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

Passengers pose for a group photo inside a carriage of the G5766 bullet train running on the Chongqing West to Yibin East section of Chongqing-Kunming high-speed railway in southwest China, Sept. 29, 2024. The section connecting southwest China's Chongqing municipality and Sichuan's Yibin City began operation on the same day, with the fastest travel time between the two places being 48 minutes. 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. (Photo by Fei Sitong/Xinhua)