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Beijing Dreams of High-Speed Railway Link With Rivals in Taipei.?

The dreams will come true in the near future  before 2030  OR 2035 ASAP?

.Study plan for transit link given brief mention in 5-year plan.

• Challenges of Fuzhou-Taipei link both political and technical.

China President Xi Jinpi ng wants to build a 110 mile tunnel and high speed rail to Taiwan by 2030.? Beijing’s inclusion of cross-strait high-speed rail network in its new five-year plan reflects President Xi Jinping’s long-term strategy on Taiwan, analysts said ­on Sunday.

The 126km line from Pingtan – a pilot free-trade zone area set up by Beijing in Fujian province in 2013 to boost trade with Taiwan – to Taipei would be the world’s longest rail tunnel if the proposal is realized.

According to the 13th five-year plan from 2016 to 2020, the project is scheduled to be completed in 2030.

“The Pingtan-Taipei section is part of the Beijing-Taipei high-speed rail line that has been studied for more than a decade. The mainland part has been completed while the Taiwan part is awaiting Taiwan’s approval,” Pingtan Experimental Development Zone head Zhang Zhaomin said at a National People’s Congress panel discussion yesterday.

“There is no technical barrier to the cross-strait rail line. We have gathered advice from experts cross the Taiwan Strait and they have done research and met every year over the past decade.”

The project is controversial in Taiwan but Taipei-based political commentator Wang Shing-ching said the island could be won over if the mainland could convince the public it could be built.

“In Taiwan, the public has focused on the technical issues so far, but people with a long-term strategic view of cross-strait ties could be convinced [of its value],” Wang said. “The project indicates the mainland is confident that [pro-independence] Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen will not clearly deny the ‘1992 consensus’ on her inauguration speech on May 20 to become Taiwan’s president.”

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計劃趕不上便化實屬正常化,但願京台高速公路鐵路(福建省平潭導至台灣省新竹縣)早日動工興建,如期竣工通車,無論是2030.年竣工通車亦或是2035.年竣工通車,反正都是通車,1950-2030-2035.這樣一來可以堵住悠悠之口,包括美國,西方國家及搞台灣獨立的個人與團體,甚至於親日份子,無聊式的嘴泡中國威脅論.

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國際戰略觀察家分析認為,台灣海峽興建施工興建海底隧道專案工程技術,對於中國工程師而言就是小菜一碟,中國工程界早已擁有海底隧道工程技術,而且某些施工項目技術及施工機械TBM(隧道攅掘機),早已改進並領先美國,歐洲及日本等國家,所以說重點不在於工程技術,而是敏感性的政治議題,何時台灣省接受和平統一與一國兩制,台灣海峽的海底隧道就動工興建,當然不排除中國以武力攻下台灣省的隔年,海峽兩岸隨即動工,因為屆時美國太平洋第一島鏈的防禦戰略及計劃,完全失效,美國必須重新調整佈署,西太平的戰略計劃對抗中國,所以讀者們耐心等待,台灣海峽的海底隧道通車之日定會實現,屆時台灣的工程師與人民將會親眼見證,CHINA TBM.的施工機械設備出現24小時的施工..

Chinas largest homemade slurry tunnel boring machine rolls off production line..

China’s largest homemade tunnel boring machine rolls off production line.

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....CHINA HSR PROJECT SO GREAT..

China late last month announced plans to build a highway connecting Taiwan with the communist country by 2035, drawing mockery from Taiwanese politicians and netizens.

On Feb. 24, Chinas State Council released its "Guidelines on the National Comprehensive Transportation Network Plan," which set construction goals for transportation links from 2021 to 2035 ultimately covering 700,000 kilometers. Much to the amusement of Taiwanese, this includes a "road" that connects Fuzhou in Chinas Fujian Province to Taipei.

The new transportation network would include six axes, seven corridors, and eight thoroughfares, with a major axis running from Beijing to Tianjin, Hebei, Anhui, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, and ultimately to Taipei. The axis is to be a major highway and apparently would connect with Taipei via an underground tunnel beneath the Taiwan Strait. This would supposedly enable motorists to drive from Beijing to Taipei within 10 hours..

Analysis: China firms up plan for 2035 road and railway to Taiwan

Audacious blueprint hints at Xi Jinpings determination to change status quo ?

as China convenes its most important political gathering of the year, the annual session of the National Peoples Congress, all eyes will be on the discussion of the unusually long-term plan that is set to be approved. It will guide the country all the way up to 2035.

