BEIJING -- China's "bullet train", the nation's fastest train, is scheduled for testing in Shanghai next month for the Lunar New Year holiday, the busiest travel season of the year, according to the Shanghai Media Group (SMG).

A bullet train at a railway station in Shanghai January 15,2007. After completing a trial run in Shanghai, the new CRH (China Railway High-speed) bullet train will be tested for operation on the Shanghai-Beijing route during the coming Spring Festival holidays. The train can run at 250km per hour. [Zhang Haifeng/Morning News]

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Six bullet trains will be put into the trial operation next month on the Shanghai-Hanzhou and Shanghai-Nanjing routes, and more will be used on lines across China, according to the SMG.

The train is designed with eight carriages and a capacity of more than 610 passengers. They were built on Japan's Shinkansen bullet train technology by Qingdao-based Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., Ltd under China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock (CSR).

The country's railway system is expected to carry more than 150 million passengers around the Lunar New Year's Day, which falls on February 18 this year.