China built out its high-speed rail network in a remarkable two decades. Today, these railways total 25,000 miles, long enough to encircle the Earth. Photo-illustration by Newsweek ...

One of the biggest white whales of American infrastructure policy is the lack of a high-speed cross-country railway. Despite such systems existing and succeeding elsewhere throughout the world, the ...

In a significant advancement for high-speed rail technology, China recently unveiled the CR450 bullet train prototype in Beijing. This state-of-the-art train is a testament to China's commitment ...

That put Italy's AGV Italo, operating at just under 225 mph, temporarily in first place in the high-speed rail race, according to Railway Technology.. The South China Morning Post quotes a ...

An extended "8+8" network of 38,000 kilometers (24,000 miles) of high-speed rail is projected to be operational in 2025. Later improvements are likely to focus on speed rather than distance.

On his first day in office, leader Xi Jinping inherited an ambitious road map to build 10,000 miles of high-speed rail to link China’s biggest cities. He took those plans and supersized them.

China’s rail ambitions just keep growing. The latest addition to the country’s portfolio is a 277-kilometer (172-mile) high-speed train line along the southeastern coast, connecting the cities ...

China’s high-speed rail network is the world’s largest, with over 12,400 miles of track already built, funded with $538 billion in government money.

High-speed rail service began in China in 2007 and now has the world's longest bullet train network, with routes nearing 10,000 kilometers in all. Getty Images.

Opened to the public in July 2011, the 1,300-kilometer, or 810-mile, Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line has been the busiest in China’s high-speed rail system.

China operates the most extensive high-speed rail network in the world, with more than 24,855 miles of operational lines, according to a 2023 report from the International Union of Railways. What ...

China is aiming to have 60,000 kilometers of high-speed rail online by 2030. Workers check a high-speed train at a maintenance workshop in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December ...