Beijing - Shanghai: China’s Busiest Railway Line

[@yibowei9636]

One more thing to mention, these intercity railway stations connect directly with local subways. Most of the time you simply get off the train, walk for 5 minutes to the subway station and you can go wherever you want in the city as fast as possible.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

This adds value to society, because it allows the people without cars to have more economic opportunity options in life.

[@mizzypoo4827]

so true....... If i never owned a CAR(s), that I needed to get to work...... I would have paid off a quarter of the house I never bought... 😥😪

[@wolfheilmann1257]

it's main Goal ist to reduce air traffic and reduce pollution.

[@RuohongZhao]

Yes, this also allows me to sneak out to see my ex in another city and come back for dinner in one day without car.

[@Felyxorez]

actually, in China travelling intercity by car is almost impossible. First because of the distance, second because cars that are registered in a different city are not allowed into Beijing-

[@sbm709]

@@Felyxorez No, cars with different license plates aren't allowed into the larger cities during peak hours. They will get fined. Trust me i lived in Shenzhen for 9 nine years and that's the actual law.

[@babiumno6646]

Thanks for sharing. In Australia, the proposed high speed rail between Sydney and Melbourne is still in the planning stage, more than 40 years later!!!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thanks for info. Do you know whether something more concrete has been done, technical documentation, financial arrangements, or only promises by politicians?

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

Railways Explained A lot of different business cases have been done. Some show it’s not really feasible. Others do. Melbourne and Sydney have a combined population of 10 million and are 900kms apart. There’s almost nothing of importance between the two cities, so air travel has been the predominant mode.

[@RailwaysExplained]

@@jeremynewcombe3422 understandable, yes 😐 thanks for sharing info!

[@stvdmc2011]

Here in California 10 years later billions spend but not a mile of track yet.

[@enzhus]

@@stvdmc2011 That's not very long at all. Didn't you see China proposed the rail line in early 1990s and didn't have anything until 2008? That's over 15 years at least!

[@theenergizer248]

This train is very comfortable. Went from Shanghai to Nanjing (and return) in 2016.With this speed an easy daytrip.

[@GerhardReinig]

Have a look, how comfortabe: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYWomH2EhJyHg9k

[@anonymous0811r]

Nanjing University??

[@unjustifiablyneglectedtopi8293]

1300 km constructed in less than 3 years :) :)

[@huarongliu8938]

actually China built 8489 km railway ,5474 km are high speed railway in 2019,only one year Total railway 1,39,000 km ,35,000 km are high speed railways

[@huarongliu8938]

@Aman Nope,why you say im russian ? Im cihnese ,that is why i go to check the accurate date on Chinese railways website Here is the website :www.chnrailway.com/html/20200224/1902563.shtml It shows 5474 is not the longest high speed railways China built in one year，China built 5491 km in 2014 Even me as chinese,im shocked

[@huarongliu8938]

@Aman ah...i see,never mind ,my english sucks :)

[@huarongliu8938]

​@Aman I was born in the 1980s,we started to learn English from Middle school,but China today,kids start to learn English from first grade in primary school，maybe they learn a little bit in kindergarten too

[@deltahedge2783]

There will be second railroad line linked Beijing and shanghai before long .

[@Taiwan_Prospers_with_China]

Not bad at all considering it only cost less than 5% of the u.s annual military budget AND building it in 3 years.

[@gamewatcher2712]

Really makes you think what would be possible without the need for military

[@PolarTw]

wages in china cost nothing..also without that us military budget china would've taken over the world already.

[@amitbhattarai8262]

@@PolarTw lmao keep drinking the propaganda

[@Icex7]

@@PolarTw Yeah bro, the US for sure needs to bomb kids to prevent China from taking over the world.

[@howardlee2842]

@@PolarTw I mean have you ever count how many wars america started in last century？ Do you know how many wars China have in last cemtury?

[@josephchan5135]

Very informative. No bias, no politics, excellent series on railways!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thanks Joseph.

[@not_on]

Almost :) The bit at 3:56 about "the worlds most advanced track system" (which is a debatable claim in itself) makes it sound like it was a Chinese invention, when actually it was developed in Germany: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballastless_track#B%C3%B6gl_(Max_B%C3%B6gl)

[@railgun1258]

​@@not_on The track actually uses a modified version called the CRTS (China Railway Track System) II slabs. Railways Explained states that they use this track system, because that's the track system they use, not saying that they invented the Max Bogl slab system. You don't say you made your computer with a processor, you say something like you made your computer with a Nvidia RTX 3080 or something along those lines. It's not claiming that Nvidia made processors.

[@valentinewang745]

I’m Chinese from Beijing, my girlfriend was from Suzhou, a city close to Shanghai.. I used to take this train around 20 times in 6 months..a bit tricky to buy tickets since it’s so busy during the weekend!

[@lukat7052]

How much is the ticket?

[@valentinewang745]

@@lukat7052 around 70 euro/80 is dollar 2nd class

[@oberstleutnant787]

Suzhou girl is too good for Beijing man.

