{"id":1146,"date":"2016-10-25T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2016\/10\/china-building-360-mph-maglev-trains.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T03:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T03:06:49","slug":"china-building-360-mph-maglev-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/china-building-360-mph-maglev-trains.html","title":{"rendered":"China building 370 mph maglev trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chinese firm will start researching and developing a magnetic levitation (maglev) train that can run 600 km per hour, which would be faster than any other maglev train currently in operation.<\/a><\/p>\n

CRRC Corp Ltd, China’s largest rail transportation equipment maker, said it will build a maglev rail line no less than 5 km long to test the train.<\/p>\n

The company will also develop maglev trains that travel at 200 km\/h, with the goal of establishing domestic technology and standard systems for new-generation medium- and high-speed maglev transportation that can be applied globally, said Sun Bangcheng, a CRRC official.<\/p>\n

In addition, the firm will kick off research and development of cross-border high-speed trains that can run 400 km per hour and alternate between different track gauges ranging from 60 cm to 1.676 meters.<\/p>\n

Such trains will consume 10 percent less energy than the country’s 350 km\/h bullet trains currently in use, said Sun.<\/p>\n

China has seen rapid development of its high-speed railways in recent years, with their total length exceeding 20,000 km, the world’s longest high-speed rail network.<\/p>\n

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Earlier slower Chinese maglev<\/i><\/p>

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A Japan Railway maglev train hit 603 kilometers per hour (374 miles per hour) on an experimental track in Yamanashi; the train spent 10.8 seconds traveling above 600 kilometers per hour<\/i>
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