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China's new high speed rail link: Fast and furious

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Published on Jun 27, 2011 by

China unveils a new high-speed train linking Beijing and Shanghai - while shrugging off controversy over cost and profitability. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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  • Look like China already prepared themself for post-oil era with economy less depend on oil

    they don't need to go out and invade some countries in middle east to secure oil supply

  • Thank you America for shopping at your local Walmart......without you, none of this would have been possible

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  • CHINA SURE FACE A REPUTATION CRISIS.

  • I must say that, China has the best train...Ok, I am a Chinese...^-^

  • @mukamuka0 - No, they don't - they focus their evil on internal repression.

  • Well it's better to place more concern about safety and quality and less brag about how fast the train can travel.

  • @DontBuyChinese: it ULTIMATELY doesn't matter how China got the technology for their HSR train cars... the thing is that China is building a HSR network.. while the USofA is NOT... if the USofA had the political will to do it they could do it.. the technology already exists - America would simply buy the trains from the Germans/French consortium that manufactures the trains - while the USofA simply has to lay the tracks.

    China is building for the future.. which WILL pay off..

  • @triadchixD

    Don't make me laugh. The things China invented prior to 1800 was low tech stuff, especially gunpower. The Chinese should have known that gunpowder can be used for weapons, not just fireworks, as it was originally intended, so their invention of it only

    made killing easier (some contribution).

  • @DontBuyChinese Just like how western technology was borrowed, stolen or copied, mostly from China prior to the 1800s? I don't fancy joining in your argument, but just making a point clear.

  • 820 miles, £20bn+...sounds better than HS2 already.

  • These trains were heralded as tools for reducing congestion on traditional trains, but the ticket prices are so high that the choice is often not between traditional trains and high speed trains, but high speed trains and commercial air travel.

    The average Chinese is much too poor to take advantage of these fancy new toys!

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