[@tonythetrulypuffy2258]

@@oberstleutnant787 Southern Chauvinism? ^_^

[@alonsocardenal3328]

As a Latin American, I’m brutally jealous of this level of efficiency

[@elena16350]

I’m British, we’re nowhere near the level of track China has laid, we don’t think on the same scale ,we have nothing like the ambition China has, the trains that run outside London were built before the second war. Everything that’s built in England is built with London in mind, if not, it doesn’t get built, the level of efficiency in Britain ‘ it will do’. China puts every country to shame on every level anyone can mention, America is well behind the Chinese, that’s why they hate them so much, all China do is modernize the country, America or Britain don’t give a shit about there country, they’ve got their airplanes, they don’t use buses or trains, or if they do it’s once every leap year.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

my dear imagine me as indian ,we left behind 100years from china ,my india govt still busy build toilet

[@marcozolo3536]

@@indiasuperclean6969 And one day in the next century you will have the most beautiful toilets in the world my friend. Never give up and never stop dreaming of attaining hygiene.

[@yzd4804]

@@marcozolo3536 he is Chinese which pretend to be Indian obviously.

[@8964TS]

I’m British and live in China. Trust me, the UK doesn’t need what China has built and it would be mostly be a money loser. I can see a need for HS2, inc the part they cancelled, and maybe an HSR from Cardiff/Bristol to London, but that’s about it. Our cities are too small to make them financially viable and the distances not really great enough to justify 350 kmh services.

[@footloose1187]

Back in the US it took over 5 years to add additional one lane for a mile.

[@itsover9008]

US public transport sucks. US is also very vast and sparsely populated so most rail projects don't make sense.

[@pierresihite8854]

@@itsover9008 that is true, the infrastructure there is also very car centric in most places

[@jebise1126]

@@itsover9008 yes but high speed trails would make lot of sense between population centers. new york - washinghton would be one such high speed trail that would make a lot of sense

[@alainmare8081]

It is wrong to compare ability to built high speed train in China and US or Australia. First of all decision in China is quick because there no objection or contradiction to the decision. Second there is no green lobby or protesters in China due to the type of totalitarian system. Finally, to develop such a huge projects you need the resources in money and the number pax transported.

[@VSean88]

Auto companies and flight companies don’t want the Us government to invest on HSR. Or they will have loss in business. They spend billions of money to interfere the public transportation progress in the house since the end of 1950s. Now it is even worse because US produce a lot of oil instead importing it.

[@inyourphace1690]

Average half a million passengers a day on this HSR line. That's a staggering number! I happened to come across another set of numbers. The "renowned" New York City subway system carries 4.3 million passengers a day. Beijing's subway？ 11 million a day! China is in its own category.

[@RailwaysExplained]

Exactly. China has very unique state model and therefore the railways. And yes, the numbers are staggering...

[@cleve21ful]

I think beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, guangzhou, and chonging has 8-10 million passengers daily

[@JustRandomPerson]

11 and 4 are just exactly proportional to the corresponding population of the cities. So nothing extraordinary there.

[@seanthe100]

What were the per capita incomes between the two. New York state would be the wealthiest nation in the world with $90k a year PER Person. What's it like in China poverty.

[@predrag-peterilich900]

@@seanthe100 Another case of senseless "information" obtained through "statistics" (that is, dividing two numbers; like Trump's total wealth divided by 3 members of the household ). I live in NYC and know quite a few (highly educated and hard-working) people making under $50 k a year.

[@IndieSamurai101]

I live in Kolkata, India Here a 4.2 km metro extension took 7yrs to be built, and a new 32km metro line has been under construction for the past 11yrs, with still more than 50% of work left. And these guys built 1300km in 3yrs...

[@abhayprasad9580]

Yes high speed Bullet train like in 3 yr because there local government body is not like us our employees are corrupt Chinese officers are honest to there country

[@abhayprasad9580]

@@mengli3718 yup but our local government body is slow

[@SanjeevKumar-ic2mp]

This credit goes to tmc government in bengol

[@abhayprasad9580]

@@SanjeevKumar-ic2mp TMC 😀😀😀😀you are right even she stops Tata company too

[@pptskills]

Since the opening of this high-speed railway, China has completed more than 38,000 kilometers of high-speed railway construction.

[@uwanttono4012]

Meanwhile in the same period, the US has not added one extra mile of HSR! The WDC-Bos Aclea line is a joke by comparison!!

[@doujinflip]

It helps that the state owns all the land, and can eject its tenants practically at will. Land acquisition is a fairly straightforward process for government projects.

[@EnriqueLopez-lf8qm]

@@doujinflip state owns all the land? The ownership of land is far more complicated than you think

[@t-dog7401]

Well, let me explain how this works as a Chinese: You're working in Shanghai, yet the housing in Shanghai is as ridiculous as any megacities in the rest of the world, and you have to put up with the 2h commute every day. With this Jinghu Line, you can actually live in a nearby small town, enjoy the quiet life you otherwise would not able to when working in Shanghai, yet take the train to work and still, save at least 1h per day on the commute! I have friends who live like this. BYW, these trains are not expensive to ride on, averaging 100RMB (~15USD) for an hour's ride. This is acting as if it's a massive inter-city subway system.

