Anyone who has ever whiled away a few hours in a Chinese traffic jam can attest to the country’s need to invest in trains. Due to a simple lack of capacity, China’s rail passenger volumes grew at a compound annual rate of just more than 5 per cent between 2001 and 2010. That is well below real gross domestic product, at 11 per cent, and nowhere near air passenger volumes, at 15 per cent.
任何人如果曾在中國的交通擁堵中苦等幾小時,都會支持中國需要投資建設鐵路的說法。由于缺乏運能,中國鐵路乘客人數在2001年至2010年期間的復合年增長率只有5%多一點。這遠低于實際國內生產總值的增速(11%)和航空乘客人數的增速(15%)。
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