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China takes 10% of global rail market

February 6, 2015


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A CRH train that runs on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway leaves Tianjin South Railway Station in North China's Tianjin, June 30, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]


China's railway equipment exports accounted for 10 percent of global market share in 2014, said Wang Xiaotao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, on Friday.

Total exports of railway equipment hit $4 billion in 2014 and major markets include Asia, South Africa and Latin America, said Wang at a press conference.

"There is a global enthusiasm for infrastructure projects, particularly railway building, both in developed and developing countries, providing a good opportunity for China's railway firms to go global," added Wang.


He said Chinese manufactures have built up substantial capability in providing one-stop solution and have obvious cost advantage.

Costs of Chinese firms are at around "two thirds" of their global peers, said Wang.

Analysts said the combination of CSR Corp Ltd and CNR Corp Ltd will further strengthen competition of Chinese firms.

However, both companies have yet to win rolling stock contracts in the European market since the region has mature manufacturers and stringent requirements for market entry, according to a recent Moody's report.

Asian players such as Japan-based Hitachi Ltd's Hitachi Rail and South Korea-based Hyundai Motor Co's Hyundai Rotem have been able to gain a slice of the market, according to analysts.

Exports of China's equipment manufacturing industry stood at 2.1 trillion yuan in 2014, accounting for 17 percent of China's total exports in the same year, said Wang.

Equipment exports in industries such as electricity, telecommunications, petrochemical and aviation showed a momentum of rapid growth.

Realted story: China's railway equipment export surges, by Xinhua

BEIJING - China saw a surge in export of railway equipment as industry leaders actively explore overseas markets, official data showed Wednesday.

China exported 26.77 billion yuan ($4.36 billion) worth of railway equipment last year, surging 22.6 percent year on year, according to data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC).

In December alone, the export value came in at 2.81 billion yuan, a surge of 42.3 percent from the same period a year earlier.

GAC spokesman Zhang Guangzhi attributed the rapid growth to China's manufacturing competitiveness in the sector as well as domestic firms' efforts to tap the global market.

So far, China has exported its railway technology to more than 30 countries and regions, including ASEAN countries, Argentina, Australia and the United states.

The overseas march was mainly led by state-owned firms, with their exports accounting for around 70 percent of the total value, according to the GAC data.

Although a latecomer to the field, Chinese railway equipment companies have thrived due to cost advantage and shorter delivery time.

According to German transportation consultant firm, SCI Verkehr, China North Railway and China South Railway, two industry leaders, currently hold the lion's share of the world's HSR market, with their sales revenue equal to the other five top companies combined.
 
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Railways witness China's rising power
February 4, 2015

This year's Spring Festival will be the first time Wu Rongrong uses China's bullet train to return home.

The 2,000 km trip from Beijing, where the 27-year-old works selling sporting goods, to her home city of Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region will take about 10 hours, a huge improvement on the 28 hours the journey once took her on slow trains.

The convenience, however, comes at a cost, with the price of her high speed rail ticket three times that of ordinary trains, still half the cost of a flight. But speed and comfort are the most important when making such a long journey, she says.

China's massive Lunar New Year travel rush started on Wednesday. An estimated 2.8 billion trips will take place during the 40-day period as a majority of the country's population returns home for family reunions.

Several new high-speed railway lines with a total length of about 5,000 km were put into operation at the end of last year, expanding the access of bullet trains to remote western provinces or regions such as Xinjiang, Gansu and Guizhou.

Twenty-eight out of the mainland's 31 provinces now have access to bullet trains, just six years after the country's first such line which links Tianjin to Beijing in 2008.

The widespread accessibility of the service has some people saying China has entered an era of high-speed railways.

China's 130 history with rail is marked by different feelings and expectations from each generation.

When China's first railway line, the 14.5-km-long Wusong railway in Shanghai, was built by British merchants in 1876, it was opposed by the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) officials in power, who were wary of outside influence after several invasions by Western forces.