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@RD-ht6go]

你还真能把大地铁用英文解释出来😂

[@t-dog7401]

@@RD-ht6go啊哈哈哈哈哈

[@mingzhong5481]

Unfortunately this is not very popular yet. Very few people take HSR for commute daily. The ticket price is still too expensive for commuters and at least 30 minutes dead time is spent on getting in and out of the huge railway stations. However, if you want to go back to your hometown during holidays or weekends, that is very handy.

[@t-dog7401]

@@mingzhong5481 Indeed. You have to both live and work fairly close to the accordingly train stations to make this work.

[@rayh.3478]

living in Beijing this is so convenient! instead of go to the airport an hour (maybe more) before takeoff, going through all the problems of security checks and stuff, then u fly for 2 hours(sometimes even delays) and after landing it would take roughly the same time or even more for flying, while trains never delay!

[@aleksandarburmaz6757]

Fun fact, for the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge, China's government invested roughly 8.5 billion USD. That's second world's most expensive bridge ever built. Great video guys, another great video, can't wait for your next topic.

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you Alex for sharing this with us.. :)

[@aleksandarburmaz6757]

@Arch Stanton Well teach me, wise one, how much did it cost actually? And throw in some references too. Also, try some healthier approach in regards to conversations or disputes, you could use it.

[@rockroll28]

In India 🇮🇳 we are more interested in How mainstream bollywood actor(SSR) died? Nobody interested in asking questions to Centre govt and state govt. about development. All media channels in India were sold to BJP govt. Which do not understand what economy is. Central govt straight away ban currency notes. Which proves to be a disaster. It shrinks our economy.

[@ipfreak]

well, more than 1300 km constructed between beijing and shanghai and cost was about $35B. in the meanwhile, cali HSR has spent more than $6B without seeing anything yet.

[@sammylee9402]

U should look at the trillion dollar bill, US spent on Iraq and Afgan wars. If US gove invested half of those money on its on people..............

[@skysthelimitrai7590]

Wow. Thx for the info. Looks like they do it for their people and not for profit

[@ipfreak]

@@skysthelimitrai7590 those lines are arteries of country's economy. would you sell your body arteries for profit?

[@RailwaysExplained]

Actually, that project is of our special interest, and we will definitely make a video about that!

[@underhorse5367]

@@sammylee9402 war on Iraq and Afghanistan ensures US control on global oil markets. It’s technically not waste of money

[@DanBurgaud]

1:00 In USA, each states are given two letters as abbreviation: CA for California, NY for New York, FL for Florida... etc... In China the same thing also exists. Each provinces, megacities are given an abbreviated single character instead: Shanghai, the abbreviation is 沪 (Hù) Beijing, the abbreviation is 京 (Jīng) source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_China In USA, when you say TX, the other person knows you are referring to Texas. However, in China, when you say "HU", dont expect that the other person to understand you are referring to the City itself. This is only a "transportation" thing.

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you for this explanation.

[@laocongge]

I think most Chinese people would know hu refers to Shanghai. It is not just a transportation thing.

[@baxile]

@@laocongge right, when there is a context, most people know that Hu refers to Shanghai. Without a context even TX is meaningless..

[@shengyanhu6728]

@@laocongge yes they do but this word is rarely used outside of transportation or geographic area.

[@weijiafang1298]

Technically there are also two-letter abbreviations for each Chinese province, but the naming itself makes some abbreviations quite weird, and so few people even know them. The ordinary rule is that the first letter of each syllable is used, but there are always outliers. Hunan-HN (Regular) Hubei-HB (Regular) Henan-HA (Irregular: the second letter in "nan" is used) Hebei-HE (Irregular: the second letter in "bei" is used) Hainan-HI (Irregular: both letters come from "hai")

[@aliwakanda7327]

China: took 3 years to build a 800 mile long railway at a cost of 34 billion USD. . While in the UK where I’m from: HS2, a 155 mile long network was proposed 8 years ago and is still in the process of negotiating with local green peace supporters... cost is now 90 billion USD...

[@aliwakanda7327]

Yep I know the UK is a developed country and we love paying taxes but would we like to see our money flushing down the toilet like this🧐

[@jeffreyoneill4082]

in China they have the "advantage" of building where they please. Property rights are not respected. Communities will be bulldozed and construction just goes on. Complain and you'll be arrested for dsturbing the harmonious society the CCP likes to pretent exists in China. You also need to account for the ifferent labor and safety laws. When teh CCP controlled steel / mining firms wanted to build new mines in Australia they were shcoked at the required working conditions in Australia. They ahd also expected the Australian Govt to just let them import tens of thousands of Chinese workers. Costs blew out to the point the mines will not be that profitiable. Moral of the sotry is if you don't care about the environt, labor, property rights you can build it fast and "cheap", but these kinds of projects are always under quoted. If the real price was offered aat the start many wouldn't get the go ahead. Often most societies, especially those with lower incomes, would benefit more from track straiightening and tild trains that allow speeds of 200KM/h on standard tracks which are cheaer to build and maintain. Lower speeds also require less electricity.

