The comparison of chinese railways development performance with six other countries

By using the statistical indices of railway development, the relative productivity index is constructed with threshold method and statistical method, and the relative production efficiency index is built with data envelope analysis(DEA)method. The development performance of Chinese railway is comprehensively evaluated with the constructed indices of relative productivity and relative production efficiency. Five indicators, including total length of railways in operation, length of railways per square kilometers, passenger-kilometers, ton-kilometers and labor productivity are used to calculate the index of relative productivity. For calculating the index of the relative production efficiency, there are four indicators: the total length of railways in operation, coaches and wagons stock in use and the total operation labors as inputs; two indicators: passenger-kilometers and ton-kilometers as outputs. There are six rail sectors of different countries including the U. S., Germany, France, Russia, Japan and India which are used as the samples to compare with Chinese railway. Results show that Chinese railway has been in the leading position in both the relative productivity and the relative production efficiency. It indicates that the production capacity, technical efficiency and scale efficiency of Chinese railway have been brought into full play and the resources have been effectively utilized.