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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 2:00 AM
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China must avoid ‘blind competition’ within high-speed railway network development to maintain ‘reasonable’ debt levels
Mar 30, 2021
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China’s high-speed railway network development plan must avoid “blind competition” from local authorities to keep debt at a “reasonable” level, the State Council has warned.

The 38,000km network is already the world’s largest, but Beijing is increasingly worried about an increasing debt level, with 5.57 trillion yuan (US$850 billion) worth of liabilities already on the books of the state-owned China State Railway Group alone.

“Some local governments prefer high-speed railways to ordinary-speed ones, and often ignore returns. Meanwhile, railway enterprises face high operational pressure and high debt burden,” said China’s State Council on Monday.

More : https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-e...-speed-railway
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Old Posted Apr 16, 2021, 3:23 AM
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Offshore survey ends for cross-sea rail bridge
Apr 15, 2021
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China has completed an offshore survey for a cross-sea high-speed railway bridge in Zhejiang province that will become the world's longest such bridge upon completion.

The 29.2-kilometer Hangzhou Bay bridge, with a designed speed of 350 km per hour, will be part of the railway line linking Nantong in Jiangsu province and Ningbo in Zhejiang.

It is unclear when construction will begin.

The offshore survey that was completed on Monday took five months, two and a half months less than scheduled, said Zhang Peng, an engineer from China Railway Design Corporation, the bridge's designer.

With gales of up to 140 km/h and waves nearly 7 meters high, it was a big challenge and very risky to conduct the survey, he added.

More : http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/20...d0bab5aa5.html
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Hong Kong airport lounge firm Plaza Premium sets sights on China’s high-speed rail stations amid uncertain recovery in air travel
Apr 22, 2021
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Hong Kong-based airport lounge operator Plaza Premium Group has diversified to high-speed rail lounges with the launch of its first facility in Changsha in mainland China.

The Dragon Pass x Plaza Premium Lounge at the Changsha south high-speed railway station can accommodate as many as 290 guests at a time. The 700 square metre lounge can be accessed for a walk-in fee of 68 yuan (US$10.4) for a four-hour stay. Launched in January, the lounge has high-speed internet, a nursing room and a playroom for passengers with children.

“We have been in the airport lounge business for 22 years, and the revenues we have for the rail lounge now are less than 1 or 2 per cent of our entire revenue. But with the number of people in China, it can give us quite an interesting contribution to our group revenues,” said Song Hoi See, Plaza Premium’s founder and chief executive. The company was hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, which dragged its annual revenue down by 95 per cent last year. Before the pandemic, Plaza Premium served more than 20 million passengers in 49 international airports around the world annually.

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Note that these stats include both high-speed and regular trains.

China's holiday train travel beats pre-epidemic levels for second day
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BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The daily number of passenger trips within China continued to exceed pre-epidemic levels on Sunday, the second day of the five-day May Day holiday.

There were 14.72 million rail-passenger trips on Sunday, 11.6 percent higher than the same day of the holiday in 2019, said the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., the country's railway operator, on Monday.

On Saturday, the figure was 18.83 million, up 9.2 percent from the 2019 level.

The operator predicted that the figure would reach 13.6 million on Monday, up 2.2 percent from the same period in 2019.

More : http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/202..._139922493.htm
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Old Posted Jun 12, 2021, 3:23 PM
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Co-location challenge dismissed by Court of Appeal
June 11, 2021
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The Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling that the co-location arrangement at the West Kowloon express rail station is constitutional, dismissing an appeal from former lawmakers and activists.

Disqualified legislators Leung Kwok-hung and Sixtus Leung, and activists Henderick Lui and Kwok Cheuk-kin, had lodged the appeal after they lost their initial judicial challenge in 2018.

They argued that the arrangement – which houses mainland customs clearance facilities and officers in the West Kowloon facility – violates the Basic Law, because it states that mainland laws cannot be applied on Hong Kong soil unless they are included in annex three of the mini-constitution.

