This is a truly incredible article that criticizes China's plans to build high speed rail to under-served parts of China by taking the angle that it won't make money, and therefore is stupid. Amazing that infrastructure projects that help rural Chinese gain access to a high speed rail network is criticized from the angle of profit-making when making a profit is never the point with infrastructure projects. The NYC subway system wasn't built to "make a profit," but that doesn't mean it was a bad idea. But China bad so somehow them building a crazy amount of high speed rail is bad.
well i know of the top of my dome xinjiang has at least like 25x the population of alaska, but my question was what the breakevenpoint is, asy ou would need it based on the claim youve made and I'd like to better understand the situation
and theres not the second biggest country in the world in between xinjiang and the rest of china lol