Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train

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Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train is a proposed maglev train line from Shanghai to Hangzhou, in eastern China. On 22 February 2006, the Chinese government decided to build an extension, starting talks about the details of the construction contracts with Germany's Transrapid Konsortium (mainly ThyssenKrupp and Siemens). Negotiation is still in progress.

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The line will run between the two Chinese cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou. The total length will be 169.725 km, of which 64.485 km will be within the City of Shanghai and 105.240 km in the province of Zhejiang. Four stations are to be built: at the Expo 2010 site in east Shanghai; in south Shanghai; Jiaxing; and east Hangzhou. The proposed design speed is 450 km/h, which would allow the train to travel the 169.725 km total distance in just 27 minutes. Construction is scheduled to be completed in time for Expo 2010. The total budget of the project will be 30 billion RMB yuan (about 4 billion USD).

The line will become the first inter-city Maglev rail line in commercial service in the world. The line is an extension of the only Maglev line in commercial service in China so far, the Shanghai Maglev Train at Pudong International Airport.