Setting things up
Max Xiong

China

Map is Public
created 5 weeks ago
updated 3 days ago
Railways and Rapid Transit Systems of China As with a lot of my maps, this is a skeletal map, meaning that the focus is on the stations rather than the routing between stations, stations are not named, and no custom grading is selected. The HSR network of China is officially planned around 16 trunk corridors, but following the categorization at china-emu.cn, some of these corridors are extended, and several extra corridors are introduced. The line types are usually set to HSR. However, 200/250 speed lines may be set to medium speed instead when they parallel a 350 line. Officially, the station names in English are transliterations. However, I have chosen to translate non-placenames here instead (Notably, N S E W). Stations that serve a city without identifying the city's name (eg. some airport stations) may have the city name added in English. Note that the station without the directional indicator is not necessarily the main station serving a city. My priority is naming hub stations rather than every single station. The trunk corridors are as follows: 沿海 (Coastal) The line type used for metro and suburban systems are a bit flexible. Metro lines that run at 100 or faster may be set to commuter. Suburban routes are generally set to commuter, although those that run on mainline rail may be changed to medium speed in the future. Cities are grouped together by their regions, whose codes are partially based on the Chinese expressway system codes: 91 - Northeast 92 - Yangtze River Delta (Shanghai Area) 93 - Chengdu-Chongqing 94 - Pearl River Delta (Guangzhou/Shenzhen/Hong Kong Area) 95 - Capital Region 96 - Central China 97 - East 98 - Southwest (including Hainan) 99 - Southeast No prefix - Northwest The postfix indicates how much of the system is on the map. Built means operating lines. UC includes under construction lines. Planned includes planned lines. It is more flexible than a hard rule - "built" usually includes infills. The small prefixes are simply work-in-progress Thanks to the following notable information sources: OSM and Wikipedia Bilibili user Metro地铁世界 (for metro plans) china-emu.cn (for HSR information) Weibo user 深海中的氧气 (for conventional & HSR diagram, which identifies which stations on conventional lines serve passengers) Weibo user 8纵8横， CR400AF-Z-2253 and 陶岸君III (for HSR diagrams) hkrail.fandom.com (for Hong Kong MTR plans)
Branch History
  1. MetroDreamin' by Max Xiong
  2. Built from scratch

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Score
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Ridership
28.2B
Cost
$ 1.36T
Stations
5,389
Lines
281
Modes
7
Length
30,947 km
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updated at 2025-08-02T00:52:18.052Z
Railways and Rapid Transit Systems of China As with a lot of my maps, this is a skeletal map, meaning that the focus is on the stations rather than the routing between stations, stations are not named, and no custom grading is selected. The HSR network of China is officially planned around 16 trunk corridors, but following the categorization at china-emu.cn, some of these corridors are extended, and several extra corridors are introduced. The line types are usually set to HSR. However, 200/250 speed lines may be set to medium speed instead when they parallel a 350 line. Officially, the station names in English are transliterations. However, I have chosen to translate non-placenames here instead (Notably, N S E W). Stations that serve a city without identifying the city's name (eg. some airport stations) may have the city name added in English. Note that the station without the directional indicator is not necessarily the main station serving a city. My priority is naming hub stations rather than every single station. The trunk corridors are as follows: 沿海 (Coastal) The line type used for metro and suburban systems are a bit flexible. Metro lines that run at 100 or faster may be set to commuter. Suburban routes are generally set to commuter, although those that run on mainline rail may be changed to medium speed in the future. Cities are grouped together by their regions, whose codes are partially based on the Chinese expressway system codes: 91 - Northeast 92 - Yangtze River Delta (Shanghai Area) 93 - Chengdu-Chongqing 94 - Pearl River Delta (Guangzhou/Shenzhen/Hong Kong Area) 95 - Capital Region 96 - Central China 97 - East 98 - Southwest (including Hainan) 99 - Southeast No prefix - Northwest The postfix indicates how much of the system is on the map. Built means operating lines. UC includes under construction lines. Planned includes planned lines. It is more flexible than a hard rule - "built" usually includes infills. The small prefixes are simply work-in-progress Thanks to the following notable information sources: OSM and Wikipedia Bilibili user Metro地铁世界 (for metro plans) china-emu.cn (for HSR information) Weibo user 深海中的氧气 (for conventional & HSR diagram, which identifies which stations on conventional lines serve passengers) Weibo user 8纵8横， CR400AF-Z-2253 and 陶岸君III (for HSR diagrams) hkrail.fandom.com (for Hong Kong MTR plans)
Map type: regional | Total track length: 19230 miles | Center coordinate: 30.8157, 115.7026 |
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