| ID | 129232 |
| Title Proper | High-speed empire |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tom, Zoellner |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Chinese rail is sprawling, modern, and elegant. It's also convoluted, corroding, and financially alarming. Wanna take a ride? THE BULLET TRAIN hurtles toward the industrial city of Taiyuan in northern China, and seemingly within seconds, the modern, smog-soaked Beijing skyline gives way to open fields. David Su is munching on pistachios in the bar car, careful that not a crumb hits his blue foulard scarf, as he heads some 320 miles to reach his early-morning appointment for a private equity firm. Over his shoulder, the Chinese countryside is a disembodied blur: farms and factories receding at the mind-aching speed of 186 miles per hour. Cars on a nearby highway seem to be creeping along by comparison. Su travels frequently for his job at Global Capital Investments Group, and he likes this new high-speed train, zipping along on one of several dozen lines built by the Chinese government in a decade-long blitzkrieg program that now has a price tag of $500 billion. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Policy Vol. , No.205; March-April 2014: p.44-51 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Policy Vol. , No.205; March-April 2014: p.44-51 |
| Key Words | Economic Development ; China ; Chinese Economy ; Urban Development ; Global Capital Investments Group - GGIS ; Capital Formation ; Bullet Train ; High Speed Transportation ; Financially Alarming ; Modern Transportation System ; High Speed Train ; Chinese Government ; Urbanization ; Global Technology ; Technological Development ; Modern Technology |