When train driver Han Junjia first started his career in 1992, the railway industry in China operated on steam locomotives that could just about manage 30 miles per hour. But since the 1990s, China’s economy underwent one of the most dramatic transformations in modern history, quintupling its GDP, and with that came lots of investment — including on the railway system. For Junjia, it meant that he went from working on noxious steam trains to state-of-the-art bullet trains in just 26 years. Two photos, one showing him standing next to an enormous steam engine train, and another showing him standing next to the Fuxing bullet train, capture China’s incredible growth like no other medium can.
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