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

An aerial drone photo taken on June 20, 2022 shows a bullet train running on the Zhengzhou-Chongqing high-speed railway in Dongjin new area of Xiangyang City, central China's Hubei Province. The Zhengzhou-Chongqing 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. (Photo by Yang Dong/Xinhua)