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New railway plan to speed up travel on some routes
By Wang Keju | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-03-22 13:54
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A Fuxing bullet train makes its debut on the Beijing-Shanghai line. [Photo/VCG]

A new railway operating plan will be implemented starting April 10, China Railway Corporation said Friday.

Under the new plan, Fuxing bullet trains will be operating between Beijing and Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, reducing the travel time to within three hours, nearly an hour shorter than before, it said.

High-speed passenger trains will also be used between Beijing and Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, cutting the travel time by 50 minutes to nearly 7.5 hours.

For the first time, Lanzhou and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, will be connected by bullet trains, with the travel time to shorten to about six hours and 50 minutes, about five hours less than before.
 
New railway plan to speed up travel on some routes
By Wang Keju | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-03-22 13:54
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A Fuxing bullet train makes its debut on the Beijing-Shanghai line. [Photo/VCG]

A new railway operating plan will be implemented starting April 10, China Railway Corporation said Friday.

Under the new plan, Fuxing bullet trains will be operating between Beijing and Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, reducing the travel time to within three hours, nearly an hour shorter than before, it said.

High-speed passenger trains will also be used between Beijing and Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, cutting the travel time by 50 minutes to nearly 7.5 hours.

For the first time, Lanzhou and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, will be connected by bullet trains, with the travel time to shorten to about six hours and 50 minutes, about five hours less than before.
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Why Fuxing bullet train do “push-ups”

(People's Daily Overseas New Media) 11:16, March 22, 2019


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Gif photos of a Fuxing bullet train under maintenance have gone viral on Chinese social media as the giant machine goes up and down in the photo as if doing push-ups.

Two Fuxing bullet trains on Monday arrived in an advanced maintenance workshop in Beijing for the first level-three maintenance in the high-speed rail section of the workshop. After running for 1.2 million kilometers, the bullet trains must undergo a level-three checkup and a level-four is required after running for 2.4 million kilometers.

A level-three check mainly inspects the bogie, the framework that carries wheelsets. The most important part of the inspection process is to separate the vehicle from the bogie with the train’s lifting equipment.

The gross weight of a Fuxing set is about 450 tonnes, which is equivalent to more than 200 automobiles. Hence, to hoist this giant, a special lift-up apparatus is deployed, which is able to support over 1,088 tonnes.

The short-model Fuxing train (CR400AF) has a total length of 208.95 meters, with a closely compacted vehicle bottom and bogie. During the hoist process, it is necessary to ensure that the lifting height of each train is consistent. No lapses are allowed.

To guarantee travel safety, China’s bullet trains undergo various checkups after entering service. Level-four, the highest level of maintenance, tests the performance of each component of the entire train.

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Why Fuxing bullet train do “push-ups”

(People's Daily Overseas New Media) 11:16, March 22, 2019


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Gif photos of a Fuxing bullet train under maintenance have gone viral on Chinese social media as the giant machine goes up and down in the photo as if doing push-ups.

Two Fuxing bullet trains on Monday arrived in an advanced maintenance workshop in Beijing for the first level-three maintenance in the high-speed rail section of the workshop. After running for 1.2 million kilometers, the bullet trains must undergo a level-three checkup and a level-four is required after running for 2.4 million kilometers.

A level-three check mainly inspects the bogie, the framework that carries wheelsets. The most important part of the inspection process is to separate the vehicle from the bogie with the train’s lifting equipment.

The gross weight of a Fuxing set is about 450 tonnes, which is equivalent to more than 200 automobiles. Hence, to hoist this giant, a special lift-up apparatus is deployed, which is able to support over 1,088 tonnes.

The short-model Fuxing train (CR400AF) has a total length of 208.95 meters, with a closely compacted vehicle bottom and bogie. During the hoist process, it is necessary to ensure that the lifting height of each train is consistent. No lapses are allowed.

To guarantee travel safety, China’s bullet trains undergo various checkups after entering service. Level-four, the highest level of maintenance, tests the performance of each component of the entire train.

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Chinese maglev train capable of travelling at 600km/h on track for 2020 test run as design completed | South China Morning Post
News confirmed by Liang Jianying of state-owned CRRC Qingdao Sifang, the first and only female chief engineer in China’s high-speed train manufacturing industry

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 October, 2018, 7:00am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 October, 2018, 10:59am

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The design for the prototype of China’s first maglev train with a top speed of 600km/h (373mph) has been completed, according to the chief engineer of the country’s leading high-speed train manufacturer.

