In short, the railway transport sector development strategy is a serious practical problem, but also is a major theoretical issue through the development of China's history of railway construction and railway industry review and comparative analysis of Chinese and foreign, it is easy to arrive at the railway transport industry material weak foundation conclusion that there is a problem of shortage of transport capacity, and only these were not enough, the key issue is: how rail transport industry the rapid advances in technology, intense competition in the industry under the conditions of the times and to determine their own development strategies how to achieve their own development strategies.