china railway high-speed (crh) purchased technologies from alstom to assemble 60 sets of high speed emu trains, which have been named crh5 and are based on the new pendolino trains. the crh5 are non-tilting trains. 30 additional sets were ordered in 2009 and 20 additional sets was ordered in 2010 to complete the current fleet operating on china's northern and eastern lines.