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Chinese Outrage Grows Over Train Crash
Anger and skepticism that emerged quickly after Saturday's collision of two bullet trains in eastern Chinawhich killed at least 39 people and injured more than 192has intensified as the government has drawn fire for not being forthcoming enough with information on the disaster.
Saturday's crash was the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks to China's high-speed rail system, the world's largest with plans for 16,000 kilometers, or 10,000 miles, of track and an estimated total cost of nearly $300 billion. The Railways Ministry has had several senior officials, including its former minister, ousted amid a corruption probe, and several recent technical glitches have taken some of the shine off the project.
A power failure on the network's flagship Beijing-Shanghai line left more than 20 trains stranded for roughly three hours on Monday, state media reported Tuesday, noting that news of the delay was first reported online by stranded passengers, including on Weibo.
Online critics have scornfully contrasted the difference between government rhetoric about the promise of high-speed rail and the reality of the troubled network.
"When a country is corrupt to the point that a single lightning strike can cause a train crash, the passing of a truck can collapse a bridge, and drinking a few bags of milk powder can cause kidney stones, none of us are exempted,"
safety was never their #1 concern. Their focus was the need to move lot of people fast and secondly the ability to say look at us an what we can do and in turn sell the technology