Liang Jianying from state-owned CRRC Qingdao Sifang said: “We have completed the design for the prototype of the maglev train and started on production of parts.”

Liang was in Hong Kong and speaking on the sidelines of the InnoTech Expo organised by Our Hong Kong Foundation – a think tank set up by former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa – on Friday.

Although the train is designed to hit a top speed of 600km/h, she said the company was aiming for a “maximum operating speed” of 550km/h.

The train and a comprehensive maglev transport system around it are expected to fill the service gap between the high-speed rail network and aviation. High-speed trains usually operate at speeds of between 200km/h and 400km/h.

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Maglev technology moves trains on magnetic fields. Because there is no contact with the tracks and the trains ‘float’, they can travel at higher speeds without friction.

China starts trial run of first home-designed and built maglev rail line
The maglev system was a key project under China’s 13th five-year economic and social development plan rolled out in 2016. As a subsidiary of China’s largest train maker CRRC, Qingdao Sifang has been tasked to complete the first model and a 5km test rail by 2020.

The company is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-speed trains in China, including being behind the Vibrant Express and Fuxing Express running on the recently launched Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, which connects Hong Kong to the mainland.

Liang said the escalating US-China trade war would not harm the development of China’s high-speed train industry.

“We indeed conduct global procurement of parts for our trains but only a very small portion is bought from the United States,” said Liang, who has been overseeing major high-speed train designs in Qingdao Sifang since 2006.

“Moreover, we can find substitutes on the mainland,” she added.

Liang also emphasised China has mastered many critical technologies in designing high-speed trains since the country launched its industry with models and parts imported from Japan in 2004.

“Our strategy has been one with three steps: import advance technologies from foreign countries, digest and absorb, and eventually develop our own innovations,” Liang said.


Liang and her team built model CRH380A, which has a top speed of 380km/h and has been widely used in China’s high-speed rail network. It was developed after two rounds of intellectual property rights examination in the US in 2010 and 2015.

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“More than 930 items of intellectual property were confirmed without any infringement,” Liang said. “This marks our comprehensive grasp of the technologies.”

By the end of 2017, the high-speed rail network on the mainland spanned 25,000km – the longest in the world.

Liang, 46, is the first and only female chief engineer in China’s high-speed train manufacturing industry.

“For engineers, to pursue higher speed on the basis of safety is an eternal goal,” Liang said.

She said Qingdao Sifang had sent engineers to the Shek Kong Depot of Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation to help monitor the high-speed train operation but did not disclose how long they would stay.

“For all the trains we make, we will provide supporting services throughout their life cycle, which is 25 years,” Liang said.
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【中车集团总经理:时速600公里磁悬浮列车今年将研制出样车】在23日举办的中国发展高层论坛上,中国中车集团公司总经理孙永才在回答中新经纬客户端提问时表示,时速600公里的磁悬浮列车预计今年将研制出样车,比之前的计划有所提前。
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[CRRC General Manager: 600 km/h maglev train will develop a prototype this year] At the China Development Forum held on the 23rd, Sun Yongcai, general manager of CRRC, responded to the question from Zhongxin Jingwei news Apps, saying that 600 km/h maglev train is expected to develop a prototype this year, ahead of previous plans.

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[CRRC General Manager: 600 km/h maglev train will develop a prototype this year] At the China Development Forum held on the 23rd, Sun Yongcai, general manager of CRRC, responded to the question from Zhongxin Jingwei news Apps, saying that 600 km/h maglev train is expected to develop a prototype this year, ahead of previous plans.

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March 24, 2019: The entire tracking of the Karamay-Tacheng Railway in Xinjiang was successfully completed (Tiechanggou to Tacheng Section)
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At 10:16 am on March 24, 500 meters east of the railway station under construction in Emin County, Xinjiang, with the completion of the laying of the last group of rails, the new railway from Tiemayi to Tacheng Railway, Tiechanggou to Tacheng Section The 172.4-kilometer track of the project has been successfully tracked, marking the completion of the Keta Railway Station's front-line project and laying a solid foundation for the opening of the Keta Railway as soon as possible.

