Watch: China’s hit fast and furious ‘drag-racing’ bullet train video
- Shanghai police get in on the joke – before normal serious services resume
It looked like China’s bullet train spin-off of The Fast and the Furious street-racing movie franchise.
In a short video posted online, an internet user claimed to show a Fuxing bullet train – the country’s fastest – from Shanghai to Beijing being overtaken by a Hexie, an older high-speed model, travelling on a parallel track.
“The two trains ran side-by-side for two minutes. Then the Fuxing decided to show who’s boss,” read a caption on the 15-second video shared on video app Douyin, also known as TikTok.
The video took off online, prompting even Shanghai’s police force to get into the runaway joke.
Asked by one joking internet user if they were going to do anything about the “drag-racing” high-speed trains, the force said on their official account: “There’s nothing we can do. We can’t catch up to them.”
Seriousness returned when China Railway took to social media to deny that a race had taken place.