Today, high-speed railways have been a remarkable symbol of China's rising national strength.

"To be prosperous and strong, China must build railways," said Wang Mengshu, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and railway tunnel expert.

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), a forerunner of China's anti-feudalism revolution, once laid out a plan to build a national railway network with a total length of 160,000 km.

But due to invasions, domestic turmoil and wars, China only had 21,800 km of railway lines in 1949.

Now, China has 110,000 km of rails, including 16,000 km of high-speed lines. The length of China's high-speed rail lines accounts for more than half of that of the world.

After years of technological upgrades and innovations, China's high-speed railway technologies are among the most advanced in the world.

"The increase of speed has made inter-city distances closer. More people choose high-speed railways for travel. I feel my job rather worthwhile," said Xue Jun, a 47-year-old bullet train driver in east China's Shandong Province.

Since the end of the 1980s, Xue has driven steam, diesel and electric locomotives, feeling deeply proud of the rapid development of the country's railway industry.

"Bullet trains are one of the most important highlights in the country's massive industrialization over the past 30 years of reform and opening up," said Zhang Yiwu, a professor with Peking University.

The high-speed trains also mark China's rising power and influence globally, he said.

Bullet train services will further improve the quality of people's life and contribute to the rapid development of underdeveloped areas, said Zhang.

Yet the country's booming railway sector sparked worries and doubts after a bullet train collision left 40 people dead on July 23, 2011 in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.

The accident has nothing to do with train speed as the train was not speeding when the collision occurred, said Wang, who joined the official investigation into the cause of the tragedy.

Despite that, China's high-speed technology, as a leading global technology, has greatly boosted national moral, Wang said.

Last year, bullet trains transported more than 800 million passengers in China.

Recently, the country's high-speed railway equipment manufacturers have sped up efforts to "go overseas" for investment and projects. The technology is often used by politicians as a means for cooperation with other countries.

A high-speed railway line between Beijing and Zhangjiakou is expected to start construction this year, which will cut the travel time of the two cities to about 50 minutes from more than three hours via current trains.

With Beijing and Zhangjiakou bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, winning would be a perfect opportunity to further showcase the country's high-speed rail technology to the world.

Trains Made in China Soon to Travel Across US
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12:23 05.02.2015(updated 13:05 05.02.2015)

State-owned Chinese firms are currently in discussions to sell high-speed trains to the United States.
China’s state-owned firms are in discussion to sell high-speed trains to the United States, senior officials said on Thursday, according to AFP.


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Chinese Manufacturer to Supply Nearly 300 Subway Cars to Boston Underground

A deal might generate controversy, considering two countries have a lack of political disagreement on some issues, AFP reports.

China has been building high-speed rail networks in Turkey and Venezuela, and now Chinese leaders are getting actively involved in the US market.

China's railway equipment exports increased by 34.7 percent annually from $80 million in 2001 to $3.74 billion last year, said Zhi Luxun, a senior official with the commerce ministry's foreign trade department, AFP reports.

Read more: Trains Made in China Soon to Travel Across US / Sputnik International
 
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感到羞愧……尽管您提示了我,可是我还是无法找到相应信息。
那么问题来了:是否是因为我的贴数不够?或者是我没有找到正确的位置(HOME中的右上角?)
浪费了您的时间真是万分抱歉,不过既然您看到了,就请您帮助我解决一下吧:p:有一些有趣的东西想要分享一下。
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没有的话应该是贴数不够吧...
 
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他真是个好人,不过这个帖子是不是被我弄废了:coffee:
:smokin::tongue:真是对不起楼主……

这一贴已经开始有贴吧的赶脚了,不过偶尔水一水有益身心健康。
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"According to German transportation consultant firm, SCI Verkehr, China North Railway and China South Railway, two industry leaders, currently hold the lion's share of the world's HSR market, with their sales revenue equal to the other five top companies combined."

10% of the whole railway globally
The revenue that we can generate out of railway exports for non-HSR modules is less than 10% because we are not a global player until the recent decade
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