The Keta Railway is located in the Karamay and Tacheng areas of the northern Xinjiang region of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is extracted from Karamay on the Kuibei railway line, and then goes to the northwest along the Muhutai River through the Baiyanghe coalfield and the iron-la mining area to the Tory County Iron. In the town of Changou, cross the two trees and pass through Maitas to Emin County, then northwest to Tacheng. The route crosses the Karamay City, the 9th Division of the Corps and the Tacheng area, making the railway network cover the last state in the Xinjiang, ending the history of the railway in the tower.

It is understood that the Keta Railway mechanical track laying time totals 142 days. The China Railway Shita General Contracting Project Department, which is responsible for the track-laying project, will use the newly adjusted construction organization design as the main line during the whole construction period to strengthen resource allocation and rationally optimize the construction period. Since the whole line of mechanical track laying operations on November 2, 2018, the builders have overcome the effects of freezing temperatures of minus 20 degrees in winter. In the “Devil Wind Zone”, the winds and winds of Mayitas are raging, and the visibility is less than three meters per day. When the mechanical track-laying distance can only be measured in meters, the railway builders overcome the difficulties and carry forward the spirit of struggle that is particularly hard-working and particularly capable of fighting. They give up the opportunity to reunite with their families during the Spring Festival and stick to the construction site in 2019. On March 1st, the track-laying operation triumphed out of the “Devil Wind Zone” of Maitas.

The entire Keta Railway has been laid and laid a solid foundation for the opening of the Keta Railway as soon as possible. After the line is completed and opened to traffic, it will benefit all ethnic groups in the Tacheng area, the road network coverage will be further extended, the road network structure will be further improved, the railway transportation capacity and service quality will be further improved, the railway supply will increase, and other modes of transportation will be built together. The comprehensive transportation system of the northern Xinjiang region plays an important supporting role for the economic and social development of the autonomous region, and contributes to the construction of the core transportation hub and trade logistics center in the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt in Xinjiang. (Lian Pengyu)

(China Daily Xinjiang reporter station)
新疆克塔铁路24日全线铺轨顺利贯通
中国日报网 2019-03-25 09:16:47

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24日上午10时16分,在新疆额敏县在建火车站东侧500米处,随着最后一组轨排的铺设完成,新建克拉玛依至塔城铁路铁厂沟至塔城段铁路工程全线172.4公里铺轨顺利贯通,标志着克塔铁路站前工程基本完工,为克塔铁路尽早开通运营打下了坚实的基础。

克塔铁路位于新疆维吾尔自治区北疆地区克拉玛依市和塔城地区,自奎北铁路线上的克拉玛依引出后,向西北沿木胡尔塔依河经白杨河煤田、铁喇矿区至托里县铁厂沟镇,再翻越两棵树垭口经玛依塔斯至额敏县,然后向西北至塔城市。线路横穿克拉玛依市、兵团九师和塔城地区,使得铁路网覆盖疆内最后一个地州,结束塔额盆地不通铁路的历史。

据了解,克塔铁路机械铺轨作业时间共计142天。负责铺轨项目的中国铁设克塔总包项目部在整个施工期间,以最新调整的施工组织设计为主线,加强资源配置,合理优化工期。自2018年11月2日全线机械铺轨作业以来,建设者克服冬季零下二十几度严寒天气的影响,在“魔鬼风区”玛依塔斯风吹雪天气肆虐、现场能见度不足三米、每日机械铺轨推进距离只能用米计量的情况下,铁路建设者克服重重困难,发扬“特别能吃苦、特别能战斗”的奋斗精神,放弃春节期间与家人团圆的机会,坚守施工现场,于2019年3月1日铺轨作业胜利冲出玛依塔斯“魔鬼风区”。

克塔铁路全线铺轨贯通,为克塔铁路尽早开通运营奠定了坚实的基础。该线路建成通车后,将惠及塔城地区各族群众,路网覆盖面进一步延伸,路网结构进一步完善,铁路运输能力和服务质量进一步提高,铁路有效性供给增加,并与其他交通方式将共同构建北疆区域综合交通运输体系,共同为自治区经济社会发展起到重要的支撑作用,为新疆建设丝绸之路经济带核心区交通枢纽中心和商贸物流中心作出应有贡献。(连鹏宇)

(中国日报新疆记者站)
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New railway plan to speed up travel on some routes
By Wang Keju | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-03-22 13:54
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A Fuxing bullet train makes its debut on the Beijing-Shanghai line. [Photo/VCG]

A new railway operating plan will be implemented starting April 10, China Railway Corporation said Friday.

Under the new plan, Fuxing bullet trains will be operating between Beijing and Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, reducing the travel time to within three hours, nearly an hour shorter than before, it said.

