transport

Quality of Life: Hong Kong vs Shenzhen

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A useful look at quality of life in Shenzhen vs Hong Kong for anyone considering moving to or between both cities. Compares accommodation, food, transport, recreation, environment, healthcare, taxes, shopping,...

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General

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randomwire

5 months 2 weeks ago

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How’s My Driving? Now You Can Rate Shanghai Taxi Drivers With This New App

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Eventually, this’ll create a user-generated database of Shanghai taxi drivers, giving the cabbies a score across all TaxiCrab app users that they’ve ferried across the city...

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Tech-Web

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SirSteven

5 months 4 weeks ago

5 months 3 weeks ago

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Subway costs feared to go off the rails

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China has spent 39 billion yuan in the past 20 years on its manned space program, which has sent 10 craft into orbit and achieved several notable breakthroughs. However, even...

Green transport? Man rides pig through town streets

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A villager was caught on camera riding a pig through the streets of Mianyang's Changzhen. The photographer later posted the photos to the Chengdu QQ forums. The post was titled...

E-asy Rider: bikes in the fast lane

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Chengdu's flat terrain and dedicated bike lanes on most roads make it an ideal spot for productive everyday use of electric bikes and scooters. Of course, not everything about the...

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General

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chengdoo

1 year 10 months ago

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Hitchhiking China: A Magic-Marker Sign and My Thumb

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I've been trying to leave Beijing for a week. I'm squinting and chain smoking in the afternoon sun and smog on the the Jing Shi Expressway. Someone always pulls over...

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China Travel

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chengdoo

2 years 2 months ago

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Trans-Laos railway construction to start in April

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With Chinese cash in hand, the tiny nation of Laos is planning on starting construction in April of a 481-kilometer, US$7-billion rail line running from Yunnan's Xishuangbanna prefecture, through the...

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China News

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chengdoo

2 years 3 months ago

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A glimpse aboard Chengdu's new luxury bullet trains

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Despite critics' predictions that ticket sales for the luxury cabins (pictured above) would be low, all seats had been booked, and the train pulled out of Chengdu North Railway Station...

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China Travel

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chengdoo

2 years 4 months ago

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15-hour Chengdu-Shanghai luxury train opens Tuesday

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The long-promised high-speed train between Chengdu and Shanghai will begin running on January 11. The train will complete the journey in 15 hours and will stop in Chongqing along the...

China releases designated low-altitude airspace

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China has approved the Low-altitude Airspace Management Reform Guidance, stipulating that in 2011, the low-altitude (below 3,000m) airspace for Beijing, Lanzhou and three other flight control zones will open to...

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China News

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chengdoo

2 years 7 months ago

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