Reports from the trip also suggest Wen is keen to land the contract for High Speed rail development in Britain for Chinese industry, even though such contracts have to go to public tender.
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The decision is a signal that China is slowing its ambitious high-speed rail program, which has put the country in the same league as Japan and Europe in terms of high-speed rail development, government run newspaper China Daily reported on Thursday.
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In the postwar decades, scientists working there pioneered a stunning list of breakthroughs, from advances in high-speed photography to the development of the physics behind microwaves.
The former president also favors government spending, on infrastructure, student loans, job training, manufacturing, broadband, high-speed rail, and development of alternative energy sources like biofuel, solar and wind.
The development of high-speed trains across Europe encourages direct travel from one city centre to another, reinforcing the appeal of living and working near the centre.
But today, file-sharing is one of the most cutting-edge areas of software development, as high-speed Internet connections allow users to trade music, movies and applications at a blistering pace.
Thailand revised plans for the development of a high-speed rail network that would have connected Bangkok to Malaysia in the south and Laos to the north and to China beyond.
What's more, legislation approved by the European Union last year that requires national rail systems to open up to operators from other countries by 2010, will further push development of a European network of high-speed rail.
Your claim that high-speed rail exacerbates regional divisions and does little to promote economic development is wrong-headed.
"If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption, " said Kunz.
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