China’s bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of megacity growth

[Kyle Sun]

LOL. I am an employer in Hanoi, Vietnam, what you wrote make me laugh ... LOL.
why propaganda here ?

Some China project in Vietnam, they bring Chinese workers here to do most heaviest and lowest income work ...

If Vietnamese workers ready to do whatever they want with 100$ why they must bring Chinese cleaners to Vietnam

You mean these chinese workers's salary is less than local guys' ?

And what 's the normal price of your so called heaviest work ?

 

[cirr]

China Railway bullish on overseas business

Railway builder aims to triple foreign orders and revenue amid push from top leadership

Toh Han Shih hanshih.toh@scmp.co

UPDATED : Wednesday, 09 April, 2014, 1:40am


Li Changjin

China Railway Group aims to nearly triple its overseas orders and revenue within three years, driven by mainland leaders' "high-speed-rail" diplomacy.

One of the country's two dominant railway builders, the state-owned firm aims to boost its overseas orders to US$20 billion by 2016 from US$7 billion last year, and raise its overseas revenue to US$10 billion from US$3.72 billion.

"It is not hard to achieve this. Chinese leaders have been marketing Chinese railways abroad, wanting Chinese rail companies to go out," said China Railway's chairman Li Changjin.

Mainland leaders were actively involved in high-speed-rail diplomacy, and the central government had been pushing for cross-border railways to neighbouring Southeast Asian nations like Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, said Yu Tengqun, China Railway's board secretary and joint company secretary.

Last year, Premier Li Keqiang promoted Chinese railways to the Thai government during his visit to the country, Li Changjin said.

In March, Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled as unconstitutional legislation to finance the government's rail and logistics plan, which included high-speed-rail links between northeast Thailand and southern China through Laos, Xinhua said.

Listed both in Shanghai and Hong Kong, China Railway had been on the verge of signing some overseas deals, which were suddenly shelved, Li said.

Last year, the company signed a US$7.5 billion contract to build a mine railway in Cambodia, but construction had not started owing to funding problems, he said.

It also did the preliminary survey and design for a high-speed railway in Kazakhstan, while the Russian government has asked the Chinese firm to provide technology for a railway project in the country.

"We have been invited to take part in a Brazilian high-speed-rail project, but overseas high-speed-rail projects take a long time to materialise," Li said.

In contrast, rail projects from China to Laos and Myanmar had a good chance of starting construction soon, he said.

China Railway was involved in the survey and design of the China-Laos railway as well as the feasibility study of the railway to Myanmar, Li added.

China Railway bullish on overseas business | South China Morning Post

 

[rcrmj]

LOL. I am an employer in Hanoi, Vietnam, what you wrote make me laugh ... LOL.
why propaganda here ?

Some China project in Vietnam, they bring Chinese workers here to do most heaviest and lowest income work ...

If Vietnamese workers ready to do whatever they want with 100$ why they must bring Chinese cleaners to Vietnam

who you want to fool? low skilled viets workers are getting what they are worth for, indeed there are many chinese workers in vietnam but most of them are technicians who are the core assets of any projects in vietnam and gets paid much higher than low skilled and clumsy viets

there are no tie1 qualified vietnamese technicians in vietnam and thats a fact

 

[BoQ77]

who you want to fool? low skilled viets workers are getting what they are worth for, indeed there are many chinese workers in vietnam but most of them are technicians who are the core assets of any projects in vietnam and gets paid much higher than low skilled and clumsy viets

there are no tie1 qualified vietnamese technicians in vietnam and thats a fact

Because you are not well informed, let me state :

1. There's always a regulated minimum wage for FDI companies to pay for domestic workers.
The real wage they get always higher than minimum level including, lunch / dinner, health, insurance, some allowance ...
And a FDI cannot pay what they want but both higher than minimum and not lower than nearby companies, if not there's no workers for them ...

And for you information, the minimum wage for Hanoi region about 130$ ++ / month
So the guy said that his brother pay 100$ for average worker is baseless

2. Is this technician ? No they are just popular labor. If they are not Vietnamese, because Vietnamese workers don't want to do that work, or want to do that work with higher wage level ... So Chinese contractors must bring them from China to ...

When we get the money from Japan for HSR project in Vietnam, we would hire Chinese workers for saving costs ...

 

[huskie]

ridership on Beijing-Shanghai HSR. It took them 20 months to reach the first 100 million milestone, and another 14 months to accomplish the second 100 million. The growth is at an astonishing pace.

Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway sees 200 mln trips

BEIJING - Data released Sunday by China's railway authorities showed that train trips on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway had topped 200 million.

Trips on the railway surpassed 100 million on Feb 28, 2013 and reached 200 million by 9:30 am Sunday, said the authorities.

The 1,318-kilometer-long railway links the country's prosperous Pan-Bohai and Yangtze River Delta economic zones, cutting travel time between the two regions to less than five hours.

