Will Chinese Express be as fast as a plane?

Passengers can travel by express train from London to Beijing in just two days. China is aiming for an aircraft of equivalent speed.

China is negotiating to build a high-speed rail network linking India and Europe, which will allow express trains to travel at more than 300 km / h in 10 years.

"The first service in this network will carry passengers from London to Beijing and then to Singapore, which will also pass through India and Pakistan," said Wang Mengshu, a member of the China Academy of Engineering. is a senior consultant of this project, said.

The next project will allow direct trains from North China through Russia and join the European rail network in Germany.

The third high speed train will travel from southern China through Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. The current line, according to Wang, is that it starts from Yunnan province to Myanmar, a country with large lithium reserves needed in China's battery industry.

After the first route is completed, passengers can board the train in London and cross 8,000km to Beijing within two days as well as to Singapore (10,863km) in three days. "We are aiming at speed boats equivalent to those of planes," Wang said. "The best scenario is that the entire high-speed rail system will be completed in a decade."

Passengers can travel by express train from London to Beijing in just two days.

China is negotiating with 17 countries whose express trains will pass through.

Explaining the source of this ambitious idea, Wang said: "It is not China who put forward these ideas, it is the other countries that have proposed to us, especially India." .

"China will use its national capital as well as bank loans," Wang added. "We really want other countries to pay for their natural resources rather than their own capital." "

Harmony Express, introduced at the end of 2009, is the world's fastest express train with speeds up to 350km / h that will be used on these routes. Harmony Express was bought by Siemens (Germany) and Kawasaki (Japan) for the technology.
Nguyen Hoang (according to Telegraph)