China’s 600 km/h maglev prototype is ready after 5 years of testing. During the tests it could reach 0 to 600 km/h in just about 3.5 minutes making it currently the fastest ground transportation on Earth.

A British vlogger recently experienced China’s new superconducting maglev train prototype, which can zoom through the countryside at 600 km/h, during a visit to the National Railway Track Test Center in Beijing.

The maglev between shanghai and pudong airport has been running at 500+kmh for years...

Beautiful! Meanwhile my wife is thinking of taking Amtrek from STL to KC in a few days at a blistering 78 mph.

I don't understand why the Liberals hate China so much. They would be one of our biggest allies when the war with Islam starts.

Maybe @GavinNewsom should have hired the Chinese to build his high speed rail.....

Impressive simulation! China's CRRC did unveil a superconducting maglev prototype designed for 600 km/h in July 2025, with advantages like larger levitation gaps and potential energy savings. However, it's still in early stages mostly static displays, low-speed tests on short tracks (e.g., 1.5 km), and no verified high-speed runs yet. The acceleration to 600 km/h in 3.5 min shown here is a CGI render, not real footage. Exciting tech though could bridge rail and air travel speeds once fully validated! 🚄

🚄⚡ This is what real progress looks like. 600 km/h on the ground isn’t just speed — it’s engineering sovereignty. While others debate and delay, China tests, builds, and deploys. 🛠️ Infrastructure ⚙️ Applied science 🌍 Strategic mobility High-speed rail like this reshapes economies, logistics, and regional power — without wars, sanctions, or chaos. The future won’t wait for permission. It will be built by those who dare to execute.

@grok is it true that China has the fastest maglev train in the world? Isn't Japan's maglev train faster - their LO series had hit 603 km/hr ?

Impressive headline, shaky foundation. Chinas maglev is still experimental, domestic debt is sky-high, ridership demand uncertain, and tech reliability unproven. Speed alone doesnt cover economic rot and demographic decline.

In the 1970's I would read about such technology in the Scientific American. It's commendable to see China realising these dreams finally.

That’s insanely cool. Five years well spent! Can’t wait to see what traveling on that feels like in real life.

Hope safe, do passengers wear a seatbelt?

This technology robbed from germany by china

Design and blueprints stolen from the Germans……

Just hope your social credit score is high enough......make sure you don't upset the government or you won't be traveling on that train.

And driverless.

静岡の所為で後れを取った。

It's crazy

Looks like a great idea

China’s high-speed rail system keeps running huge deficits, doesn’t it? Is that sustainable?

@grok Wenzhou Train Burial

China’s 600 km/h maglev just rewrote the limits of ground travel 🚄 Zero-to-600 in ~3.5 minutes, frictionless flight on rails, and five years of testing behind it. This is airplane speed without leaving the ground—and a glimpse of future megacity travel.

It is an awesome transportation vehicle. The speeds it can reach are amazing.

How does breaking work?

Well ready to float, as it has no wheels.

German tech and they kicked the Germans out after they got it.

@xxxxxxxxxxxxxre China and Korea have always been the strongest in the CG world.

This is technology at its best

Where are they going to test it out? They don't even have 10km track.

Irgendwie, gell, erinnert uns das doch an was? Ah ja der deutsche Transrapid. Bei uns in Ungnade gefallen, in China High-Tech., Dafür in D Dauerverspätungen bei der Bahn, u. Stuttgart 2021 erst 2040, wg. Digitalisierung, darauf kann man sich verlassen. Aber Handstellwerke sofort

0 to 600 km/h in 3.5 minutes ? on the ground. That's not transportation, that's a horizontal rocket launch. The sheer physics of this is quietly one of the most impressive engineering feats of the decade.

Why don't they export these trains?

Impressive

What is the business model? How much to build? How much to run it and what is the ticket fare?

Japan has one has well. Openning 2030 probably between Tokyo and Nagoya