I'm not overly impressed with the Chinese to be honest. Their 5,000 year old culture is dwarfed time wise by other cultures like India, and even the United States Native American, who has been around for about 15,000 years. The age of a culture impresses me less than what they do with that time.

Now granted, in the past China was a real innovator, but that was a long, long time ago. The Chinese haven't innovated much of anything in hundreds of years.

As for fast trains, I say big whoop. This is akin to getting all fired up about America opening up new hubs, and introducing faster travel times on existing flights, because Americas, travel more by plane. Trains in the USA are hardly used anymore. In China it's a different story, with Trains being the Primary source of travel. With that being the case, them having bullet trains to me seems over do. Just one mans opinion.