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China looks to slow growth of struggling high-speed rail

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Ca...igh-speed-rail

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- China is introducing guidelines to limit new high-speed rail construction along underused routes as it seeks to drop projects that give short-term boosts to local economies but add to the huge debts of regional governments. If a route is operating at less than 80% of capacity, then a second line should not be built covering the same route, according to guidelines released by the country's top economic planner and the transport authority on Monday. --- With the exception of the busiest lines between the biggest cities, such as the link between Beijing and Shanghai, China's high-speed rail network loses money. The goal of the new guidelines is to prevent further expansion, and existing projects will be unaffected.

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Laos-China Railway on Track for December Opening: Official
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Aug 16, 2021

The multibillion-dollar Laos-China railway is set to begin operations by the end of the year as scheduled, a Lao official said last week, completing the first link of a long-envisioned rail line connecting southwest China with Singapore.

The announcement was made by Minister of Planning and Investment Sonexay Siphandone on August 11 during a meeting of 10th Laos-China Railway Project Construction Committee, according to Pasaxon, the newspaper of the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party.

Sonexay said that as of July 25, construction of the railway, which runs from the town of Boten on Laos’s border with China to the capital Vientiane, was 93.82 percent complete. “The Laos-China Railway will be completed in November, and will be open and ready for use by Laos National Day on 2 December,” he said.

Sonexay also told the meeting that Chinese operators are bringing in locomotives, electric multiple unit trains, and other equipment to conduct the first trial run of the railway in October, before opening it to the public on December 2.

An effective extension of China’s high-speed rail system into Laos, the Laos-China Railway is a striking example of Chinese technical prowess, and a headline project of Xi Jinping’s world-spanning Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The standard gauge single-track line cuts through 417 kilometers of rugged terrain from Boten to Vientiane, including 61 kilometers of bridges and 75 tunnels with a total length of 198 kilometers.

More : https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/laos...ning-official/
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China’s most frost-resistant Fuxing bullet train takes its first test
August 15, 2021
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A new model of the Fuxing bullet train left the Mudanjiang Railway Station in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Sunday morning, marking the first time a Fuxing bullet train completed a test run on the nation's easternmost high-speed rail line.

The test run also marks the first time for Fuxing's most frost-resistant model to be involved in real world testing on the Mudanjiang-Jiamusi high-speed railway, according to media reports.

A series of joint tests have been conducted for the Mudanjiang-Jiamusi high-speed railway in preparation for launching the railway's test operation since June 10, local news portal hljnews.cn reported on Sunday.

The CR400BF-G train, the most frost-resistant member of the Fuxing family, has been specifically designed to operate in ultra-cold climates. The train can run with a speed of up 350 kilometers (km) per hour in an extremely cold environment of -40 degrees Celsius.

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China to create an integrated transport system says minister
August 26, 2021
International Railway Journal Excerpt

THE Chinese government plans to continue creating more convenient, faster and more comfortable services to benefit more people says transport minister Mr Li Xiaopeng.

Speaking at a news conference in Beijing on August 24, Li said that an integrated service system will be established. “People will look for a better and more convenient transfer service when they make transfers between different modes of transport,” he said.

The transport industry is to plan transfer hubs with multiple modes he said and that that would be in accordance with the concept of ‘zero-meter transfer’ which is designed to allow passengers to make transfers more easily.

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At 453 KM/H, China Tests World’s Fastest, New-Gen High-Speed Train That Is Safer, Energy-Efficient & Intelligent

https://eurasiantimes.com/at-453-km-...-train-trails/

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- China Railway announced that it had successfully completed performance tests of new high-tech parts essential to CR450 high-speed trains at speeds exceeding 400 kilometers per hour. The train is claimed to be the fastest in the world, and the Chinese Railway emphasized that this achievement represents another significant development in China’s industry-leading high-speed rail technology. --- The fastest high-speed train running speed in China right now is 350 km/h, the highest high-speed rail operating speed in the world. According to reports, the highest operational speeds for high-speed trains in Japan and France are set at 320 kilometers/hour.

