The Wenzhou crash [on 7/23/11] killed forty people and injured a hundred and
ninety-two. For reasons both practical and symbolic, the government was
desperate to get trains running again, and within twenty-four hours it
declared the line back in business. The Department of Propaganda ordered
editors to give the crash as little attention as possible. “Do not
question, do not elaborate,” it warned, on an internal notice. When
newspapers came out the next morning, China’s first high-speed train
wreck was not on the front page.
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