ogramme back on track A CRH380B train on the Harbin - Dalian line on December 1, the day the line opened.


China put five lines totalling 2563km into operation between June 30 and December 1. This compares with just two lines of 1420km during the previous 18 months (see panel). The Beijing - Zhengzhou line was scheduled to open by the end of last year, bringing the total length of high-speed lines to 9300km. This is also the final section of the 2287km Beijing - Guangzhou -


IRJ January 2013


Shenzhen line, the longest high-speed line in China.


China’s decision to resume railway development became even more apparent in November at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party when Chinese leader Hu Jintao summarised the country’s achievements of the past five years. Hu spoke highly of the high-speed rail development by


listing it together with China’s manned spaceflight and the lunar exploration programme as the country’s main breakthroughs in innovation. MOR has not announced the amount of investment for 2013 yet. But Mr Li Changjin, chairman of China Railway Group, one of the top state-owned railway construction companies, revealed in November that Yuan 600bn


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