The evolution of China’s incredible high-speed rail network
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- China is now well known for building massively. The highest, the fastest, the largest, they all can be found within the borders of the country. High speed railway is not the exception. China initially relied on high-speed technology imported from Europe and Japan to establish its network. Global rail engineering giants such as Bombardier, Alstom and Mitsubishi were understandably keen to co-operate, given the potential size of the new market and China’s ambitious plans.
However, over the last decade, it is domestic companies that have developed into world leaders in high-speed train technology and engineering, thanks to the astonishing expansion of their home network.
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China has built a high-speed railway with a speed of 350㎞ per hour in Indonesia, which is expected to be officially opened for operation on August 18th this year!
140Km long ，only 5 years
Forgot to mention that China also has granted technology transfer in able Indonesia to manufacture their own trains using Chinese technology
@@reis1185 Definitely not like the US, they will keep others from the technology if they have anything that others dont have.
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@@xz1891 世界高度重合😃
Was in China more than 20 years ago. I can't wait to visit the country again 😊
A 20 years ago was backwarded. Many things have advanced since. But, culturally, it is still lacking behind intellectually if in the Western/American perspective.
China 20 years ago is a whold different country.
@@drewh3224 Shoplifting, thieves, sleep in sidewalk tents, fentanyl are American culture.
compare with 20 years ago, China is a completely different China now, not only to you, to most overseas Chinese as well
U should and u will be shocked (in a good way)
Wow China very good.
China high speed rail will exceed 50000km this year.
no. maybe 45000km
@@sams9981 it's already been reached months ago, currently in trial run
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My India after 10 year of construction only 12 KM has been completed 😢
Don't worry. Democracy tends to get done longer. But, once it is on the move, it will be smooth and fast..
@@drewh3224Land acquisition make government unpopular. So in India there cannot be more than one project at a time impacting several provinces which means massive loss of electoral votes. When the first projet will finish in 2028, then and only then the second project will start. The 3rd project will start after the second have finished and so forth and so on.. If it will take 10 years to complete 500 km of high speed rail. Then calculate how many years it will take to match the actual 43000 km network in China.
@@nmew6926 India doesnt have to match the amount of track. It has to be a good and integrated concept. As long as the projects are all in line, i think its okay.
@nmew6926 But, you don't realize that it is what a democratic system is in action. Once it is done, it could last a lot longer or more stable from potential shocks. Like another comment from 91djdj, as long as it is an integrated and efficient system. You don't match token with token.
Don't feel bad, I think California only built like several miles since started their HSR project 20 years ago
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The trains in Spain stay mainly on the plains.
Spain's high-speed train just got better than the Indian train. Either train or station, Still no comparison with China. These days, the Western world lack of their capability and innovation.
Wow, it's much cheaper than the ICE in Germany and TGV, France. A distance like that in France and Germany can easily cost you €40 and above.
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Drew H is digging on every petty issue to pick on. Feeling sour obviously.
15 e??? Much more cheaper than in finland when i was living there many years ago.
I’m surprised you visited my city, Zaragoza! I just wanted to clarify 2 points. First, Spanish network may look small compared to China, but its by far the largest per inhabitant. Second, Iryo is actually a Spanish company with Italian participation. In this specific matter, Spain is a country that “can catch up with China”, contrary to what the title says.
They better move fast then, as China is working on train sets that do 600kph.
@@ablam8 Very interesting point, but they would still need a network 3 times larger to match the Spanish one in terms of density.
@@javierjimenez3784
If Spain had 1.4 million citizens, then you could compare.
@@ablam8 Wasn’t comparing the point of this video? Or have I missed something?
@@javierjimenez3784How big is Spain and how big is China? Do you have common sense?😊
What about the price and distance??
HOW is development of high speed rail in Eastern China?
Basically, every prefecture-level city has a high-speed rail station
What about Western part of China?
@@drewh3224 A few steps behind, given the large social and economic incentives the East has.
@@91djdj Absolutely👍
@@drewh3224 lol you have a bone to pick.
When you pay such an expensive ticket in Euro €, the seat better be good. Or else, we will strangle the Spanish rail authority.
China must take complete and direct control of the UK’s rail system - the continued mismanagement and incompetence of the U.K. rail network is highlighted by the failure of HS2 and in the 21st century this cannot be allowed to happen further without strong action being taken to correct it via a hostile takeover by the CCP of the U.K. rail system
The Zaragoza station is actually pretty nice and classy .. you say, Chinese train stations are more beautiful?!?! Let's see in other videos!
