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Yearender: Major Chinese high speed railways opened in 2017
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China now has the world's greatest high-speed rail network -- 22,000 kilometers as of the end of 2016, or about 60 percent of the world's total.
Xinhua丨Updated: December 15, 2017
December Xi'an-Chengdu
Crew members of a bullet train which is to operate on the Xi'an-Chengdu High-Speed Railway, pose for pictures in front of the bullet train in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 4, 2017. High-speed trains linking Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province, and Chengdu of Sichuan, began operation on Dec. 6. [Photo/Xinhua]