[@aliwakanda7327]

@@jeffreyoneill4082 stop making up bs excuses. We both know the reason why HS2 has been going at a terrible pace is because of the endless House of Commons arguments and too much agenda. Whatever u do u r bound to get somebody pissed that’s the hard truth. China prob gets about 5,000 of people not satisfied with the HSR works and that’s the sacrifice they made to please millions of others. If u r afraid to make sacrifices, well then just don’t do it in the first place, don’t start the thing and debate about whether it should go on

[@MrStickWar]

@@aliwakanda7327 that is not made up bs...

[@mayleetan6518]

In some countries, there is laws that permit government to take over someone's property for the interest of national development and advancement. This is done with fairness and with monetary compensation by government. By the way, China is very huge in terms of land. So it is easier to build the rail through unoccupied land. Underground tunnel is proposed for build up areas. It is always the excuse of the inability to act and to blame on circumstances. If you talk about human rights, do soldiers have the rights on not to go to wars? Do families of soldiers have the rights on not letting their love ones to go to wars. Wars are just created by idiots who have vested interest. Military complex and future employment after serving office. Going to wars in other countries for no good reasons is different from going to wars defending own country which is under attack by foreign force. The latter is honourable but the former is needless and cause unnecessary life loss and pain to those who are involved.

[@ZLL668]

One of world's most profitable railway lines.

[@Dunewarrior00]

Its worth nothing that this railway line is incredibly profitable, but the profits are used to subsidize rail networks to other parts of the country that lose money, instead of going to CEOs and shareholders like it would've in the west.

[@jedumalagan6632]

1300 km completed in 3 yrs. And 130k workere..wooah! I think this is only possible in China. Lots of world record broken by this project

[@amirbrotzki9752]

I love your videos. Can’t wait for your next one!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Тhank you, we appreciate your support! 😎

[@route55qatar]

Awesome content. Subbed!!!

[@NapoleonGelignite]

I’ve been on this when I visited China last year. It really is amazing - incredibly smooth and fast.

[@Love2Cruise]

Ok. Let me get this straight... Beijing - Shanghai is 819 miles, per this video. HSR runs it in 4:48 and standard rail service runs it in 9:49. NYC - Savannah is 829 miles, per Amtrak schedule/timetable. Amtrak runs it in 15:19 with Silver Meteor service, while Silver Star needs another 2 hours or so. No wonder Amtrak loses money on long distance trains. It's just not competitive to other modes of transportation.

[@Andrewjg_89]

The UK is competing for a new High Speed railway known as HS2 that will go from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Scotland. And possibly to Wales, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. USA and Canada wants a new high speed railway from Washington DC, New York City, Newark and Boston to Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, San Diego, Vancouver, Dallas, Miami and New Orleans. China is hoping for more high speed railways to be built. Japan already has its own high speed railway. Same with France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and other European countries. The whole world could have it’s very own high speed railway lol

[@scottmead854]

Meanwhile in Canada they can't even build high speed railway lines between Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto, purportedly due to pushback from Air Canada. There are those who choose not to progress.

[@موسى_7]

And I thought Canada cared about climate change, yet a polluting airline blocked HSR

[@scottmead854]

@@موسى_7 Many wealthy countries like to lecture developing countries about climate change, but they're the worst offenders. If you look at the carbon emission per capita, Canada and the US are way up at the top, while China is much lower than where you would imagine it to be.

[@موسى_7]

@@scottmead854 I know about China doing well, but not about Canada doing badly. Another reason to hate Canada and Trudeau.

[@scottmead854]

@@موسى_7 Hate is perhaps too strong of a word ;-) Many people in Canada prefer much greener solutions. And while the Trudeau administration has many, many flaws, it's still much better than the previous conservative administration. China is doing well but it there are still many challenges and problems that they need to tackle. My point is we shouldn't just be critical of other countries, but also of what's happening in our own backyards.

[@موسى_7]

@@scottmead854 if the Conservatives are worse, then Canada is really in trouble.

[@no-damn-alias]

China is smart. Building their infrastructure while work force is still cheap. How many projects do we(the European countries) regret not being built as it became too expensive

[@WINDYCHUNG]

yes, you are also smart to notice this. I am chinese and did not understand why we built so many infrustructures in such short time, then I knew why, when workers are more expensive, the budget can not afford this.

