An American Took Beijing-Tianjin High-Speed Train

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Charles Lane, China’s Train Wreck. Washington Post, Apr 23, 2011 (opinion).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-train-wreck/2011/04/21/AFqjRWRE_story_1.html

My comment:
(a) The first two thirds of this article talks about things we already know. Please read from paragraph 3 of web page 2 that starts with "Word went forth."
(b) The report cites
Stephen Chen, 'Judgment Day' Fears for High-Speed Rail Tracks. South China Morning Post, Jan 10, 2011
http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-news-watch/article/Judgment-day-fears-for-high-speed-rail-tracks
("mainland could produce enough high-quality fly ash for the construction of 100 kilometres of high-speed railway tracks a year. But more than 1,500 kilometres of track have been laid annually for the past five years")

Note:
(i) fly ash 粉煤灰/飛灰
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash
(fine particles that rise with the flue gases. Ash which does not rise is termed bottom ash; often used to supplement Portland cement in concrete production)

* Portland cement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement
(the most common type of cement in general use around the world; developed from natural cements made in Britain, and its name is derived from its similarity to Portland stone, a type of building stone that was quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England; patented in 1824)

(ii) First Survey and Design Institute of China Railways
中铁第一勘察设计院集团有限公司 (铁一院 for short; 西安市)
www.fsdi.com.cn/
(iii) WANG Lan/Cement and New Building Materials Research Institute under the China Building Materials Academy
汪澜/中国建筑材料科学研究院  水泥科学与新型建筑材料研究所
(iv) The report said concrete blended with high-quality fly ash "can give the tracks' concrete base a lifespan of 100 years," whereas that blended with poor-quality fly ash "would mean China's high-speed rail tracks would last only 50 years."
(v) ZHU Ming/ Southwest Jiaotoing University  朱明/ 西南交通大学 (成都市)

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(1) Keith B Richburg, Are China’s high-speed trains heading off the rails?  Washinton Post, Apr
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/are-chinas-high-speed-trains-heading-off-the-rails/2011/04/22/AFHzaNWE_story.html

Quote:

"The Finance Ministry said last week that the Railways Ministry continued to lose money in the first quarter of this year. The ministry’s debt stands at $276 billion, almost all borrowed from Chinese banks.

"During February’s annual migration, officials noticed that the high-speed trains were largely empty. But the slow trains on those lines have been taken out of use, giving people few choices. As a result, the highways were clogged and more people rode long-distance buses.

(2) 高铁建设应该何去何从. 财新网 《新世纪》周刊, Mar 30, 2011.
http://magazine.caing.com/2011/cwcs443/index.html

Note: A pirated copy:
http://biz.cn.yahoo.com/ypen/20110401/288311.html


【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: Charles Lane, China’s Train Wreck. Washington Post, Apr 23, 2011 (opinion).
: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-train-wreck/2011/04/21/AFqjRWRE_story_1.html
: My comment:
: (a) The first two thirds of this article talks about things we already know. Please read from paragr
: (以下引言省略...)

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