China Railway Corp. (CRC) has been assigned of 800 billion yuan (116.8 billion US$) to achieve this target. Besides, Yang Yudong, Vice Minister of Transport has revealed that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), China will spend an amount of nearly 3.5 trillion yuan on railway construction.
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For the record by the end of 2016, China had 124,000 km railway network featuring thus the world’s largest high-speed rail network of more than 22,000 km.