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China on Thursday rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed top speed of 600 km per hour in the eastern city of Qingdao.
The debut of China's first high-speed maglev train testing prototype marks a major breakthrough for the country in the high-speed maglev transit system.
The testing prototype, which has one car only, can check and optimize the key technologies and core system components of the high-speed maglev system and lay a technological basis for the forthcoming engineering prototype, said Ding Sansan, head of the train's research and development team and deputy chief engineer of CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., the train builder.
China is the third-largest country in the world by area. If they successfully implement a high-speed rail network, will American objections to scale finally be overcome?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @04:45PM (1 child)
An arguably high speed 430 km/h maglev has been operating on a point to point link between Shanghai Pudong and the airport for close to 20 years.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 26 2019, @06:34PM
Yeah, but that is a Transrapid; [wikipedia.org] a German product (of which the only one ever built other than a test track was the one in Shanghai). The new ones are China-built ones.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.