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China has outlined its plan to connect the world by high-speed

rail, including an underwater link to the US running a total

13,000km.

The ‘China to Russia plus the United States’ line proposed by the

Chinese Academy of Engineering would start in the north east of

China, travel up through Siberia, across the Bering Strait to

Alaska and down through Canada before reaching the contiguous

US, The Beijing Times reports.

Other planned lines - construction of which has reportedly began

in China - are a link to London via Paris, Berlin and Moscow,

along with a second route to Europe following the silk road to

reach as far as Germany via Iran and Turkey. The international

legs of the lines are currently under negotiation, the state ran

paper said.

A fourth Pan-Asian line, connecting China with Singapore via

Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia, is already under

Beijing to the US by train: China outlines plansto connect world by high speed rail network

Tunnel required would be four times longer than channel tunnel, while a high

speed line to London and Berlin is also reportedly in the works

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construction. Proposals for lines running from China to Africa

are currently being drawn up, the paper added.

The most structurally ambitious of the proposals is the US-China

link, which would require around 200km of tunnels to cross the

gap between Russia and Alaska - four times the length of the

Channel Tunnel. If completed it would become the world’s

longest underwater tunnel and take an unprecedented feat of

engineering.

“Right now we're already in discussions. Russia has already been

thinking about this for many years,” Wang Meng-shu, a railway

expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering said. The train

would travel at 220mph with the entire trip taking two days.

Reporting on the plans, the state owned English language paper

China Daily claimed that China already has the technology in

place as it will be used to connect the country to Taiwan by

underwater high-speed train requiring a 150km long tunnel.

Details of this project are also yet to be finalised however.

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