The goals President Xi Jinping sets for the upcoming 15-year period should offer clues as to how long he intends to stay in power.

From that standpoint, an eye-popping project related to Taiwan has surfaced as part of the 2035 plan: a high-speed railway and expressway linking Beijing and Taipei.

The National Comprehensive Transportation Network Plan, jointly released by the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government, clearly shows the transport network reaching across the Taiwan Strait all the way to Taipei.

When Transport Minister Li Xiaopeng appeared at a news conference on Monday to talk about the outline, he had with him a map of the high-speed railway and other networks planned to be completed during the next 15 years. One greenish line stretched over to Taiwan. 

The idea of building a tunnel under the Taiwan Strait has been mentioned in the past. But it never went any further than words on paper as nobody had the political capital to see through such a grandiose and costly project.

What differs this time is that China has a strong leader with a considerable power base. Its inclusion in the ultralong-term plan to 2035 -- synonymous with Xis game plan to stay in office beyond the customary 10 years --  has sent shock waves across both sides of the strait.On the mainland, reaction on social media ranged from chest-thumping positive -- "2035 will come soon; we are very serious" -- to questions such as, "Will it really come true in 15 years?"

In Taiwan, the reaction was overwhelmingly negative. "Its just a pipe dream," netizens said.

That neither side is on the same wavelength surprises no one, especially since cross-strait dialogue has long been cut off. In January 2020, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party secured a second term by winning a resounding victory in the presidential election over her rival candidate from the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party.

In stark contrast to China, Taiwan won international praise for its initial response to the coronavirus outbreak. This, coupled with the Taiwanese economy humming along, has allowed Tsai to enjoy relatively high public approval ratings.Chinas stance is to reject dialogue with Taiwan unless the Tsai administration acknowledges there is but "one China."Yet with Tsai set to stay in office until 2024, the reality is that Beijing has few cards to play. China and Taiwan appear to be locked in a stalemate.

Thus the Beijing-Taipei transport network project.If the project is put into action, what would the path forward look like? With Taiwan in denial, it is hard to imagine an amicable groundbreaking ceremony taking place, which leads one to speculate, "If China is serious about completing the project in 15 years, does it envision forcing its way onto the island?" 

The whole purpose of floating plans for a road to Taipei may very well have been to put the Taiwanese on their toes and make them contemplate some horrific thoughts. This would be a shrewd psychological tactic.The amount of promotion on social media by government-affiliated media outlets about the project hints at such a campaign. 

If Xi remains as Chinas top leader after the partys national congress next year and has an eye on eventually extending his reign until around 2035, reunifying Taiwan with mainland China would probably emerge as a specific agenda item.In November 2015, a historic meeting of top leaders from China and Taiwan was held in Singapore. Xi and then Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang shook hands for a full 80 seconds.

It was the first meeting between the top leaders of China and Taiwan since they split in 1949 following the civil war between communists and nationalists. It also sparked speculation that Xi might aim for an extended reign under the banner of reunifying Taiwan.Such a reunification is essential if "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" -- a political slogan that has been highlighted since the Xi era began -- is to be realized.

The starting point of a cross-strait transport link would be Pingtan Island, in Fuzhou, the capital city of Fujian Province. From there, Hsinchu, in the northwest of Taiwan, is about 130 km away.

China in the past has said that connecting Pingtan Island and Hsinchu via an undersea tunnel is technically viable.Xi has strong feelings about the jumping-off point to Taiwan. He spent 17 years in Fujian, before leaving for Zhejiang Province in 2002. During his final days in the southeastern province, he lived in Fuzhou as provincial governor.

Around that time, he "occasionally visited the shores of Pingtan Island," a senior local official said. "It seems to have been his favorite place."After the Xi era began, a national project was launched on Pingtan Island, with an eye on its joint development with Taiwan. Work on a bridge, port and other infrastructure progressed at a rapid pace.

On the mainland side, Pingtan Island was linked to Fuzhou via a high-speed railway. A special district was also established to attract Taiwanese companies.As the island modernizes, it is completely transforming from what it was in the 1990s.

Pingtan Island has also been the front lines for some military saber-rattling between China and Taiwan. In March 1996, with cross-strait tensions high, China carried out an integrated military exercise involving its army, navy and air force there.

