“We are struggling for …”: A Virus Post is highlighted. China connects cities at an altitude

In 1969, India proudly launched Rajdhani Express, to become only the second countries in Asia after Japan to operate trains more than 100 km per hour. After more than five decades, the gap in the railway infrastructure between India and China tells a completely different story.

While China has advanced forward with a high -speed high -end railway network built quickly, India still lay the foundation for the first real high -speed corridor. The contrast confirms deeper differences in how to plan the two countries, define priorities and implement development in the context of their political and societal structures.

By highlighting this blatant contrast, Annath Robanagwoodi, ICF’s financial advisor, noticed in a Twitter (formerly), “madness with the same fate that when we ran for the first time in Rajdhani in 1969, we were the second country in Asia after we developed first -class lines on one line.

The post hit a tendon online, and draw the gestures of the agreement.

One of the users wrote: “India is located decades from China and compared to the pace of our infrastructure implementation is a lost exercise.”

Another added, “One of the reasons is unstable governments and its priority was not easy to transport. At least until 2014, they only presented new stops, additional trains or explicit names. Even DFC was not complete. The Konkan railway was built only after NDA came.”

In the ways to the complexity of the social fabric in India, a user noticed, “China should deal with the Chinese people and work. India must deal with people from different countries, classes, doctrines, etc.”.

Some dark expectations for the country’s infrastructure aspirations. “The harsh truth is … we will never be able to build a long -speed rail network … 45,000 km of high -speed railways close to the impossible … it cannot be built in 100 years from now … the period!” One books.

Another reflects on the backward view of the nation: “The thing is that India is stuck in the past. We are only talking about the past. We do nothing new to change according to time. For this reason we continue to repeat the past and feel satisfied with that.”

China, which has now become the most populated country in the world, also leads to the innovation of railways. The high -speed rail network extends to at least 37,900 km (about 23,500 miles), all of which have been designed since 2008. Half of that online appeared in the past five years only. Another 3700 km was opened in 2021, with plans to extend the network to 70,000 km by 2035.

By 2020, 75 % of Chinese cities with a population of more than 500,000 high-speed railways-an achievement highlighting the scale and speed in the infrastructure game in China.