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How China built the best high-speed rail ever

Aug 20, 2021

DW Planet A

China built almost 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rails in just over a decade. Meanwhile, dreams for a similar high-speed train systems in the EU and US have been consistently derailed. How did China do it? And at what cost? 

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Read More (Links):

Research paper modeling high-speed rail’s offset of emissions: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Asia Development Bank Report 2019: https://www.adb.org/sites/default/fil... World Bank report on China’s construction costs: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/pu... IEA Future of Rails Report: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/ass... European Court of Auditors report on EU’s High-Speed rail: https://op.europa.eu/webpub/eca/speci...