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  • 8 months

    China has quite a number of trains already. Arguably they overbuilt their train network as much of it is heavily underutilized.

    • Heavily underutilized for now. It’s significantly cheaper and easier to build the network too early than too late, when you have to coordinate property acquisition and demolition across the full length of the network.

      • 8 months

        Heavily underutilized for now.

        China has a birthrate of 1.15 children per woman. When is this later time you allude to when there will be more people to utilize the heavily underutilized network?