Consider this and weep
I know you’re trolling but I’ll still bite. China’s farms don’t exist in the same way the US’s do. If you look at their villages it’s a cluster of houses and the farmland is on the outside of the village. So laying rail and putting in trains doesn’t really harm the “peasants and farmers” you’re talking about. Relatively few people live in fuck off no where in their own house like they do in the US.