China rewrites global high-speed rail pattern in six years (2)

In 2010, the high speed train CRH380A researched and manufactured by China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation Limited (CSR) refreshed the global highest speed of operation test of 486.1 kilometers per hour during a combined test in 2010.

China launched the fastest high-speed rail train with speed of 500 kilometers per hour in December 2011. The manufacturer CSR increased the train speed to 600 kilometers per hour during a test, which makes it the fastest train in the world.

China’s high speed railway going abroad

According to incomplete statistics, important members of governments or international organizations from more than 30 countries have used the Beijing-Tianjin high speed train for more than 200 times since China’s high speed railway started operating.

“Facility demands of importing advanced technologies, designing and manufacturing own brand makes China’s high speed railway the late-moved advantages”, Sun Zhang from the Institute of Railway and Urban Mass Transit under Tongji University said, “China has the technologies of high speed railway and the advantage of low cost, which makes China’s high speed railway system attractive for other countries”.

Countries like Russia or United States put forward cooperation with China to import high speed railway technologies. China’s high speed railway not only changed domestic railway pattern but also changed the world.
　
China and Russia signed a memorandum to develop high speed railway two months after the Wuhan-Guangdong railway began to operate in October, 2009. In November, 2009, U.S. General Electric Company signed a memorandum with China’s Ministry of Railways.

Chinese locomotive equipments of high speed railway manufactured for Turkey arrived in Istanbul in July, 2011. Because of technology and price advantages, China signed cooperation contracts with countries like Laos, Thailand, Brazil, etc. China has also reached agreement with Myanmar, Poland, India and Asian countries to cooperate in high speed railway area.