The railway is designed to handle maximum train speeds of 350 kilometers per hour. High-speed trains on this railway made their debut on June 30, 2011.

source:
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway sees 200 mln trips - China - Chinadaily.com.cn

Another recent popular report by QZ. However, I don't quite agree with the analysis in this article. It is true that China HSR is getting more and more popular, and it is also true that the Chinese domestic airline industry is in the red, but it does not necessarily mean HSR is hurting the aviation industry. The Chinese domestic airlines still see double digit growth in passenger volume (so does the HSR). The majority of the HSR ridership is newly generated(they would not have traveled by air if there were no HSR). It is way too hasty to make the conclusion in the title without more studies.

China’s high-speed rail is so popular, it’s hurting the domestic airline industry

China Southern Airlines is the latest Chinese airline to post miserable year-end 2013 results. Net profit dropped 24% to 1.99 billion yuan ($321 million), and operating profit fell 70%. China Southern Airlines joins Air China, where net profit dropped 32% in 2013, and China Eastern Airlines, where it fell by 25%.

High oil prices, as well as increased competition from low-cost carriers and each other, have taken a toll. But, as each airline has recently acknowledged, so has China’s massive and growing high-speed rail system.

As Quartz reported last August, the costly and sometimes under-used rail network was shaping up to be a vital part of China’s growth strategy. It doesn’t have the hurdles of the airline industry: Airlines in China struggle to get clearances from the military to expand flight paths, and China’s major airports have earned the title of the most-delayed in the world, where passengers sometimes riot to protest long waits and miserable customer service.

The high-speed rail system, on the other hand, has quickly grown to over 6,000 miles (9,700 km) in five years, and will expand to 19,000 kilometers (11,800 miles) by 2015. It is already transporting some 2 million passengers a day on trains that are rarely delayed, and which go nearly 200 miles an hour, twice as many passengers as domestic airlines.

If there were no rail network, these passengers wouldn’t all necessarily have taken flights instead, of course. Some might not have traveled at all, or gone by car, bus or slow train. Still, to see how this has hit the airlines, take a look at China Southern’s domestic passenger activity, which peaked in 2011, and on most months hasn’t hit the same highs since, according to the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation:

In 2013, China Southern’s revenues from domestic operations dropped 5.5% to 81.3 billion yuan. At Air China, revenues from domestic flights likewise fell over 5% in 2013, though the number of passengers increased by 7.3%. “The rapid development of high-speed railway and the evolution of low-cost carriers on the mainland will further intensify competition on domestic routes,” the company said when it announced results March 25.

China Eastern’s chief executive complained about the subsidies the railways get in an interview last year, saying “In China, the government has also invested heavily in high-speed rail—far more than in the airlines in fact—so it’s not a case of nationalized carriers being better off, because they also have many challenges to face.”

It’s a sticky situation: while all of China’s big three airlines are publicly traded, the Chinese government continues to hold controlling stakes in the companies. That means the cannibalization of domestic airline passengers by the railways is a case of the government eating its own profits.

China’s high-speed rail is so popular, it’s hurting the domestic airline industry – Quartz

 

[cirr]

1st 100 million 1 year 8 months

2nd 100 million 1 year 2 months。

That's 43% growth yoy。

 

[cirr]

7am Saturday morning（April 5th 2014）at Shanghai Hongqiao Station。Pretty busy huh？

 

[cirr]

Tai'an HSR Station

The prefecture-level city of Tai'an is located on Beijing-Shanghai HSR in Shandong Province. It's known for Mount Tai, the most famous mountain in China.

 

[cirr]

Jinan West Station

Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province







platform






constructions near the station

 

[BoQ77]

Nice station, I have some partners in Zibo, Shandong ...

 

[huskie]

you took these pictures? if not, better to give credits to the original photographer.

7am Saturday morning（April 5th 2014）at Shanghai Hongqiao Station。Pretty busy huh？

 

[cirr]

The Guangxi section（Nanning-Wuzhou，350km）of the 577km Nanning-Guangzhou HSR opened on April 18 2014：

南宁铁路局：南广高铁广西段正式开通运营(高清)_新闻中心_中国网



Nanning to Wuzhou 350km 2nd class fare：92 yuan。

Bloody cheap！

 

[shuttler]

@Jinan west station

If I am the Auditor General or 王岐山 Wang Qishan, I will look into this case on the bidding and approval details of this construction

That stupid reporter/photographer of 中国网 like many others is advertising a foreign product for free

 

[cirr]

Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway under construction

(Xinhua) 10:11, April 20, 2014

People work at a construction site of the Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway in Jinhua City, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 11, 2014. The 933-kilometer high-speed railway linking Hangzhou City and Changsha City is designed at a top speed of 350km/h. More than 90 percent of the electrification project in Zhejiang section has been completed so far. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)

 

[cirr]

Continued

Engineers work at a distribution station of the Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway in Longyou County, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 19, 2014. The 933-kilometer high-speed railway linking Hangzhou City and Changsha City is designed at a top speed of 350km/h. More than 90 percent of the electrification project in Zhejiang section has been completed so far. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)

People work at a construction site of the Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway in Yiwu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 18, 2014. The 933-kilometer high-speed railway linking Hangzhou City and Changsha City is designed at a top speed of 350km/h. More than 90 percent of the electrification project in Zhejiang section has been completed so far. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)

Hangzhou-Changsha high-speed railway under construction - People's Daily Online