A train runs on Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway during its trial operation, in Shanghai, east China, Oct. 18, 2010. The train CRH380A, setting a new speed record of 416.6 kilometers per hour, will make its debut operation officially at the end of this month. The ticket prices and the operation time table will be released this week.
China Railway Major Bridge Reconnaissance and Design Institute CO., Ltd. announced - during a ceremony marking 60 years since its foundation - that China has started to develop a new generation of high-speed train with a maximum operating speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
He Wuhua, with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in Wuhan, Hubei Province, that China is making efforts to study the systems dynamic of a high speed railway with a speed between 400 to 500 kilometers per hour.
The train CRH380A of the Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway set a new speed record of 416.6 kilometers per hour during its trial operation in Shanghai on September 28.
China has the world's longest high-speed rail network with about 7,055 kilometers of routes in service as of last month.
source: Global Times
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