Virgin military industrial complex vs chad HSR industrial revolution
The tracks are elevated so they can be made incredibly level and straight for traveling at 300+kph. It also has the added benefit of not totally leveling everything you're putting tracks over (you can still farm and stuff under them). Elevated tracks like this can also be pre-fabbed and delivered by existing rail, literally bootstrapping infrastructure.
Definitely is, the village is right in the floodplain. Hopefully there's an easy path up to the tracks for them in case of severe flooding.
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In America it looks like bulldozing black neighborhoods, militarizing police, and segregating communities using highways as physical barriers between the rich and poor.
What are we looking at, and how can we tell that it's a poverty alleviation thing?
High speed rail, which speeds up trips for the masses, helping to alleviate poverty.
Also, notice how little space it takes up and how it can pass through communities without totally destroying them
Wait, wait, wait. What? You can't just grow the domestic economy without immiserating local people by seizing their property or devaluing their existing assets. I was very explicitly told that Creative Destruction is the order of the day and anything else would be highly inefficient.
Here's a closer image of a similar passing
From another angle where the station is clearly visible
A good thing to remember, most of these photos are taken by people who just got off the train and hiked from the station or took a short taxi ride. There's always a station nearby. Same cannot be said of the planes I see overhead.
Lots of these villages are being moved too. The giant high rises and new buildings in the second photo are where everyone's being slowly moved to.
The village in the first photo is the old village too, the new big city projects are trying to integrate all these smaller villages into the bigger cities with those high rises in the second photo and high speed rail connections.
Oh I know, it's been pretty clear that they're avoiding just demolishing towns and replacing them. The policy right now seems to be building newer housing nearby and allowing people to move on their own time.
Those are all completely different sections of track taken by drone cameras and don't give any perspective of how far away the train station is related to the old villages.
You can literally see the same building on both images.
It's also very clearly a walkable distance because there's an obvious path from the village, across the street, up the hill, and to the station.
Yeah, I checked first. Both taken by the same photographer on the same day. The rail pictures archive is incredibly detailed
interesting that they elevate the rail line instead of having it on ground. ig it would be more expensive to build and maintain but better for people on ground...maybe its because HSR requires smooth slopes or something.
one of the common complaints about rail/roads going through farmland is that it splits the farm in half and makes it much harder to cross, this shouldn't be a problem with elevated rail.
My guess is that elevating the line helps reduce the risk of flooding making the line impassable.
Honestly, if this picture was from the US I would say they were factory farms.
Unlikely these particular ones are though, a lot of agriculture in China is still done by families of farmers with relatively small plots of land, and you can see each plot has its own house where the farmers are.
They're greenhouses. Pig farms are usually long brick bulidings, I think chicken farms are too.
