China has yet to decide which country's technology it will adopt for a planned new high-speed rail system between Beijing and Shanghai, and hopes to have more exchanges of technology and experts on the subject with Japan, an executive member of China's Ministry of Railways said recently.

"Of course, we think that Japan has great technology for shinkansen, but we have not yet decided which technology we will adopt in the future," said Zhou Yimin, deputy chief engineer of China's Ministry of Railways and deputy director of the Preappraisal Study Office of the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Line.

The world's leaders in high-speed rail systems -- Japan, France and Germany -- are currently engaged in a race to supply the necessary technology for China's planned 1,310-km-long, high-speed line linking Beijing and Shanghai. Japan, which lost to France's TGV in a similar race to supply South Korea with a high-speed rail system, strongly hopes to win this time.