NPC deputies suggested that the 13th Five-Year Plan include maglev in China's high-speed rail technology strategic reserve

On the 7th, Wang Zhan, a deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said that it is recommended that maglev be included in the strategic reserve
of China's high-speed rail technology during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

It is understood that as early as 1999, when China carried out the feasibility demonstration of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, there were two schemes: high-speed wheel-rail and high-speed maglev
.
In order to verify the maturity, economics and safety of maglev transportation, China opened the world's first commercially operated maglev train demonstration line
in Shanghai in 2002.
Although China's development of high-speed rail has adopted wheel-rail technology since then, the operation and research and development of maglev transportation have still persisted, and it has been more than ten years
now.

"Looking forward to the future, the world's high-speed rail competition has a new situation
.
High-speed trains using wheel-rail technology can run at a maximum speed of 430 kilometers per hour in China, while the maximum speed of the maglev train developed in Japan has reached 608 kilometers
per hour.
Japan not only plans to adopt maglev technology in the construction of the Chuo Shinkansen in China, but also may compete with China in the global high-speed rail market
.
Wang Zhan said
.

In Wang Zhan's view, you can't give up maglev after using wheel rails, and the relationship between the two is not "one of the two
".
"Maglev traffic relies on magnetic propulsion and has no direct contact with the track, which is a new transportation technology
.
At present, the operating speed of China's high-speed railway is 300 kilometers per hour, while Shanghai Maglev can reach 430 kilometers, and the two are in different speed
ranges.
It is conceivable that in the future, high-speed rail, maglev and aircraft can form speed classes of 300 kilometers, 500 kilometers and 800 kilometers per hour to meet the travel needs
of different passengers.
Chen Xiaohong, director of the National Maglev Traffic Engineering Technology Research Center, said
.

To this end, Wang Zhan suggested that maglev can be included in the strategic reserve
of China's high-speed rail technology.
Lin Guobin, former director of the expert office of Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co.
, Ltd.
, said that the Shanghai Maglev demonstration line has further highlighted many advantages of maglev transportation in ten years of operation: such as high reliability, strong resistance to extreme weather, and can operate
in smog and windy weather.
Although the current construction cost of maglev transportation is higher than that of high-speed rail, because there is no track friction, the operation and maintenance cost is significantly lower than the latter
.
"The costs of two modes of transport are comparable over a lifetime cycle
.
"

It is understood that in order to promote the industrialization of maglev technology, China's first medium and low-speed maglev railway connecting Changsha South High-speed Railway Station and Huanghua Airport in March this year has begun trial operation
.
"In addition to Changsha, some cities in Jiangsu and Sichuan have also proposed the intention of developing maglev transportation, which will promote China's maglev technology from the experimental stage to the engineering application stage
.
" Chen Xiaohong said that in the future, the transportation authorities in the domestic planning of the high-speed railway network can carefully select the line suitable for high-speed maglev applications, so as to drive the benign interaction
at all levels of industry, education and research.