Extending, and extending again, the high-speed rail (HSR) has significantly weakened the sense of distance between people and between cities in China.
On the vast land of China, a fast, unobstructed and efficient HSR network is being weaved, making the country a better interconnected integrity. Boasting great strength in safety, comfort, speed, as well as punctuality equal to that of Greenwich Mean Time, China’s HSR has demonstrated tremendous power that led to breakthroughs in people’s concept, aesthetics, and perception of speed, distance, and efficiency, while changing the time-space pattern of Chinese society and the people’s way of travel and lifestyle.
HSR gives you a better sense of China, since it has been deeply embedded in all aspects of the country’s social-economic development and facilitated economic activities, export, and logistics. The HSR has changed China’s economic landscape and charted a three-dimensional vision of “big transportation”, creating a slew of popular tourist routes, and elevating the brand of “Made in China” into a new height. The HSR connects China with the world, and the “Chinese standard” is developing into an “international standard”. Chinese speed and Chinese wisdom have changed people’s perception of China across the world. Just as many foreign media exclaimed, “High-speed rail has changed China!”
No doubt this is China’s strength, and this is the power of China’s HSR.