With the high-speed rail construction has entered a concentrated harvest period, China will enter the high-speed rail era.
Half an hour from Beijing to Tianjin, from Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan, 1 hour, from Wuhan to Nanjing less than three hours ... ... with a wide range of high-speed rail to put into operation, China's high-speed rail began to enter Chinese perspective. According to Wang Zhiguo, vice minister of the Ministry of Railways revealed that by 2012, the national railway operating mileage will reach more than 110,000 kilometers, of which the new high-speed rail was 1.3 million km, in order to "four vertical and four horizontal" as the skeleton of the fast passenger network has basically taken shape, Beijing, the country must Most of the provincial capital city of the formation of 8 hours of the traffic circle, marking the full access to China Railway high-speed rail era.
Operating high-speed rail has reached 6552 kilometers
China's high-speed railway construction from 2004, the State Council approved the "long-term Railway Network Plan" proposed by 2020, will build high-speed rail for more than 12,000 kilometers, and in 2008 this figure upwards to 16,000 kilometers. According to this plan, the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway and Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan passenger line successively built, of which the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway has created the world's first commercial high-speed railway running speed - 350 km / hour, while the length of 189 kilometers of stone too ( Shijiazhuang - Taiyuan) passenger line from Beijing to Taiyuan, West of the original 10-hour trip, reduced to 3 hours.
According to data from the Ministry of Railways, 2009, China's rapid development of high-speed railway, the national railway into operation a new line of 5557 kilometers, of which 2319 kilometers passenger line. Put into operation a number of key projects, Ningbo - Taizhou - Wenzhou, Wenzhou - Fuzhou, Fuzhou - Xiamen passenger line opened to traffic one after another, in particular, is the world's longest mileage, speed of 350 km and a total length of 1068.6 kilometers of the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway opening and operation of also let the outside world cried out in alarm, China entered the era of high-speed rail.
According to Wang Zhiguo, vice minister of the Ministry of Railways, at present in operation of high-speed railway in China has reached the 6552 business miles. Among them, the new speed of 250-350 km of high-speed railway has 3676 kilometers of business; existing line of 200-250 km per hour speed to achieve high-speed railway has 2876 kilometers of business.
Put into operation the next three years, 26,000 kilometers
Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun in 2010, the national railway work conference that he expects the 2010 to 2012, New Line production of 2.6 million km, of which 9200 kilometers passenger line. The end of 2012, China's railway operating mileage will reach more than 110,000 kilometers, of which inter-city passenger line and the railway will be reached 1.3 million kilometers. In accordance with PDL cost 100 million yuan per kilometer basis, the next three high-iron investment will reach 900 billion or more.
"The next few years, China's high-speed railway construction will enter a period of harvest." Wang Zhiguo said that with the high-speed rail network, built near the capital city will be formed 1-2 hours the traffic circle, the provincial capital and its neighboring cities in the formation of half an hour to 1 hour Transportation ring. Most of the capital city of Beijing to the whole country will be formed within 8 hours the traffic circle.
In accordance with the Ministry of Railways's "four vertical and four horizontal" vision of the end of 2012, China will surpass Japan and Germany, an early start in high-iron country, become the world's longest high-speed rail operation mileage of the country. By 2020, together with other new and existing line speed rail line, China's fast passenger rail network will reach more than 50,000 kilometers, connecting all provincial capital cities and 50 million people above the city, covering 90% of the population over the country.
This reporter learned that, "four vertical" Passenger Line include: Beijing - Shanghai high-speed railway, Beijing - Guangzhou (Shenzhen) Passenger Line, Beijing - Harbin (Dalian) Passenger Line and Hangzhou - Shenzhen coastal fast passenger access. "Four horizontal" passenger line was: Xuzhou - Lanzhou passenger line; Hangzhou - Changsha passenger line; Qingdao - Taiyuan Dedicated Passenger Railway and the Shanghai - Chengdu fast passenger access. In addition, in the economically developed and densely populated of the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River, Hunan Changzhutan and Chengdu-Chongqing, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, customs, the west side and other urban agglomeration areas, will also be constructing a fast inter-city passenger transport systems, coverage of the region's main towns.

