Abstract:

2. Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China）Abstract： It is of strategic importance for China to vigorously develop highspeed railways so as to promoteregional coordinated development since against the backdrop of the Belt and Road Initiative,highspeed railways are channels and carriers for domestic interconnectivity and international coordinated development.XuzhouLanzhou highspeed railway was selected for quantitative data analysis due to its important position as a transportation hub to connect cities along the Belt and Road. The research is to find out the potential effect of the XuzhouLanzhou highspeed railway on the cities along the railway in terms of economic growth, accessibility and economic potential. It further discusses the effect on coordinated reginal development in the perspective ofpolitical economics based on the result of quantitative analysis. The results indicate that although the highspeed railway has no significant effect on the economic growth of the cities along the railway in the short term, it will help elevate accessibility and economic potential and narrow the gap between developed regions and lessdeveloped regions to some extent, thus promotingregional coordinated development in the long run.