China’s Vice Minister of Railways Hu Yadong has led a delegation from the ministry’s safety department to visit the Munich headquarters of Knorr-Bremse, a leading manufacturer of braking systems for trains and commercial vehicles.

One focus of the visit was on innovations such as the eddy-current brake for high-speed trains, which operate with zero wear, reported Transport Weekly.

The delegation was shown a test-bench simulation of the emergency braking of a planned Chinese high-speed train travelling downhill at 380 kph. In coming years, China will have the world’s largest fleet of high-speed trains. A few weeks ago, Knorr-Bremse and its Chinese partners obtained a €500m order from China to supply braking and door systems for a total of 2,720 cars for the Chinese CRH3 high-speed train.

Knorr-Bremse has its own production facility in Suzhou, meaning it can meet high local-content requirements.