China, with a high-speed railway network of over 19,000 km, plans to increase it to 30,000 km by 2020. „By the end of 2015, the length of high-speed railway (HSR) lines in operation in China exceeded 19,000 km with nearly 10,000 km under construction, making the country top of the world in terms of length of high-speed railways both in operation and under construction,” Vice General Engineer of the China Railway Corporation Zhao Guotang said.
At present, Zhao said, 4,000 electric multiple unit (EMU) trains are operated daily on China’s HSR network, accounting for 63 per cent of the total passenger trains operated daily in the nation.
Based on the concept of “zero-distance transfer”, high-speed railway stations are closely integrated with urban public transport systems or even airports through considerate and rational arrangement of stations and depots to develop modern passenger transport hubs and transfer centres where passengers can quickly transfer to subways, public buses or other vehicles.
At present, the backbone of China’s high-speed railway network consists of “Four East-West Railways and Four North-South Railways” and high-speed railways have been weaved into a network covering China’s three city clusters — the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Pan-Bohai Region.
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