According to the report of Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong with regard to the introduction of express train through bidding, an official with China's Ministry of Railways remarked on August 2 that the above-mentioned invitation for bid had been opened on July 28. Now it has entered the evaluation stage. The whole procedure of bid evaluation is impartial without any tendentiousness, and it is also hoped that the outside do not comment on this event emotionally. As for the time to announce the bidding result, this official says that it is still difficult to make sure at present.

This official said that, the Ministry of Railways held the Bid Opening of "200-kilometer railway motive power units project". The participating bidders are qualified Chinese manufacturing enterprises (including Sino-foreign joint ventures) "who are registered legally in China, possess the railway motive power units manufacturing capability, and also have technological support from foreign partner on the designing and manufacturing technology of mature 200-kilometer railway motive power units." It is now still in the stage of bid evaluation, and this process will comply with the principle of integrity, and as to the tendentiousness on Sino-Japanese joint entities reported by some media does not exist at all.

By People's Daily Online