Ministry of Railways (China)

The Ministry of Railways' predecessor was the Qing and the Republican Ministry of Posts and Communications.

The Ministry's railway building was important in China's national industrialization campaigns, mass mobilization, and military logistics.{{Rp|page=115}} Academic Elisabeth Köll writes that during the Mao era, the Ministry's railways "represented the speed, economic efficiency, punctuality, discipline, technological advances, professionalism, dedication, and heroism necessary to promote the ideals of the party and the government at large."{{Rp|page=115}}

In 1989, the state took assets out of the Ministry of Railways and incorporated them to form a state-owned enterprise, the China Railway Engineering Corporation.{{Cite book |last=Leutert |first=Wendy |title=China's State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization |date=2024 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-48654-5 |edition= |series=Business and Public Policy Series |location=Cambridge}}{{Rp|pages=114-115}}

On 10 March 2013, it was announced that the Ministry would be dissolved and its duties taken up by the Ministry of Transport (safety and regulation), National Railway Administration (inspection) and China Railway Corporation (construction and management),{{cite news |date=10 March 2012 |title=China scraps railways ministry in streamlining drive |newspaper=BBC News |agency= |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21732566 |access-date=10 March 2013}} in part addressing concerns about calls for independent supervision of the rail industry. The last minister was Sheng Guangzu.{{cite news |author=Sui-Lee Wee |author2=Huang Yan |author3=Miral Fahmy |date=25 February 2011 |title=China railways minister dismissed -Xinhua |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |agency=Reuters |url=http://www.latimes.com/sns-rt-china-railwaysministoe71o053-20110225,0,1184171.story |access-date=26 February 2011}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

MOR, acting as a corporation in the debt market, has sold 60 billion yuan of bonds in 2007.

For the year 2009, MOR planned to sell at least 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) worth of construction bonds to finance a large expansion of the country's rail network.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

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There were 16 railway bureaux and 2 railway group companies under the Ministry of Railways. As of 2008, approximately 2 million people worked in the Ministry of Railways.{{cite web |last=Wu |first=Zhong |date=May 7, 2008 |title=Blowing the whistle on 'Big Brother' |url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JE07Ad01.html |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513171438/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/JE07Ad01.html |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |access-date=2008-05-06 |publisher=Asia Times Online}}{{Cite news |last=Zhong |first=Wu |date=7 May 2008 |title=Blowing the whistle on 'Big Brother' |work=Asia Times |url=http://atimes.com/atimes/China/JE07Ad01.html |access-date=5 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513171438/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/JE07Ad01.html |archive-date=13 May 2008}}

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• China Railway Museum
• Liu Zhijun

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• {{Official website|http://www.china-mor.gov.cn/}} {{in lang|zh}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430114355/http://cars.rails.com.cn/ China Academy of Railway Sciences]
• [http://www.nra.gov.cn/ National Railway Administration]{{in lang|zh}}

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