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By Zhao Ruixue/Liu Kun | China Daily | Updated: 2019-08-02 08:37

Xu Keliang, lead designer of the Wu-Guang high-speed railway, has taken part in designing over 20 high-speed projects in the country.[Photo provided to China Daily]

China's latest high-speed trains between Beijing and Shanghai usually run at speeds of up to 380 kph.

The achievements of the Wu-Guang high-speed network were backed by hard work and persistence represented by Xu and his team a decade ago.

"I was amazed by the news of the late leader Deng Xiaoping traveling in Japan during a visit on the Shinkansen bullet train in the late 1970s. At the time, trains in China could only run at speeds of a few dozen kilometers an hour," says Xu, now deputy chief engineer of a Chinese railway survey and design institute.

After Xu graduated from Changsha Railway College in Hunan province in 1982, he worked as a technician in a company in Wuhan. He then took part in surveys and design work of several railway projects, including the high-speed railway link between Beijing and Shanghai.

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