Chinese HSR crashing?

At the beginning of 2025, the city of Linxia in Gansu Province announced that its two daily high-speed rail services would be suspended, citing “insufficient passenger flow” as the reason.
In the following months, cities such as Yibin (Sichuan), Anshun (Guizhou), Panzhou (Guizhou), Chenzhou (Hunan), Zhuoyang (Anhui), Xinyang (Henan), and Jiamusi (Heilongjiang) also saw their small-city high-speed rail stations either reducing operations or completely halting service.

Across the country, many railway bureaus quietly removed train schedule information from their official websites — no announcements, no explanations, and even the media dared not publish detailed reports.
Some people said this was merely “optimizing operations,” but that’s wrong — this is actually a silent, large-scale shutdown of underused high-speed rail lines.

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