{"id":19775,"date":"2011-10-06T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/developpement-la-chine-donne-un-coup-de-frein-a-la-grande-vitesse-20111006.html"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T08:57:11","slug":"development-china-puts-the-brakes-on-high-speed-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/development-china-puts-the-brakes-on-high-speed-travel","title":{"rendered":"Development - China puts the brakes on high-speed travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of this tragedy, which left 40 people dead and hundreds injured, the Ministry of Railways imposed a speed limit of 300km\/h on existing lines, while China CNR recalled, for reasons of safety, the speed of its trains. <em>\"technical problems<\/em>54 high-speed trains on the new Beijing-Shanghai line. Covering the 1,320km between the Chinese capital and the country's economic capital in 4 hours 49 minutes, the line was inaugurated with great fanfare at the end of June, a year ahead of schedule. However, prohibitive fares, incessant delays and interminable breakdowns quickly drew criticism from the public and weighed on passenger numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In order to reassure passengers about the safety of the current 8,000 km network, the Beijing government has ordered an inspection of all services. Until the recent disaster, China had high ambitions, aiming to have 16,000 km of expressways by 2020. The country was also hoping to use the network as a technological showcase and compete internationally with manufacturers such as France's Alstom.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is suspending its policy of developing high-speed lines, one of the strongest symbols of its economic growth, following a collision between two high-speed trains on 23 July in Wenzhou, in the east of the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"type-darticle":[52],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-19775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ferroviaire","type-darticle-breve","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>D\u00e9veloppement - La Chine donne un coup de frein \u00e0 la grande vitesse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La Chine suspend sa politique de d\u00e9veloppement de lignes \u00e0 grande vitesse, pourtant l\u2019un des symboles forts de sa croissance \u00e9conomique, \u00e0 la suite d\u2019une collision entre deux TGV survenue le 23 juillet dernier \u00e0 Wenzhou, dans l\u2019est du pays.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/development-china-puts-the-brakes-on-high-speed-travel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"D\u00e9veloppement - La Chine donne un coup de frein \u00e0 la grande vitesse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La Chine suspend sa politique de d\u00e9veloppement de lignes \u00e0 grande vitesse, pourtant l\u2019un des symboles forts de sa croissance \u00e9conomique, \u00e0 la suite d\u2019une collision entre deux TGV survenue le 23 juillet dernier \u00e0 Wenzhou, dans l\u2019est du pays.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/development-china-puts-the-brakes-on-high-speed-travel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Voyages d&#039;affaires\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-06T15:21:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-02-10T08:57:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"La R\u00e9daction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"La R\u00e9daction\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/developpement-la-chine-donne-un-coup-de-frein-a-la-grande-vitesse\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/developpement-la-chine-donne-un-coup-de-frein-a-la-grande-vitesse\",\"name\":\"D\u00e9veloppement - La Chine donne un coup de frein \u00e0 la grande vitesse\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-06T15:21:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-02-10T08:57:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8425ec1d37ab5f25f03c8e8897b93615\"},\"description\":\"La Chine suspend sa politique de d\u00e9veloppement de lignes \u00e0 grande vitesse, pourtant l\u2019un des symboles forts de sa croissance \u00e9conomique, \u00e0 la suite d\u2019une collision entre deux TGV survenue le 23 juillet dernier \u00e0 Wenzhou, dans l\u2019est du pays.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/developpement-la-chine-donne-un-coup-de-frein-a-la-grande-vitesse#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/developpement-la-chine-donne-un-coup-de-frein-a-la-grande-vitesse\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/developpement-la-chine-donne-un-coup-de-frein-a-la-grande-vitesse#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"D\u00e9veloppement &#8211; 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