According to a press release from China State Railway Group, the state-owned company which operates the country’s rail network, this means the country's network now exceeds the combined length of all other countries’ high-speed systems.
China’s high-speed rail network’s world-beating development has been attributed to centralized planning, rail standardization and substantial state investment, and the scale and speed of its expansion over only a few decades have made it a revered achievement in the world of engineering. But its global dominance also reflects the difficulty other nations have faced in trying to boost connectivity, tourism and commerce with their own high-speed links.
