 However, the major blocking financial hindrance is that maglev technology has consistently been shown to be more than double the cost of "standard steel-to-steel bullet trains" and thus has been a major economic hindrance to the beginning of any construction of the Chuo Shinkansen in Japan.China wanted to build its high-speed rail network using maglev technology.But, in 1998, there was no commercial train service running on maglev anywhere in the world.