The train derailed at 10:30 a.m. local time after hitting debris from a landslide on the tracks while approaching Rongjiang county in Guizhou province, CCTV said.
The conductor died in hospital, CCTV said. One crew member and seven passengers were injured.
The remaining 136 passengers were safely evacuated and the incident is under investigation, CCTV said.
China’s high-speed rail network consists of 37,900 km (about 23,500 miles) of crisscrossing lines across the country to link all of its major city clusters. All have been completed since 2008.
There have been no major incidents reported online since 2011, when 40 people were killed and nearly 200 others injured after a high-speed train was hit from the side by another train near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. after.
