High-speed rail to cover over 80% of China's large cities by 2020

High-speed railway is expected to cover 80% of major Chinese cities in 2020. This has been detailed at a China Railway Corporation conference in Beijing on January 2, 2018, reports thepaper.cn. A review of the works done by the CRC last year, and plans for 2018, have been detailed.

Photo shows high-speed trains at a maintenance base in Wuhan, Hubei Province on December 5, 2014. [Photo: VCG]

China's high-speed rail tracks will hit about 30,000 km by 2020, covering more than 80% of the large cities with populations over one million people.

G1 Fuxing bullet train leaves Jinan West Railway Station on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway line in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, Sept. 21, 2017.[Photo: Xinhua]

A report released at the CRC conference suggests China's railway technology standards and equipment levels have improved significantly.

A high-speed train runs by a flower field in Guizhou Province on February 11, 2017. [Photo: VCG]

By the end of 2017, there were 127,000 kilometers of rail across China, 25,000 kilometers of which is high-speed rail, which accounts for two-thirds the world's total high-speed railway.

Photo shows CR400AF/BF trains in Beijing, on November, 7 2017. [Photo: VCG]

In 2018, China Railway Corporation plans to serve 3.25 billion passengers and to transport 3.02 billion tons of cargo.