Current Network
China maintains about twenty principal domestic railway routes with a total length of 91,000 km by the end of 2011. As of 2011:
- Total: 91,000 km (network length). The total track length is 154,600 km (2007).
- Electrified: 42,000 km or 46.6%
- Double track: 37,000 km or 41.1% (not included in total)
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