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Canada's Bombardier expects to receive safety certification from the mainland for its high-speed trains as early as next month, providing a springboard for more orders, the firm's top executive in China said.
The regulatory clearance, after years of tests, means Bombardier will be able to begin delivering 80 of its CRH380D trains first ordered in 2009, worth an estimated US$2 billion to the Canadian firm.
The mainland tightened rail safety rules after 35 people died in a train crash in 2011 near Wenzhou.
"In the next two weeks, by the end of next month, [the train] is expected to get the certificate. Then we will start delivery," Bombardier China's president, Jianwei Zhang, said on Tuesday.
The mainland's high-speed rail sector has grown rapidly over the past decade after it set out to build the world's longest high-speed network.
Bombardier, which has five joint ventures on the mainland, is the only foreign firm operating there able to take orders for a whole high-speed train.
The expansion of the high-speed rail sector has pushed the central government to merge the mainland's top two train makers, CSR Corp and China CNR Corp, to create a firm able to compete internationally against the likes of Germany's Siemens and France's Alstom.
Asked whether receiving the safety certification would generate new orders, Zhang said: "Absolutely … frankly speaking, I cannot say too much, but I've already got an order."
The CRH380D trains ordered in 2009 completed the 600,000km of test operations now required for certification in October. Capable of speeds of up to 380km/h, the trains are being jointly produced with a unit of CSR in a contract worth US$4 billion in total.
Zhang said he was not concerned about the possibility of growing competition in the international market for high-speed trains.
He said Bombardier's Chinese partners were competitive on price and financing, while it had advanced technology.


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