High-speed passenger trains will also be used between Beijing and Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, cutting the travel time by 50 minutes to nearly 7.5 hours.

For the first time, Lanzhou and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, will be connected by bullet trains, with the travel time to shorten to about six hours and 50 minutes, about five hours less than before.
New railway plan speeds up some travel times
By Chen Ziyan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-04-10 11:44
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A Fuxing bullet train departs from Tianjin on April 9, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

A new railway operating plan starting from April 10 has increased the country's passenger and freight train capacity, according the national railway operator.

Under the new plan, Fuxing bullet trains will operate between Beijing and Qingdao in East China's Shandong province, cutting travel time between the two cities to within 3 hours, 49 minutes less than before.

The running time of high-speed trains between Beijing and Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province, will also shorten to about 7.5 hours, compared to more than 8 hours previously.

Lanzhou and Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, will be connected by bullet trains for the first time, with the travel time to decrease to about 6 hours and 50 minutes, about 5 hours less than before.

To better facilitate the development of Xiongan New Area, 10 more trains will stop at Baiyangdian Station in Hebei province.

In addition, 1,203 pairs of normal-speed trains are now operating nationwide, with 81 pairs of public welfare slow trains continuing to operate, to meet the diverse needs of passengers.
 
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Behind Fuxing bullet trains' 420 km/h test: Not just about speed
By Guo Meiping

On July 15, 2016, two China-standard EMU trains passed in opposite directions at 420 km/h in an experiment conducted by China Railway Corporation, setting a world record.

The experiment was carried out on the Zhengzhou-Xuzhou high-speed railway, and completed tests include China Standard EMU running energy consumption, vibration noise and dynamics properties of trains.

Huang Jin, an associate researcher of Locomotive & Car Research Institute of China Academy of Railway Sciences, was the team leader of this experiment.

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Huang told CGTN that the main purpose of the experiment was to learn about the change rule of technical parameters of the continuity interval between 200-420 km/h and explore the characteristics of parameter variation above 400 km/h in order to better serve future technological advancement for Fuxing bullet trains.

"We formed a temporary team of more than 40 people, including experts in train traction, dynamics and vibration noise," said Huang.

The highest test speed of single train reached 428.6 km/h, and the passing speed reached 420 km/h during the experiment. Besides speed, another important achievement was the interconnection between the two trains.

"The two trains are produced by different manufacturers," Huang said, adding that trains from different manufacturers couldn't connect with one and other in the past.

"Now they can connect, and also reach 420 km/h. This is rare in other countries."

For research personnel like Huang, the most important significance of the experiment was the data they collected, which provided them a better understanding of Fuxing bullet trains.

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On July 15, 2016, two China-standard EMU trains passed in opposite directions at 420 km/h in an experiment conducted by China Railway Corporation, setting a world record. /Gif via CCTV+

"That was the first time for us to collect data above 400 km/h from a field test," he said. "This is very useful in terms of upgrading the current Fuxing trains and developing a new generation of a high-speed train."

The current highest operating speed for the Fuxing bullet trains is 350 km/h.

Huang said that the Automatic Train Protection (ATP), brake and traction devices are not designed for long-term use under a speed above 350 km/h. But they can handle short-term experiments.

The test speed of 420 km/h was decided after evaluation, which can meet engineers' demands of data collection, and ensure safety.

The lead engineer told CGTN that exploring high speed was only one task of the experiment; the focus was to go deep and refine the Fuxing's performance.

"It's for practical uses after all... it's meant to be used better and to better serve the passengers," said Huang.
 
Mega service station for high-speed trains in Kunming
2019-05-10 10:52:37Ecns.cnEditor :Li Yan

Aerial photo shows a service station for high-speed trains in Kunming City, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, May 9, 2019. Nearly 30 workers helped lay the last rail measuring 25 meters in length and weighing 2.5 tons on Thursday, completing the rail-laying work for the service station. Successful expansion of the station will improve the use and maintenance of high-speed trains in Yunnan, also making it the largest such service station in southwest China. (Photo: China News Service/Miu Chao)

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China’s high-speed rail carries record 10 billion passengers
Source:Global Times Published: 2019/5/12 22:14:17

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China's high-speed railway had transported more than 10 billion passengers by the end of the first quarter of 2019, a new world record, China Railway said on Saturday.

