China will need stronger action to ensure a level playing field – as the struggles of its first privately owned high-speed railways show.

China has opened 28,000 miles of bullet train routes since 2008 ... Fares are going up for peak travel along routes from Hangzhou to Shanghai, Changsha or Ningbo and Wuhan to Guangzhou.

Japan has unveiled a new 'earthquake resistant', 200mph (320kph) bullet train – that's designed by a British firm. Studio Tangerine, which is headquartered in London, has become the first non ...