What impact will high-speed rail have on China's economy?

With the opening of Beijing-Tianjin intercity railway, Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway, Zhengxi high-speed railway, Shanghai-Nanjing intercity railway, Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway, Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, Harbin-Dalian high-speed railway and Lan Xin high-speed railway, China high-speed railway is leading the development of high-speed railways in the world.

1, promoting regional coordinated development

The impact of developing high-speed rail on economic structure is a gradual process. High-speed rail investment in the central and western regions is conducive to creating market demand for local steel, cement and other industries and solving the problem of overcapacity. More importantly, after the development of high-speed rail, it will promote the development of logistics, tourism and other service industries, help the central and western regions reduce their dependence on heavy chemical industry and gradually optimize the economic structure.

2. Enhance the competitiveness of the city circle.

The relationship between transportation development and urbanization is complementary. The development of urbanization needs suitable modes of transportation; After a certain mode of transportation is formed, it will affect the scope and process of urbanization. Therefore, while constantly improving the construction of China's railway network, building high-speed railways in areas with high urbanization rate will meet the needs of further urbanization in these areas and will further promote the urbanization process in this area.

3. Set an example for "Made in China"

High-speed rail is one of the typical representatives of high-end manufacturing in China. Its development path, experience and lessons will play a good reference and demonstration role for the transformation and upgrading of other manufacturing industries. Moreover, with the development of high-speed rail and going abroad, its technical level and production technology will continue to rise, and the requirements for upstream and downstream related industries will become higher and higher, which is conducive to forcing other industries to accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading.

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Basic characteristics of high-speed rail

1, the high-speed rail is very smooth, ensuring the safety and comfort of driving. The high-speed railway is a seamless rail, and the high-speed railway with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour adopts a ballastless track, that is, a monolithic ballast bed without stones, to ensure smoothness.

2. The turnouts of high-speed railway are movable high-speed turnouts with few bends and large radius.

3. Elevated bridges and tunnels are widely used. So as to ensure ride comfort and shorten the distance.

4. The catenary of high-speed railway, that is, the suspension mode of the conductor at the top of the train is also different from that of ordinary railway to ensure the contact stability and durability of high-speed EMU.

5. The signal control system of high-speed railway is higher than that of ordinary railway because of its high departure density, high speed and high safety.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-high-speed railway

References:

China Economic Net-China Changed by High Speed Rail