DB supports development of Chinese high speed transport network / Exchange of goods between Europe and China to be diverted to rail.
Chinese Rail and Deutsche Bahn AG are planning to work more closely together in future. An agreement to this effect was signed today in Beijing by Rail Minister Liu Zhijun and DB’s CEO Hartmut Mehdorn. Also present were the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, and the German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is currently on a state visit to China.