China is racing to build a new kind of train that does not just rival jetliners, it threatens to redefine what “high speed” even means on land. Engineers are now testing a magnetic levitation system ...

The propaganda value of trains that run on time is not lost on China’s rulers. Xi Jinping once hosted Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, aboard a high-speed train, serenely pouring tea for his guest ...

As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced the trees outside my window to greenish blurs. I had the out-of-body sense that I was fast-forwarding my way ...

The CR450 is the new jewel in the crown of Chinese railway engineering. The Asian country, always determined to go one step ...