When I travelled to China for the first time I've spent one month there travelling across the entire country via their highspeed train network. It's amazing, all major places are so well connected and the trains are really cheap, offer 1st, 2nd, 3rd and business class acommodating all various budgets and comfort styles and they run really smoothly and are amazingly on time!
After departure it doesn't take more than a handful minutes before the train reaches its desired speed of just over 300km/h and it remains consistent at this speed for the entire journey unless it has to stop at a station.
I wish Europe was so well connected via such an efficient and affordable train system. I think then we could easily raise the tax on airplanes to ridiculous premiums and happily expect people to entirely ditch short distance flights.
China is doing amazing things and they get way too little credit for all the innovative things they do. Unfortunately we only get to read the negatives, but I went back to China again and I really love how people live there in increasingly better conditions and not only outpacing other countries economically, but also making huge efforts in creating a fair, enjoyable and sociable environment for everyone.
Say what you want, but you'll never understand until you've been there yourself and experienced China first hand yourself. It's nothing what the media makes us believe!
After departure it doesn't take more than a handful minutes before the train reaches its desired speed of just over 300km/h and it remains consistent at this speed for the entire journey unless it has to stop at a station.
I wish Europe was so well connected via such an efficient and affordable train system. I think then we could easily raise the tax on airplanes to ridiculous premiums and happily expect people to entirely ditch short distance flights.
China is doing amazing things and they get way too little credit for all the innovative things they do. Unfortunately we only get to read the negatives, but I went back to China again and I really love how people live there in increasingly better conditions and not only outpacing other countries economically, but also making huge efforts in creating a fair, enjoyable and sociable environment for everyone.
Say what you want, but you'll never understand until you've been there yourself and experienced China first hand yourself. It's nothing what the media makes us believe!