China's high-speed railway length to top 30,000 km in 2019

A bullet train runs in the suburbs of Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Dec. 25, 2015. China plans to build 3,200 km of new high-speed railways in 2019, with the total length expected to exceed 30,000 km, Lu Dongfu, general manager of the China Railway (CR), told a work conference Wednesday. (Xinhua/Zhang Chunxiang)