CSR Qingdao Sifang (CSR Sifang) signed a cooperation agreement with Britain’s Imperial College, University of Southampton and University of Birmingham to co-establish a research and development (R&D) centre in Britain, Xinhua reports.
The centre, named “China-UK Joint Research and Development Center for Rail Transit Technology,” aims at conducting R&D cooperation on the new technology in the high-speed railway field, according to CSR Sifang, the core asset of CSR Corporation Limited.
Liang Jianying, chief engineer of CSR Sifang, said the center will carry out R&D cooperation on new technologies, materials, structures and processes in several aspects of high-speed trains and mass transit metro vehicles.
The center will focus on the research on the “connectivity” technology and standard normative system of the international rail transit, cultivate international talents and build a “highland” that brings the new technologies of the high-speed railway together in Europe, he added.
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