China’s high-speed rail mileage tops 50,000 km
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A “Fuxing” bullet train is pictured at Yan’an Station of the new Xi’an-Yan’an high-speed railway in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, on Dec. 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)
China, home to the world’s largest high-speed rail network, has expanded its total operational mileage beyond 50,000 kilometers with the launch of a new high-speed line.
A “Fuxing” bullet train departed Friday morning from Yan’an, a sacred revolutionary heartland in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, for the provincial capital Xi’an, inaugurating the new route. ■
Staff members check the first train of the new Xi’an-Yan’an high-speed railway at Yan’an Station in Yan’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Dec. 26, 2025. China, home to the world’s largest high-speed rail network, has expanded its total operational mileage beyond 50,000 kilometers with the launch of the new Xi’an-Yan’an high-speed railway. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)
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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.…
