that thing is losing money for now, though in the long run i think it could be quite useful. given Shanghai's booming real estate price, there should be a lot of room for suburban development. so there is a lot of potential market for MAGLEV as a connection betweent he subarban areas and city centre.
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that thing is losing money for now, though in the long run i think it could be quite useful. given Shanghai's booming real estate price, there should be a lot of room for suburban development. so there is a lot of potential market for MAGLEV as a connection betweent he subarban areas and city centre.
antiterror13
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Is this a German technology or Chinese indigenous technology ? .. if it is Chinese why it is called Maglev ?
Is it true there is no Maglev in Germany, because German simply couldn't afford it ? .. if it is true .. it is really really sad
i thought it was japanese...or french...or german...but yeah i think the same team who wanted to build this project in their own country didnt have the money.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The maglev running in Shanghai comes from Germany. Japanese and German maglev technology are different. China is supposedly developing an indigenous program that's different from both. I've seen pics of one hanging from a track but I think they've dropped that one. Since Germany would not transfer technology to make it less expensive for China while trying to use the Shanghai system to sell to other customers, Beijing cancelled extension of the current maglev to Hangzhou. Since then I believe some sort of negotiation did take place where Germany agreed to some transfer but I think the extension to Hangzhou is still not going to be maglev.
Here's a pic of Chinese made German tech maglev train.
Here's a pic of Chinese made German tech maglev train.
solarz
Brigadier
Are you kidding me? The high-speed trains are the best improvements since sliced bread! A normal train takes over 4 hours to get from Shanghai to Hangzhou. A high speed one takes just under 2 hours. This means Shanghai residents can now afford to go to Hangzhou and return on the same day. It's a huge boom for tourism.
In addition to tourism, the increasing interconnectedness of China's vast territory improves domestic trade and decreases reliance on foreign exports.
What a lot of westerners fail to understand is that there is ALWAYS a surplus of demand for transportation to almost anywhere in China. It's not only the migrant workers, but also the businessmen, the students studying out of province, or even consultants who can now expand their businesses to other cities.
Also, investing in railroads is a great way to take more cars off the roads, and thus ensuring less pollution.
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the difference between the west and China here is that the west is already finished with industrialization and have established a fixed way of living, that includes traveling. so its hard to integrate a completely new element into the existing system. as for China there is still a long way to go in terms of urban development even for Shanghai, and some attributes of this project is certainly instrumental in overcoming some of China's problems such as regional demographics among other things
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
But isnt that at the expense of the traditional rail network. Im sure that can do with a lot of improvement as well.eg electrify the line, improve the layout so the traind can travel faster etc:
no the traditional rail network is a nationwide network, as of now i have serious doubt about the cost of maintaining thousands of km of electric railway, plus traditional railway is good for carrying heavy carriages. as for electric high speed trains its mostly a regional network thing, if you are traveling from north end to the south end of China i'd still recommend traditional railway or airline.
solarz
Brigadier
Hmm... I think we might be talking about different things here. When I say high-speed trains, I mean 动车. As far as I know, this kind of train runs on the same railroad network as all other trains. It's just that along certain parts of the network, the high-speed train can reach speeds that are twice as fast as normal trains.
how does that undermine traditional railway though? 动车 is great i rode it many times when i was in China. and if the cost is too high for you you can ride the conventional trains, the market is so huge that it can accomodate both types of transportaion for a very long time.