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Shanghai World Financial Center It's a change to remind the world, "hey look, also we exist and we're not doing so bad either". Competing who's got the tallest building is much better idea than competing with who's got more nukes, for example. There are still some empty lots in Lujiazui - after some years it'll be a forest of 300-500 meters tall buildings. Does it make sense? If those who invest in such think that it wouldn't, they wouldn't invest in such, would they? |
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Do Chinese Move to Small Cities Dalian, population 5.9 million (2.7 in urban according to UN) Tsingtao (Qingdao), population 6 or 7 million (2.4 urban, acc. UN) Xiamen, population 2.2 million (1.3 in urban) Sanya, population 0.5 million Beihai, population 1.4 million (0.2 or 1.0 in urban, 3.7 as UN forecast for 2015) Suzhou, population 1.5 million (1.2 acc. UN; 2.2 urban and 5.9 metro acc. to Suzhou.gov) ... OK, perhaps Sanya counts as a "small city" for a while... |
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PVG: One Million Passengers for MagLev It's quite surprising how the MagLev is so little advertised in the Airport. For those who arrive and are waiting in the baggage claim area, there's nothing(?) indicating the existence of the MagLev. Is there? For sure more passengers would take it if it would be clearly advertised in the baggage claim area - together with the shedule (how many minutes for the next train) and how much it costs. |
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Shanghai is Experiencing Energy Crisis Using an aircond has very poor power efficiency if you have only simple windows. You can notice this by cooling a room to e.g. +25'C, then switching the aircond off: in few minutes it's the hot air is back. Adding/changing to double windows can keep the cool inside and hot outside (or vice versa) a long time in the whole apartment. Thermodynamically, a single glass is almost as good as no glass at all. Double glazing pays itself back quite quickly, since you'll be saving in electricity. Carsten wrote about double/triple glazing and insulation in north Europe. For exactly the same reasons it should be applied also here: keeping the inside temperature different from outside temperature. But of course, in a damp weather you must be ventilating the rooms once in a while, otherwise the walls and places may start growing stuff. In many "luxury apartments" built in 90's they have this problem: nice temperature but it's a moisture trap. |
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Xujiahui - Night Hi! Yes, with the millions of neon lights and lit buildings Shanghai is a great place for taking pictures at night. Here are some of my recent shots: http://www.saunalahti.fi/juhafani (may require MSIE 5.5 or later). |
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Flowers and Trees Market in Shanghai Nice. Have you visited the Jingwen Flower Market in the former canidrome on Shanxi Road South, nearby the former Morris Residence (Ruijin Guest House). I don't remember if they really had trees, but flowers were plenty :) |
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Experiencing Maglev Shanghai The MagLev should really reach downtown, or at least some place close to Century Avenue in Pudong. in few years there'll be a spot where 3 or 4 subway lines will cross. Traffic-wise it might make sense to extent the MagLev there. Putting the tracks underground for that leap shouldn't be a problem... Or better still: there should be a subway or local train reaching Pudong Airport. The only practical means to reach PVG from "anywhere" inside the inner ringway are still Taxi and Bus. |
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Old Houses in Shanghai - Part III I visited Muller's house last year autumn. It was used as a photography set for wedding couples - there were a almost dozen of them with several photo groups, and there were two limousines parked in the back, decorated with flowers. The house seemd free for visitors to wander around and I peeked into most of the rooms in all floors. |
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Automatic Door in Metro That's a very good security feature. This kind of double-door approach is being used also in Hong Kong in some of the busiest stops. |
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Benz Taxi Accepts Credit Card Hi! I think it's the image of the taxi company that might eventually bring the financial benefit. If more people call up the company that provides fancy cars for the normal price, thinking they'll have the change to drive in one of them, the company will earn the investment back - not directly, but indirectly. :-) |
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Wow. Shanghai is Snowing Yes, last time it really was snowing was 1996 (17th February). Some snow did stay a while on trees and grasslands, but today's snow didn't leave a mark. |
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Taxi, Currency, Credit Card and More... I find it interesting how (and what) people ask about travelling to/in Shanghai and China. Depending on the question, only 2...10 years back the same questions have been very valid, current, important but sometimes also difficult to answer. For example, the questions related to the travellers' possibilities to exchange currency at airports. Today, we take it for granted that you can exchange any major currency at the airports when you're arriving and leaving, and also the fact that there are now ATMs all around the city: running out of cash in the middle of the night doesn't necessarily become a showstopper. The fact that many of those who have never visited China, and those who have visited here few years back, are still asking these question... doesn't it seem obvious how this depicts the unimaginable speed of the development on the areas of banking, IT, traffic, communications etc. here in China or Shanghai? :-) I've been living in Shanghai for quite a while, and I'm getting the feeling that sometimes I have to ask my relatives (in Europe) similar questions when I visit them: "is taxi expensive and safe", "is this or that still free of charge". In my "country of origin" I can't order goods from the nearby 24/7 shop by calling them, I can't order meals to home from nearby fast food restaurant, I don't get furniture or other large goods delivered to home without extra charge, the hotel staff do not carry my bags, is there a 24-hour currency exchange somewhere, etc. I don't know much how things are in other places in China, but there is a plethora of things that I've found so much more convenient in Shanghai compared to most other places in the world. |
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PVG: Maglev Started Carry Passengers OK... does anyone know how much is a taxi from e.g. HongQiao, XuHui or GuBei to this Long Yang Road? I'm trying to figure whether taxi + train would now be cheaper for me, compared to using just taxi. |
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Mandarin or Shanghaiese? Hi! I'd personally like to learn Shanghainese. Any suggestions? This is not because of practical reason or usefulness, but because of personal reasons: I've found Shanghainese interesting, fun, nice-sounding, and much easier for me to pronounce than Mandarin. I don't mind learning to read or write with Chinese characters - except to the extent of as I happend to find it adding to the "fun factor". Being able to carry some basic conversation on daily matters in Shanghainese... yes, I'd like to be able to do that :-) |