CHINA – China is vast and that becomes most palpable when speeding through the country on a bullet train. Mega-cities and modern industrial zones flash endlessly past my window at 300kmh.

But the country's high-speed-rail network – the world's longest at 30,000km this year and counting – also conveys an intimate portrait of the nation.

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