Shortening physical distances, linking people, connecting parts of the world, China's high-speed railway is even more than that. "It's part of what we want to take from China," says Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the president of the China-Venezuela Parliamentary Friendship Group, also son of current Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Commemorating 50 years of friendship between China and Venezuela, he notes that Venezuela aims to learn from China's development model and to build the "Venezuelan dream" like the Chinese have been doing with the "Chinese dream."