India buys subway trains from China

[Hulk]

India China trade is good for both, what's the issue. We are not buying 1st time, we have bought lot of stuff. Why we are taking offence. If India China trade grows it will reduce Pakistan's leverage on China against India, the same way they lost USA. This is happening believe me. So chill.

 

[fsoul]

Good we are buying from china, if we are opted for china it means we can never get cheaper from anywhere in the universe.

 

[chinapakistan]

Good we are buying from china, if we are opted for china it means we can never get cheaper from anywhere in the universe.

Chinese one possiblly be the cheapest one in all options about rail ways you can import. But if you build it youself it will be more cheaper.

 

[aimarraul]

If India China trade grows it will reduce Pakistan's leverage on China against India

india shouldn't count on it if that's what she is planing,the friendship between two countries isn't in direct ratio to number of trading,U.S is the living example, china will put more and more efforts on trade balance ，so it will also hurt youself when you are wielding the broadsword of protectionism

 

[scuthan]

Justin.. What is the connection between civil construction and quality of rail coaches?
Are you saying that Indiahas the best quality of the construction in the world? Are you saying there are no accidents happening in Indian construction sites due to bad design or poor quality? Didn't you read the news about the silly accident which happened on DMRC construction site a few months ago?
Open your eyes. Don't be a frog in the well. Look around. Read and gain knowledge.
China builds more infrastructure in one year than what India builds in a decade. The infrastructre here is truly awesome and world class.
Its no crime to be jigoistic and nationalistic, but please don't expose your stupidity and ignorance.

you are using a classical Chinese idiom very well. do you know chinese language?

 

[gpit]

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It is not bad but make business seance.

It is typical to communist and chinese they even boast of exporting baby diapers. Its silly, every shallow and new achiever boast.

Have u seen USA, Japan or Germany boasting like this.

A clownish logic arriving at funny results...

Now you are equaling communist to all Chinese, to USA, to Japanese, and finally to German.

And… yeah, Indians are not silly and boast nothing… I see.

As a matter of fact, this thread is not posted by a Chinese member, if you have eye balls more potent than your hatred and jealousy against the Chinese…

 

[BJlaowai]

you are using a classical Chinese idiom very well. do you know chinese language?

I speak yidian yidian zhongwen
Cannot read/write though.. too tough language to master. Though my girls keep trying to teach me

 

[topjumper]

No need to read/write, as long as you can speak the language and know how to haggle then it serves the purpose! ;-)

 

[Choppers]

Shanghai to Mumbai

From Shanghai to Mumbai

The very first batch of Metro rakes set sail from China, to reach city next month

Take a good look at this gleaming silver rake. It will be your first-ever metro when services are launched between Versova to Ghatkopar in December this year. Having missed their January deadline, these rakes, manufactured by China's CSR Nanjing Phuzen Rolling Stock Company, have finally been shipped from the port of Shanghai on Tuesday. And come mid-April, they will have made way to the metro car shed at Andheri. Once in, they will be put to site specific, static and dynamic tests including dimensional, braking, emergency braking and speed tests. Says KP Maheshwari, director, Mumbai Metro One Private Ltd (MMOPL), "Extensive tests have already been carried out in China. If we find the need for any modifications emerging out of Mumbai's typical climatic condition, we will ensure those changes are made back there for the remaining rakes, which should also in by October." The initial plan is to run 16 trains of four coaches each, which can be later increased to 18 with six coaches.

The initial deadline set by MMOPL for the close to 12-km line was July 2010. But several issues of land acquisition and co-ordination with the railways have led to delays. "We are confident about meeting the December 2010 target," emphasises Maheshwari.

WHAT'S SPECIAL ABOUT OUR METRO

• Each rake has been made of nontoxic material. More people die because of the toxic fumes generated within a locomotive rather than the fire itself. The body is made of stainless steel with aluminium panels inside, which are non-combustible instead of Fibre Reinforced Plastic generally used in locomotives.

• Each coach will have a separate emergency exit, fire alarms and inbuilt censors, a switch-button enabling driver-passenger communication in times of crisis and dynamic route maps.

• The coaches will also have CCTVs — footage recorded will be monitored live by the main control room at the operation control building at DN Nagar (Andheri).

