China Rail: Business Class and Transfers as we travel to Anji
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Join me and family on a trip from Ningbo to Anji on China high speed trains during the Dragon Boat holiday weekend.
I will show you the high class Business Class seat on China High Speed Rail (higher than first class) and how to transfer between trains in a station, so that you DON'T accidentally go out of the "rail side" of the station and have to go back in through security (could save 20 minutes).
Ningbo;
Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis. The port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, spread across several locations, is the world's busiest port by cargo tonnage and world's third-busiest container port since 2010.
Ningbo is the core city and center of the Ningbo Metropolitan Area. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively. As of the 2020 Chinese national census the entire administrated area of Ningbo City had a population of 9.4 million (9,404,283).
Ningbo is one of the 15 sub-provincial cities in China, and is one of the five separate state-planning cities in China (the other four being Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen, and Shenzhen), with the municipality possessing a separate state-planning status in many economic departments, rather than being governed by Zhejiang Province. Therefore, Ningbo has provincial-level autonomy in making economic and financial policies.
As a city with rich culture and a long history dating back to the Jingtou Mountain Culture in 6300 BC and the Hemudu culture in 4800 BC, Ningbo was awarded "City of Culture in East Asia" by the governments of China, Japan, and Korea in 2016. From 1842, Ningbo was one of the first five treaty ports opened up to the West. Ningbo is one of the top 200 cities in the world by scientific research as tracked by the Nature Index.
High Speed Rail;
The high-speed rail (HSR) network in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's longest and most extensively used - with a total length of 45,000 kilometres (28,000 mi) by the end of 2023. The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200-380 km/h (120-240 mph). China's HSR accounts for two-thirds of the world's total high-speed railway networks. Almost all HSR trains, track and service are owned and operated by the China Railway Corporation under the brand China Railway High-speed (CRH).
High-speed rail developed rapidly in China since the mid-2000s. CRH was introduced in April 2007 and the Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail, which opened in August 2008, was the first passenger dedicated HSR line. Currently, the HSR extends to all provincial-level administrative divisions and Hong Kong SAR with the exception of Macau SAR.
Notable HSR lines in China include the Beijing-Kunming high-speed railway which at 2,760 km (1,710 mi) is the world's longest HSR line in operation, and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway with the world's fastest operating conventional train services. The Shanghai Maglev is the world's first high-speed commercial magnetic levitation ("maglev") line that reach a top speed of 430 km/h (267 mph).
The economic logic of high-speed rail in China has been a topic of much discussion. A 2019 study produced by TransFORM, a knowledge platform developed by the World Bank and China’s Ministry of Transport, estimated the annual rate of economic return of China's high-speed rail network in 2015, to be at 8 percent, which is well above the opportunity cost of capital in China for major long term infrastructure investments. The study also noted a range of benefits which included shortened travel times, improved safety and better facilitation of tourism, labor and mobility, as well as reducing highway congestion, accidents and greenhouse emissions as some automobile travellers switch from car use to rail. A 2020 study by Paulson Institute has estimated the net benefit of the high-speed rail system to be approximately $378 billion, with an annual return on investment of 6.5%.
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I really envy china's train infrastructure. This is the only solution to traffic. It also means people, especially young people, don't need to spend money to buy a car and pay for its maintenance. Where I live, we're hostage to cars and the pollution it causes. I mean, I love cars, I own a vintage Beetle, but I don't want to be surrounded by traffic and to need to drive to get anywhere.
Thank you for showing china for what it is. The world needs more people like you who show that china is a normal country, where people can move around safely and freely. It's sad how most people in the west see china as a dark realm where they imagine people live like caged animals.
Chinese hsr stations too often are like airports, far from city centers, inducing road traffic with direct ramps to stations. Metro connections are plenty but often distant to city centers. Hsr stations being like airports seems to facilitate security theater in addition to huge crowd management.
很高兴西方人这么想😂😂
@@hobog It is a strategy that leads to the development of rural areas.
don't worry even if you forgot the luggage, make a call then they will send it to your specified address, you won't lose anything but some time.
Yes
Exactly.
But he doesn't know. Things get lost from airport in west. So he get scared.
