Chinese Cargo Rail: A Whole New Game Starting Today
Most of us here are passengers — we do have bags but probably not the quantity that can fill up an entire carriage. Still, if you’re a rail-addicted expat moving from Beijing to Shanghai...
China by the Rails - Greener and Faster Across the Middle Kingdom
Most of us here are passengers — we do have bags but probably not the quantity that can fill up an entire carriage. Still, if you’re a rail-addicted expat moving from Beijing to Shanghai...
That’s 3,134 km. About the same as going from St Petersburg, Russia, all the way to Avignon, France. Except for this time, you go through about six or seven provinces of China rather than...
News coming in from the official 7 o’clock news here in China: Rail tracks are being laid on the Taiyuan-Xi’an HSR, which is a part of the larger Datong-Xi’an HSR. The entire Taiyuan-Xi’an HSR...
The Dragon Boat (Duanwu) Festival three-day break turned out to be a good time to travel, and in China’s ancient capital where it all began — Xi’an (西安) — over 820,000 took to the...
HSR services will soon be commencing for several new cities and counties in Eastern China, including Changxing and Deqing in the province of Zhejiang. However, the arrival of the new fast trains also means...
For passport-toting foreigners, this will be less than spectacular news for you (although less folks in line picking up their ticket can’t certainly be bad news!), but feel free to tell your Chinese friends...
Just today, the part of Subway Line 14 between Xiju and Zhangguozhang stations opened. This part isn’t exactly in central Beijing; you had to ride Line 10 out to Xiju, in western urban Beijing,...
Just in time for the Beijing Garden Expo, which is to be held from 18 May 2013 through to 18 November 2013, Beijing will open the western part of Subway Line 14. The opening...
The Chinese State Council has just authorised the creation of the China Railway Corporation as a state-owned central enterprise funded by the Chinese central government. It is now under the supervision of both the...
Passengers who are severely or permanently disabled (and can provide qualifying China-issued identification documents that observe their disability) can now travel assured, knowing that the railways have reserved tickets for them on trains. This...