[@WINDYCHUNG]

@Yondu WOW, You know China very well. even Dalian and Yantai. That tunnel would be very very costly, to my view, may be it is not a good idea to build it. Thank you for your kindness, due to China's sucess in development, Western countries try a lot to defame China and CCP. We chinese people are fine with CCP since they really have good governance ability. Our standard of living improved dramatically which beyond imagination of ourselves. I hope all third world countries can work hard in 1-2 generations to change their fates. I mean the real hard working, we work more than 10 hrs each day normally in China. The world not only belongs to those western countries. The voices of small and poor countries should be respected as well.

[@hamanakohamaneko7028]

I didn't notice that. It is the same with Japan. It was only constructed 14 years after the war and the labor was dirt cheap. The lines built before 1990 now have maximum speeds of up to 320km/h, but those newly built had costs cut so the maximum speed is 260km/h. At least we might have a maglev this decade.

[@valerievankerckhove9325]

Yeah, I'm half-Chinese and lived half my life in and out of China. I had plenty of negative things to say about the Chinese government, and it did make many mistakes, but now I realize that often, I was the one who was too short-cited. The vast but empty lanes of Beijing are now filled up. 'Ghost town' Pudong District and that 'inconvenient and way too far' Pudong airport are now major economic and transportation hubs, and by building so fast, the government prevented slums from creeping up and saved itself the costs of forcing all those people to move. They're building all those rails when it's still cheap enough to do so. Even the Great Firewall which irks me a bunch, I thought it was just to prevent competition and get home-grown sites... until Twitter censored Trump. Now, Trump deserved to be censored, but it then became clear that it was paramount to China's security that it have its own home-grown alternatives (plus the GFW now protects Western websites from being flooded by too many Chinese trolls, oddly enough).

[@Jin88866]

They used infrastructure spending as an economic stimulus, while the rest of the world was struggling with a lack of demand and unemployment due to the 2008 financial crisis, China was pouring billions into railway construction. China suffered a major real estate bubble burst in those years (remember the ghost cities and malls around 2008-2009?), so many construction workers who lost their jobs found new employment in infrastructure projects. Their leadership is very competent and has all the tools it needs to lead a country.

[@LooNciFeRx]

Meanwhile, malaysia has to pay a debt of at least $250million to singapore for not building a high speed rail as stated in contract.

[@TheRailwayDrone]

819 miles of railway constructed in 3 YEARS?!?!?!! That is incredible. America could never achieve such results.

[@ChristIsKing4ever-l9w]

It's because we like more planes & cars rather than trains.

[@MrAnonymousRandom]

The US used to be able to get stuff done. Go check out all the new deal era hydro electric dams and trans continental railways.

[@SamuelKristopher]

Yay, a new channel in my recommendeds that actually has great content! Nice video, subbed!

[@marschen9715]

The total mileage of China's high-speed rail has exceeded 35,000 kilometers, with a minimum speed of 300KM per hour and a maximum speed of 380KM per hour.

[@zhuyuan0624]

This is also the first profitable HSR line in China! Annual profit nearly 200 million dollars!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thanks for information. Amazing.

[@zhuyuan0624]

@@RailwaysExplained Thanks for your channel. Very informative.

[@theobrigham]

meanwhile HS2 is like 1/3 of the length and 3x more expensive...

[@若望-h4z]

My father 's work is about railway building.When I was a chile,he need to go ouside all the time.Mostly he could back to home less three times during a quarter of one year.It cause my father has a bad healthy condition and we lacked too much family time.I means the surprising speed of the railway built deponds on plenty of families' devotion like us.:(

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you for sharing your feelings!

[@bilibiliism]

For what it is, its actually surprisingly cheap, only 36 billion. For reference, the cost of Afghanistan war costs american tax payer more than this each year and produces absolutely nothing in return.

[@diamond1bob]

we should hire them to make a high speed train from melbourne to the goldcoast via sydney

[@agoodfriedegg7102]

Not with the Morrison government, they don't seem to value China's existence.

[@arminius6506]

Government would only spend 37 billion dollars on western submarines.

[@好吧3]

u.s will stop it

[@mindormood1]

@@好吧3 via aust's own politicians and media.

[@stvdmc2011]

can't be done....chinese hater will accuse the train will spy on you.

[@ew1902]

I think good public transportation has a great positive effect on ppl other than economy. Especially, a more affordable and convenient commuting system would let ppl interact more with others, instead of being isolated.

[@angela-uy9gq]

Wow, this video is really interesting 👌🏻👏🏻

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you! 😊

[@OscarMartinez-rw7tt]

California has spent over 35 billion already and doesn’t have one mile of functioning high speed railway yet! We could learn from the Chinese HSR!

[@kflightdispatcher]

In my imagination before come to Canada, the developed country should be at least the developed Railway system, the developed infrastructure and the developed telecommunication network with reasonable costs.

[@archsword5294]

@Gaylord Manlove III lol who die fack are you

[@MMA-gb6to]

@Gaylord Manlove III the chinese immigrants have options, and you apparently stuck in canada, hahah...

[@kflightdispatcher]

@Gaylord Manlove III HEY! DONT FIND ANY EXCUSE TO FOR U TO ESCAPE YOUR TRAGEDY. WHATS YOUR STATUS IN CANADA?

