High-speed trains are expected to run at an operational speed of 500 kilometers per hour or above by 2050, experts said in Beijing on Thursday.
One of China's high-speed trains broke the world record for unmodified commercial use on Friday during trial service, the Ministry of Railways said.
Sprint Nextel and its Clearwire Corp venture will begin offering their high-speed wireless services from November across some of the busiest US cities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Track-laying work for the long-anticipated Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway stood complete when Railways Minister Liu Zhijun tightened the line's last bolt on a windy Monday morning.
China is expected to sign a batch of cooperation documents with other countries that are interested in China's railway progress during the upcoming Seventh World Congress on High Speed Rail in Beijing next week, a senior railway official said.
High-speed trains began traveling between the eastern Chinese cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou Tuesday morning, the latest milestone in China's effort to build the world's fastest rail network.
Construction of a high-speed rail link between Yunnan province and neighboring Myanmar, part of a project to upgrade transport connections with Southeast Asian nations, will start in about two months, a top rail expert said.
