关键词: 铁路提速；高速铁路；技术积累；现代化

Abstract: Improving railway operation speed is an important goal of Chinese railway people. After the reform and opening up, the “high speed railway whirlwind” triggered by DENG Xiaopings visit to Japan opened the prelude of domestic railway speed increase. With the intensification of contradiction between railway traffic volume and capacity, the construction of high speed railway has become a hot topic of social concern in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Chinese government started the preliminary preparation and technological research work for BeijingShanghai high speed railway, and completed the project of the first quasi high speed railway in China, which has provided important technical accumulation and experience for high speed railway, giving birth to the initial gene for the success of Chinas high speed railway.

Key words: railway speed increase; high speed railway; technology accumulation; modernization