By the end of March, the total volume was "3.34 trillion passenger-kilometers," China Railway said in a statement released on its official WeChat.

China had almost 30,000 kilometers of high-speed railway track in 2018, twice as long as the rest of the world's railways combined, the statement noted.

High-speed rail is proving an increasingly popular option for travelers in China. Railway authorities recorded more than 2 billion high-speed trips in 2018, an annual increase of nearly 17 percent, or over three-fifths of all rail passengers.

China's volume of railway passenger transport, freight volume, transport density and other major transport economic indicators consistently ranks first in the world, China Railway said.

Since China's first Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway in 2008, China has been the world No.1 in terms of operating mileage, the statement noted.

The Fuxing bullet trains, which went into operation in 2017, have carried nearly 200 million passengers with an average passenger load of 75 percent, 1.3 percent higher than other high-speed trains, according to China Railway.

China will see 850 Fuxing high-speed trains put into service by the end of this year.
 
Construction finishes on new section of China's longest coal rail
Source: Xinhua| 2019-05-17 20:13:10|Editor: Li Xia

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Constructors of China Railway First Group work on tracks in Yichuan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 17, 2019. China's longest coal transport route, Menghua railway, has completed track laying on its Inner Mongolia-Shaanxi section, the constructor said Friday. The 1,837-km Menghua railway, which ends in the city of Ji'an, east China's Jiangxi Province, will be the longest heavy-loaded railway in the country when completed in October, with an annual delivery capacity of 200 million tonnes. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)

XI'AN, May 17 (Xinhua) -- China's longest coal transport route, Menghua railway, has completed track laying on its Inner Mongolia-Shaanxi section, the constructor said Friday.

With a total length of 418 km, the section was started in March 2018, linking the city of Ordos in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with Yichuan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Workers overcame a complicated construction environment to lay the tracks across the Maowusu desert and the Wuding River, an anabranch of the Yellow River.

T-girders, each weighing 300 tonnes, were used in construction for heavy haul railways, said Cai Hongbin from Xinyun Engineering Co. Ltd. of China Railway First Group, the constructor.

The 1,837-km Menghua railway, which ends in the city of Ji'an, east China's Jiangxi Province, will be the longest heavy-loaded railway in the country when completed in October, with an annual delivery capacity of 200 million tonnes.
 
Sichuan-Tibet Railway to see high-speed trains at 200 km/h
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The Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the second railway line linking the Tibet autonomous region to other parts of China, will operate high-speed trains with a designed running speed of 200 kilometers per hour, thecover.cn reported.

China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co Ltd, which is designing the line, revealed a draft plan on Wednesday that trains on the whole Sichuan-Tibet line will travel with a designated speed of 200 km/h, with some segments limited to 160 km/h.

The 1,600-kilometer-long line under construction is designed to start from Chengdu, pass through Ya'an and Kangding, then enter Tibet via Qamdo and end at Lhasa. The 140-kilometer Chengdu-Ya'an high-speed railway, which serves part of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, started operation last year with a maximum speed of 200 km/h.

The Ya'an-Nyingchi section is believed to be one of the world's most challenging railway projects to build, as it will traverse the southeast portion of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which has intricate and difficult geological conditions.

Previous reports said that 80 percent of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway will consist of tunnels and bridges, and the cumulative ascent of the line will exceed 16,000 meters, which is equivalent to double the height of Qomolangma, the world's highest mountain also known as Mount Everest.

When the line is completed, the travel time by rail between Chengdu and Lhasa will shorten from 48 hours to about 13 hours.
 
China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
Source: Xinhua| 2019-05-23 13:03:49|Editor: Liangyu

QINGDAO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed top speed of 600 km per hour in the eastern city of Qingdao.

The debut of China's first high-speed maglev train testing prototype marks a major breakthrough for the country in the high-speed maglev transit system.

The testing prototype can check and optimize the key technologies and core system components of the high-speed maglev system and lay a technological basis for the forthcoming engineering prototype, said Ding Sansan, head of the train's research and development team and deputy chief engineer of CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., the train builder.

"Now the prototype has achieved static levitation and is in good condition," Ding said.

The train builder is currently building an experimental center and a trial production center for the high-speed maglev trains and expected to put them into operation in the second half of the year, he said.

The research and development of a five-carriage engineering prototype are going smoothly.

The engineering prototype is scheduled to roll off the production line in 2020 and go through comprehensive tests to finish integrated verification in 2021.

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