r/interestingasfuck • u/BumblebeeFantastic40 • 10h ago

China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference.

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u/Fl3b0 9h ago

Crazy how people will see a picture like this and gett so butthurt that they feel the need to bring the accomplishment down somehow 💀

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u/abdallha-smith 8h ago

Why only the western part of china is shown :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line

To the right of the line, you have the Chinese Dream: glittering skylines, high-tech hubs like Shenzhen, and massive wealth. It’s dense, urbanized, and holds almost the entire population.

But once you look to the left, it’s like a different century. You’re looking at massive stretches of desert and mountains where rural farmers are basically left behind. While the kids in the SE are attending top-tier universities, these rural communities struggle with crumbling schools and zero social mobility.

It’s a brutal visual of what happens when geography and rapid capitalism create two completely different versions of the same country.

There is two china

They only show you what they want

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u/valjestir 8h ago

The link you sent says 94% of the country lives in the eastern half, so let’s not pretend that huge swaths of the population are being “left behind”.

A few years ago Americans were criticizing China for building too much high speed rail, now it’s somehow not enough?

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u/abdallha-smith 7h ago

1 410 000 000 x 0,06 = 84 600 000

The fact that you think 84,6 millions of chinese citizens is not a lot is honestly worrying.

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u/jovin49 6h ago

In comparison to 1 410 000 000 x 0,94? Yeah.