New train features higher speed, fuel efficiency

The CR450 exemplifies China's innovation-driven development strategy and demonstrates the country's scientific and technological capabilities, according to China State Railway Group. It also reflects the advantages of China's socialist system, fostering self-reliance in railway science and technology and contributing to the modernization of the railway industrial system, it said.

Over the past 15 years, China has built a railway network of over 160,000 kilometers, including the world's largest and most advanced high-speed rail network, which covers more than 46,000 kilometers.