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Opinion / Xin Zhiming

High-speed train of thought races abroad

By Xin Zhiming (Chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-12-18 15:37

Behind the sector’s expansion is the government’s strategy to exploit the highly technology- and capital-intensive industry to boost the country’s of-late mediocre economic growth and increase its global influence.

The demand for high-speed trains is expected to grow continually and could triple to 5 billion passenger-trips a year by 2020, say experts. The demand for freight transportation will increase, too, as the economy grows.

Like the airplane industry, the high-speed train industry comprises several sectors and has a spillover effect on China’s industrial upgrading and economic restructuring. But the importance of the high-speed rail network goes beyond that, for it will have a far-reaching impact on the economic development of the economically backward western part of the country. For example, it takes about five and half hours to travel from Beijing to Xi’an in Shaanxi province by a high-speed train, compared with more than 11 hours by normal-speed trains.

High-speed trains are bound to have a profound impact on China’s economic landscape in the coming decades. Over the past 30 years, China has adopted a progressive development strategy, initially according priority to the eastern coastal region, mainly because their proximity to the sea makes import of raw materials and export of finished products easier.

With the world’s major economies, such as the United States, Europe and Japan, facing economic difficulties, China cannot sustain its export-oriented economic growth. It has to change its economic growth model. And while it focuses on boosting domestic consumption, and the use of advanced technologies coupled with innovation, to change the economic pattern, China’s also has concrete plans of developing its vast western region.

The idea of “western development” was put forward 14 years ago, but progress remains unsatisfactory, partly because of lack of infrastructure. The expansion of the high-speed rail network will provide the much-needed boost to the development plans for West China because it will connect the region not only with the developed eastern provinces, but also with the vast markets in Central Asia, Russia and Europe.

This will facilitate the extension of China’s economic links with its northern and western neighbors and create an alternative regional market that can offset the impact of the recession or downturn in the big trading powers of America and Europe.

As the economic links among the countries in the region strengthen, the regional economy will consolidate and become more stable to the benefit of all the countries involved.

The author is a senior writer with China Daily. xinzhiming@chinadaily.com.cn

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