China’s first domestically designed and manufactured magnetic levitation line, linking Changsha’s south railway station and the airport, will be on a trial run with passengers in the first half of the year. It takes about ten minutes to complete the 18.55-km journey. The 48-meter-long train can carry 363 people in three carriages. It can achieve a maximum speed of 100 km per hour.

A system debugging is operated on a medium-low speed maglev train in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan province, Feb 17, 2016.[Photo/Xinhua]

A system debugging is operated on a medium-low speed maglev train in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan province, Feb 17, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]