China adds 10,000 km of high-speed railways during 2021-2024
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China’s State Council Information Office holds a press conference on the achievements in strengthening the country’s transport sector during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
The total length of China’s operating high-speed rail tracks has expanded 10,000 km from 2021 to 2024, a transport official said on Monday.
China’s total operational length of railway lines reached 162,000 km in the period, Minister of Transport Liu Wei said at a press conference. ■
Liu Wei, Chinese minister of transport, Zhao Chongjiu, head of the State Post Bureau, Song Zhiyong, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and An Lusheng, deputy head of the National Railway Administration, attend a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on the achievements in accelerating building up China’s strength in transport during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
Liu Wei, Chinese minister of transport, Zhao Chongjiu, head of the State Post Bureau, Song Zhiyong, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and An Lusheng, deputy head of the National Railway Administration, attend a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on the achievements in accelerating building up China’s strength in transport during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
Liu Wei, Chinese minister of transport, answers questions during a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2025.
The State Council Information Office (SCIO) held a press conference on the achievements in accelerating building up China’s strength in transport during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in Beijing on Monday. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
Journalists raise their hands to ask questions at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2025.
Liu Wei, Chinese minister of transport, Zhao Chongjiu, head of the State Post Bureau, Song Zhiyong, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and An Lusheng, deputy head of the National Railway Administration, attended a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on the achievements in accelerating building up China’s strength in transport during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in Beijing on Monday. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
A journalist asks questions at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) in Beijing, capital of China, July 21, 2025.
Liu Wei, Chinese minister of transport, Zhao Chongjiu, head of the State Post Bureau, Song Zhiyong, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and An Lusheng, deputy head of the National Railway Administration, attended a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on the achievements in accelerating building up China’s strength in transport during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in Beijing on Monday. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
