In 2017, China’s rail freight volume totaled 3.68865 billion mt, up 10.87 percent, as announced by China’s National Railway Administration.
In the given period, China’s railways transported 3.08379 billion passengers, up 9.6 percent year on year, while the total freight traffic on China’s railways amounted to 2.69622 trillion mt-kilometers, up 13.3 percent year on year. Meanwhile, in 2017 fixed asset investment (FAI) in railways in China amounted to RBM 801.043 billion ($125.2 billion), down 0.1 percent year on year.