Dossiers BRICS Silk Road / Route de la soie Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente Two Routes for Supermaglev Considered in China 19 September 2020 EIRNS—In a conference on Sept. 16, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) He Huawu revealed that two routes have been proposed for a 600 kph maglev train: Shanghai-Hangzhou and Guangzhou-Shenzhen. The Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev route will be mostly above ground, while the Guangzhou-Shenzhen maglev line will be mainly underground. The Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev will be about 164 km long, and connect to Shanghai’s existing maglev line between downtown Shanghai and Pudong airport. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen maglev line, 100 km long, will run from Guangzhou East to Shenzhen Xiangmihu East Station, and connecting to the Hong Kong Kowloon Station in the future. “While already having developed a modern high-speed rail network, it is necessary to develop a high-speed maglev system with a speed of 600 kilometers per hour. It will not only maintain China’s advanced advantages in the field of high-speed rail, but also fill in the speed gap between high-speed rail and air transportation, thus forming a multi-dimensional transportation structure,” He said, addressing a conference on modern transportation engineering technology, reported Global Times. [rap]