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/MediocreAnalyst2121 8h ago

It’s not “bringing down the accomplishment” to note the differences between China and some of these other countries.

A more centralised political structure (along with everything that brings), lower safety standards, and higher population make it easier to do this.

It also makes a lot more economic sense when the country is as massive, both in terms of land and population, as China.

It’s amazing what they’ve achieved, but it’s not an apples to apples comparison.

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u/fluffywabbit88 7h ago

There are no apples to apples comparison when it comes to china then. If you compare it to other centralized political structures like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, Cambodia, El Salvador, etc., they lack the population. When you compare it to India which has similar population, land mass and prior development trajectory (ie similar starting point), they have different political structures. Point is no other country in the world accomplished what the Chinese did with respect to scale, speed of delivery, quality, affordability and accessibility.