[@kflightdispatcher]

@@MMA-gb6to CHINESE IMMIGRANTS MAKE HUGE CONTRIBUTION TO THIS COUNTRY.

[@kflightdispatcher]

@Gaylord Manlove III THIS CHANNEL IS THE INTRODUCTION OF CRH. CLARIFY YOUR INTENSION!

[@user-propositionjoe]

Say what you like about China, building that in 3 years is impressive. Infrastructure projects (which improve people's lives) in the west take many decades in comparison.

[@DanielsUKT]

So with high speed trains they got the travel time down from over 9 hours to around 4 hours 45 minutes which is incredible! And for 800 mile (1300km) journey

[@sazzadurrahman6128]

This is amazing. Love from Bangladesh.

[@ShashankRockerYo]

6:30 slow train journey is avg speed 134kmph. Not bad

[@prakashnirmal786]

i got you.....fastest train - Rajdhani Express has average speed of less than 80 kmph. And the chinese traditional train is as you mentioned above is even higher than ours.

[@zhouyule7484]

A few extra interesting notes: 1) The decision to reduce operational speed was more of a direct result by a major rail accident in 2010 (See Wenzhou train collision), which was a major PR hit and forced the government to take a more cautious stance on HSR operation. 2) Beijing-Shanghai HSR is one (of the few) profitable HSRs in China, not surprising considering the shear number of population along the line. And still, it is increasingly clear that certain sections will be a bottleneck in the future -- Bengbu-Xuzhou section for example (hence discussions about a second Beijing-Shanghai HSR). 3) Talking about second line -- there is actually a quasi-parallel HSR between Shanghai and Nanjing (Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity Railway, not to be confused with the Shanghai-Nanjing section under the Beijing-Shanghai HSR). The two HSRs combined have ~230 pairs of trains per day between the two cities, excluding another 40 pairs of conventional trains. And yet still, two more HSRs are planned between the two cities, so you may end up with four different HSRs between the two cities (and potentially doubling the capacity?) in the future.

[@kevinmsft]

It's also one of the most profitable high-speed railways in the world. :)

[@marktrinidad7650]

The longer your government waits for a subway to be constructed the higher the cost of labor and raw materials will become.

[@Certhasda]

Great to see the Velaro CN at it's maximum capacity. I'd love to ride someday at all Velaro variations in the world, but I only know the ICE 3 in Germany.

[@GerhardReinig]

I made this video in a Velaro (ICE3) from Zengzhou to Shanghai:kzbin.info/www/bejne/g33InIWirJ6GaaM

[@rap3208]

China built the Beijing-Shanghai HSR (819 miles) with 244 bridges including the 164-km long Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge (the longest bridge in the world), the 114-km long viaduct bridge between Langfang and Qingxian (the second longest in the world), and the Cangde Grand Bridge between Beijing's 4th Ring Road and Langfang (the fifth longest). It also included 22 tunnels totaling 10.0 mi. All these with a grand total cost of $34.7 billion from an initial budget of $21.25 billion. Construction work began on April 18, 2008 and rail passenger operation started in June 2011. The california High Speed rail is originally planned to connect LA to San Francisco, a length of 380 miles with a budget of $33 billion in 2008 now updated to $93.5 billion in 2022. it was started in 2008 and the complete 500-mile (805-km) Phase 1 system between San Francisco and Anaheim in earlier plans was to be completed in 2033 but have already suffered delays and construction have slowed down so it's a given it won't hit the target date.

[@mangguodaren7366]

thanks for your video

[@prirodnjaktv]

Interesting video! Nice content 👌

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you! 😎

[@VV-ju8xh]

I see 4 thumbs down for nothing other than jealousy

[@Chickenworm9394]

I bet these sorry asses didn't even watch the video

[@kyleguo3362]

@@Chickenworm9394 Agree，they probably just hit the thumbs down and leave

[@anonymousanonimity6718]

when I came back from china the past January, my daughter cried why I have to give birth to her in the US, I have nothing to say, moving back is easier said than done

[@mantapdjiwa9768]

@@yuke3935 US is not bad if you're not mistreated based on ur race.

[@rncmv]

any newborn cries after being born

[@seandelabear9632]

Great video...

[@edwuave]

Westerns be like "this channel is paid by ccp, there was no high speed rail in China, this is fake"

[@a_viewerv2069]

Nice Video with great details , thank you

[@Chickenworm9394]

Trump: China stole our railways!!

[@TheWoblinGoblin]

So the whole line was waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy cheaper than refurbishing the northeast corridor in the US? ;)

[@adiba9734]

Would you like talk about Indonesia high speed train or trans asean

[@RailwaysExplained]

Actually yes, we just checked some facts regarding this HS line, and it might indeed be interesting. Game over the influence in the region between Japan and China, issues regarding the aquisition of land (case of Halim Perdanakusuma Airbase), traffic needs of Indonesia, etc, etc. Added on the list! :)

[@adiba9734]

@@RailwaysExplained cool and dont forget trans asean that connected form china to Singapore and the construction is already being build in laos and thailand

[@RailwaysExplained]

@@adiba9734 Thank you for your proposal, Adiba!

