Interesting Facts About China

Endless Railway Lines

As such a colossal sized country, its no surprise that China has one of the largest networks of railways in the world. In fact, this network is so enormous that it could actually loop around the world twice! In more recent times, China has been developing a largescale high-speed rail (HSR) network.

This has quickly become the largest HSR network in the world, stretching 15,534 miles! The next largest HSR network, belonging to Spain, is a mere 2010 miles in comparison. In total, China possesses 66.3 percent of the total number of HSR rails in the world. The trains that China uses on these tracks are just as impressive. They travel at a jaw dropping speed of more than 320 kilometers per hour, and transport around two million passengers daily.