According to state media, Chinese passenger train set a record speed of 486 kilometers per hour during the test drive on sealed railway between Beijing and Shanghai.

Agency Xinhua says that this is the highest speed which is ever achieved an unmodified passenger train. Other types of trains in other countries, have traveled faster.

Specially adapted French TGV train has achieved 574.8 kilometers per hour during the test drive in 2007, while Japan’s train on the magnetic field to accelerate the 581 kilometer per hour.

State television showed the sleek white train speeding through a green field in eastern China. Train speed record was achieved on the part of a long line of 1318 kilometers which, when will be open in 2012, will short travel time between Beijing and Shanghai in five hours.