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0 pointsww5208y ago0 comments

One example where they poured money and got ahead is the rail system and the high speed rail system.

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They have 14,000 miles of high-speed rail with an additional 10,000 coming in 10 years. They move 1 billion people a year.

They are also developing production low-speed maglev trains.

danmaz748y ago

That is a proven technology though. A completely different case.

0xbear8y ago

Their maglev train was built by Siemens and ThyssenKrupp in Germany, the _real_ leader in high speed rail transportation.

strin8y ago

Their high-speed rail train is not maglev. There is one built by Germany in Shanghai, but it was more of a demo than an actual infrastructure.

AlexCoventry8y ago

It doesn't work like that. If you sell significant goods in China, you have to manufacture there and your methods will be copied. China is moving towards economic autarchy very quickly.

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