China opened four new high-speed rail lines on Sept. 28, ahead of the National Day holiday, the country’s Belt and Road Portal reported. The 552-km Xiong’an-Shangqiu line links the new city of Xiong’an, south of Beijing, to Henan Province in under two and a half hours. In the northwest, the Xi’an-Ankang line (171 km, 350 km/h) runs in 45 minutes. In central China, the 101 km Yichang-Xingshan line runs at 350 km/h. In the northeast, the 318-km Harbin-Yichun line, China’s northernmost high-speed railway, built to run at minus 40 degrees, cuts the trip from about seven hours to two. China had more than 50,000 km of high-speed rail at the end of 2025, and plans 70,000 km by 2035.