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Tuesday, 30 August 2016

07:43

China To Launch First Driverless Subway Line In 2017

China To Launch First Driverless Subway Line In 2017

BEIJING:  China's first driverless subway line in the capital city Beijing, is expected to start operations at the end of 2017.

Operations on the Yanfang line will be fully automatic, including train departures, door opening and closing, and cleaning.

The trains will only use domestic technology, state-run People's Daily reported today.

China started developing its own fully automatic subway system in 2010 and has mastered the core technologies, the report said.

Beijing subway lines 3, 12, 17, 19 and the new airport line are all under planning and will also operate with completely automated, driverless trains.

It is expected that the total length of fully-automated subway lines in Beijing will reach 300 km by 2020, the report said.

The development and use of domestic operation systems is part of the "Made in China 2025" initiative, which aims to comprehensively upgrade Chinese industry.

The move will also help strengthen China's presence in the global rail transport industry and ensure the security of the country's key infrastructure facilities, it said.

 Source:NDTV
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Monday, 5 October 2015

23:06

High-speed Rail deal signals New Phase in US-China ties

High-speed Rail deal signals New Phase in US-China ties

Beijing: China’s ties with the U.S. are quietly moving to the next level, signalled by a high-speed rail contract and a string of hi-end investments that could help Beijing transition towards an innovation-based economy.

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Ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S. last month, a consortium led by the China Railway Group signed a deal with XpressWest Enterprise to build a high-speed rail line that would link Los Angeles with Las Vegas. In Beijing, there is considerable enthusiasm that the 370 km high-speed link, between the two iconic cities, will open the floodgates for securing much larger projects.


The Chinese have already set their eyes on the proposed high-speed link between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The 2029 timeline has been set for this mega undertaking, which will reduce travel time between the two cities to under three hours.

Analyst say that the Chinese forays in the U.S. are likely to dramatically expand railway competition between Beijing and Tokyo, which has so far been confined to Asia, in countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and India. China’s growing economic engagement in the U.S. flows from a policy direction that encourages companies to seek and absorb advanced technology.

In Seattle, the first halt of his visit, President Xi observed at a CEO-roundtable that Beijing was keen that U.S. businesses set up “regional headquarters or research and development centres in China, and encourage more small- and medium-sized companies to expand businesses in China”. He added: “Meanwhile, China will keep increasing its investment in the United States.”

In tune with official policy, investment in the U.S. is growing as part of closed loop, for much of the production is routed into the Chinese market. Thus, 70 per cent of the lithium-ion batteries produced by the China-acquired A123 Systems in the Michigan find their way back home. The Wanxiang Group that bought A123 Systems in 2013 now prides itself for saving the company from bankruptcy – its woes the result of the 2008 financial crisis.

In the same year, China’s Keer Group—a textile manufacturer—invested $ 218 million in an industrial yarn plant in South Carolina, the former nucleus of the U.S. “southern textile corridor.”
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Saturday, 19 September 2015

08:02

China’s first high-speed railway project in the United States

China’s first high-speed railway project in the United States

A long-discussed high-speed rail project linking Southern California and Las Vegas will be built by a U.S.-China joint venture, Chinese officials said Thursday, though many details about the agreement remained hazy.

Announcement of cooperation on the XpressWest project adjacent to the 15 Freeway comes days ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States. Financial terms of the agreement, and the cost of the project, were not immediately clear.

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XpressWest, a private venture formerly called DesertXpress, has been under discussion since at least 2007 to form a joint venture with China Railway International USA, which unites the state firms China Railway Group, CRRC, China State Construction Engineering Corporation and China Railway Signal & Communication Corporation.

Chinese officials described the project as a 230-mile train linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles, though XpressWest’s website says the route is planned as 185 miles from Vegas to Victorville, 85 miles northeast of downtown L.A.

XpressWest agreed this month to form a joint venture with China Railway International USA Co. to build and operate the railway, Shu Guozeng, deputy head of the government’s Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said at a news conference Thursday, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Shu claimed the project could begin construction as early as September 2016.

Representatives of XpressWest did not immediately return requests for comment.

Multiple proposals for a Vegas-to-L.A. train have been discussed over the years, with none coming to fruition because of funding difficulties and other setbacks.

