(RailwayAlbum) CHINA-HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY-TOTAL OPERATIONAL MILEAGE-50,000 KM (CN)

(251226) -- BEIJING, Dec. 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 19, 2023 shows a test train running on the Meizhou Bay cross-sea bridge along the Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou high-speed railway in southeast China's Fujian Province. China, home to the world's largest high-speed rail network, has expanded its total operational mileage beyond 50,000 kilometers with the launch of a new high-speed line.

A "Fuxing" bullet train departed Friday morning from Yan'an, a sacred revolutionary heartland in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, for the provincial capital Xi'an, inaugurating the new route. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)

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