State-Owned Firm Building High-Speed Cargo Trains

(Beijing) – A state-owned company is building high-speed freight trains to run on tracks now carrying passenger-only bullet trains. The first super-fast freight train will roll off an assembly line in the first half of 2016, an executive at China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. Ltd. (CRRC) said.

The executive, who declined to be named, said the new freight trains are being modeled on existing bullet trains and assembled at CRRC's Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co. Ltd.