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A worker welds a metal part during a welding competition at a construction site of the Fuyang-Huainan Railway in East China's Anhui Province on October 18, 2024. The total length of China's railway in operation has surpassed 160,000 kilometers, with more than 46,000 kilometers of which being high-speed railway, ranking first in the world. Photo: VCG