Chen Liangyu, secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, said in Shanghai on Tuesday that China has mastered the core maglev technology.

In recent years, Shanghai's economic and social construction has achieved steady development, and Chinese scientists have captured and mastered more and more top global technologies.

Shanghai Maglev Demonstration Line, the world's first high-speed maglev transportation system for commercial operation, was completed and opened to traffic a few years ago.

Chen indicated that during over three years of continuous operation, Chinese scientists have solved many difficult problems with unceasing efforts and have fully mastered the operation and maintenance technologies of high-speed automatic maglev transportation systems, signifying that China has become one of the few countries capable of developing and manufacturing maglev trains and opening a new page for China in world maglev development history.

(Chinanews April 14, 2006)