This is China: Chinese Speed. China’s high speed rail breakthrough

China is experiencing a breakthrough in high-speed rail. China Railway High-speed trains (HCR) close the 1,318 km distance from Beijing to Shanghai in just 4 hours and 18 minutes, reaching up to 350 km per hour. Since its high-speed rail programme started in 2007, new lines have been sprouting up all over the country, which already boasts the largest high-speed network in the world by far. A young journalist from Belarus travels for work with RTD on the new Fuxing, or Rejuvenation, train while a rural Chinese pensioner takes a much-anticipated pleasure trip on the previous generation Hexie or Harmony trains. RTD also visits a plant where the trains are built with one of its technicians and hears from a designer about the challenges involved in building a train for the 21st century. You can watch the full video here: Related: Yangshan City Port SUBSCRIBE TO RTD Channel to get documentaries firsthand! FOLLOW US RTD WEBSITE: https://RTD