China has built the most extensive high-speed railway network in the world.

It has about 10,000 miles of high-speed rail in operation, and Chinese train makers and railroad builders are eager to expand overseas now that China’s network is somewhat built-out and the country’s domestic economy is slowing.

China Railway International was established this summer by a Chinese consortium led by national railway operator China Railway, the financial publication Caixin reported. Bloomberg News cited a statement from Shu saying the Las Vegas project would “be supported by $100 million in initial capital,” though from which entities was unclear.

“As China’s first high-speed railway project in the United States, the project will be a landmark in overseas investment for the Chinese railway sector and serve as a model of international cooperation,” Yang Zhongmin, chairman of China Railway International, told Xinhua.

According to the XpressWest website, which does not mention any news of a China partnership but does have a version of its website in Chinese, the train is expected to transport passengers between Vegas and Victorville in 80 minutes, with fares set at $89.

Publicity materials state that although the project has adopted an “assemble and manufacture in America” plan, the rolling stock manufacturing base for high-speed trains is “not yet mature.” Therefore, the venture’s backers indicated they intended to partner with some foreign suppliers for the estimated 42 train sets they anticipate needing, with assembly being performed in southern Nevada.

Last October, the Chinese media claimed that the country had become the world leader in developing high-speed rail systems.

The same month, the Russian government signed a memorandum of cooperation on a high-speed railroad with Chinese officials. The purpose of the document is to develop a Moscow-Beijing Eurasian high-speed rail transport corridor.
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Friday, 26 June 2015

07:00

China develops cutting-edge Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Electric-Machinery Traction System for High-Speed Rail

China develops cutting-edge Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Electric-Machinery Traction System for High-Speed Rail

Beijing: After 10 million test runs, 100 million yuan (US$16.1 million), and over 11 years, the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute (ZELRI) under the auspices of high-speed rail equipment manufacturer CRRC Corp has successfully developed the permanent-magnet synchronous electric-machinery traction system, giving the nation’s high-speed rail industry an extra edge.

The system was delivered on May 16 for use on the trains traveling the No. 1 subway route in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. Ding Rongjun, president of ZELRI and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the company has been able to turn out a 699 kW model for the new system, suited for use on a high-speed rail train with speeds of up to 500 km/h. This puts China in the same category with Germany, Japan and France as one of the few countries that possess such technology, said the report.

The permanent-magnet traction system boasts cutting-edge technology that greatly improves the power quality, energy efficiency and controllability of trains. New cars will be more economical, comfortable and reliable.

ZELRI started research on the advanced traction system in 2003 and has overcome numerous obstacles in the development process. After gain victory over the overheating problem, it produced technology neck-and-neck with a few leading international rail-equipment manufacturers including Siemens and Bombardier.

The system was first installed on a trial basis in late 2011 in some trains on route No. 2 of the subway in Shenyang, Liaoning province in northeastern China. The new equipment operated without any malfunctions for 70,000 kilometers of train travel as of the end of May 2015.

Under the instruction of the central government, ZELRI started the effort in 2011, upgrading the wattage of the system from 190 kW, suited for use in a city subway, to 690 kW, suited for a high-speed rail train with speeds of up to 500 km/h. It successfully rolled out the upgraded model in October 2014.

“We expect to adapt the system on the nation’s high-speed rail trains in the near future,” said Li Yifeng, chief designer of ZELRI, according to the report.

Data show that the substitution of the permanent-magnet synchronic traction system with the existing system will boost the power of the electric machinery of the high-speed rail trains by 60% and cut its degeneration by 70%.

High-value Equipment for Smart Industrial Transition the core of “Made in China-2025″ Program

The core of China’s manufacturing sector in the coming 10 years lies in applying information technology to manufacturing heavy equipment instead of traditional consumer goods to achieve a smart industrial transition and make China a world manufacturing power by 2025, the official China News Service reports, citing recent remarks by Premier Li Keqiang.

Speaking at the 3rd Round table Summit of Global CEO Council held on June 9 in Beijing, Li said that while traditional manufacturing industries will keep going in China, exports of “China-manufactured equipment” will be one of major goals of the government’s Made in China 2025 plan.

