How China helped build Indonesia's high-speed railway

Xi Jinping team agreed to transfer technology and hire local workers

Workers stand beside an Electric Multiple Unit high-speed train at the Tegalluar train depot in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, on Oct. 13. Service begins in six months. © Reuters

YANG MIN, WEN SIMIN, YING CHUYAN and BONNIE CAO, Caixin

December 16, 2022 11:56 JST

Everyone applauded when a silver-bodied high-speed train decorated with a flash of red last month rolled slowly out of Tegalluar station in Bandung, Indonesia's West Java province.