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wrdos

Of course standard gauge at 1435mm. In fact almost 99% of Chinese railways are of standard gauge, with only a few and unimportant exceptions in remote areas. :) http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-opens-new-high-speed-railway/ss/events/wl/102610chinatrains http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101026/capt.6175...

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When you want it to run as fast as 400km/hr, it has to be that long. BTW, it is a picture of CRH380A, the 380 means its operating speed would be as high as 380km/hr. This train will become one of the major trains running on the Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway which will be opened before the end ...

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India imports 15,000 Chinese laborers to build, teach infrastructure projects by Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/23/AR2010102303990.html By Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 23, 2010; 8:36 PM Perched precariously on scaffolding, ...

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US is still the worlds largest manufacturer. Has total dollar value twice the size of Panda. An average US worker is 12-15 times as productive as a Chinese worker in dollar terms. In 2009, the US manufacturing sector was US$1.717 trillion, and the Chinese was US$1.608 trillion. And it is widely pre...

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- Rare earth consists of a tiny fraction of Chinese export; Chinese economy can sense almost no influence even it turned out to be zero - Less export means higher price, then why not limit it? - And Tibet, anybody can try their luck to detach it from China The Chinese are idiots. Rare earth metals a...

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Everywhere, there are extremists, Vietnam is sure not an exception. I am very familiar with Vietnam and have visited quite a few cities over there. The truth is very different. In fact, I didn't like VN in the old days, it was the bright smile and kindly reception I got in VN changed my attitude tow...

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Sure, I personally agree with you two on this point. In Southeast Asia, Vietnam will be the leader in long run. In fact I like the country, this year alone I have visited there twice. In fact, through the history, the north part, i.e., Chinese character area, always dominates the east Asia. I mean C...

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Hehe, you are so good at talking. I have long given up debating with anybody on this forum, since i have no hope to win. I have been on this forum 7 years, and through these 7 years people here discussing how china is going to collapse, excitingly always. At the early time, i tried to debate but, as...

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It seems to me you have a faith "China will collapse", and then searching the "reasons" everyday, hehe. It is you who were laughing Chinese effort of expanding expressway network and railway network, since "they will be empty". And it is also you now laughing the conges...

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‘Straddling Bus’ Offered as a Traffic Fix in China By BETTINA WASSENER and ANDREA DENGm, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/business/global/18bus.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=china%20bus&st=cse# http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/18/business/global/18bus1/18bus1-popup.jpg HO...

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Yeah, once more a news justified the huge Chinese investment on its railway network. China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km BEIJING (AFP) – Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highligh...

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This one is very impressive.
Good for Delhi

Suraj wrote:Delhi Metro's Airport Express trial run:

Source: http://twitpic.com/2d30mc

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It depends on the definition of "middle class". Most of my Chinese friends and I believe such an international definition, For a 3 or 4 members family, - At least one parent has a university education, and of course a full time job - Living in a modern apartment, >80m2 with bathroom, kitch...

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Hmmm, >30% of the Xinjiang Police population are in fact from Uighur or other minorities. They are also targets of the terrorism. In the several terrorism attacks right before the Beijing Olympic in 2008, also nearly half of the victims were Uighur people. Xinjiang explosion Officials said an ethnic...

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Highspeed train leaving Shanghai, China

The video was personally taken by myself in last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTFG4eCNZbE

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Highspeed train passing through Changzhou station at Jiangsu Province, China

The video was personally taken by myself in last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAMeF3tSTM

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Highspeed train passing through Changzhou station at Jiangsu Province, China

The video was personally taken by myself in last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAMeF3tSTM

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X-post from the Chinese Economy Thread

A train on the recently opened Nanjing~Shanghai high speed railway is overtaking another high speed train on the old existing railway.

The video was personally taken by myself in last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJCULW6fnM

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No, except some subways all China National Railways operate catenary. They are a single railway system, in fact quite a few of long distance trains run both railways, the newly opened high speed lines and the traditional lines. For example, in fact from next month, the Shanghai~Beijing trains will r...

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A train on the recently opened Nanjing~Shanghai high speed railway is overtaking another high speed train on the old existing railway.

The video was personally taken by myself in last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJCULW6fnM

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- In 2001, China car sales was More than India - The majority of China car sales is from the international big names such as GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford, Hyundai and so on. It will not cost you more 15mins to get their sales data in China, if you don't want to believe the Chinese government's. BTW,...

