Spending a week touring round China on the high-speed rail network, and being shown round the huge factories which make the trains, has proved to be a transforming experience.
Never again will I look at the statistics of China’s new rail network with the same disdain. Instead, one has to savour them and try to understand them:
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ArmourClatteredAboutHim - 23/04/2025 15:39
Thank you, Mr Wolmar, for this interesting and insightful piece on the state of high-speed rail in the P.R.C. So much of the English-language reporting on that country is obviously influenced by interests of one sort or another - if not the N.E.D. trying desperately to undermine every facet of that which has been deemed the enemy of America, then some damnable ragamuffin with an ideological axe to grind for or against Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (as 中国特色社会主义 is most commonly translated), so it's wonderfully refreshing to hear a material state of affairs from somebody actually on the ground. I look forward to your next piece! Hats off to you, sir!