从中国制造到中国创造

当第一趟从北京到上海的高速列车开动时，人们都将这视为开始"中国创作"的重要一步。温州动车事故到现在还影响着一部分市民，这将会把“中国创造”推向哪一步？

Tens of billions of dollars has been put into China's high speed train industry annually in recent years.

In only 3 years, China leapfrogged to the world No.1 status in terms of the travel distance and the length of railway under construction.

Economist Yuan Ming from Tsing Hua University is worried about the rapid development.

"We put too much capital into the high speed train industry. Yes, our government departments have their way to mobilize society to achieve big things, but this can have its consequences as well. Developing too fast brings about security disasters."

Yuan also says too much input has put huge pressure on the high speed train industry. Technologies in a high end industry like this cannot be acquired in a short time, so rushing to that result is never a good idea.

"What we need now is to slow down, to build the foundation. The high speed train industry in China has advanced by leaps and bounds and we've made breakthroughs, there's no denying that. We just need some time to fix those problems that popped up recently."

Yuan says China needs to regulate the investment and put it into good use so that repetitive work can be avoided.

Before the Wenzhou collision, more than 50 countries wanted help from China to build their own high speed rail lines. Now those proposals are probably all out of the window.

However, Yuan does not think China's high speed railway system is a total failure just because of this recent accident in Wenzhou.

"I don't think it is that hard for China's high speed train industry to go into foreign markets, because it involves high end technologies. But we need to strengthen development before we can go aboard. In short, despite the accident, I still think Chinese high speed rail has a bright future."

As Yuan points out, learning from the Wenzhou accident will be a good first step toward that future.

For CRI, I'm Chengcheng.