Transport / Rail
Chinese High Speed Rail

Why China Is so Good at Building Railways

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Peter Burgess

Why China Is so Good at Building Railways 2,597,925 views Wendover Productions Published on Nov 13, 2018 Build your website for 10% off at http://Squarespace.com/Wendover Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): https://www.youtube.com/halfasinteres... Get the Wendover Productions t-shirt: https://standard.tv/collections/wendo... Check out my personal channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDA1... Support Wendover Productions on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wendoverprodu... Youtube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProduc... Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Email: sam@wendover.productions Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions References: [1] https://www.economist.com/china/2017/... [2] https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/kn... [3] http://documents.worldbank.org/curate... [4] https://www.oag.com/on-time-performan... [5] https://www.export.gov/article?id=Chi... [6] https://translate.google.com.au/trans... [7] https://www.ft.com/content/ca28f58a-9... [8] http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/busi... [9] https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/b... [10] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... [11] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018... [12] https://www.economist.com/china/2017/... Animation by Josh Sherrington Sound by Graham Haerther (http://www.Haerther.net) Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster Special thanks to Patreon supporters Alec Watson, Andrew J Thom, Braam Snyman, Bryan Yip, Chris Allen, Chris Barker, Connor J Smith, Daddy Donald, Etienne Dechamps, Eyal Matsliah, Hank Green, Harry Hendel, James Hughes, James McIntosh, John & Becki, Johnston, Keith Bopp, Kelly J Knight, Ken Lee, KyQuan, Phong, manoj kasyap govindaraju, Plinio Correa, Qui Le, Robin Pulkkinen, Sheldon Zhao, Simen Nerleir, Tim Robinson China airspace time-lapse courtesy FlightRadar24.com Air China 747 landing shot courtesy ZurichAirportSpotter China Eastern 737 takeoff shot courtesy PDX Aviation Tibet railway shots courtesy Steven Chen and PK Long Music by http://epidemicsound.com Select footage courtesy the AP Archive Category Education 13,984 Commen