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The network is massive and the average and top speeds are very fast.

China has more high speed rail than the rest of the world combined.

China's land area is approximately 25 times of Japan, def has a bigger network. But the top speed is comparable in current generations[1] except the Maglev.

1. https://www.railway-technology.com/features/the-10-fastest-h...

Comparable and essentially identical for sure, but 30 km/hr slower is slower.

Compared to their size, Spain and Japan have a largest high speed network than China.

And tickets, specially in Spain, are very cheap.

I would think that the vast amount of central/Western land in China that is sparsely populated might skew this statistic quite a bit, where Spain and Japan don't have that at the same scale.

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