China's first privately-owned high-speed railway starts operation

中国首条民营高铁开始运营

China's first privately-owned high-speed railway, the Hangzhou-Taizhou high-speed railway, is set to begin operation on Saturday. The project was constructed via China's Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which involves collaboration between the government and private sector that can be used to finance, build and operate projects. It starts in Hangzhou East Station and ends in Taizhou Wenling Station. With a 350-kilometers-per-hour designed maxmum speed, the line has a total length of about 266.9 kilometers, including 226.3 kilometers of newly-constructed track.

中国首条民营高铁——杭州至台州高铁于周六通车。该项目是通过公私合作(PPP)方式建设，即政府和私企合作。从杭州东站出发，终点到台州温岭站。该线设计最高时速350公里，总长度约266.9公里，其中新建轨道226.3公里。

以下是Youtube网友的评论：

Yuhan Zhang

Key Infrastructure shouldn’t be privately owned, because it is easy to monopolize and jack up the price.

关键基础设施不应该私有，否则很容易被垄断和抬高价格。

4ever true

PPP (Private, Public Participation) initiatives can be a win-win for both govt and the private investor in that key sector of the economy..

PPP(公私合作)倡议对政府和私人投资者来说是双赢。

Chong Sit Leong

Be careful to privatize railway. It may end up being costly for the people just like private housing becomes too expensive

铁路私有化要谨慎。对人们来说，最终票价会越来越贵，就像房价一样越来越贵

catonpillow

Really surprised to see private businesses interested in investing into high-speed railway since that's a long-term investment and won't yield profit for years.

看到私营企业对投资高铁感兴趣真的很惊讶，因为这是一项长期投资，好几年都不会产生利润。

HELL KOREA

Train fare will increase, and safety concerns will arise. Infrastructure should  be owned by the government.

火车票价会上涨的，安全问题会出现。基础设施应该归国有。

Mister Hill

Railway should remain state owned.

Don't let the greedy private hands touch it.

铁路应该国有。

不要让贪婪的私人沾手。

TAIPIZZALORD

Don't privatise your infrastructure China.

不要让基础设施私有化。

Renaresca

I just wonder if the ticket prices will be about the same as the state owned ones, hmmmmm....lets see where this goes.

我只是想知道票价会不会和国有铁路一样...让我们拭目以待。

Anglosaxon arse

World's HSR= 59,000km

Chinese HSR= 42,000 km

adding 6000km in 2022 as planned

全球高铁总长：5.9万公里

中国高铁总长：4.2万公里，按计划2022年中国高铁会增加6000公里

jacobrocks7

So impressive the high speed train network.  And here we are rinding Amtrak and praying it doesn’t crash

中国的高铁网络令人震撼，而我们还在美国祈祷火车不会撞车

Michael L

Competition is always a good thing.

有竞争永远是好事。

Discover China

China should allow more privately owned HSR as it could reduce NRA’s work load

中国应该允许更多的高铁私有化，这样可以减少国家铁路管理局的工作量

Priyank Saikia

Privatisation is necessary to reform and make profits for the Innovation to foster. A cap of about 40 percent is necessary. The remaining 60 percent should be with the Govt.

私有化是改革的必要条件，也是培育创新的必要条件。私有占40%是上限，剩下的60%应该由政府控制。

Youtube ID in dei Orasch

65% state 35% private is a good balance.

65%国有，35%私有，这是一个很好的平衡。

ufoubo

Private own is the way to go, I am sure the service standards on this line will be better than the other lines.

私有制是一条出路，我相信这条线路的服务会比其他线路好。

Incisive

The first step down a very dark and dangerous path. But it’s not too late to change course.

这是走向黑暗和危险之路的第一步，现在转向还为时不晚。

Tilak Ale

Superpower China  from Nepal

 now China time i mean Asia time.

超级大国中国，现在是中国的时代，我的意思是亚洲的时代

Exsurgo connect

Tech stolen from Japan who kindly helped the Chinese rebuild their rail years ago.

从日本偷来的技术，几年前日本帮助中国重建铁路。

laga ndum

You guys in China really need to clean up your air. Good Lord, the amount of fog in the background is truly alarming!

中国真的该净化空气了。天啊，这么多的雾，真是令人担忧

juancho dagayares

China should not give the rail way to private companies because this will make a problem to billions people on making always an increase of fare.

中国不应该把铁路交给私营公司，否则票价会越来越贵

Lusa Lofi

Private? How private is it?

私营吗？私有化程度有多高？

smjfg

Too bad its not publicly owned

太糟糕了，不是公有的

Humgarchaun Lor

amazing! great

不可思议！太棒了！

Pete Lim

World's HSR length

= 59,000 km

China's HSR length

= 42,000 km

India's HSR length

= 0 km

世界高铁长度59000公里

中国的高铁长度42000公里

印度的高铁长度 0公里

sourav sharma

Nice china is going great in thanks for supporting world

中国做得很好，感谢支持世界

Ioan Bota

Very good congratulation

非常好，祝贺

Fint Flint

UK Private Railyway system is shambles.

Hope this privatisation has better management.

英国私营铁路系统一团糟。

希望私营管理更好。

Hans Weissmann XVI

Funny, 50-50 partnership is called privately owned? How odd……

有趣，五五开的合伙制叫私有？太奇怪了……

Just Me

it is a good experimental project, if it can be feasible, why not!

这是一个很好的实验项目，如果可行，何乐而不为呢

c wasan

Amazing Modern China.

现代中国令人震撼

Lynn Hong

Go China Go

加油中国

Christopherq Chin

Can China have a different high speed train design? This is a shinkansen design.!

中国能设计出不一样的高铁吗?这设计和新干线一样!