China plans to link Us by train

Beijing to the US by train: China outlines
plans to connect world by high speed rail
network
Tunnel required would be four
times longer than channel tunnel, while a
high speed line to London and Berlin is
also reportedly in the works
Trains stand in Beijing railway station
preparing to set off on the world's longest
high-speed rail route which travels 1,425-
miles to Guangzhou in the south of the
country
By TOMAS JIVANDA
Friday 09 May 2014
China has outlined its plan to connect the
world by high-speed rail, including an
underwater link to the US running 13,000
km.
The ‘China to Russia plus the United
States’ line proposed by the Chinese
Academy of Engineering would start in
the north east of China, travel up through
Siberia, across the Bering Strait to Alaska
and down through Canada before
reaching the contiguous US, The Beijing
Times reports.
Other planned lines - construction of
which has already reportedly began in
China - are a link to London via Paris,
Berlin and Moscow, along with a second
route to Europe following the silk road to
reach as far as Germany via Iran and
Turkey. The international legs of the lines
are currently under negotiation, the state
ran paper said.
A fourth Pan-Asian line, connecting China
with Singapore via Vietnam, Cambodia,
Thailand and Malaysia, is reportedly
already under construction. Proposals for
lines running from China to Africa are
currently being drawn up, the paper
added.
The most structurally ambitious of the
proposals is the US-China link, which
would require around 200km of tunnels
to cross the gap between Russia and
Alaska - four times the length of the
Channel Tunnel. If completed it would
become the world’s longest underwater
tunnel and take an unprecedented feat of
engineering.
“Right now we're already in discussions.
Russia has already been thinking about
this for many years,”  Wang Meng-shu, a
railway expert from the Chinese Academy
of Engineering said. The train would
travel at 220mph with the entire trip
taking two days.
Reporting on the plans, the state owned
English language paper China Daily
claimed that China already has the
technology in place as it will be used to
connect the country to Taiwan by
underwater high-speed train requiring a
150km long tunnel. Details of this project
are also yet to be finalised however.
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