Social Benefits of High-Speed Rails in China

Hongchang Li is a full professor of Economics and vice-chair of the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University. Prof. Li’s research expertise focuses on industrial economics and transportation economics theory and ranks within top 30 of transportation economics academics in China. Prof. Li is PI for more than 50 national and ministerial-level government funding projects. Prof. Li also serves as a steering committee member of WCTRS and serves as a consulting expert for the China Association for Science and Technology. Prof. Li is also a special economics commentator for media such as China Central Television, China Traffic Radio.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical Frameworks in the Study.- 3. The Spatiotemporal Analysis of the High-Speed Rail Social Benefits.- 4. The High-Speed Rail Social Benefit Analysis from the Perspective of Case Study .- 5. The High-Speed Rail Social Benefit Analysis from the Perspective of Modeling.- 6. The High-Speed Rail Social Benefit Analysis from the Perspective of Investigation.- 7. The High-Speed Rail Social Benefit Analysis from the Perspective of Policy.- 8. Conclusion and Future Work