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Buster quit blah blah blah Shiprock
Romney William which incidentally
concert Shanghai willing contented with
Padma just vocalist Michael my own album
speech how about you yeah it was to
Diane she's dreaming in 2011
Olga gal Petrovich moved to Beijing from
Vitebsk in Belarus to start a new job as
radio host with the China Media Group
the reports provide Russian speakers
living in China with cultural news from
around the country and abroad
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it's 1318 kilometers by rail from
Beijing to Shanghai only a few years ago
the journey by train took more than 10
hours on 100 year-old rails with the
arrival of the longest high-speed
railway with the first high-speed train
speeding along it that journey time
shrank immediately to 5 hours and in
2017 that went down to 4 hours and 18
minutes
it's estimated that each passenger
minutes saved on the trip to Shanghai
earns millions of dollars for China's
economy living in the capital and
working in another city is now viable
people living in settlements along the
route are now travelling more often and
the number of joint projects is on the
rise Commerce and domestic tourism are
flourishing and Beijing and Shanghai are
getting closer together China's economic
miracle has been the talk of the world
for some time but now there's a new
phenomenon Chinese speed and the
speedometers numbers keep going up
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Shanghai Mia said this is now watching
in seriousness teacher freedom the
harmony high-speed train that Olga is
taking from Beijing to Shanghai is now
china's most popular means of intercity
transit even airplanes have been left
behind the time spent getting to the
airport and in endless security checks
mean the travel time is roughly the same
but the cost even in first class is
significantly lower there's an even
bigger saving and second class the
country's economy is the fastest growing
and people all over the world value
their money and their time minister ing
minutes a cadre no sama lamaa the
polettis poorest cat or a pretty
customers Nepal's events are about yet
I should do town
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if speed makes Olga's job easier for
driver meow Sheng speed is the job
dementia hospital huh
in 2011 we all became a harmony
high-speed train driver and in 2017 he
took control of a completely new version
the rejuvenation with an operating speed
of 350 km/h trains like this serve 23
provincial administrative centres and
Hong Kong the future is now there's new
photonic assume that you need some kind
of dummy but actually yes we are having
hot water at a shoot or something
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the first country to break the 200
kilometer per hour speed barrier was
Japan with its bullet train that was
followed by the French who built their
tjv capable of 300 kilometers per hour
eventually China achieved a high speed
train capable of 350 kilometers per hour
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in 2007 the first high-speed train known
as harmony appeared in China and ten
years later an upgraded version called
rejuvenation hit the tracks
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descending from a high mountain was what
inspired the designers who created
harmony dynamism congressional energy
when the Train is going Morton's 300
km/h the air in front of it gets highly
compressed almost as if the train is
plowing through a brick wall if the
metal wasn't durable enough the sheer
force of air pressure would flatten the
front section on the other hand if the
metals too heavy speed is reduced a
reinforced hollow skin provides the
solution in the form of Steel honey
cones which are very durable and light
welded struts add to the durability
without thickening the outer shell
she Tony Hsieh Jin quarry near alien
childhood is over
she had a courtesan I forgot who you are
touch with Arjuna to Solomon his channel
Zuri
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the part of the train most heavily
affected by its speed is it's very
foundation
the wheel chassis die speed trains can
carry thousands of passengers and the
safety of everyone of them depends on
the durability of each welded joint
technician Li one-ton has worked at the
welding shop for 30 years he recalls
that out of the two dozen boys who came
to the factory with him only a few chose
to become welders
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but not evenly with all his welding
experience can visually assess the
quality of the welded joins in several
hundred chassis zadeh that Quality
Assurance is provided by ultrasound
Diagnostics the arrival of the Harmony
train in 2007 didn't just give China
more speed it also changed the landscape
the country now benefits from twenty
nine thousand kilometers of high-speed
rail line that remains a world record
during construction a bridge needed to
be built over the widest section of the
Yangtze River for the Beijing Shanghai
Line eighty percent of the railway runs
along over land bridges as a result
farmland was saved along with the
livelihoods of the people living in its
path
by 2025 plans call for another 15
thousand kilometres of rail road to be
built the Beijing Shanghai Line now
connects a quarter of China's vast
population
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if Beijing is the political and cultural
center shanghai as china's most
populated city the financial and
creative center
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the train arrived right on schedule and
our CI correspondent Paul Kagame ovitch
is already enjoying a performance by the
American jazz singer Michael Mayer
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after the concert
olga recorded an exclusive interview
with the jazz star for china
international to broadcast the following
day
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mr. TAI Jichun has lived in Santo go village
for 40 years
the village is 30 kilometers from
han-shan the city near the border with
Russia and North Korea since retiring
toshite son has devoted all of his
energy to gardening and his modest farm
but his real joy is his large family
tonight over dinner
Tai Jichun
has a dream to cross China on one of the
new trains about which he's hurt so much
in 2015 the high-speed train rail
service reached the city of Hong Kong
not far from san diego village but he