I highly doubt there is any city in China with 700.000 inhabitants and a station like that one.
@@javierjimenez3784 Interesting point but still I don't care that much about the city population, right now I'm just wondering about the architecture qualites. From the videos I've seen so far, the Chinese High-Speed train stations looked all the same to me (since the Chinese government built them all with the same pattern in order to reduce cost). Usually big from the outside and not so much interesting in the inside, often times quite dark on the platforms, kinda soulless overall. My impressions of the Chinese high speed train stations are actually the opposite from the impression of their Fuxing hao trains, which I find very well designed and very aesthetically pleasing.
Opinions on visual things are subjective . Material preference for example - some people just prefer glass over concrete. Or warmth vs vibrant ( the station is on the warmth side). Zaragoza staion was designed and built with 1990s technology. The shades on the roof are not necessary if built today because of glass technology. And the natural skylight glass roof can be replaced by current LED technology.
@@blue-xb1cq The concept behind this project was to create “a new cathedral” for the city. For this, it was essential to let in natural light (not LED), as is the case with Gothic cathedrals. In addition, those shades that you speak of respond mainly to aesthetic reasons and temperature regulation, since the structure is made up of identical triangles that, if desired, could be resolved by means of a skylight over the entire roof. I’m from there so I know the project :)
@@javierjimenez3784 "A cathedral" is actually a perfect way to describe the architectonic qualities of the station, I really like it!
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Are these high speed railways running in losses?
yes
Bro. You copied text passages of another video I just watched. Word by word. That's lazy and not cool.
"another" video? Please NAME the Video... accusations w/o EVIDENCE is Slander.
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@@sandrajones1609 I am sure he knows the video. But now you have the link 🙂
Tell me you haven’t been to Japan without telling me you haven’t been to Japan
Japan's high speed rail is much smaller than Japanese. Stop kidding yourself
Dear westerners, your media has never told you China High speed rail is much better than the one in japan, western countries censored too much truth about China
The biggest reason for China starting development of its HSR network is because they had a few years where winter storms were severe enough to grind everything to a halt during the all-important Chinese New Year holiday season.
People don't understand that a mass of people greater than the entire population of the USA travel within China during the Chinese New Year holidays to see family and friends. The HSR stations being built a bit away from city centers is a deliberate decision because you really don't want a massive density of people clogging up your city center because that has knock-on effects of clogging up everything else.
A good example of how NOT to set up a long-haul line is to look at Los Angeles's Union Station where you have both long-haul and light rail/metro lines AND freight lines using the same station. Then you pair that with the Los Angeles International Airport being 20 miles west of downtown Los Angeles with NO DIRECT CONNECTING METRO LINE. If you work in the Santa Monica to Marina Del Rey area but live east of downtown Los Angeles, your commute would be roughly 3 hours _each_ way by car/freeway at this moment in time. China actively tries to mitigate this problem by building a subway/light rail line connecting such stations and airports to the city center and making sure that this connecting line is always completed before the station/airport.
Anyway, if people are wondering why China's HSR stations are as massive as airports, that is the reason. They literally took worst case estimates of hundreds of millions of people travelling and prioritized heavily on moving as many people as efficiently as possible and as quickly as possible because they have historical experience of what happens when regular train services collapse from exceptionally bad weather during Chinese New Year. There's a reason why the 2008 winter storms have their own wikipedia page because that was the last time that total rail transit shutdown/gridlock ever happened. This isn't to say that a similar snowstorm won't cause the same issues but the impact to travelers and rail transit in general would be substantially mitigated because almost all passenger travel has been moved to the HSR, which operates on a completely separate network of tracks from the conventional legacy train services.
Basically, after the exceptionally bad winter storms of 2008, the folks that opposed the construction of the HSR network lost their argument. By the way, this argument had been going on since roughly 1998 and heated up after the first "prototype" HSR line finished construction in 2003 (the Qinghuangdao-Shengyang line). A lot of the other arguments were about whether it should be maglev or regular EMU which the pragmatists (regular EMU) won out. But the really important argument about full investment in HSR, especially during the "Great Recession of 2008", was resolved because of the winter storms. A lot of the people against the HSR were in favor of highways/cars or airports/planes. Highway infrastructure will always have utility when responding to a natural disaster but airports are kind of a mixed bag. The Sichuan earthquake in 2008 also demonstrated the limited viability of airports in responding to natural disasters because Chinese airlift capabilities were very limited up until the Y-20 transport came into service.
