Full steam ahead for high-speed rail patents overseas

Beijing - China's railway sector will stick to its strategy to explore high-speed rail markets overseas, a railway ministry spokesman said.

"Since we have stepped out, we won't withdraw," Wang Yongping, spokesman with the Ministry of Railways, told a news conference on Monday, in answer to a question about how China would deal with obstacles in exporting its high-speed rail technologies.

China is now filing patent applications for its high-speed railway technologies in regions including the United States, Brazil, Europe, Russia and Japan, which is an indispensable step for tapping overseas markets, according to Li Jun, director of the general affairs office of the transport bureau under the ministry.