Covering 127,000 kilometers, or 78,900 miles, it could circumnavigate the planet three times. Moreover, roughly 20% of that figure is made up of high-speed arteries, which crisscross the country, data released by the China Railway Corporation, or CRC, illustrated. To put that into perspective, last year those bullet trains clocked up 29,000 km in operational mileage. Still, the cost of what is considered a transport miracle has been astronomical.
