China Railways (CR) is the national railway company of the People's Republic of China, under the Chinese Ministry of Railways. Chinese Ministry of Railways is a member of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
CR operates rail commuter and freight transport via several smaller companies.
Guangshen Railway or Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway (Simplified Chinese: 广深éè·¯ or 广深线) is a railway in the Guangdong Province of the Peoples Republic of China, between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. ... For other uses, see KCR (disambiguation). ... Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway (京滬é«ééµè·¯) is one of Chinas ambitious plans for high-speed trains. ... Jingjiu Railway (also known as Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Line; Simplified Chinese: 京ä¹éè·¯ or 京ä¹çº¿, Traditional Chinese: 京ä¹éµè·¯ or 京ä¹ç·) is a railway in the Peoples Republic of China connecting Beijing West Station in Beijing to Hung Hom Station (Kowloon Station) in Kowloon in the special administrative region of Hong Kong. ...
China has shared borders for centuries with Korea, the formerly Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Burma, Laos and Vietnam.
China is both an ancient country with a history as long as 5,000 years and a big family with 56 nationalities.
China boasts a variety of unique and attractive Folklores thanks to the long history of these nationalities as well as the different natural and cultrual environments in which they live.
Those exploits are part of a railway binge in China, an effort whose scale and ambition mirror the herculean drives that – separately – pulled together the United States and Canada by binding those countries with steel rails.
On the Tibet line, China'srailway builders wear oxygen masks to cope with thin air at altitudes up to 4,800 metres and they blast mountain tunnels that Fu says will be among the highest in the world.
Meanwhile, China is aiming to be a leader in railway technology, having built the first magnetic levitation, or maglev, train as an airport shuttle in prosperous Shanghai.