China Rail Expansion on Track

• 27 March 2017
• Construction Focus
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China plans to expand its national high-speed rail network by 10,000km in the next three years and a further 8,000km by 2025.The ambitious USD500bn expansion will connect all cities with more than 5 million people with a high-speed link and all cities with more than 2 million with a main line.A briefing by the State Council Information Office in January 2017 said that private investment could help fund the project which would help stimulate the economies of more isolated and less developed areas of the sprawling nation.Construction recently began on the 482km Guiyang to Nanning high-speed railway in which will cut travel times from 10 hour to less than 3 hours and travel through 106 tunnels.