China plans intercontinetal high speed railway to europe

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They can dream about passing it through India.

When there's an airlines industry that's 66% of completion overdue, and when there's a rising affluent class in India who prefer budget air travel to rail, HS rail is moot. It's going to take another 30 years before air travel saturates making way for HS rail.
Look at China's situation today, with far larger plan fleet and higher-income class comparing to India, airline industry is still not winning.

Look at US. When connecting its vast expanses can't be fulfilled by rail, and they still use airways, then China (a country with similar expanses) can't dream of having a sustainable HS rail network.
US doesn't have the high population densities as India and China while China/India population don't have the high income as Americans.

High-speed rail isn't a bad means of transport per-say, but it's better suited for small countries (countries the size of South Korea, Japan, etc.,) where large volumes of people travel 100s of kilometres daily for work. It just isn't practical for bigger countries with airways around, and when fares are on par with air travel.
Chinese high-speed rail network suggests other way: many 300-700 kilometres high speed lines are reaching towards their capacities just in just 6-7 years.
 
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This must be the longest rail network in the world? Completed lot earlier than expected?
 

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