Tag: Urumqi (China)*
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HSR in China (2020)
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M091 Creator: Monica Yile Hu ’21 Mathematics The 2010s is a golden era for China’s high-speed rail development. The mileage of high-speed rail has exceeded 35,000 kilometers. Two maps show the rapid development of high-speed rail in the past decade. In 2020, the High-Speed Rail has reached north to Harbin, South to…
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The Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M078 Creator: Joseph Pham ’20 History At the start of the 1900s, there was a scramble to build railroads in imperial China by the major European powers to earn money, gain provisional control, and extract riches. The Xinjiang region has been in a constant battle for control by the Soviets and the…