Top 10 Fascinating Facts About China’s High Speed Trains

Check out our New Biography Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics Starting in the early years of the 21st Century, China began to build high speed track. And build. And build. Fast forward at near hyperspeed to 2017, and the country is a vast network of bullet trains hurtling millions of passengers over distances we’d usually consider “impossible.” While Japan may have started the locomotive speed boom in Asia, it’s China that has made it its own. And, as China tends to do, they’ve also made it bigger, crazier and more fascinating than anybody else. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Help us translate our videos: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_queue?msg=10&tab=0 - Learn more why you might want to help: http://ift.tt/1l7FnjV Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: http://ift.tt/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 TRANSPORTATION DISASTERS (That Were Barely Averted) https://youtu.be/dL8hYQH2Ra4?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKUFXyekxgY1xuFObYL-Icg Top 10 Amazing Vehicles of the Future https://youtu.be/4llHST2NQQs?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnL-cPEY5RatLLt_FtJKFkNC Text version: http://ift.tt/2wVgxLc Coming up: 10. It’s Really, Really Fast 9. It’s Ridiculously Cheap 8. It’s Absurdly Popular 7. China has More High Speed Track than the Rest of the World Combined 6. The Difference from Before is Insane 5. The Railways Ministry has Got Involved in Some Crazy Projects 4. The Guy Behind China’s Bullet Train Got Purged, Hard 3. There Have Been Terrifying Crashes 2. Most of the Network is Operating at a Crippling Loss 1. It Wouldn’t Work Anywhere Else in the World Source/Further reading: http://ift.tt/1Tp5xwG http://ift.tt/2AwB1v0 http://ift.tt/2qedfC4 http://ift.tt/2vvYmKD http://ift.tt/2i4IiLK http://ift.tt/2a0X804 http://ift.tt/2i4xahS http://ift.tt/vssRZy http://ift.tt/2i5yHnT http://ift.tt/2i4IiLK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNNk6yr0y2w http://ift.tt/1fnSp2t http://ift.tt/2i5Rb7D http://ift.tt/2AwB222 http://ift.tt/2i5RrDQ http://ift.tt/2AwB2PA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnoJdc_Gj-U http://ift.tt/2i5RbEF http://ift.tt/2AwB3mC http://ift.tt/2i5RcbH