CHINESE Premier Zhu Rongji and his German counterpart, visiting Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, attended a ceremony yesterday to launch the trial operation of the Shanghai Transrapid Maglev Line.
Prior to the ceremony, Zhu and Schroeder made the train trip along the 30km-long maglev line from the city to Pudong International Airport, and then returned by the same train to the Longyang Road Station where they inspected the control centre.
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