China — Concept Stage

China — a network to the MMC standard.

21 corridors linking 58 cities, about 21,300 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 25,500 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 10 cross-border links and crossings. The corridors follow China’s main high-speed lines, from Harbin to Hong Kong, from Shanghai to Ürümqi, and from Beijing through Hohhot and Hami to Ürümqi, with links to Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Kazakhstan, and by sea crossing to Taiwan and, under the Khunjerab Pass, Pakistan. China’s full high-speed network exceeds 50,000 km; the corridors listed here are its trunk lines.

The Network Concept

The corridors.

Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.

Schematic map of an MMC network concept for China: corridors, cross-border links, sea crossings, mountain tunnels and the spines. — MMC China network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.

Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.

CN-1 Beijing–Shanghai: Beijing – Tianjin – Jinan – Xuzhou – Nanjing – Shanghai
CN-2 Beijing–Hong Kong: Beijing – Shijiazhuang – Zhengzhou – Wuhan – Changsha – Guangzhou – Shenzhen – Hong Kong
CN-3 Harbin–Beijing: Harbin – Changchun – Shenyang – Beijing
CN-4 Coastal: Shanghai – Hangzhou – Ningbo – Wenzhou – Fuzhou – Xiamen – Shenzhen
CN-5 Yangtze: Nanjing – Hefei – Wuhan – Yichang – Chongqing – Chengdu
CN-6 Eurasian: Xuzhou – Zhengzhou – Xi'an – Lanzhou – Xining – Zhangye – Jiayuguan – Hami – Turpan – Ürümqi
CN-7 Xi'an–Chengdu: Xi'an – Chengdu
CN-8 Chengdu–Kunming: Chengdu – Guiyang – Kunming
CN-9 Kunming–Guangzhou: Kunming – Nanning – Guangzhou
CN-10 Qingdao–Taiyuan: Qingdao – Jinan – Shijiazhuang – Taiyuan
CN-11 Mongolia line: Erenhot – Ulanqab – Zhangjiakou – Beijing
CN-12 Dandong: Dandong – Shenyang
CN-13 Suifenhe: Suifenhe – Mudanjiang – Harbin
CN-14 Kunming–Mohan: Kunming – Mohan
CN-15 Shanghai–Kunming: Hangzhou – Nanchang – Changsha – Guiyang
CN-16 Pingtan: Fuzhou – Pingtan
CN-17 Ürümqi–Horgos: Ürümqi – Horgos
CN-18 Kunming–Ruili: Kunming – Dali – Ruili
CN-19 Ürümqi–Kashgar: Ürümqi – Turpan – Korla – Aksu – Kashgar – Tashkurgan
CN-20 Linhe–Hami: Hohhot – Baotou – Linhe – Ejin – Hami
CN-21 Hohhot–Ulanqab: Hohhot – Ulanqab

China — a network to the MMC standard.

The corridors.

To initiate the programme in China.