Overcapacity and weak market demand may be affecting many sectors, leading to layoffs, but China's high-speed trainmakers are bucking the trend and intent on adding value to their human resources, even smashing some gender barriers in the process.

Liu Lili, 35, symbolizes the buoyant state of China's train industry. She is among the rare female electricians in the sector, and contributes to the massive effort that helps make China's bullet trains and other types of modern rolling stock, safe and export-worthy.

Small wonder, global markets are making a beeline for China's reliable trains.