Chinese vehicle manufacturer BYD unveiled its first light train, a low-cost overground metro system suitable for hundreds of medium and small cities.
The train system, “Yungui” (“Cloud Rail”), costs one-fifth of a regular metro line and cuts the construction time by two-thirds, according to BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu. Compared to metro lines in Beijing and Shanghai, Yungui has been tailor-made for smaller cities or tourist and commercial zones of big cities where a full-developed metro system is not viable.
The light train was essentially “made in China” as about 90 percent of the equipment was produced locally and is expected to become a new driver for growth of China’s rail transport sector, said Zhong Jianhua, deputy director of the experts committee for China Association of Metros.
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