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Ten new high speed railway. A total investment of 948.5 billion yuan.
Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed railway
Section from Xiongan New Area to Shangqiu 552.5公里 and Jiujiang to Nanchang section
Shanghai-Chongqing-Rongjiang High-speed Railway 1955公里
Shangahi to Hefei section, Hefei to Wuhan section, Chongqing to Chengdu section (including Shiling South Station) 设计速度350km/h，大足石刻至简州段预留提速至400km/h条件. Up-gradable to 400km/h
Beijing-Shanghai Second Channel High-speed Railway
Tianjin to Weifang section (including Jinan to Binzhou railway) and Weifang to Suqian Section (including Qingdao to Wulian Railway)
Xiongan New Area to Xinzhou High Speed Railway
Ankang-Chongqing section of Xi'an-Chongqing high-speed railway (including Wanzhou connecting line) 477.9公里
Nantong to Ningbo High Speed Railway 300.954km
Xiangyang-Jingmen high-speed railway 116.5km
Harbin to Tieli Railway 188.057km
Yangzhen-Ningma Railway from Zhenjiang to Ma'anshan
High-speed railway from Pingdingshan to Luohe to Zhoukou
Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed railway
Section from Xiongan New Area to Shangqiu 552.5公里 and Jiujiang to Nanchang section
Shanghai-Chongqing-Rongjiang High-speed Railway 1955公里
Shangahi to Hefei section, Hefei to Wuhan section, Chongqing to Chengdu section (including Shiling South Station) 设计速度350km/h，大足石刻至简州段预留提速至400km/h条件. Up-gradable to 400km/h
Beijing-Shanghai Second Channel High-speed Railway
Tianjin to Weifang section (including Jinan to Binzhou railway) and Weifang to Suqian Section (including Qingdao to Wulian Railway)
Xiongan New Area to Xinzhou High Speed Railway
Ankang-Chongqing section of Xi'an-Chongqing high-speed railway (including Wanzhou connecting line) 477.9公里
Nantong to Ningbo High Speed Railway 300.954km
Xiangyang-Jingmen high-speed railway 116.5km
Harbin to Tieli Railway 188.057km
Yangzhen-Ningma Railway from Zhenjiang to Ma'anshan
High-speed railway from Pingdingshan to Luohe to Zhoukou
Shenzhen and the Great Bay Area of the Pearl River Delta have all ingredients to surpass the Bay Area of California. When I first arrives in Shenzhen, it was a new city of 190,000 residents. When I was leaving a few years later, it was 3-million growing city. Now I was told it has over 10 million. You add Hong Kong, Macau and adjacent cities and you get a megapolis that has both a financial center and a high-tech center. That is kind of economic prospects that the west is up against if it is actually going to mess with China.
I think what the Great Bay Area of Pearl River Delta is still lacking is the kind of research and learning institutions the US has in the Bay Area of California. Where is the Pearl River Delta's Berkeley, Stanford, etc? Where is its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory? Stanford Research Institute? Then you have to consider that the Bay Area of California started out based on military funded research labs and companies which made work for the military. Just try reading about Fairchild Semiconductor.
I think Shanghai has a lot more potential long term as a high tech hub. They have the universities, research institutes, and the large industry. Unless Shenzhen can capitalize on its success it might have trouble in the future. And Hong Kong and Macau cannot be expected to make major contributions towards this goal. Since one is basically a finance center, and the other a casino/resort.
I think Shanghai has a lot more potential long term as a high tech hub. They have the universities, research institutes, and the large industry. Unless Shenzhen can capitalize on its success it might have trouble in the future. And Hong Kong and Macau cannot be expected to make major contributions towards this goal. Since one is basically a finance center, and the other a casino/resort.
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That is a fair point. Certainly that area is not going to have anything close to Stanford or Berkley. But, Shenzhen is always an authentic immigrant city and a true melting pot. I graduated from a top Chinese University. Most of my friends and co-workers were coming from other provinces. Shenzhen University today may be a decent college, but back then it was nobody.
My point is that, given China migrant culture since the reform and opening-up, Shenzhen does not have to have its top-tier research Universities in order to compete with the Bay Area of California. The stories of Huawei and BYD and DJI would probably support my thesis.
One advantage that the Shenzhen area has over all its potential competitors is that it literally situates in the middle of the booming RCEP eco-system. As long as Shenzhen keeps its can-do spirit and immigrant culture, it will be unbeatable.
Also could read as a weird alternative future...
The 2080 hentai craze deeply and permanently altered the structure of Chinese society, however the international Chinese diaspora strived and succeeded in the continuation of the Chinese identity. Decades later, Patriots from across the 4 corners of the world could gather online and joke about the day when "all you could see was tentacles"...