[photopress:high_speed_train.jpg,full,alignright]Lang Guoping, deputy head of the preparation team with the Beijing-Shanghai passenger line company, said while attending the fifth session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), that construction of the high-speed railway between Beijing and Shanghai, currently awaiting green light from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), will start this year.
He said, ‘The NDRC is reviewing the feasibility report of the project . . . It will get approved sooner or later this year.’ Once completed, trains on the express railway will go faster than 350 kph which means the nine-hour trips shortens to five hours.
Lang Guoping said more than 80% of the high-speed trains will be manufactured in China and only 10 to 15% of trains will be imported. China has set up joint ventures with Siemens of Germany, Alsthom of France, Bombardier of Canada and Kawasaki of Japan to produce the trains.
Source: English People Daily