Sure... So?
This is normal, when the lessons of a long development path can be short-circuited by those who already know the end of a particular technological development chain.
Rather than building the roads first, then waiting until those arteries are full-to-bursting, before considering their next steps, Chinese leaders have taken the hard lessons of the West into their first consideration. Hence their early development of "stealth" fighter jets and high-speed trains (we leave aside, for the moment, where they might have GOTTEN some of those technologies).
In truth, while Europe's roads provided the routes for transport of the materials and skill needed for their high-speed trains, there are in fact MANY ways of effectively moving items and workers for such a project, including by air.
This said, China does have one glaring handicap in the way of effective modernization. They are a new country full of imagining minds, many of whom are new to technology. This leads to the fertile imagination of many new systems that have overriding problems, and will NEVER be built because of them -- such as the road-straddling bus that was presented as a future transportation option a couple of years ago. Mass casualties would have attended the first accidents involving such a vehicle, and it now appears that those in charge may have (thankfully) thought twice concerning it.