• Like the Delhi metro, air-conditioning will be provided by two converters, but thanks to an advanced technology, in case one shuts down, the other will provide optimal air-conditioning to all the coaches.

 

[mDumb]

<how comes the title is offensive? has the starter of this thread changed the title?> No, I didn't change the title.

Is "Mumbai invaded by Chinese trains" more offensive than "Will India join USA to strike China?" As scrumpy said the title is supposed to be humorous.

I didn't find the title is offensive at all. I guess some are more sensitive than others.

Isn't censorship great?

<I am not &#8211; as it is you who is not aware that Bombardier has Joint Ventures in China.>
It seems you like to make a hasty conclusion.

Additional info:
China is in negotiations to build a high-speed rail network to India and Europe with trains that capable of running at over 200mph within the next ten years.
The network would eventually carry passengers from London to Beijing and then to Singapore. It would also run to India and Pakistan, according to Wang Mengshu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a senior consultant on China's domestic high-speed rail project.

A second project would see trains heading north through Russia to Germany and into the European railway system, and a third line will extend south to connect Vietnam, Thailand, Burma and Malaysia.
Passengers could board a train in London and step off in Beijing, 5,070 miles away as the crow flies, in just two days. They could go on to Singapore, 6,750 miles away, within three days.
"We are aiming for the trains to run almost as fast as aeroplanes," said Mr Wang. "The best case scenario is that the three networks will be completed in a decade," he added.
Mr Wang said that China was already in negotiations with 17 countries over the rail lines, which will draw together and open up the whole of Central, East and South East Asia. Mr Wang said the network would also allow China to transport valuable cargoes of raw materials more efficiently.
"It was not China that pushed the idea to start with," said Mr Wang. "It was the other countries that came to us, especially India. These countries cannot fully implement the construction of a high-speed rail network and they hoped to draw on our experience and technology," he said.
China is in the middle of a &#163;480 billion domestic railway expansion project that aims to build nearly 19,000 miles of new railways in the next five years, connecting up all of its major cities with high-speed lines.
The world's fastest train, the Harmony Express which has a top speed of nearly 250mph, was unveiled at the end of last year, between the cities of Wuhan and Guangzhou. Wholly Chinese-built, but using technology from Siemens and Kawasaki, the Harmony Express can cover 660 miles, the equivalent of a journey from London to Edinburgh and back, in just three hours.
Mr Wang said the route of the three lines had yet to be decided, but that construction for the South East Asian line had already begun in the southern province of Yunnan and that Burma was about to begin building its link. China has offered to bankroll the Burmese line in exchange for the country's rich reserves of lithium, a metal widely used in batteries.
Currently, the only rail line that links China to South East Asia is an antiquated track built by the French in Vietnam a century ago. The Asian Development Bank has recently agreed a second &#163;27 million loan as part of the &#163;93 reconstruction of Cambodia's network, which should finish by 2013. The cost of the lines from Cambodia to Singapore and then from Vietnam to China could be roughly &#163;400 million.
"We have also already carried out the prospecting and survey work for the European network, and Central and Eastern European countries are keen for us to start," Mr Wang said. "The Northern network will be the third one to start, although China and Russia have already agreed on a high-speed line across Siberia, where one million Chinese already live."
One stumbling block is China's desire for the high-speed tracks to run on the same gauge as China's domestic network. Vietnam has agreed to change its standard gauge, but other countries are still in negotiations.
"From our point of view, the biggest issue is money," said Mr Wang.
"We will use government money and bank loans, but the railways may also raise financing from the private sector and also from the host countries. We would actually prefer the other countries to pay in natural resources rather than make their own capital investment."
As for passengers, Mr Wang predicted that in a decade's time, visa restrictions on travel through Asia "will be further lifted".

 

[Speeder 2]

The thread title is offensive. ....

Absolutely!

"India buys modern infrastructure facilities from Zambia or Republic of Congo" should fit India's int'l prestige much better !

 

[ajpirzada]

Absolutely!

"India buys modern infrastructure facilities from Zambia or Republic of Congo" should fit India's int'l prestige much better !

earlier there was some other title which i changed after noticing.

he might be responding to that title. sorry for the confusion