Career train engineer learns to go faster

After taking trains on three round trips from Harbin, Heilongjiang province, to Tianjin over the National Day holiday, Deng Zhike finally earned a rest.

"It takes only six hours for the 1,242-kilometer trip by a bullet train," the 45-year-old engineer for China Railway Harbin Group said. "When I started the job in the 1990s, I never expected that it would be so fast."

Over the past 25 years, he has covered 1.52 million kilometers, roughly 37 times the circumference of the Earth at the equator, without an accident.