The situation grew tenser when the U.S. Navy dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to waters near Taiwan.as the Beijing-Taipei transport network was being announced, China imposed an import ban on Taiwanese pineapples, blaming the detection of pests.

Chinas ban no doubt will deal a severe blow to Taiwanese pineapple farmers, who send the bulk of their crop to mainland China.Chinas surprise move could lead to a reversal of the countrys policy to aggressively purchase Taiwanese agricultural products, which has continued since the era of former President Hu Jintao, Xis predecessor.In the U.S., the administration of President Joe Biden is maintaining close ties with Taiwan, in line with the previous administration.

Perhaps Bidens taking the Taiwan baton from former President Donald Trump and running with it explains why Beijing has decided to further squeeze Taiwans economy and talk up what amounts to a security concern for the island.

The transport link and pineapples might prove to be bellwethers ahead of the National Peoples Congress, when China begins to unveil the details of that unusually long-term plan..

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China to Expand High-Speed Rail Network to 50,000 Kilometers by 2025.

China to Expand High-Speed Rail Network to 50,000 Kilometers by 2025.

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The Beijing–Taipei high-speed rail corridor (simplified Chinese: 京台高速铁路; traditional Chinese: 京台高速鐵路; pinyin: Jīngtái Gāosù Tiělù) (also known as Beijing–Fuzhou high-speed railway  traditional Chinese: 京福高速鐵路; pinyin: Jīngfú Gāosù Tiělù) due to the political status of Taiwan), is a partly completed high-speed railway corridor, connecting Beijing and Taipei, in Taiwan....

.China’s planned high speed rail in 2030,The proposal for a transit link across the 180-kilometer (110-mile) Taiwan Strait to the self-ruled island was referred to only in passing in the draft of the 2016-20 development plan released Saturday in Beijing. The document mentions the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, as a potential rail destination by 2030 and features a map of the train system, with a proposed rail line connecting the city with the mainland city of Fuzhou.

The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is 75 m (250 ft) deep. At 37.9 kilometres (23.5 mi), the tunnel has the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer overall at 53.85 kilometres (33.46 mi) and deeper at 240 metres (790 ft) below sea level.

The Taiwan Strait Tunnel Project is a proposed undersea tunnel to connect Pingtan in China to Hsinchu in Taiwan as part of the G3 Beijing–Taipei Expressway. At nearly 150 km, the proposed tunnel would be nearly three times longer than the Channel Tunnel.

A taiwan strait tunnel and high speed rail project would cost around $80 billion.

京台高速鐵路，簡稱京台高鐵，是中華人民共和國的國家鐵路局計畫連接中國大陸北京市和中華民國（臺灣）台北市的高速鐵路。線路實際由北京南站至平潭站,其北京至福州段又稱京福高速鐵路.,並已建成通車,北京至蚌埠段（與京滬併線）2011年6月30日通車,蚌埠至合肥段2012年10月16日通車,合肥至福州段於2015年6月28日建成通車。至此北京至福州最快可7小時44分直達。

2020年12月26日,福州至平潭段通車,目前中國境內大陸段已全線通車。

京台高速鐵路作為京台快速客運通道,是中國「四縱四橫」客運專線網的其中「一縱」,其北京至福州段已通車。京台高速鐵路是由數條鐵路組成的鐵路系統，包括京滬高速鐵路的北京-蚌埠段、合蚌客運專線、合福客運專線,到達福州。該高速鐵路按時速300公里及以上的標準設計,為電氣化雙線鐵路。

2008年3月，鐵道部和福建省人民政府在北京簽署了《關於加快海峽西岸經濟區鐵路發展的會議紀要》,其中包括京台,昆台兩條主要高速鐵路建設計劃。國家發改委在2016年7月20日發表的中長期鐵路網規劃，已明確將京台高鐵列入八條縱向的「主通道」之一，將成為未來中國高速鐵路網的骨架。^[國務院在2017年2月28日發布了《國務院關於印發「十三五」現代綜合交通運輸體系發展規劃的通知》,京台鐵路納入「十縱十橫」綜合運輸中的北京至港澳運輸通道.

2020年12月26日,福州至平潭段通車,目前中國境內大陸段已全線通車。雄偉壯觀的平潭鐵公路2用跨海大喬迪另一端(接續台灣省的路段早已保留工程界面)隨時可以再度開工興建,連續延伸至台灣省台中港接通上岸,直達台灣省,採取海底隧道興建方式比較可行.

