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they built what
you are not going to believe what we're
going to deliver in today's video and
what china is going to deliver this is
truly remarkable this is one of the most
amazing rail links you will ever see and
yes they did it they pulled it off and
spent billions of dollars doing it
that's right they put a high speed rail
link through the three gorge area which
can handle trains going at speeds of
350 kilometers an hour that's right
blasting through mountain ranges you
name it we're about to show it to you
right now
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this is a mega city of over 30 million
people go down in history as one of the
most amazing rail lines on earth i give
you the
chongqing high-speed railway let me
explain why this miracle infrastructure
was designed
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i'm going to start by telling you a
little story of how we got to this part
in history
i'm standing here in front of the
chongqing north railway station line
this is a green train this is how people
used to travel i actually took this
green train from this very station
now
for all of you
it went really well and it was
an amazing expedition an amazing time to
travel now these trains only do about
120 kilometers an hour
just 15 years ago this was the standard
way of how to take a train here but now
things have drastically changed
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if you're not aware but by the end of
2021 china had more than 40 000
kilometers of high-speed rail hsr we
call it now they have the longest hsr
network in the world so as china has
proven in the past it won't let the most
complex terrain get in its way it's
moved mountains and built more bridges
in some cities in your own country just
to improve the speed of these rail lines
can you imagine traveling through the
gorge mountain range at a record speed
of 350 kilometers an hour well we're
going to show that to you today
the zhengzhou chongqing high-speed
railway starts in zhengzhou city in the
henan province it connects existing
chongqing wangju railway and ends at
chongqing city the total length is
818 kilometers it's an essential part of
china's eight vertical and eight
horizontal high speed railway network
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so in the past it took about 20 hours to
travel from chongqing to beijing by
ordinary train
and by high-speed rail it took about 10
hours
now with the new line between zhengzhou
and wanzhou
it's been reduced to just seven hours
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the save time is derived from a new line
that is totally different from the past
the newly built section of this railway
in chongqing goes through wushan county
feng ji county yuen county and wanzhou
district namely the three gorge
reservoir area
now the topography of the three gorge
reservoir area is complex and changeable
as well as in engineering geological
conditions this makes it extremely
difficult the construction of this line
is full of challenges
cities in the three gorge reservoir area
thrive on water and abundance of
precipitation which has created a series
of large rivers the first challenge of
the high-speed rail is
to cross them with several types of
designs the chongqing section of the
zhenjo
high-speed railway has 32 bridges with a
total length of 10 kilometers
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to reach the mountain cities the
high-speed railway needs to pass through
ushan chibushan and other huge mountains
so
27.5 tunnels with a total length of
169.7 kilometers have been dug
accounting for 92.3 percent of the
railway which is named the high-speed
railway
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the proportion of bridges and tunnels in
chongqing section of the zhenju wongshu
high speed rail line is 98
currently the highest in china however
in addition to the bridges and tunnels
they also face another challenge which
is the ecological and environmental
protection
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foreign
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a big thanks to all the engineers that
made this railway line possible
wow and imagine the effort that was put
into this it's really changed the lives
of a lot of people in this region it's
made trains faster it made logistical
lines faster and it's also saved time
and money for people moving forward the
opening of the high-speed railway will
also profoundly impact the regional
economy and the industrial adjustment in
chongqing a mountain city located at the
node of the yangtze river economic belt
and the belton road initiative it's
departure time let's hit the rails
wow wasn't that amazing i want to thank
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right this was an amazing day here
talking to you all about the china
railway link
between zhengzhou and wanzhou area
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