@@sonurajbhandari3347 wash feet after eating curry
Was a nice pool, with memories. Late night dip😂
This is the old style, but they now have new and better ones ! Same price
Anji,my hometown.
Even if you get overcharged, such as with street food, you can easily correct it later. In China, payments are made through your phone, so you can address any discrepancies if needed. The person who overcharged you can be held accountable, ensuring fairness and accuracy.
If you're travelling business class, you should use the business lounge for free snacks..
Well my wife bought the ticket and didn’t tell me, so didn’t know, plus the transfer was quite short.
The HSR attendant helping your son get on the train was nice to see.
Happy happy family hehe
2:53 I remember in 2021 when the machines wouldn't scan my passport. Good to see that they work now, it was annoying having to get staff to let me through station gates. This makes short mainline trips - like on 城际 lines - more practical for foreigners.
opps，Ningbo people say hello to you😂
商务座有独立的后客厅跟飞机商务座一样服务😊
Santa Monica Train Station need the Sheriff to get people out of the train 😂😂😂
not "dragon", but " Loong" boat😀
Willian is so cute, sadly his future as a filmmaker was cut short by the snack cart kk, also, the dog in the last shot stole all the light kkkk.
It’s a start ! Maybe he’s a future cameraperson, I thought he did well.
@@timmytumbler yup, even at his young age he understood not to shake the camera or move to fast, the boy has the making, but it is to expect having a father that does a amazing job in the area, like father like son kk.
@@maickelvieira1014 Yes it was unfortunate timing, sorry to him, hopefully he would like to continue to help, I think it would be good for him.
@@timmytumbler I can say it will, i would love to have those moments when i was younger, so i can assure he will cherish it when he is older and you will be closer to him by taking him to stuff that you like and enjoy.
めちゃ危なかったですね！bag😅
Tim, you really scared me on this one 😂 I am now for sure even more anxious about forgetting my bags than before!
Transfers are actually simpler than I thought. However I'm not quite sure about why you have to use your passport on those special gates? Is it that we foreigners can't use the regular gates?
About passports, yes, but passport scanners becoming more and more common on all gates.
@@timmytumbler oh that's great to hear. Hopefully I'll be visiting Shanghai sometime in the near future
You don't need to bring a physical ticket when you take the train in China. All information has been embedded in the ID. At the railway stations, the regular gates are for Chinese citizens who have "Shenfen zheng"(personal ID cards), and the special gate is for foreigners who have to use their passports. They don't need to go through manual checks anymore(in most stations), just scan the passports. More convenient now. Foreigners had to go to the ticket office to redeem physical tickets before.
@@yudonghui So that means I am not able to buy a physical ticket (which I like as a souvenir really) even if I want to?
@@transportspotterraphael you can find a machine somewhere in the train station to print the physical tickets. Using Chinese ID card, for sure. Using a passport, may be at the counter. Some companies require physical ticket as a proof to pay back the travel cost. Otherwise nobody need the physical ticket.
China has HSR. But China also has the public transportation to connect to the HSR. So you can easily get to any transportation hub safely without a car at a reasonable price. That is not what you can say about many western countries especially the US. You simply don't want to ride in some of the US public transportation. A 26 miles trip to airport would take you 90 minutes to 2 hours on public transportation in the US. And the metro is filthy and unsafe. My only question is if you have large luggage can you check your luggage in or you have to go through the detector like all the luggage.
可以的
We can finally scan our passport ?
This is old business class seats. Newer styles in newer trains are better
as a Chinese，ｉdon not know where is anji😂，
安吉白茶啊
浙江省内比较有名 习近平金句：绿水青山就是金山银山。 就出自安吉考察期间 2005年
浙江安吉。很美的地方
Anji County in Zhejiang Province is a place rich in moso bamboo and has very beautiful scenery.
玩的挺溜啊👍
被囚禁的狗好可怜
Don't blame you for losing the will to live riding on their trains. The ride is so uncomfortable . I've never been on one, and just as well. Just like Zenz, but we can tell. it's very bad and dirty. 😂😂😂
在中国不会丢东西的，能找回的