still hasn't heard the chance to take a
train ride the farm are faltering health
are constant obstacles
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- its son is enjoying a visit from his
daughter and granddaughter they
persuaded him to make his dream come
true and spent a couple of days in
Changchun in his youth he often spent
time there with his friends he still
cherishes fond memories and even the old
dream of moving to the city now seems to
be the right time to make that dream
come true his children have grown up and
have their own families the new high
speed trains have reduced the distance
between hyung Jun and Chang Shan to a
matter of hours making today's trip a
mere jaunt rather than a major
undertaking it remains to be seen if
swapping the village for a modern
metropolis is worthwhile
China's first high-speed line opened in
2008 by 2019 modern railways have spread
across almost all of China reaching out
to the farthest corners of the country
fast comfortable and affordable the new
means of transport enables people in
far-flung regions to study and work in
the largest of cities
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the new rejuvenation drain is the
culmination of 10 years of operation and
improvement of China's first high-speed
train harmony
in June 2017 the new train was tested
for safety and reliability rejuvenations
maximum speed at the time was as high as
400 kilometers per hour
traveling time isn't
the only advantage of a high-speed train
over a conventional railway comfort is
also important this presented the
designers with a challenge at 350 km/h
noise can be an issue but passenger
comfort must be maintained a train
traveling at high speed also carries a
lot of inertia and requires a powerful
braking system able to take the strain
the attention given to these and other
details in building the rejuvenation
train are the secret of success for
China's 21st century locomotive watch
all of my fellow jumbo the Fox you know
unless you don't know chance you don't
know what you don't sit on Turner to all
this you don't seem in real time
rejuvenation trains monitor barring
temperatures the cooling and braking
systems and what's happening inside the
carriage any abnormalities trigger an
automatic alert deceleration rates and
stopping distances are recorded
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the day after the jazz concert CRI
correspondent Olga Garvey Ravitch
returns to Beijing from Shanghai a few
hours of travel is just enough to write
the lead story
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Chinese people don't just use the
internet to communicate they also use it
to buy 90 percent of their goods and
services a reliable Wi-Fi connection
while traveling isn't a mere convenience
it's a necessity passengers complained
that at high speed there was almost no
connection and they had to stay off the
line for harmony changes EULA Chelsea
weather means you see all the Hansa
include you guys I'll see ya cereal so
mine is the very thing you know oatmeal
the high-speed trains run on completely
new rail tracks not just upgraded
existing lines they usually built
parallel to existing lines but in some
regions they stand alone as there is
nothing else they also carry Freight to
those areas but generally they're for
passenger traffic moving more than ten
million people per day at peak times
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rejuvenation has yet to completely
replace the harmonies but design
engineer Kwai Fong and his colleagues
are already inventing a future that
defies belief
it's rumored that for the 2022 Beijing
Winter Olympics visitors will travel on
driverless Chinese trains gorillas are
or the village like touristy on their
car good you going on do you going on
its own on one-time offer your vehicle
Sudan justice justice hold on so many
kindnesses you asana in addition to
automation future trains will become
smarter and more efficient china plans
to see its high-speed networks
stretching across many countries of the
world Chinese construction technology is
being exported to Indonesia Laos
Thailand Hungary and Serbia and in
Russia construction of a high-speed
Moscow kazan railway has already begun
following the success of the Beijing
Shanghai railway in 2011 high-speed
trains have now reached the provinces as
well high-speed railways have proved to
be a commercial boon especially for
remote regional economies they brought
relatives who live far apart closer
together and made domestic tourism
popular and accessible for the first
time in his life ty Jetson can travel
from Hong Kong to champion on a harmony
high-speed train high-speed trains
reached these provincial cities in
northeast China in 2015 mr. Tai
remembers when people considered
themselves lucky to get a ticket for a
train journey of ten hours or more now
that same journey takes a mere three
hours and in a comfortable carriage
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returning to where you lived as a young
man can be a serious trial it's a
reminder of the relentless passage of
time ties each one dreamed of returning
to Chang Shan where he spent happy times
with friends as a young man and even
hoped to live
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John after a stroll through the streets
still familiar after many years even
though looking very different now mr.
Tai hurries home to his village but
before leaving he buys gifts for the
women in his life his wife daughters and
granddaughter and in just a few hours
he'll share with them his impressions of
modern Chang Sha
in the space of just 24 hours Olga has
been able to travel 1318 kilometers from
Beijing to Shanghai and back again she
went to a jazz concert had an overnight
stay at a hotel and was back at work in
time to go on air with a radio program
that successful day is now a commonplace
Chinese miracle made possible by the
arrival of high-speed railways and new
generation trains in the future
high-speed railways are now being
planned to cover the entire country
people living in the most remote corners
of the old celestial Empire will be able
to reach any other point of the country
in a matter of hours the new transport
infrastructure will create new jobs and
foster economic and cultural ties
between regions China has always known
how to look to the future perhaps that's
the secret of its success and the
foundations of its high-speed life
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