China’s only bullet train producer is to expand production capacity to cope with the country’s increasing number of high-speed railways, reported Xinhua.

Wang Chenghui, deputy general manager of Tangshan Railway Vehicle, said the company would double its monthly production capacity in the first half of 2010 to eight bullet trains, each with eight compartments.

The company makes trains with a maximum test speed of 394kph. It has produced 22 trains to serve the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed line, which began operation in December last year. Another 20 trains are running on the Beijing-Tianjin line, which became China’s first high-speed line in August 2008.