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- China raises its estimate of GDP growth in 2009 to 9.1% - The new figure of 2009 Chinese GDP is 34.05 trillion yuan, or US$ 5.03 trillion at the current changing rate. http://www.chinaknowledge.com/Newswires/News_Detail.aspx?type=1&cat=INS&NewsID=35045 China raises its estimate of GDP grow...

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Hmmm, I don't want to be at the side of the Taiwanese owners. Bu you know, that's a company with 400 thousand workers in Shenzhen alone. It is true that the suicide rate in the company is not higher the nation's average rate. The problem is that it was picked up by the mass media, unfortunately to i...

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$175 is the entry level of the so-called "basic salary", i.e. a company can not pay you under it and of course over hours not included. The factories in the Pearl river delta usually set the basic salary same or only a little bit more the local minimum salary, which should be around $140~$...

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I like trains, not only "mine", but also "yours", and in fact every kinds of trains and railways. :) But the reason why I keep posting some reports about the Chinese high speed rail network is that I think it is the most significant economic phenomenon happening in China. People,...

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China's Fast Track to Development High-speed rail is about more than passengers. The new lines will free up valuable space for freight. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575283953879199386.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopBucket http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-IS386_koe_...

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Sure, some numbers should be wrong. Compared with Japan, China consumes 5 times of steel, 4 times of cars, 3 times of electricity, 2.5 times of foreign trade. and the Chinese government revenue is twice of the Japanese. In 2008 alone, China added expressway longer than the total Japanese expressway ...

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China Is Eager to Bring High-Speed Rail Expertise to the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/business/global/08rail.html?pagewanted=1&sq=china%20high%20speed%20train&st=cse&scp=1 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/08/business/08rail_CA0/08rail_CA0-articleLarge.jpg BEIJING — N...

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CHINA ON TRACK TO BIGGEST HIGH SPEED NETWORK ft.com By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing 2010-04-07 As the Harmony Express pulls into the grimy railway station in China's ancient capital of Xi'an, an army of blue-uniformed attendants busily begin polishing its gleaming, sleek exterior. This is the face of ...

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Hmm Was he kind enough to give a definition of the "long term"? It means 20 years, or 200, or 2000 years from now? There have been so many China Collapsing predictions back from the 1980s. The most recent one that is kind enough to give a clear time schedule is Mr. Gordon Chang. He predict...

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My 2 cents about Chinese railway related industry. Sure it has all its problems but I am looking forward to a better future than what you suggested here. 1. The giant domestic market China is and will be the largest railway market globally at least within the coming 20 years. Currently China's share...

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High-speed China changes rail landscape http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a04d14cc-310b-11df-b057-00144feabdc0.html For decades the high-speed railway sector has been dominated by a handful of companies in Europe, Japan and North America, which have mostly concentrated on projects in their own regional mark...

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Siemens joins China bid for Saudi rail link By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing Published: March 16 2010 13:56 | Last updated: March 16 2010 18:50 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae804264-30fa-11df-b057-00144feabdc0.html Siemens has dropped a bid to supply trains and equipment for the $7bn Mecca-to-Medina high-...

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China January-February Fiscal Revenue Up 32.9% To CNY1.36 Tln (US$ 199.2 billon) http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100314-702077.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China's fiscal revenue for the first two months of this year rose 32.9% from a year earlier to CNY1.360 trillion as t...

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Chinese inflation rate was 2.7% in February and 1.5% in January.

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China releases the recent data of industrial productions through the first two months of 2010. In order to avoid the influence of Chinese new year, the country has long been using the combination data of January and February for economic analysis. The week long Chinese new year holidays may occur ei...

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China February exports jump 45.7 percent http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_trade_6 BEIJING – China's exports rose in February in a new sign of growing global demand that could help persuade officials to let the Chinese currency rise. Exports were up 45.7 percent over a year ea...

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China's auto sales top 2.9m units in first two months http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-03/10/content_9566069.htm The Chinese auto sales of the first 2 months in 2010 was almost twice of the American sales in the same period. China's auto sales maintained steady growth in the first two mont...

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Hehe, in America, is there any public schools where English is not taught to the pupils? I understand your purpose is simply bashing china only, but even so i suggest you to use some better excuses. They teach Mandarin not for job opportunities, but to wipe out the Tibetan language as also to create...

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Hi, amit! Thank you for all your replies, hehe. I am originally from Northeast China where most of the Chinese winter game players are from (>95%). Just personal interest, hehe. In fact I don't have so much interest on other kinds of sports games, no matter Chinese winning or losing them. Take it ea...

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