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CHINESE brand Chery’s Australian distributor says it will be “very interested” in a compact soft-roader slated to make its debut at the Shanghai motor show this week.

Details are scant ahead of the Beta 5 concept’s debut, slated for production in 2015, however it is believed to be powered by a 1.6-litre supercharged four-cylinder engine producing about 110kW of power.

Geely Emgrand KC concept debut on Shanghai Auto Show 2013.

This is the gallery of Geely Emgrand KC concept which will be named as Geely Emgrand EC9 and start to sale on Chinese car market in 2015.

China’s infrastructure development hit another milestone on the 19th of December 2013 with the full opening of the world’s longest high speed rail line.

Connecting Beijing with Guangzhou at speeds of over 300kph, the 2,298-km route halves travel time between the two cities to 8 hours.

As beyondbrics reported last year, China is leading the world in the scale of its high speed rail development plans, pledging to expand the network to reach 18,000km by 2015.

CRH380A in Beijing West Station on the 22nd of December 2012.

Roewe's production electric car - E50 plans to roll off line on the 2nd of November 2012.