Zhuzhou：A “Dream Factory” of World Rail Transit

At about 8 a.m. on July 25th,a historic journey began. With a long whistle, the China-Laos Railway (Kunmingnan- Vientiane) international train departed from Kunmingnan Railway Station. After leaving the country through Mohan Port in Yunnan Province, this international train is expected to reach its destination Vientiane, Laos, in 9 hours.

As of June 3, the China-Laos Railway has been in operation for 18 months, showing a booming trend of both passengers and freights. The traction motors and the traction transformers of these EMUs are all developed and produced by CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd. The lightweight, integrated and simplified design of the electric drive system ensures the EMUs to run with higher performance and improves the comfort of passengers.

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CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd. is located in Tianxin Street, Shifeng District, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, and occupies a central position on the map of China’s rail transit. CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. owns many “firsts” in the industrial history of China, such as China’s first electric locomotive, and China’s first commercially operated medium-low speed maglev train and so on. The geospatial agglomeration effect of Zhuzhou provides a natural advantage for industrial development.“In Zhuzhou, it only takes the time of a cup of coffee to assemble more than 10,000 parts of an EMU. Zhuzhou is the first industrial cluster of rail transit equipment with the output value exceeding RMB100 billion yuan in China, and it is also the largest one in the world. Within just 5 kilometers, you can find supporting manufacturing enterprises that produce over ten thousand components and parts needed to produce an electric locomotive.

Moreover, CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. can complete the development of a new locomotive in only eight months, much faster than the three years of its international counterparts. Subway trains made in Zhuzhou have been exported to foreign countries, providing services for Mexico City Metro and Istanbul Metro in Turkey. China’s rail transit equipment has changed from “going in” to “staying”, and continuously exported products, services, technical standards and overall solutions along the wheel and rail.

In the future, Zhuzhou will continue to make breakthroughs in the fields of permanent magnet power, intercity EMU train-sets and advanced electric locomotives, and make greater contributions to the development of the global rail transit equipment industry.