Prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has said that China has reaffirmed its interest in participating in the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project, according to Bernama.
The premier added that the Malaysian government will consider China’s interest through an international tender process. “Both sides have agreed to continue to facilitate the coordinated development of the two countries’ industrial twin parks project and jointly explore the opportunities of promoting cooperation in the priority areas,” he said at a joint press conference with Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang.
“These include rail transportation, shipbuilding, information, communications and technology, power generation and iron and steel manufacturing.”
Najib previously said that the government would continue negotiations with Singapore over the high-speed rail project, during the tabling of Budget 2016 last month. China will be facing stiff competition from Japan, South Korea and France, who are also interested in the planned 350 km project – expected to cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore down to just 90 minutes.
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China KOed their train at debut, France KOed their new gen TGV in testing recently. So left slower speed kimchi or super expensive sushi. Might as well go for german sausage (ICE).
John, german sausage got pork. Haram for u!…
1. China’s high-speed-rail program a case of too far, too fast. No other country has built an express network, and the trains to run on it, so fast, and the system still has far to go to prove it as safe as any other.
2. China’s first high-speed train disaster 4 years ago in Wenzhou, with its more than 230 casualties.
3. A Beijing court has sentenced China’s former minister of railways Liu Zhijun to death, with a two-year reprieve, for bribery and abuse of power.
4. The China technology was copy from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, one of the makers of the bullet train, as well as from Germany’s Siemens and other copy hi-tech heavyweights. Running on the most advanced technology, how unsafe can high-speed rail travel in Malaysia be?
5. By comparison, Japan pioneered the development of high-speed trains in the mid 1950s but its first bullet train went into service only in 1964 and nationwide service was phased in over a decade. The network has transported 10 billion passengers safely over half a century.
6. Thus, please think wisely because this is not a slow moving train like KTM commuter.
good point!
Jealous to Singapore, we Hong Kong being China’s colony, force to build an expensive “underground” high speed railway by China company. This is directly robbed the Hong Kong’s taxpayer’s money.
Totally agree. 50+ years and no casualties because of the train itself.
A lot of people worries about the label
“MADE IN CHINA”…. Najib, rakyat’s life isn’t a toy for u to play around
Your Ipong is oso made in China. Your point?
I had tried the Chinese CRH, so stable you won’t feel it is travelling at 300km/h. To be honest, I would rather take high speed trains than flights. I welcome the introduction of high speed trains network in Malaysia, no matter who won the tender process, so long as there are high speed rail service.
3rd world country can only afford 3rd world price. Forget the Kimochi, welcome to the Mr. Chairman Xi.
China has more than 60% of the world’s high speed rail(HSR) totalling more than 18,000 km. She has devoted the much research into HSR and has the most advanced technology in the world eclipsing the pioneering countries such as Japan and France.
This Swedish video shows the stability of Chinese high speed trains:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUtS8M90Fto