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posted by mrpg on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the woosh dept.

China is once again operating the world's fastest train service after a speed cap was lifted:

China increased the maximum speed of bullet trains on the Shanghai-Beijing line to 350 kilometers per hour yesterday, six years after a fatal accident led to a speed cap. The limit was reduced to 300kph after 40 people died in a high-speed train crash near Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, in July 2011.

The decision to increase the speed means that China once again has the world's fastest train service. The new limit cuts the time of the 1,318-kilometer journey between Shanghai and the capital to four hours and 28 minutes, saving passengers nearly an hour. A total of 14 trains a day will run between the two cities at the higher speed.

Also at Xinhua and NextBigFuture.


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  • (Score: 1) by Guppy on Saturday September 23 2017, @11:11PM (1 child)

    by Guppy (3213) on Saturday September 23 2017, @11:11PM (#572188)

    Those trains were a previous generation based on foreign designs.

    That's the best part of pirating IP. When everything is working great, you can toot your own horn to your countrymen that it was manufactured right at home in China. When things go to shit, you can blame the accident on the foreign designers you copied!

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 24 2017, @05:06PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday September 24 2017, @05:06PM (#572372) Journal

    China's joint venture framework has been a great way to facilitate that piracy. The Chinese JV partner gets 51%, the foreign partner with the investment capital and know-how gets 49%. They build a factory together, take a couple years to have the foreigners train up the Chinese, then the Chinese partner pulls strings to get the foreign partner kicked out of the country with nothing. (Haha, laowai, you thought you could take advantage of China, but China take advantage of you!)

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    Washington DC delenda est.