http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/beijing-to-the-us-by-train-china-outlines-plans-to-connect-world-by-high-speed-rail-network-9342749.html
As long as it doesn't come near us, as we have sacred boomer countryside to protect. Though the Chinese do have another plan to link London, via Paris and Moscow.
All looks very 'Gerry Anderson' and who would have thunk that a Communist State would end up planning these grand schemes. Oh yeh we got lost somewhere worrying about house prices.