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Before the official inauguration, let's review the historic contexts......
Western China news updates
Xi'an-Chengdu High-speed Railway to open on 6 Dec:
a historic moment bridging North and South
To say Xi'an-Chengdu HSR is more important than Guangzhou-Shenzhen HSR is not exaggerating. Xi'an and Chengdu combined have a population of more than 20 million, along with numerous tier3/4/5 cities in between such as Mianyang (one of China's high-tech hubs and military industry), Deyang(machinery) and Hanzhong (milltary industry).
Huge impacts on 30 million Chinese in Western China
Chengdu 14 million people
Deyang 4 million
Mianyang 5 million
Guangyuan 2.5 million
Hanzhong 3.5 million
Xi'an 9 million
Qinling Mountains are the natural boundary dividing geographic North and geographic South, also home to pandas.
This railway will be the first high-speed railway traversing the great Qinling Mountains, connecting two of the biggest metropolitan regions in Western China.
Before the official day of opening, I will briefly summarise the history of transport between these two cities and how the travel time was cut from weeks to days, 10+ hours, and since 6 December, 3 hours.
Ancient capita X'ian
Northwest China
Panda city Chengdu
Southwest China
Expressway & the new railway
@TaiShang @Dungeness @Martian2 @Kaptaan @cirr @terranMarine @Bussard Ramjet @Han Patriot et al
Western China news updates
Xi'an-Chengdu High-speed Railway to open on 6 Dec:
a historic moment bridging North and South
To say Xi'an-Chengdu HSR is more important than Guangzhou-Shenzhen HSR is not exaggerating. Xi'an and Chengdu combined have a population of more than 20 million, along with numerous tier3/4/5 cities in between such as Mianyang (one of China's high-tech hubs and military industry), Deyang(machinery) and Hanzhong (milltary industry).
Huge impacts on 30 million Chinese in Western China
Chengdu 14 million people
Deyang 4 million
Mianyang 5 million
Guangyuan 2.5 million
Hanzhong 3.5 million
Xi'an 9 million
Qinling Mountains are the natural boundary dividing geographic North and geographic South, also home to pandas.
This railway will be the first high-speed railway traversing the great Qinling Mountains, connecting two of the biggest metropolitan regions in Western China.
Before the official day of opening, I will briefly summarise the history of transport between these two cities and how the travel time was cut from weeks to days, 10+ hours, and since 6 December, 3 hours.
Ancient capita X'ian
Northwest China
Panda city Chengdu
Southwest China
Expressway & the new railway
@TaiShang @Dungeness @Martian2 @Kaptaan @cirr @terranMarine @Bussard Ramjet @Han Patriot et al
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