New generation

8 December 2010 03:47 am

A model of the Chinese high-speed train on display at the 7th World Congress on High Speed Rail in Beijing on December 7, 2010.  China is rapidly expanding and upgrading its railway network amid increased pressures on its transportation system, with plans to have 120,000 kilometres of track by 2020, and spending about 120 billion USD to nearly double the country's high-speed rail network by 2012. AFP