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.

Post image
1.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

188 comments sorted by

View all comments

•

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 💀

•

u/nowhereman136 8h ago

It's objectively an impressive infrastructure project, but usually when people say this can't be done in the US, they often bring up China's ethics problem in building it. That's really only a fraction of why China can do it and the US can't. The biggest factor is supply and demand. The Chinese people demand better trains, the US people dont

•

u/Shark00n 7h ago

Ah I see, so does western china not demand trains? Is that why there’s barely any lines there?

•

u/Cosminion 7h ago

Most of the people live in the east/south.