Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Steel has successfully developed high-speed steel rails for trains travelling at speeds of up to 380 km per hour, destined for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway.
From September 30 to October 7 this year, Baotou Steel, one of the major producers of high-speed rails in China, produced 206 batches of the high-speed steel rails in question, with a qualification rate of 79.2 percent.
The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway is a 1,318 km-long high-speed railway system that will connect two of China's main economic zones, the Bohai Gulf area and the Yangtze River Delta. Construction work on the new railway started on April 18, 2008.