One of the major tasks under the plan is promoting breakthroughs in 10 key sectors, including numerical control tools and robotics, aerospace equipment, ocean engineering equipment and high-tech ships, nuclear power equipment, energy-saving vehicles and heavy duty agricultural machinery.

Through the plan, China hopes to achieve a degree of industrialization nearly equal to Germany and Japan to rank among world’s advanced manufacturing powers rather than its current position as the “world’s factory.”

Li has also said on other occasions that a focus on resource- and labor-intensive industries is not helpful and efforts should be switched to building a new manufacturing image for the nation overseas by stepping up the manufacture and export of high quality heavy duty equipment such as nuclear power equipment and high-speed trains.

Mao Weiming, vice minister of industry and information technology (MIIT), said the Made in China 2025 plan is mainly designed to turn China into a “strong” manufacturer instead of simply a “big” one. In this regard, Mao added, some problems have first to be addressed, including a lack of core technologies, poor brand quality, industrial structure, serious competition in homogeneous products and a shortage of channels for transferring technical achievements.

What counts most is to upgrade the country’s industrial structure and competitiveness by building high-end supply chains and value chains, especially in the production of high-value equipment, Mao said.

China News Service said the country possesses favorable conditions to develop the heavy duty equipment segment. First, market demand for construction equipment is strong as many countries are stepping up infrastructure construction to spur economic development — an area in which China is also keen to invest. China can also cooperate with advanced countries to develop medium and high-end equipment for third-party developing countries.

Second, the quality of China-made equipment is quite adequate. Wang Liming, chief engineer at the MIIT, said China now accounts for 61% of global output of power generation equipment, 41% of global vessel production and 38% of machine tool supply. In addition, the country is the leading builder of railways in the world, completing construction of 16,000 kilometers of rail with over 10,000 kilometers more under construction. In aerospace, steel and marine engineering, China’s manufacturing capability and capacity is also good if not the most advanced in the world.

A third factor is strong policy support from the government. Beijing has launched a series of measures to promote exports of railway and nuclear power technology, as well as construction materials.

He Maochun, director of the Research Center of Economy and Diplomacy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, told China News Service that the government’s efforts to bolster export of high-value equipment meet one of the goals of its Belt and Road initiatives: stimulating equipment shipments through capital exports, not to mention bringing about economies of scale and sharpening the country’s competitive edge in international markets.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

22:26

Indian Prime Minister Modi was signed in Beijing For China Yoga College

China gets its first yoga college after PM's visit

BEIJING: The first yoga college in China has been established at the Yunnan University of Nationalities in Kunming. This follows an agreement between the Indian and Chinese governments, which was signed in Beijing during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

The two countries are also jointly organizing a massive 5-day yoga training camp in Chengdu city, where nearly 1,000 Chinese students will be trained by visiting Indian gurus. The camp which will take place between June 17 and 21 will be attended by 20 yoga teachers from India.

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"The university has confidence to build the college into an influential brand with its own characteristics, a platform for cultural exchange and a bridge for Sino-Indian friendship," Peng Jinhui, president of the university, said at the inaugural ceremony on Saturday. 

The establishment of a college is expected to help standardize the teaching and practice of yoga in China. Students would be able to obtain a proper graduation certificate before some of them opt for advance training to become teachers themselves. At present, many of the yoga teachers in China have had limited training, sources said.

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"There is a lot of enthusiasm about yoga in China. All that is required is to guide the students to practice yoga in the correct way," Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh, a Mumbai based disciple of the late guru, BKS Iyenger, told TNN from Chengdu where he will be engaged in training. 

The college, which has been established as part of a cooperation agreement between YUN and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, will start enrolling students after August, according to Fan Jing, director of international affairs at YUN. 

YUN has a long-term history of cooperation and cultural exchanges with India. It is one of eight institutions in China, and the only one in Southwest China, offering Hindi as a language major, Fan said. Its students have studied at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India in Gujarat during the time when Modi was the chief minister, he said. 

"The arrival of our students was covered by the local media, and Modi met our students at that time. So he knew our school," Fan said. "The Chinese students President Xi Jinping met during his visit to India visit last year were mainly from our school."

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