Their network was in planning since the 80s
Total propaganda. All model trains filmed in Hollywood studios. I believed Star Track was real whin I was 10.
Poor loser!
Maybe less "watching" and more DOING... actual life experience... will be beneficial?
Obviously you weren’t very sharp when you were 10 either…
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I was in China for one month and took high speed train to cross half of China in business class. Such a pleasant experience. Much more affordable price compared with Europe
I would suggest the HSR in China is just the common sense prevails!
China does not have large oil reserves like the US so it would be a horrendous economic penalty to import endless oil for the Chinese people to run cars like the US and the west. Thus China must develop and electrify its public transport system. Therefore it is logical for China to develop the HSR and compliment it with a large metro network connecting over 45 to 50 cities. Owning a car in China is not essential but a luxury for most people. Chinese just live within their means while trying to be green and sustainable.
The necessity of developing the HSR also requires China to develop its renewable energy so in parallel with the HSR China is also the world biggest renewable energy generator in each of the hydro, solar and wind. To enable the renewable energy largely concentrated in the North west of China the UHV transmission lines have to be innovated and installed so that the green energy are utilised by the eastern coast consumers 2000 to 3000km away from the points of power generation.
Thus riding a HSR in China is natural. It is backed up by a huge metro network to ensure one can reach most parts of China using public transport without depleting the fossil oil. In the mean time China is going all out to de-carbon itself with renewable energy to ensure China's future generations do have a future.
Actually they have huge untapped oil reserves in Xinjiang, which is why one reason of many that the US is trying to cause trouble in that region.
@@ElZilchoYoYou are right, mainly because fossil energy is too polluting, and it is necessary to prepare for electrification deployment in advance
In fact, the high-speed rail network has connected more than 400 cities.
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Rafa, just one correction. We have taken the title of the most populous country from China away. We Indians are now the most populous. 😂
You will be ok, man. Democracy tends to be messy in the early. But, once it is putting pieces together, things will fall in place. I'm always very much admired how intellectual Indians are. Unlike the mainland Chinese, Indians are very much known for their surroundings and history in-depth. I could sit down for endless chats with meaningful conversations.
@@drewh3224 Utterly gibberish.
India's population will double that of China, or even triple that of China in the decades ahead. I believe China will want to see its population decrease to 1.2 billion to be able to sustain a high standard of living for its population. Of course, that will be more than 50 years into the future. Most developed countries are already beginning to see a peak in their population and will be experiencing a slow reduction in their population as births cannot keep up with the dying. Japan is already beginning to see a slow reduction in their population. I believe China's population will peak at 1.5 billion and thereafter see a gradual decline to under 1.2 billion.
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@@drewh3224 Didn't you have democracy 75 years ago? - What? Is this still early? The average life expectancy of you India is less than 75 years. Do you have to wait another 75 years?
Spain is famous of their high speed train network in Europe. The second largest high speed train network in the world after China.
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Why USA .dont have high speeds trains 😮
15 euros for a 90 minutes ride on hsr? that is pretty cheap by any standard.
That’s what I thought…such a good deal, but I went into their website to check and the €15 is the cheapest if you are flexible and buy in advance, plus only very few trains (0 to 2 trains) available and usually in odd hours are priced at €15 (like 7am and 9pm). Prices varies… up to €110 the most expensive ones for standard ticket. Where as the ones in China are the same or similar prices unless it’s a train with lower speed or with connection.
@@babyAli1 I was wondering the same thing. Thank you for digging it up.
@@jackoneill28 no problem 😉
I love China and its people.
The spainish train station looks beautiful too.
We must adopt and develop the Chinese mindset in relation to rail travel - this can only be achieved and made a reality by governments and Parliaments in each country passing radical and far reaching laws that force countries to change thier mindset
China's new generation of low-temperature maglev technology trains can already float when they are still,China can build the most advanced maglev trains and the longest high-speed train network in the world because according to international patent data in 2021, China is ranked 1st for maglev technology and the largest high-speed train, namely 43.52%, far above rank 2 for Japan 20.57%.
Appluase to spain too. Their trains do not look far left behind.
No point going over what China had achieved. No sense going into higher speed. Be practical. Go into another sector of development.