[@khan9946]

In my country they made 5 km tunnel in 6 years.

[@dayviduh]

Great video! Subscribed :)

[@E11or]

Im sure there will be a maglev connection in the future

[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Like the video very much. Hope there more.

[@mingzhong5481]

Actually, there is no more 9 hours and 49 minutes trains in the parallel conventional Jinghu railway Line. The fast train now takes about 11 hours and 58 minutes.

[@siddhantjadhav7998]

Great video!!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Thank you sir!

[@fridgemagnet9831]

I rode this train Shanghai to Naning South, didnt know its the beijing line.. Nanjing to Shanhai its better to take the slower d train that takes you to the city centre not Nanjing South as the time you save goes into getting back into nanjing by other means

[@中国杨]

Hi I just wanted to point out that the speed limit has been back to 350km/h for over 3 years.

[@中国杨]

And this line is actually making profits each year!

[@MoyanZhang]

中国有了复兴号以后北京到天津的时间从40分钟缩短到了25分钟！

[@lufreexing3245]

从北京到上海最快是四小时十几分钟

[@Alan-ib3dr]

¿Qué dice?

[@uwanttono4012]

@@lufreexing3245 It's better than flying from BJ to SH and almost as fast!!

[@vishalchaudhary2710]

1318km constructed in just 3 years. The Mumbai Ahmedabad HSR which is just 508Km is taking at least 7 years to build. The problem is beurocratic hurdles and red tapis, it's passing through just 2 states which have different political parties ruling it, one's not interested in and the other one which happens to be BJP(the one which is in central govt as well) does favour the project. There is land acquisition problem in the other state and the state govt shows no intrest.

[@lukap0]

Odlican vam je kanal!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Hvala 🙂

[@MTobias]

Wait. At 0:23 are you showing an illustration for the high speed rail in India? Why did they use the German city of Frankfurt as the backdrop?

[@eggyrepublic]

It's funny when you realize $34 billion is essentially 2.5 weeks worth of the US military budget.

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

I want to travel China by train..

[@naratemalwer9738]

A video about russian sapsan would be nice

[@vasumanidwivedi7467]

Maharashtra gov. (India) must watch this video, realise how they putting hurdle in bullet train project.

[@arifdemircioglu7042]

Istanbul halkali to gebze is worlds 2 longest line 76 km

[@anonomia5535]

Interesting video! Do you know whether there are any figures available about the profitability of railway lines in China? While that is not hugely important (most lines in Europe are unprofitable, as you know), I would be interested in comparing this to other countries.

[@RailwaysExplained]

Dear Anonomia, great question. We suggest you take a look at the report prepared by the World Bank. Here is the link: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/933411559841476316/pdf/Chinas-High-Speed-Rail-Development.pdf

[@route55qatar]

@@RailwaysExplained Thank you for sharing.

[@mmhhdmjyyb]

This line earns money. But this is the only one hsr line that is profitable.

[@agoodfriedegg7102]

The hidden profitability lies with how the country connects people and allow more goods and service exchange between many many points which ultimately grows the economy and brings progress to the whole nation.

[@anonomia5535]

@@agoodfriedegg7102 Sure, that is also why I said the lack of profitability is not necessarily a problem. One would have to do a cost-benefit analysis for that. However, I don’t think high speed lines are really used to transport goods.

[@marlbankian]

Excellent

[@mindormood1]

Contrary to popular belief, Shanghai-Beijing route is quite profitable on its own. It's the high speed rails extending to the sparsely-populated western China that are loss producing at the moment. At the moment being the operative words here because the economy will grow to fit its infrastructure in time. I find it perplexing that people don't understand a government is not a business and making money is never to be its primary concern.

[@denvreds]

that was really interesting

[@yajurmahajan8390]

I've ridden Suzhou North to Beijing and Back. I think it was 5 hours or less, it was seamless. Incredible.

[@alfaeco15]

How does travel time Beijing Shanghai using the high speed line compares to travel time using airplane?

[@greatvanchang5289]

with all the waiting time in count, the train is actually faster, it only takes 5 minutes from security check to start the trip(without the covid-19 stituation though, it may take 15 minutes longer)

[@alfaeco15]

@@greatvanchang5289 Interesting. I always thought 1000km was the limit a high speed train link (300kmh) could still compete with the airplane.

[@greatvanchang5289]

@@alfaeco15 one more fact is that plane travel between Beijing and Shanghai often delays...

[@shellcasing1040]

Nice video 👍 but I suggest you stick to metric units only!

[@RailwaysExplained]

Actually, we do this because of two reasons (even though it makes our videos a bit harder to watch). First, we want to become 'worldwide' community, and second, more than half of our viewers so far are from the US. :)

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

Lot of people here are saying - it takes too much time to buy tickets when it's crowded. Isn't there any system to buy tickets online?

