Part Three: Modern cities with public utilities to be constructed in all railway centers, termini and alongside harbors

By the end of 2010, the length of railway in service in China has exceeded 90,000 km; the total length of express passenger railway has exceeded 20,000 km, and the total capacity for transporting coal amounted to 1.8 billion tons; the total length of railway in western regions has reached 35,000 km, and forms a national container transport network.

As for the construction of high-speed railway, the length of railway in service has reached 7,531 km, which means China is currently ranked first in the world.

 

The Harbin Railway Station in Heilongjiang Province at the beginning of the 20th century. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

The Beijing South Railway Station, formerly known as the Yongdingmen Railway Station, is the largest railway station in the world and ranked the third in terms of passenger volume. Located at Chongwen Disdrict, Beijing, it is honored as the No.1 railway station in Asia. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

The China-developed CRH380A series train, running on the 1,318-km Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, holds the world record for the fastest production train ever, at 486.1 km/h. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

The interior of CRH380A. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

A train running on the Kunlun Mountains section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a landmark project in China's strategy to develop the western region and is one of four major projects in the 21st century for China. The 1,956 km railway begins at Xining, Qinghai in the east and ends in Lhasa in the west. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]