Keeping Fuxing bullet train clean and tidy

Thorough cleanings are necessary to keep the Fuxing bullet train -- the first bullet train fully developed in China that can run as fast as 350 kilometers per hour -- "charming" on railroads.

There is a special avenue for the cleaning of the bullet trains. The trains need to be driven into the cleansing site and go through a set of vertical brushes with a speed slower than three kilometers per hour.

As the bullet train goes through the brushes its windows and exterior car body are cleaned. [Photo provided to ejilin.gov.cn]

After the cleaning of the windows, external car body and the skirt-boards, sanitation workers need to climb onto the train and re-clean the locomotives and the car roof.

The entire cleaning process takes 30 minutes of machine washing and 30 minutes of hand cleaning.

Two sanitation workers stand on top of the train, cleaning the car roof. [Photo provided to ejilin.gov.cn]