China is developing bullet trains that will run at a speed of 400 kmph and 600 kmph

China’s bullet train development is reaching new heights as the country is now developing new bullet trains that will run at a top speed of 400 kmph. This is not all, China is also conducting a research on the the next generation magnetic-levitation train with a top speed of 600 kmph.
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Apart from this, these bullet trains are also primed to get other facilities for passengers. Talking about this, Ding Rongjun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering said, "We are now focusing on how to link TV signals to trains so that passengers will be able to enjoy films on window-turned screens".
Ding further revealed that a permanent magnet drive system has been installed in some of the bullet trains for testing. Apart from that, the trains are also being readied for the automatic drive technology, wherein they will run without drivers.


The maximum speed of the currently running bullet trains in China was increased to 350 kmph in September last year, when the Fuxing (Rejuvenation) bullet trains started their operations between Beijing and Shanghai.

The first 350-kmph bullet train that was introduced in China was back in August 2008; that train then used to operate between Beijing and Tianjin. But the speed of bullet trains was brought down to 250-300 kmph after a major accident in 2011.

China is now home to the longest high-speed railway network in the world with 22,000 km of such lines connecting a number of important cities within the country.