| That was a mistake repeated by all the newspapers. The figure is 73/trip, which, with a capacity of 440, gives a 15%-20% capacity factor. Not gorgeous, but the ramp-up period for any transportation project is usually quite long.
Well, this error shows the excessive reliance on Xinhua for China news, since they basically all repeat its reports, mistakes included. And Xinhua has not adopted the habit of Reuters and other more reliable sources to issue a correction once the mistake is spotted. For more follow-up on the train projects in China (more the long-distance ones), see http://www.shuxie.net/china_trains.php |
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