China currently has one of the most heroic and telling high - hurrying rail networks on Earth , and they are n’t showing signaling of slowing . As their electronic connection reaches the far corner of their nation , Beijing could be setting its eyes on what lies beyond – far , far beyond .
harmonise to reports , China like to work up a high - speed,13,000 - kilometer(8,078 - mil ) train that go from mainland China , up through Siberia in Eastern Russia , under the sea through the Bering Strait into Alaska , across the jumpy heyday of Canada ’s Yukon and British Columbia , and into the USA . Once manufacture , they have could further widen their outside bullet gear into every quoin of the US .
The price of such an outlandish proposal ? A cool $ 200 billion . A price tag so high , even the like of Jeff Bezos plausibly could n’t turn over it .
The plans emerged in 2014 , whenmultiple newsworthiness outletscovered a report by theBeijing Timesthat outlined plans for China to make the 8,000 - mile topnotch train . It would be called the “ China - Russia - Canada - America " line ( catchy , we live ) and stretch across all four nations , connect them together for a patronage , tourism , and economical bunce . Stretching across the Bering Strait , it would require an underwater tunnel four times large than the Channel Tunnel , and far more high-pitched - technical school to boot .
At the clip , engineer from China claimed to be already in talk with Russia about beginning the line , which they were very convinced was possible with current engineering science .
And despite just how far - fetched the marriage proposal sound , it could be perfectly viable .
In 2018 , Chinaapprovedthe reality ’s first underwater bullet train , which would broaden nationally from Ningbo , a port city near Shanghai , to Zhoushan , an archipelago of island off the East seacoast . Covering a 77 - kilometer ( 47.8 - statute mile ) reach of almost entirely newly - progress railroad track , the unexampled route will include a 16.2 - kilometer underwater segment . It will be a Maglev train , levitating above a magnetic cut as it is incite along at high speeds , and construction is well afoot for the ambitious project .
Although this tunnel is significantly smaller than the Channel Tunnel , the summation of a bullet train power train travel by through brings raw challenges to the twist . While little is known about progression on the China - Russia - Canada - America line , some have postulated that the Ningbo - Zhoushan melodic phrase could be a trial run of sorts for a far gravid project .
As for the US ? They might be a little further behind . In 2020 , the US Governmentapproveda huge 2,570 - kilometre ( 1,597 - nautical mile ) railroad line billet that connect the US and Canada , from Alaska to Alberta . Costing $ 22 billion , the line of reasoning was a large leap for the US railway line internet , which has been dawdle behind other nations until now . With China ’s rapidly spread out bullet wagon train internet , the famous Nipponese net , and other nations surging forward with their attempts , the US is now on the back foot when it come to railway origination .
Unfortunately , as impressive as the China - Russia - Canada - America job would be , it appear to have been put on hold for now . Critics have slam the proposal for being economically excess , stating that flight and cargo ships are acheaper option for trade , and too complex . Whether they are right or not , tension between the world major power mean such a collaboration – which would be the most expensive megaproject in world history – could be little more than a pipe dream .
