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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 20 2021, @07:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-there-before-you-leave dept.

World's first 600km/h high-speed maglev train to make public debut in Qingdao:

The world's first high-speed maglev transportation system running at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour [(372 mph)] will make its public debut in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, on Tuesday.

As the fastest ground vehicle available so far, the system, self-developed by China, is a cutting-edge scientific and technological achievement in the field of rail transit in the world, said China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Qingdao Sifang Co., LTD., an industrialization base for manufacturing high-speed trains in China.

The high speed maglev train will be suspended, driven and guided without contact between the train and the track by means of electromagnetic force, with its resistance only coming from the air, said Liang Jianying, deputy general manager and chief engineer of CRRC Sifang.

As a new mode of high-speed traffic, the train is safe, reliable and has low noise pollution, small vibration, large passenger capacity and needs less maintenance, he said, saying that it can fill the speed gap between high-speed rail, whose maximum operating speed is 350 km/h [(217 mph)], and aircraft, whose cruising speed is 800 to 900 km/h [(500 to 560 mph)].

[...] Although the maglev prototype train is about to be rolled off the production line, there is no track line for the 600 km/h high speed maglev train in China yet.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:42PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:42PM (#1158929)

    I didn't call you an expat. And like I said, I didn't know Chinese culture froze when your wife and friends all left. And what is this? the term dates back to at least 2009 in English [wikipedia.org] and 2007 in Chinese [wikipedia.org] Wikipedia. There are also millions of hits on the various search engines, many to Chinese language news sources and pages. What power YouTube must have on culture. No wonder the Great Firewall tries to block it.

  • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:52PM (4 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:52PM (#1158932)

    >Chinese culture

    No, it didn't freeze since 2019 when I was in China last. But the Chinese *gasp* don't speak English in China. What you're talking about is a redneck racist translation of a mandarin word that they do use. An English word. Which no one but the rednecks use.

    >Chinese language news sources
    My point exactly. They do use the Chinese word. It just doesn't translate to the English word you claim it translates to.

    By your logic, since you get a lot hits when you google for "china virus" it means that's the term to use. It is. If you also think the election was stolen and forest fires are started by jew space lasers.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @11:16PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @11:16PM (#1158952)
      • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @11:47PM (2 children)

        by fakefuck39 (6620) on Wednesday July 21 2021, @11:47PM (#1158963)

        You need to read. Probably about 5 times, then read again. No one normal does, no chinese-american does, no Chinese national does. Yes, rednecks do, yes people trying to put down China do. I specifically gave examples of people who do. What you've linked are some anti-china sites ("taiwan" and "hk" news should give it away, but I guess you still don't get it). Again, this is the same as using "China Virus" instead of covid-19.

        here are some headlines
        https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-takes-credit-vaccine [foxnews.com]
        "Trump takes credit for 'China virus' vaccine"

        https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-01-13/asia-today-chinas-cases-spike-ahead-of-who-research-visit [usnews.com]
        "Asia Today: China Virus Cases Spike"

        So, again, for those really really slow, at the back of the short bus: it is a term, used by propaganda sites, and the dumbest trashiest of the population. Hence, I am in my full right to make fun of the redneck for using it, and I am in full right to make fun of your autistic stupid ass for still not understanding the point, after explaining it 3 fucking times to you.

        It's cool though, I'm literally married to a Chinese woman who's never heard the term, been to the country, but your google search proves it all wrong. This is like arguing with a flat earther, and you go on google and prove to me the earth is indeed flat. this you? https://www.um.edu.mt/think/the-earth-is-flat/ [um.edu.mt]

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:06AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:06AM (#1159019)

          The South China Morning Post and the Sina Corporation are anti-China? You and your wife are the sole arbiters of what is and isn't in use by over 1.5 billion people? Keep living in that fantasy land.

          • (Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:19AM

            by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:19AM (#1159026)

            The morning post is an HK newspaper. I've never heard of the Sina corporation.

            >You and your wife are the sole arbiters
            No, but then again, my wife is a part of those 1.5 billion people, and in her whole life has apparently never heard the term, because when I asked her, she had no idea what I'm talking about. And that does tell me something. More importantly, it has a lot more weight than the words of some white redneck who doesn't speak the language or has ever been to the country.

            Imagine a scenario: some guy in China is telling you that in America, we call roundabouts "circlejerk." Then finds a couple of chinese propaganda articles using that term to make fun of americans. That's literally you.

            >Keep living in that fantasy land.
            and you lack social contact so much, that shit you see online after specifically searching for it, creates your world for you. I bet you haven't even talked to anyone in person for over a month. Fantasy land indeed, your world created by the internet.