Indonesia's first high-speed railway heralds new era

STORY: Indonesia's first high-speed railway heralds new era DATELINE: Oct. 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:50 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): GUO LEI, Head of the design department of the High-Speed Railway Contractor Consortium 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG FANGTAO, Chief designer of the EMUs, CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Indonesian): DWIYANA SLAMET RIYADI, President director of PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China (KCIC) 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): GALANG SWANDARU, Engineer at the high-speed railway project department of China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Indonesian): KHAIRUL IKMAL, Local welder at Sinohydro Bureau 7 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): RIDWAN KAMIL, Former governor of West Java province STORYLINE: The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway is a landmark project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. The 142-kilometer railway cuts the journey between the two cities from over three ho

Xinhua Headlines: Indonesia's first high-speed railway comes into service, heralding new era

Xinhua Headlines: Indonesia's first high-speed railway comes into service, heralding new era

(231002) -- JAKARTA, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Galang Swandaru (L), a quality-control engineer at the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway (HSR) project department of China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group, learns leveling from his Chinese teacher Zhao Wei outside Tegalluar Station in Bandung, Indonesia, July 21, 2023. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)