There are HSR projects in various countries (Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal, and the USA). Provincial capital cities and cities with a population of more than 500,000 will have HSR access, and adjacent areas will form a 3-h HSR circle.

It is planned that, by 2035, the national HSR mileage plan will reach 70,000 km. In August 2020, it was clearly pointed out in the “New Era Traffic Power Railway Advance Planning Outline” that it was necessary to build a HSR network with the main channel of HSR as the skeleton and regional HSR connection extension. The conclusion of this study has certain policy significance for improving the social and economic welfare of HSR and promoting the rational allocation of medical resources.Īfter the medium and long-term railway network planning was released in 2004, China began to enter a period of large-scale construction of HSR. The opening of high-speed rails has a stronger role in promoting the level of medical resources in eastern cities and provincial capitals of China. Finally, there is regional heterogeneity in the impact of high-speed rails opening on medical resources. Second, government actions are one of the mechanisms by which the opening of high-speed rails affect the level of medical resources. The empirical results show that opening high-speed rails has significantly increased the level of medical resources in the city, and the impact has a time lag of about 3 years. Based on the panel data of 280 cities at the prefecture level and above in China from 2008 to 2018, this study uses a multi-period difference-in-difference model to explore the impact of opening high-speed rails on the level of urban medical resources, and uses the mediation effect model to analyze its path of influence. The opening of high-speed rails also has an impact on China's urban medical and other basic health services. Transportation is an important factor that affects social public health and basic services. School of Economics, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China.

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