The Chinese company building new Red and Orange Line cars has U.S. ambitions

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The Chinese company building new Red and Orange Line cars has U.S. ambitions

By Adam Vaccaro
Boston.com Staff | 09.02.15 | 9:27 PM

When ground breaks Thursday on a $60 million Springfield factory where new MBTA Red and Orange Line cars will be built, it could represent a major opportunity for the Chinese company behind it.

The $566 million contract to build 284 new cars is the first foray into North America for China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. And CRRC doesn’t want the Massachusetts gig to be its last on the continent.

“It’s the first project in the U.S. What we’re completely focused on next is to get it right,” Weiping Yu, a CRRC vice president who runs its overseas operations, told Boston.com through a translator.

“This will be an experiment—but also we want to make it a real good example for us, for our future development in the U.S.,” he added.