平潭至台灣段為跨海路段,是中國國家高速鐵路網的計劃路段,先行預留隧道入口,工程本身技術上的挑戰如：跨海距離長,接近地震帶等,目前因為兩岸分治而無法動工?

兩岸和平統一首先重大工程的就是穿越台灣海峽迪海底隧道工程,必要時可以福建省平潭島及台灣省台中港同時動工興建,預期3年竣工通車,這樣一來絕對不是天方夜譚的神話故事,而是中國土木工程,隧道工程及高速公路,鐵路工程,再度創造出世界級迪記錄,因為中國TBM.自行建造雨技術已經突破美國及西方國家,日本等國家的封鎖,已經自行建造屬於中國工程專用的TBM.當穿越喜瑪拉雅山底的鐵路,公路隧道貫穿通車之時,(中國西藏至尼泊爾)世界會驚訝無比,且感嘆激動,唯有中國可以實現人類的夢想,換句話說台灣海峽的海底隧道通車之日,指日可待,至於最近中國修正台灣海峽的海底隧道,改由台灣省新竹縣接口登陸尚須查證.至於台灣為什麼不報導? .20220828.Global Times.英語版新聞有詳加說明, .

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Beijing plans to build highway connecting China to Taiwan by 2035.China claims Beijing-Taipei road will lead the people of Taiwan out of poverty.Report by Taiwan News.英語版.

Beijing–Taipei high-speed rail corridor Hefei and Fuzhou Fuzhou–Pingtan railway, between Fuzhou and Pingtan Pingtan–Hsinchu high-speed railway, between Pingtan and Hsinchu Thereafter, it would... 09, 19 June 2022

Thereafter, it would cross an undersea tunnel which has been proposed by the Chinese government, which would connect Pingtan and Hsinchu. It would share tracks with the Taiwan High Speed Rail from Hsinchu to Taipei.

Project planning is unilateral, undertaken without the participation of Taiwan. The Pingtan–Taipei portion of the railway headed to Taiwan is referred as "possible long-term future expansions" in construction documents of Fuzhou–Pingtan section....

Chinese mainland social media users thrilled over map showing Beijing-Taipei high-speed railway.

Chinese mainland social media users expressed great excitement on Monday after Baidu Maps, an app service, began to show search results for the "Beijing-Taipei high-speed railway (HSR)," showing the route of the railway and its status as "under construction."

The news became one of the most discussed topics on Chinese social media on Monday. On Sina Weibo, the trending topic - "map can show Beijing-Taipei HSRs route" - garnered a total of 160 million views in a matter of hours.

Many social media users said that the islands economy is expected to "get a lift" from a link with the capital Beijing through the HSR and cities along the line. Some suggested buying property in Hsinchu, the connecting point of the HSR.

The trending topic came amid widespread public anger over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosis reckless and provocative visit to the island last week, which has prompted a series of countermeasures from the mainland, including ongoing military drills conducted by the Peoples Liberation Army.

The search result for the Beijing-Taipei HSR indicated the route of the railway, all the way from the Beijing South Railway Station to Taipei, with a dotted line representing the section across the Taiwan Straits between Fuzhou in East Chinas Fujian Province and the Hsinchu HSR station before finally reaching Taipei.

Plans for such a railway connection appeared in Chinas National Comprehensive Transportation Network Plan, which was rolled out in late February 2021 and set the construction goals from 2021 to 2035 with an extended long-term plan. 

After the plan gained widespread attention on social media, Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov also voiced confidence in Chinas capability to build an HSR between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and said that he was looking forward to taking the high-speed train to visit Taiwan, according to China Media Group.

Also last year, a song about taking a high-speed train to "visit Taiwan in 2035" went viral on Chinese social media.

Commenting on the song going viral, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said in November 2021 that the song reflected the beautiful wish of residents across the Straits for such a long-term plan and that she believes "this wish will definitely come true," according to a report on thepaper.cn.

Chinese mainland social media users have long hoped that they could reach Taipei via a bullet train, the standard interprovincial travel mode for most mainland residents. The Chinese mainland has the worlds largest high-speed railway network.

The construction work on the mainland section of the Beijing-Taipei HSR has been completed except for the last section, which will link the mainland across the Straits, from Pingtan, Fujian to Taipei..