[@pppppsssssp6591]

yes, but the online system will also become overcrowded during busy times

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

@@pppppsssssp6591 Online systems are still much easier to scale up/down than offline systems. Not even a close comparison.

[@antoniod4911]

China , Amazing!!!!!

[@Freddie_Dunning-Kruger_Jr.]

Does anyone know the cost of a ticket from Beijing to Shanghai? In USD?

[@tonyqiu9542]

At first I thought that was a lot. Then I realized that's the same as going from New York to florida for $90

[@raylee5030]

If money is no object, spoil yourself on business class. Generally, 1st class is about twice as 2nd class, and business class is twice as 1st class. You get babied all the way with food and services.

[@rncmv]

everybody, who is able to use an online search engine; it took me about 5 seconds

[@mohanish]

This is fake news. Trump is constructing 500 mph high speed rail to connect Mar a lago to disneyland.

[@yuchinglo5192]

哈哈！ LOL

[@morganangel340]

@M Shrestha - Hydrosonic Super Duper Choo Choo...

[@zhiruiliu2433]

🥚

[@mindormood1]

yup, 17 times faster too.

[@hymlog]

...NOW IF THIS TRAIN LINK THE WORLD TOGETHER YOU MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING... BUT FOR NOW IT'S JUST A SIMPLE TRAIN GOING BACK AND FORTH AND THE SPEED DOES SHORTEN THE LONG BORING RIDE. HOWEVER THE BAD PART IS THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THIS ONE!....WOW ...TWO OF THESE TRAINS GOING NOWHERE ...RECORD BREAKING!!!

[@mantapdjiwa9768]

This guy is high

[@hymlog]

@@mantapdjiwa9768 ..This it what hold us back..mantaps pea brain...

[@TsLeng]

@@mantapdjiwa9768 high on stupidity, low on brain cells. Same thing I think lol

[@monopalisa619]

As one sentient bulldozer once said "We build for china".

[@hamanakohamaneko7028]

In Japan, we have a 360km/h bullet train but it is limited to 285km/h because of how busy Tokaido Shinkansen is. (1 train per 3 to 7 minutes, each side) Basically we need to export them to Texas and Taiwan to unleash their full potential.

[@huanroger3597]

360kmh alfa-x will be used on Tohoko Shinkansen not Tokaido Shinkansen

[@hamanakohamaneko7028]

@@huanroger3597 I am talking aboyt the N700S. It only goes 360km/h during test runs in the middle of the night when no other trains are running. The only real hopes of having the N700S go at its full speed is through export.

[@lemanlie2356]

Amazing tecnologis .👍👍👍👍👍china

[@MrGanbat84]

Woow really cool

[@Nickayz2]

The fastest operating service line in the world and the most expensive one. Truely impressive. There are not many places one the world, where that would pay off.

[@BadassLapin]

No it's not the most expensive one, the cost per kilometers of the HSR construction in China is 1/3 of that of Japan of Europe.

[@GerhardReinig]

No. The ticket prices for HRS are very cheep in China for the people will travell by train and not by aircraft. It's a will by the Chines gov because co2 polution and climate warming.

[@BadassLapin]

@@GerhardReinig No actually it's got little to do with the environment. The Chinese gov desperately promotes the HSR and e-car manufacturing simply because transportation methods based on gas vehicles and airplanes are fueled by oil to which China has a massive dependency on importation - hence vulnerable to maritime goble trade orders. The electricity is generated by coal in China and it's 100% self-sufficient so it's safe. the whole-life emission for HSR and electric cars are no less than diesel trains and gas cars.

[@GerhardReinig]

@@BadassLapin ...and all people talking about, China build new coal assembly after and after. But waht people are not talking about, this new coal assemblies are for replacing the old dirty coal assemblies. And what people also not talking about, Chine invest mor tha double for renewable (green) energy than Europe, USA, Russia in summary.

[@vanila2012]

I thought such speed railways more than just one stretch westward south.

[@rncmv]

what are you talking about? improve your English

[@tiago58]

Very good videos about railways. However, it is not necessary to convert all the speeds and distances to miles. Use kilometers and let people do the conversion.

[@zjnb]

京沪高铁都上市了，中国最赚钱的高铁线路，西部很多地区的高铁线路都是亏本的😂

[@knight-sy4rm]

其实铁路也养活很多人的，中国要照顾就业，不然铁路的成本应该会降下来一些

[@lukat7052]

Does anyone know how much is the ticket for this ride?

[@cshan5424]

2nd class Rmb498, 1st class Rmb837, business class rmb1748 1usd=6.47rmb

[@huanroger3597]

@@cshan5424 2nd class from RMB 498 -598，but RMB 553 for most of the time

[@rncmv]

what about to search for it on your own? you could have it in a matter of seconds

[@lukat7052]

@@rncmv i had it in seconds this way as well I dont see a problem...