China Zhongche bid Hongkong Metro 4 billion 800 million record orders
Recently, China's Qingdao China Quartet shares (34.66, 0, 0%) the company successfully won the bid for Hongkong city subway car line project, including 93 (744 units) the subway train, the total amount of about 4 billion 840 million yuan, opened in the history of the biggest subway orders, the MTR is the largest in the history of the purchase of vehicles.
Hongkong metro network has an average of more than 5 million 400 thousand passengers per Sunday. It is one of the world class railway systems with the highest passenger density.
It is understood that the 93 trains purchased by Mtr Corporation will completely replace the first generation trains of the existing Kwun Tong line, Tsuen Wan line, Hong Kong Island Line and Tseung Kwan O line. The metro trains will be equipped with more advanced operating systems and equipment, and will be delivered from 2018 to 2023.
According to the relevant person in charge of the car, the train will have some new features, such as the use of a new generation of lighting system, strengthen the sense of space; the introduction of a new dynamic roadmap, to provide more information to passengers, full of "Internet +" atmosphere; to make more annular armrest, standing passengers can hold the handrail in the car; the ring handrail will use soft material, ergonomic design and fashion, so that passengers to hold the handrail for more comfort.
The order quantity of equipment so much the amount involved is so large that Hongkong Zhongche company believes China strength, and Chinese Zhongche also have confidence in Hongkong to build more advanced performance, more comfortable Metro equipment.