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I know they mean it was all done domestically but I still think the use of the word homemade is funny.
Just some random Chinese bros hanging out in their garage tinkering with their maglev hypertrain.
but don't you know, the Chinese still live under Mao Zedong thought
, they still have those makeshift backyard furnaces and push trains, when they don't have enough coal 
/s
perhaps indigenous would be a better term?
Domestically produced would be pretty close but I get what they're saying, just a translation quirk.