China Railway Corporation announced on Tuesday that the corporation has started to purchase passenger trains and freight trains through open tender, Beijing Times reports.
According to the corporation, 226 passenger trains of type 25T and 500 passenger trains of type 25G will be purchased; the corporation will also purchase 28,900 freight trains.
Since July, the corporation has started to invite tender for a project to purchase trains including bullet trains, passenger trains, locomotives and freight trains, and it is estimated that the total amount of money will reach about 100 billion yuan.
An insider from the railway corporation said there are two reasons to purchase trains, one is to enable the disposal of some old trains, and the other is the current shortage of trains.
This is the first time the China Railway Corporation has launched an open tender of trains since its establishment in March. Furthermore, this will be the first tender of bullet trains since the Wenzhou high-speed train accident on July 23rd, 2011.
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