China denies plagiarism of German maglev (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-12-11 21:02 A Shanghai government spokeswoman on Saturday
refuted a recent report by overseas media on Chinese engineers' alleged
plagiarism of Germany's magnetic levitation technology, saying the report is
"totally groundless".
A Shanghai
government spokeswoman on Saturday refuted a recent report by overseas
media on Chinese engineers' alleged plagiarism of Germany's magnetic
levitation technology, saying the report is "totally groundless". [file
photo] | Jiao Yang, spokeswoman of the
Shanghai municipal government, said the Chinese engineers accused of plagiarism
by the German weekly "Wirtschaftswoche" were merely carrying out "a routine
maintenance" of the maglev system.
She said the Shanghai government has noticed the Wirtschaftswoche report,
which has been reprinted by several other overseas news organizations.
"We've investigated the matter with the Shanghai maglev company, and been
told that the entire maglev system was handed over to the Chinese side after it
passed the company's acceptance test on April 13 of 2004," Jiao said.
"It's therefore up to the Chinese side to operate, maintain and manage the
system," she pointed out.
Shanghai's maglev system, the world's first commercial maglev line, was put
into official operation in September, 2003.
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