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Sad news out of Chongqing, the Sibuhe Railway Bridge on the Yichang-Wanzhou section of the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu passenger railway corridor suffered a collapse. During the recent bout of heavy rains that flooded the city the 104m high Sibuhe Railway Bridge completed in 2010 suffered a collapse. One of the spans of the 228m long bridge gave way during the recent storm leaving the track dangling unsupported between its ground anchorage at the tunnel mouth and first span.

According to Wikipedia “out of the line's total 377 km (234 mi) length, 288 km (179 mi) runs on bridges or in tunnels. According to the chief engineer, Zhang Mei, the line was the most difficult ever constructed in China.” The Yichang–Wanzhou railway, or the Yiwan railway according to highestbridges.com “70 percent of the route either in a tunnel or on a bridge, the complex geology of the terrain forced the engineers to overcome landslides, falling rocks and steep terrain.”

Fortunately it seems there no word of any injuries or fatalities. Hopefully there will be a transparent inquiry that will allow the public and authorities to determine the sequence of events that led to situation and take mitigating steps to prevent similar incidents.

(VOA had the screenshots below as the still pictured for their video, though it’s not actually a part of said video). It’s very had to find images of this collapse.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nyU8LKiuNVg


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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/...on-2023-07-04/
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Yikes.

This is going to be pretty embarrassing for the Chinese government. I think you could make a compelling case a comparable structure built in the West probably would not have succumbed during a flood event like this. Did one whole pier collapse? I can't imagine why if it was anchored into bedrock it would have.

This is why people should remind themselves that why China's infrastructure is awe inspiring, it just may be the case that some of it is smoke and mirrors with subpar engineering. Time will tell.
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Yikes.

This is going to be pretty embarrassing for the Chinese government. I think you could make a compelling case a comparable structure built in the West probably would not have succumbed during a flood event like this. Did one whole pier collapse? I can't imagine why if it was anchored into bedrock it would have.

This is why people should remind themselves that why China's infrastructure is awe inspiring, it just may be the case that some of it is smoke and mirrors with subpar engineering. Time will tell.
Not disputing this, but we have had bridge collapses in the US, too. Most recently the I-95 overpass in Philly collapsed. So the pace and cost of infrastructure construction here doesn't make us immune to issues.

I hope China is able to repair this situation quickly.
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^ I'm not sure the I-95 bridge is the best example as pretty much any steel girder bridge is likely to collapse if an inferno is placed underneath it. As for this rail bridge, what is bewildering is why was the foundation of a massive concrete bridge pier completely undermined here? Was it sitting on some sort of concrete pad instead of being anchored into bedrock?
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Old Posted Jul 11, 2023, 11:33 PM
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Yeah I didn’t want to jump on the whole tofu dregs construction & corruption debate right away based just on speculation but it certainly came to mind as a likely culprit. It’s hard to find any independent information on many of the recent incidents involving infrastructure failures. Which doesn’t exactly paint a picture depicting confidence that the system is handling corruption & corner cutting that’s led to viral videos lambasting so called “tofu dregs” construction projects.

China certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on engineering failures and penny pinching or corruption caused short cuts leading to disasters. However what’s concerning are systems in major new projects failing in potentially deadly ways under circumstances that are not out of the ordinary.

Here’s a link to a video of a massive series of electrical shorts and arcing that caused a fire at a Nanchang west high speed rail station in November of ‘22. It came a day after a subway train suffered a series of electrical explosions during rush hour in Shanghai. The speculation goes that the heatwave which set records across China for much of last year damaged insulation that was substandard on the high voltage lines that power the system.

(This is the only source I could find)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWo-7IXROjA
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