China's high-speed rail mileage tops 50,000 km

An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023 shows a bullet train running on the Yinpohe Bridge along the Guiyang-Nanning high-speed railway in Dushan County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. China, home to the world's largest high-speed rail network, has expanded its total operational mileage beyond 50,000 kilometers with the launch of a new high-speed line.

A "Fuxing" bullet train departed Friday morning from Yan'an, a sacred revolutionary heartland in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, for the provincial capital Xi'an, inaugurating the new route. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)