BEIJING – China has unveiled a scale model of the fastest ever train.

A new high-speed flight train that is expected to travel at 1,000 kms anhour by 2025, the state-run media reported on Friday, PTI has reported.

China currently operates high speed bullet trains at the maximum speed of350 kmph. It has been developing new bullet trains and researching on thenext generation magnetic-levitation trains.

The scale model was exhibited at the 2018 National Mass Innovation andEntrepreneurship Week in the Chinese city of Chengdu in southwest Sichuanprovince on Wednesday.

The train which the State-owned ChinalinkAerospaceScience and Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) began developing in 2015and dubbed as “T-Flight”, will use an integrated, light and heat-proofcabin that is 29.2 meters long and three meters wide, the Global Timesquoted a report of Chengdu Business daily as saying.

The train will float 100 millimeters above the ground due to aclose-to-vacuum railway environment and magnetic levitation technology,Wang Yan, an official at CASIC’s Magnetic Levitation and ElectromagneticPropulsion Department, was quoted saying.

“The train will slowly accelerate to 1,000 kms an hour,” said Wang, notingthat the passengers will be safe and feel comfortable.Sun Zhang, a railwayexpert and professor at Shanghai Tongji University, said that the exhibitof the flight train shows that China is keeping up with its US counterpartin the respective field. Some of the US based companies like HyperloopTransportation Technologies and Hyperloop One are testing high speedtechnologies with a designed speed faster than 1,000 kilometers an hour.