China’s bullet trains facilitate market integration and mitigate the cost of megacity growth

[kawaraj]

it so like Japan in North Japan, hard working people.

Good achievement of China, I wonder why Japan and China is not united for building high speed rail system in the world.

 

[Aepsilons]

China's giant train makers expected to merge

28.10.2014

China's top two train producers have been reported to be in merger talks in a bid to halt their unproductive rivalry and compete better with Western companies. Exporting Chinese technology is seen as key.



China's top train makers, CNR and CSR, are currently engaged in merger talks, state media reported Tuesday.

The official China Securities Journal claimed the firms had already set up working groups to discuss the details of the integration, which aimed at creating a giant able to compete globally with the likes of Germany's Siemens and Canada's Bombardier.

The two Chinese companies have been fierce rivals in selling their technology abroad, and analysts have argued a merger would enable them to profit from a joint technology base.

Moving fast

China succeeded in building the world's longest high-speed train network in less than a decade. Its leading train producers have frequently voiced their desire to become a larger technology exporter. CSR, for its part, said at Germany's Innotrans railway technology fair in mid-September that it was aiming to boost its activities on the European market.

A merged CNR-CSR would have combined annual revenue of $32.7 billion (25.7 billion euros), based on 2013 company data.

Profiting from an 80-billion-euro government investment program this year, the two companies are expected to produce about 300 new high-speed trains annually. According to German news agency dpa, that is more than Deutsche Bahn's total ICE rolling stock.

A wise strategic decision. Good to see the success of Chinese HSR !

 

[cirr]

Permanent magnet synchronous motor（PMSM）traction system for a new generation of HSR trains：

passed ground tests with commercial operations set for 2017：

http://www.sn.xinhuanet.com/2014-11/06/c_1113139684.htm

 

[ljlovermb]

what the hell is wrong with you. For rich people? This is for the basic worker. can you not do math? Cnelio already posted the price and average income.

All my relatives earn more than 10,000 rmb a month, some way more, taking a train is like taking a cab, but they got cars, and they all live in the same province as our grandparents and parents.

I sometimes take the rails if I got time, but usually I don't so only took it that one time. Also not in China as much as I want to.

a 300 to 600 ticket is not a big amount, even for factory workers, who usually earn 2,500-3000 as a minimum.

You do know maids at Shanghai go for as high as 20,000+ rmb a month and even the lower end ones go for 3,000 as a part time maid.


WE ARE NOT VIETNAM, we beat Vietnam not by having more people but we are 4+ times your per capita, and more if we take into account your population is way less, so the number is a more diluted as a result.

greate! Don't put Chinese imagine as so poor as Vietnam well

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

it so like Japan in North Japan, hard working people.

Good achievement of China, I wonder why Japan and China is not united for building high speed rail system in the world.

We're knife throwing at each other geopolitically, it's hard to find a mecanism for cooperation, China and Japn both want to sell their own high speed trains into the market unless if China-Japan form a consortium such as Airbus style, otherwise it's mostl likely one will compete against other.

These Uyghurs ladies are so lovely, hope Xinjiang region's economy will catch up the coastal cities soon.

 

[cirr]

Nanchang-Ganzhou HSR got approved

Jiangxi Province, Central China.

Total length: 419.6 km
Design speed: 250 km/h
Cost: 50.75 billion yuan
Construction: 5 years

 

[cirr]

Subway lines opened in 2014:

27 lines totalling 490.4km

 

[TaiShang]

China to build five railway lines costing $25bn
18 November 2014 | By Joe Quirke

China’s National Development and Reform Commission has approved the construction of five railway lines worth a total of $25bn.

The lines will be in Gansu and Inner Mongolia, near China’s northern border with Russia, the southern provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi and the central province of Sichuan.

China Railway Corporation, the national operator, has said it will raise its annual investment by $3.3bn to $120bn in 2014 to increase it build programme.

Gary Wong, an analyst at Guotai Junan Securities, said some of the investments approved by the end of this year might be implemented next year and the year after. He told the South China Morning Post that it would be difficult to maintain this level of investment in the longer term because of the sector’s heavy debts.

China Railway inherited $460bn worth of debt from its predecessor, the Ministry of Railways, much of it denominated in construction bonds.

In August the government announced that it would allow rail companies to generate income from property development and the construction of hubs to connect with local bus and taxi service, and that it would aim to attract private investment.

The Development Commission recently approved infrastructure projects worth $113bn.

The newly approved infrastructure and rail projects are expected to bolster growth and investment in China’s slowing economy, which has declined to 7.3% this quarter, the lowest since the financial crisis in 2007.

 

[TaiShang]

China masters core technology of high-speed train

China has independently created core components of a high speed train, a breakthrough in the effort to make manufacturing of this type of train fully Chinese.

China CNR Corporation (CNR) said on Tuesday that the company has successfully produced two core components, a traction electric driver and a network control system, through independent research and development.

The company's CRH5A train model equipped with the two parts will soon finish its 5,000 km-test, the last testing stage, in north China's Harbin, CNR said.

 

[TaiShang]

The Nanchang-Hangzhou section of Hu-Kun (Shanghai-Kunming) high speed railway will start operation by the end of this year. No visible joints can be found along the 350-kilometer track, which is set to serve the highest speed of 582 kilometers per hour. Trains will run on the track smoothly with no noisy sound.

Xiangtang welding workshop in Nanchang is one of the 11 welding workshops for railway tracks in China. Welding work of 1,254 kilometers’ track of the Hu-kun high speed rail line is done by this workshop.

Five 100-meter-long tracks will be firstly joined to form a 500-meter-long track through welding, and then workers will transport these longer tracks to the construction site and weld them to a seamless track lying along the rail line.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Interesting, live in less expensive region and use high speed train for work

 

[cirr]

Interesting, live in less expensive region and use high speed train for work

The first high-speed commuter train started operating several days ago between Beijing and Langfang，Hebei Province。

 

[ahojunk]

China is successful in Malaysian High Speed Rail

According to Shanghai's National Business Daily, on Nov. 30, CSR Zhuahou Electric Locomotive was successful in a high-speed locomotive bid in Kuala Lumpur, several days after CNR signed an agreement with ERL, a Malaysian airport express transport firm, for the procurement of 24 locomotives.

Industry insiders regard these two deals as the forerunner to more deals to come.

Since entering the Malaysian market in 2010, CSR Zhuahou Electric Locomotive has landed six orders totaling 8 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) in supplying 98 locomotives to Malaysia.

The high-speed locomotives developed by CSR Zhuahou Electric Locomotive will run along the airport express route at 160 km/h following their delivery starting in late May 2016.

 

[cirr]

Hangzhou-Changsha HSR to open next Wednesday 10.12.2014。

G85 will be the fastest train between the two cities and also between Shanghai and Guangzhou：

Hangzhou-Changsha
Total length: 933 km
Fastest train: G85 - 3 hours and 36 minutes

Shanghai-Guangzhou
Total length: 1799 km
Fastest train: G85 - 6 hours and 51 minutes

 

[TaiShang]

Construction begins on Chengdu-Ya'an section of Sichuan-Tibet railway

Work began on the rail line from Chengdu, capital of southwest Sichuan Province to Ya'an, a city in the province on Saturday.

The 42-km Chengdu-Ya'an section is an important part of the Sichuan-Tibet railway, and will have a journey time of about eight hours from Chengdu to Lhasa, capitals of Sichuan the Tibet .

Transport is a bottleneck for tourism in Tibet and currently, there is no direct railway service between the two cities. After completion, the Sichuan-Tibet railway will connect with the Qinghai-Tibet railway.