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China to develop hyperloop train with max speed of 4000 km/h! 30 mins from Guangzhou to Beijing?!

CASIC has revealed plans to build a high-speed train with max speed of 4,000 kilometres per hour. (Photo: The official Weibo account of CASIC)

Guangzhou to Beijing together 2000 km, in the future it may take just half an hour to reach. Are you looking forward to it?

A Chinese aerospace company, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Cooperation (CASIC) , announced on Wednesday that it has launched research into floating trains which may one day be able to reach 4,000 kilometers per hour.

The project will try to combine its supersonic flight technology with rail transportation to develop a new generation of trains, thepaper.cn reported, citing comments made by Liu Shiquan, deputy general manager of CASIC, at a summit held in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province on Wednesday.

Liu said that the trains will have the ability to "fly above the rails" with magnetic levitation technology and travel through vacuum pipelines free of friction.

At this speed, the roughly 1,000 kilometer-journey from Beijing to Shanghai, which now takes 4.5 hours via China's high-speed rail, could be shortened to around 15 minutes.

The project will be carried out step by step, with the first step being the development of trains with a maximum speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, then 2,000 kilometers per hour, and the final step will be reaching 4,000 kilometers per hour, said thepaper.cn's report, citing CASIC. The 1,000 km/h and 2,000 km/h versions could be used for intercity networks while the 4,000 km/h version could form part of a transnational ultrafast transportation network.

Now, China has also tested an ultrafast bullet train that is able to travel around 600 km/h, but its designers said it was built to test next-generation railway technologies rather than for commercial operation.

The maglev's acceleration and deceleration in the tube would be slow and smooth for passenger comfort, said Mao Kai, chief designer of the system at CASIC. Landforms and engineering considerations would determine whether a line is built aboveground or underground, he said.

At present, the highest speed of the world's high-speed rail for China, China, 'revival number' has just referred to 350 km per hour, France, Japan high-speed rail speed of 320 km per hour, civil aircraft speed is generally 900 km. Compared to traditional high-speed rail, high-speed flight Increased by 10 times, compared to the existing civil aircraft, the speed increased by 5 times.

(Source: China Daily & Ecns.cn)

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