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

A Fuxing train runs on the Beijing-Harbin high-speed railway in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 22, 2021. The Beijing-Harbin high-speed railway opened to traffic on the same day. 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/Yang Qing)