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Buster quit blah blah blah Shiprock

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Romney William which incidentally

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concert Shanghai willing contented with

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Padma just vocalist Michael my own album

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speech how about you yeah it was to

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Diane she's dreaming in 2011

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Olga gal Petrovich moved to Beijing from

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the reports provide Russian speakers

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living in China with cultural news from

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around the country and abroad

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it's 1318 kilometers by rail from

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Beijing to Shanghai only a few years ago

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the journey by train took more than 10

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hours on 100 year-old rails with the

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arrival of the longest high-speed

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railway with the first high-speed train

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speeding along it that journey time

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it's estimated that each passenger

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minutes saved on the trip to Shanghai

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earns millions of dollars for China's

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economy living in the capital and

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working in another city is now viable

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people living in settlements along the

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route are now travelling more often and

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the number of joint projects is on the

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rise Commerce and domestic tourism are

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flourishing and Beijing and Shanghai are

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getting closer together China's economic

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miracle has been the talk of the world

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for some time but now there's a new

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phenomenon Chinese speed and the

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speedometers numbers keep going up

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Shanghai Mia said this is now watching

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in seriousness teacher freedom the

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harmony high-speed train that Olga is

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taking from Beijing to Shanghai is now

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china's most popular means of intercity

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transit even airplanes have been left

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airport and in endless security checks

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mean the travel time is roughly the same

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significantly lower there's an even

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bigger saving and second class the

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country's economy is the fastest growing

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and people all over the world value

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their money and their time minister ing

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minutes a cadre no sama lamaa the

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polettis poorest cat or a pretty

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customers Nepal's events are about yet

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if speed makes Olga's job easier for

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driver meow Sheng speed is the job

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in 2011 we all became a harmony

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high-speed train driver and in 2017 he

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took control of a completely new version

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the rejuvenation with an operating speed

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of 350 km/h trains like this serve 23

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provincial administrative centres and

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Hong Kong the future is now there's new

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photonic assume that you need some kind

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of dummy but actually yes we are having

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the first country to break the 200

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tjv capable of 300 kilometers per hour

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eventually China achieved a high speed

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train capable of 350 kilometers per hour

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in 2007 the first high-speed train known

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as harmony appeared in China and ten

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rejuvenation hit the tracks

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descending from a high mountain was what

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inspired the designers who created

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harmony dynamism congressional energy

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when the Train is going Morton's 300

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km/h the air in front of it gets highly

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metal wasn't durable enough the sheer

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cones which are very durable and light

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she Tony Hsieh Jin quarry near alien

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the wheel chassis die speed trains can

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technician Li one-ton has worked at the

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welding shop for 30 years he recalls

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that out of the two dozen boys who came

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but not evenly with all his welding

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quality of the welded joins in several

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hundred chassis zadeh that Quality

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train in 2007 didn't just give China

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the country now benefits from twenty

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nine thousand kilometers of high-speed

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rail line that remains a world record

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during construction a bridge needed to

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Yangtze River for the Beijing Shanghai

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livelihoods of the people living in its

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thousand kilometres of rail road to be

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built the Beijing Shanghai Line now

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connects a quarter of China's vast

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if Beijing is the political and cultural

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center shanghai as china's most

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populated city the financial and

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the train arrived right on schedule and

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American jazz singer Michael Mayer

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after the concert

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olga recorded an exclusive interview

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with the jazz star for china

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international to broadcast the following

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mr. TAI Jichun has lived in Santo go village

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the village is 30 kilometers from

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han-shan the city near the border with

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Russia and North Korea since retiring

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toshite son has devoted all of his

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energy to gardening and his modest farm

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but his real joy is his large family

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has a dream to cross China on one of the

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new trains about which he's hurt so much

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in 2015 the high-speed train rail

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service reached the city of Hong Kong

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not far from san diego village but he

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still hasn't heard the chance to take a

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train ride the farm are faltering health

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- its son is enjoying a visit from his

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daughter and granddaughter they

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persuaded him to make his dream come

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true and spent a couple of days in

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Changchun in his youth he often spent

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time there with his friends he still

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cherishes fond memories and even the old

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dream of moving to the city now seems to

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be the right time to make that dream

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come true his children have grown up and

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have their own families the new high

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between hyung Jun and Chang Shan to a

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matter of hours making today's trip a

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mere jaunt rather than a major

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undertaking it remains to be seen if

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swapping the village for a modern

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China's first high-speed line opened in

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2008 by 2019 modern railways have spread

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across almost all of China reaching out

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to the farthest corners of the country

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fast comfortable and affordable the new

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means of transport enables people in

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the new rejuvenation drain is the

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culmination of 10 years of operation and

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unless you don't know chance you don't

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this you don't seem in real time

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carriage any abnormalities trigger an

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the day after the jazz concert CRI

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correspondent Olga Garvey Ravitch

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returns to Beijing from Shanghai a few

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hours of travel is just enough to write

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the lead story

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Chinese people don't just use the

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internet to communicate they also use it

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to buy 90 percent of their goods and

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services a reliable Wi-Fi connection

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while traveling isn't a mere convenience

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it's a necessity passengers complained

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that at high speed there was almost no

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connection and they had to stay off the

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line for harmony changes EULA Chelsea

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weather means you see all the Hansa

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mine is the very thing you know oatmeal

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the high-speed trains run on completely

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parallel to existing lines but in some

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rejuvenation has yet to completely

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replace the harmonies but design

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are already inventing a future that

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it's rumored that for the 2022 Beijing

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Winter Olympics visitors will travel on

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driverless Chinese trains gorillas are

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or the village like touristy on their

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car good you going on do you going on

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its own on one-time offer your vehicle

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Sudan justice justice hold on so many

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kindnesses you asana in addition to

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automation future trains will become

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smarter and more efficient china plans

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to see its high-speed networks

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stretching across many countries of the

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world Chinese construction technology is

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following the success of the Beijing

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Shanghai railway in 2011 high-speed

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trains have now reached the provinces as

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well high-speed railways have proved to

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be a commercial boon especially for

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remote regional economies they brought

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relatives who live far apart closer

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together and made domestic tourism

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popular and accessible for the first

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time in his life ty Jetson can travel

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from Hong Kong to champion on a harmony

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high-speed train high-speed trains

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reached these provincial cities in

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northeast China in 2015 mr. Tai

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remembers when people considered

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themselves lucky to get a ticket for a

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train journey of ten hours or more now

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that same journey takes a mere three

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returning to where you lived as a young

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man can be a serious trial it's a

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reminder of the relentless passage of

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time ties each one dreamed of returning

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to Chang Shan where he spent happy times

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with friends as a young man and even

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hoped to live

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John after a stroll through the streets

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still familiar after many years even

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though looking very different now mr.

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Tai hurries home to his village but

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before leaving he buys gifts for the

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women in his life his wife daughters and

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granddaughter and in just a few hours

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he'll share with them his impressions of

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modern Chang Sha

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in the space of just 24 hours Olga has

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been able to travel 1318 kilometers from

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Beijing to Shanghai and back again she

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went to a jazz concert had an overnight

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stay at a hotel and was back at work in

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time to go on air with a radio program

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that successful day is now a commonplace

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Chinese miracle made possible by the

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arrival of high-speed railways and new

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generation trains in the future

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high-speed railways are now being

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planned to cover the entire country

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people living in the most remote corners

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of the old celestial Empire will be able

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to reach any other point of the country

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in a matter of hours the new transport

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infrastructure will create new jobs and

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foster economic and cultural ties

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between regions China has always known

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how to look to the future perhaps that's

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the secret of its success and the

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foundations of its high-speed life

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