China is building its first high-speed railway training school in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.
The training base, which covers a total area of 210,000 square meters, will be completed within a year. China invested RMB3 billion (US$450 million) in the facility.
Initially the base will handle the training of 13,000 people a year but this should grow to 24,000 by 2020. Training will focus on 20 positions, including driver, engineer and controller.
The base will also be a center to carry out research and development in order to display China’s scientific and technological achievements.
Beijing Review.com.cn quoted the Ministry of Railways as saying that by the end of 2012, the operational length of China’s railways will reach 13,000 kilometres, and China will replace Japan and Germany as the country with the longest high-speed railway network in the world.
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