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Gallery: 'Mao Zedong' locomotive officially put into service (7)

(People's Daily Online)    10:21, December 26, 2014
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Train conductor Liu Yufeng(L) and his associate make a gesture before departure. (Xinhua News Agency/Li Xin)

Friday is the 121st anniversary of Mao's birth.

A steam locomotive was named after Mao on Oct. 30, 1946 in Harbin City in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The locomotive traveled southward with the People's Liberation Army in 1949.

In 1978, steam was replaced by diesel at the Dalian Locomotive Plant. The new model is electric and belongs to the Beijing Railway Bureau.

The "Mao Zedong" boasts safe operations for 9.63 million kilometers over the past 68 years. It is a witness of the rapid development of China's railway sector. 


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