China wants high-speed trains everywhere

By 2020, more than 80 percent of all major cities in China must be connected to the high-speed rail network.

Li said that the country has converted almost 2000 billion euros to infrastructure projects between 2016 and 2020. When the money is being planned, high-speed trains will drive to about 80 percent of all places with more than 200,000 residents.

Currently there are 22,000 kilometers of railway line for the hsl and 130,000 kilometers of railway line for other expressways in China.