Why doesn't the Beijing-Shanghai line go closer to northern Jiangsu instead of Anhui?

The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway entered Anhui after leaving Xuzhou. Why not go to the hilly areas of Anhui instead of northern Jiangsu? In fact, this has always been the pain point of Jiangsu railway construction. There are many reasons for the lag of high-speed rail construction in northern Jiangsu. First of all, although the Subei Plain is Ma Pingchuan, it is not suitable for railway transportation because of its many ditches, nets and branches and soft geology.

Therefore, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway on the Beijing-Shanghai line started from Xuzhou and went directly to Anhui, and did not return to Jiangsu until Nanjing. If geological conditions permit, who will build the railway instead of taking the plain and the hilly areas of Anhui unless the brain is wide open? During the Huaihai Campaign, Du's 300,000 troops fled and refused to go to Jiangsu. Why? Not only because of geological problems, the heavily armed regiment went from Jiangsu to Nanjing, but it was trapped in the mud and couldn't get out.

Of course, it's fine now, and there are technical conditions to repair it. However, during the railway development in previous years, the provincial railway planning submitted by Jiangsu has not been approved. Later, Jiangsu got the policy and set up its own railway company (the first province in China to set up a provincial railway company), and the high-speed rail in the province paid its own money. Finally, the construction of high-speed rail in the province has been fully rolled out!

Therefore, the underdevelopment of Jiangsu railway was caused by geological conditions before, and later because the construction plan was delayed for a long time. There are many similar dilemmas in Jiangsu, such as airport construction. Is Suzhou rich? I have long wanted to build the airport, but I am still on a long journey. In fact, which city in southern Jiangsu can't afford to repair the airport? But it's not about money.

Whether or not to build railways, airports and ports, where to build them and how big they are, is not up to the local authorities at all. Otherwise, the passenger flow of Xuzhou East Station, a hub station with platform 14, will not be much worse than that of hangzhou east railway station, but why is the waiting room built like the county station, which is crowded with people every day and there is no room for a station?

Don't Xuzhou want to build a big one? Of course not, it's the arrogance of planning. Some people always take it for granted that 8000 square meters is enough for a prefecture-level city. Later, Xuzhou City used both hardware and software, and the Iron General agreed to expand to the present scale, 1.5 million square meters, which was twice as fast as the vegetable market, and Xuzhou paid for the expansion.

The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway entered Anhui after leaving Xuzhou. Why not go to the hilly areas of Anhui instead of northern Jiangsu? To sum up, this is caused by various reasons, so you can say that other places in Jiangsu are not doing well enough, but Jiangsu is not unwilling or unable to carry out railway infrastructure, just because of historical and practical reasons, it is too heavy!