China leads into era of automated trains

China's high-speed rail service is the world's leader as the era of automated high-speed trains approaches, with its core technologies and products all domestically made, said Lu Dongfu, general manager of China Railway Corp, on Wednesday.

Tests of the automated high-speed system were carried out successfully on railways linking Beijing and Shenyang, Liaoning province, from July to September, with total trial mileage of more than 186,000 kilometers.

"The use of automatic train operations in lieu of manual driving has become a reality. Many subways have already applied the automatic operation systems," an expert from the China Academy of Railway Sciences Corp told Science and Technology Daily.