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Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway
The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will officially start operation at 15:00 tomorrow (2011.6.30) afternoon. At the beginning, it will open about 90 pairs of trains, including one-stop direct trains and stop-only between capital of several provinces.
It has two types of trains, 300km/h and 250km/h. The price of the train ticket has been established. The second level ticket is 555RMB and the first level is 935RMB for 300km/h speed trains, and it is 410RMB and 650RMB for 250km/h trains respectively.
The Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway is from Beijing South Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Station. There are 23 stations along the railway. It only costs 4 hours and 48minutes run time for the fastest direct train (300km/h direct) from end to end. It is 7hours and 56minutes (the shortest time) for 250km/h trains.
The project launched on April 28, 2008, and the total length is 1318km. Officials expect it to carry 80 million passengers and more than 100m tonnes of cargo each year. Last year, China gets its world record speed of high speed railway at 416.6km/h.
China’s National Day
Today is China’s National Day. The People’s Republic of China has been founded for 61 years. There are many celebration activities across the country.
10am this morning, at the Tiananmen Square of Beijing, China’s present Hu Jintao, premier Wen Jiabao and other country’s leaders placed baskets of wreaths at the Monument to the People’s Heroes. And about 200,000 people attended the flag-raising ceremory.
Piracy and IP Protection in China
Piracy is still rampant in China, although the Government has put much effort into protecting intellectual property. The official report says that China has 45% software pirating rate in year 2009.
The high rate of piracy of intellectual property brings a very negative impression to China. Microsoft and other companies have filed many lawsuits to indict those companies which use pirated software.
Jiangxi Self-Immolation Incident
On Sept. 18, eight local officials of Yihuang county have been reported to be investigation by Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee of Jiangxi Province. A severe demolition self-immolation tragedy took place in Yihuang during last ten days.
More than 100 people that’s from Public Security Bureau, Construction Bureau, department of housing management and other about 10 departments went to Zhong’s family on Sept. 10. They wanted to control the family to demolish the house. The family protested against the demolition and three members of Zhong’s family went up to the roof, dump oil and burn themselves.
Mid-Autumn Gifts in China
Mid-Autumn festival will soon come around. Many Companies in China do not want to miss the opportunity to please their staff, and will give employees more or less festival gifts in this traditional Chinese festival day.
The reception area of our office building is overflowing with boxes of mooncakes these days. And it is said that every staff member will get a box of mooncake this year.
