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What is the first high-speed railway in the history of China?
It's guangzhou-shenzhen railway. In May, 1998, the electrification speed-up transformation in guangzhou-shenzhen railway was completed, with the designed maximum speed of 200 kilometers per hour. In order to study the feasibility of speeding up the tilting train to the high-speed railway on the existing China railway, in August of the same year, guangzhou-shenzhen railway took the lead in using the X2000 tilting high-speed EMU leased from Sweden.

Guangzhou-shenzhen railway is regarded as the beginning of China's transformation from existing lines to high-speed railways and high-speed railways, because many technologies and equipment that reached the international advanced level in 1960s and 1990s were adopted.

On August 1 day, 2008, the first world-class high-speed railway in China, the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway, was put into operation.

Expanding information and building high-speed railway are the needs of national conditions;

Starting from the national conditions of the century, it is also an inevitable choice for China to accelerate the development of high-speed railways.

2. China is in an important period of sustained and rapid economic and social development, and the contradiction of railway "bottleneck" is very prominent.

3. China is in an important period of accelerating industrialization, and railway transportation is far from meeting the urgent requirements of industrialization.

4. China is in a critical period of coordinating urban and rural and regional development, and the layout of railway network is difficult to meet the urgent requirements of urban and rural and regional development.

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