Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with China Tongren Transportation Tourism Development Investment Group to build first super high-speed rail system in China.
The Tongren Municipal Government and HTT will establish a joint venture company with a 1:1 investment ratio to jointly build a “vacuum pipeline super high-speed rail research and development industrial park” project. It will build a 10-kilometre super high-speed rail line, which is the first super high-speed rail construction agreement signed by the US Super High-Speed Railroad with China.
According to the relevant person of Tongren Municipal Committee, the project will be used as a scientific research institution in the early stage, and will gradually be built into a super high-speed railway for commercial operation.
The project is divided into two phases: in the early stage, the two parties will jointly build a commercial high-speed rail line of commercial vacuum pipeline not exceeding 10 kilometers; then the two parties will use the results of the first phase to complete the necessary regulations and regulations, and extend the line on this basis. Make the length suitable for commercial operations.