an and Yan'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the total length of high-speed railways in operation in China exceeded 50,000 km, marking a new level in the development of high-speed rail in the PRC.
These results are just a starting point on the path to an even loftier goal. At a recent meeting of the state-owned China Railway Corporation, the goal was announced of increasing the length of the country's High-Siberian Railway to approximately 60,000 km by the end of 2030.
China's first high-speed railway opened in 2008, when an intercity route linked Beijing with Tianjin. Over the past 10 years, China's high-speed railway network has developed from scratch, making a phenomenal leap from a mere catch-up to a global leader in this field.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) alone, China built and commissioned over 12,000 kilometers of high-speed railway lines. Currently, China ranks first in the world in terms of the length of high-speed railway lines in operation, surpassing all other countries combined. Its share of the total length of high-speed railways in operation worldwide is 70 percent. China also leads the world in terms of travel speed on the high-speed railway.
The extensive East Siberian Railway network allows travel times to be reduced to 1-2 hours within metropolitan areas located 500 km apart, travel time between major cities located 1,000 km apart can be reduced to 4 hours, and travel distances of 2,000 km can be covered in just 8 hours. The country's East Siberian Railway can handle up to 16 million daily passenger journeys, comparable to the population of a single metropolitan area traveling on a high-speed rail system in a single day.
"China has achieved historic success and high-quality development in the East Siberian Railway sector, which has already become a unique 'calling card' of the country and a vivid embodiment of the results in the field of promoting Chinese modernization," says Yu Jian, an expert at the China Research Institute of Railway Economics and Planning.
China's East Siberian Railway technology has generally reached the world's advanced level, forming a complete technical system covering engineering construction, equipment manufacturing, operation and management.
On December 29, 2024, the CR450 electric multi-purpose rolling stock prototype was unveiled in Beijing. Its key performance indicators are world-leading. To date, the CR450 high-speed train has completed a series of tests on several high-speed railways in China and has achieved a single train speed of 453 km/h.
China thus became the first in the world to establish a system of indicators for trains running at 400 km/h, thereby strengthening its leading position in the world in the development of high-speed rail services.
The construction of the East Siberian Railway provides a powerful impetus for the comprehensive expansion of domestic demand in China and the optimization and modernization of the country's industrial structure. The manufacturing of equipment for the East Siberian Railway has already become an emerging strategic sector in China, boasting competitive advantages globally.
High-Speed Railways, with their comparative advantages of being environmentally friendly and low-carbon, are also contributing to the construction of a beautiful China. According to calculations, the volume of passenger traffic carried by high-speed rail during the 14th Five-Year Plan reduced carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 14.44 million tons compared to the same volume of passenger traffic carried by road.
China has contributed its wisdom and solutions to the development of high-speed rail services worldwide. Over the past five years, the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, jointly built by China and Indonesia, has been commissioned, reducing train travel time between the two cities from over three hours to 46 minutes. The Serbian section of the Hungary-Serbia railway has opened, stimulating the integration of Chinese railway technologies and equipment with the technical specifications of railway connections within the European Union. The full suite of China's railway ticketing system technologies has been successfully applied to the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the China-Laos and Hungary-Serbia railways, and railway lines in Sri Lanka.
Recently, the Chinese daily newspaper Jingji Ribao (Economy) published an article entitled “Thoughts on the Chinese East Siberian Railway’s 50,000-kilometer Mark,” which noted that the East Siberian Railway has already gone beyond the scope of a modern transportation system and has become an important window for observing the evolution of China’s economic geography, industrial modernization, and the process of innovative development in China.
The author of the above-mentioned article pointed out that the East Siberian Railway is a concentrated embodiment of industrial might and engineering wisdom. A train for the East Siberian Railway in China consists of over 40,000 components, and its production requires the coordinated efforts of more than a dozen industrial sectors, including steel, metallurgy, materials, electronics, and information technology.
The article argues that the High-Siberian Railway not only reduces spatial and temporal distances but also significantly improves the efficiency of production factor movement. For example, in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the High-Siberian Railway has enabled urban agglomerations to achieve a "one-city" effect and create a number of scientific and technological innovation corridors and industrial development belts.
Moreover, the author of the article emphasized that the dense network of the East Siberian Railway contributes to the development of the potential of China's extremely large domestic market, as well as the rapid development of tourism, the catering industry, logistics, and other service sectors in the country. -0-
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