The National Railway Administration (NRA) is the national railway regulator of China. It is part of the
Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China. In 2013, the State Council of China broke up the
Ministry of Railways and separated the functions of railway operation and regulation. The
China Railway Corporation was created to operate the railway network, while the National Railway Administration was created to regulate and oversee the corporation, with safety and accident prevention being a major part of its function.
The NRA oversees the largest railway network in Asia and the largest high-speed railway network in the world. The densities of the network's passenger and freight transport are among the world's highest. It has seven regional oversight bureaus, based in
Shenyang
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Shanghai,
Guangzhou,
Chengdu
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Wuhan,
Xi'an, and
Lanzhou
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, respectively, which oversee 18 regional railway companies (formerly regional bureaus) of the China Railway Corporation.
In March 2013,
Lu Dongfu
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Arts and entertainment
* Lu (music), Tibetan folk music
* Lu (duo), a Mexican band
** ''Lu'' (album)
* Character from Mike, Lu & Og
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* Lebor na hUidre, a manuscript ...
(陆东福) was appointed the first director of the NRA. He was replaced by
Yang Yudong
Yang may refer to:
* Yang, in yin and yang, one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy
* Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902
* YANG, a data modeling language for the NETCONF network configuration pr ...
(杨宇栋) in 2016. They both concurrently served as vice minister of transport.
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