China's high-speed railway length to top 30,000 km in 2019

A running CRH (China Railway High Speed) train traverses the Xiamen Cross-Sea Super Bridge in its inaugural traffic of the 274.9km-long Fuzhou-Xiamen High Speed Railway, opening to public traffic on schedule, in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, April 26, 2010. China plans to build 3,200 km of new high-speed railways in 2019, with the total length expected to exceed 30,000 km, Lu Dongfu, general manager of the China Railway (CR), told a work conference Wednesday. (Xinhua/Hu Guolin)