With the opening of new lines such as the Chongqing East to Qianjiang section of the Chongqing-Xiamen High-speed Railway, the national railway completed fixed asset investment of 355.9 billion yuan in the first half of the year, and 301 kilometers of new lines were put into production. A railway network with wider coverage, faster speed and smoother operation is expanding the "bones" and "bloodlines" of national development with unprecedented efforts, injecting surging momentum into "mobile China".

The extension of the new railway line is an "accelerator" for regional economic integration and a "thermometer" for people's livelihood and well-being. High-speed rail shortens not only the physical distance, but also the gap in development. The Chongqing-Xiaxi High-speed Railway has reduced the travel time between Chongqing and Changsha to 3 hours and 53 minutes, making the two major urban agglomerations of Chengdu-Chongqing and Changsha and Zhuzhou-Tanzhou more closely connected; the Zhengzhou Intercity Railway has been fully connected, allowing Kaifeng to deeply integrate into the Henan "Rice"-shaped high-speed railway network, injecting new vitality into the Zhengzhou metropolitan area. New lines and new stations such as Rizhao Station and Chongqing East Station allow small and medium-sized cities to directly connect with core hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The compression of time costs has greatly eliminated the barriers to resource flow. Every new line extends and every new station is completed, quietly reconstructing the regional economic map, making the ordinary expectation of "a meal for a son to arrive at home" a reality, and accurately drip the development dividend into the people's most sincere expectations.

When the railway network is encrypted, it is a solid support for the implementation of the national strategy and a key step in improving the quality and improvement of the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. Railway construction is not a one-day contribution, and its strategic value is increasingly revealed in the continuous deepening of cultivation. From a domestic perspective, the key link of the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network coastal channel, the Shenzhen-River High-speed Railway will be accelerated, and in the future, it will closely connect five important cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to help the "Greater Bay Area on the Rail" to speed; a number of projects such as the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu High-speed Railway Wuhan-Yichang section and the Shenyang-Baizhou High-speed Railway have entered joint debugging and testing, and the Baoyin High-speed Railway and the West Extension High-speed Railway are steadily advancing. Looking overseas, the construction of key control projects of the China-Kyrgyz-Ukraine Railway, the preparations for the opening of the Hungarian-Serbia Railway and the construction of the Hungarian-Serbia Railway are key projects. These landmark projects on the "Belt and Road" are not only the road of steel, but also the road of friendship and prosperity. They are the crystallization of China's wisdom to contribute to global connectivity with an open attitude.

As railway investment grows, it is a double proof of development confidence and domestic demand vitality. In the first half of the year, railway fixed asset investment increased by 5.5% year-on-year, which is behind the unique advantages of long industrial chain, wide radiation and obvious pulling effect. This series of numbers not only reflects the intensity of infrastructure construction, but also indicates the resilience and potential of future development. The solid advancement of the preliminary work of projects such as Yining to Aksu Railway, the second additional construction of the Guizhou-Guangxi Railway to the Wenzhou-Fuzhou High-speed Railway, every scientific and rigorous planning is laying the foundation for the "paper blueprint" to become a "land road" as soon as possible.

The 14th Five-Year Plan is coming to an end, and the road network construction is steadily and the progress points on the thousands of miles of railway lines are densely packed. From magnificent mountains and rivers to foreign lands, the continuous extension of steel warp and weaving of China's railways not only reshape the economic geographical pattern, but also allows the warm current of people to share the fruits of development to pulsate with the rails. This increasingly sophisticated railway network is carrying a "mobile China" with more free flow, closer connection and more balanced development with its irreplaceable bearing capacity. (Deng Tianzhi)