China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[AndrewJin]

Beijing-Zhangjiekou HSR is vital for Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing/Zhangjiakou.
The relatively poor region of Northern Hebei will be completely changed by better connection.

 

[Jlaw]

Watched those 3 too before bro. Very much enjoyed.

Indeed, it's been a long since I saw a documentary where there is no political bs or China bashing. Just plain telling it like it is.

Another China documentary that is so Pro China because China was weak then:

 

[TaiShang]

'4S store' for locomotives
September 22, 2015


Ailing locomotives receive checks. (Photo/cnwest.com)

The Harmony high-power electric locomotive, weighing 150 tons and with a pulling force of 5,000 tons, is the most widely used locomotive in Chinese railways currently. Just like cars, which needs maintenance after a certain mileage, locomotives need overhaul after having run over 1 million kilometers. Xi'an locomotive repair depot is an overhaul base for Harmony locomotives, in other words, the "4S store" of locomotives.

Xi'an locomotive repair depot undertakes the mission of overhauling the 1,400 locomotives serving in northwest China.

In this base, disassembling, cleaning, testing, assembling, through all these procedures, the tired or ailing locomotives have regained strength and energy and are ready to go back to the rail again.


Workers prepare to disassemble the locomotive. (Photo/cnwest.com)


The yellow jack lifts the locomotive and the workers spate the bogie and the car body.(Photo/cnwest.com)


Workers push the bogie to the workshop for overhaul.(Photo/cnwest.com)


A worker uses ultrasonic detector to test the locomotive wheel. (Photo/cnwest.com)


The locomotive’s roof is lifted by the overhead crane.(Photo/cnwest.com)


The overhead crane is remote controlled. (Photo/cnwest.com)


A worker washes the roof. (Photo/cnwest.com)

@AndrewJin , @cirr

 

[TaiShang]

Workers do assembling work inside a locomotive. (Photo/cnwest.com)


Workers check the electronic equipment. (Photo/cnwest.com)


Workers assemble the locomotive. (Photo/cnwest.com)


The locomotive repair depot is the “4S store” of locomotives. (Photo/cnwest.com)

The tired and ailing locomotive has regained strength and energy and is ready to back to the rail again. (Photo/cnwest.com)

 

[Jlaw]

Workers do assembling work inside a locomotive. (Photo/cnwest.com)


Workers check the electronic equipment. (Photo/cnwest.com)


Workers assemble the locomotive. (Photo/cnwest.com)


The locomotive repair depot is the “4S store” of locomotives. (Photo/cnwest.com)

The tired and ailing locomotive has regained strength and energy and is ready to back to the rail again. (Photo/cnwest.com)

Highly skilled jobs. While looking at the pics I was thinking in the near future there will be many Chinese assembling/disassembling , repairing complex robots.

 

[AndrewJin]

@TaiShang Thanks for the photos on Xi'an locomotive repair depot.
For bullet trains, there are five levels of maintenance from C1 to C5.
For example, one CRH1 train-set will receive C1 maintenance every 4000km or 48 hours of operation.
It will receive C5 maintenance every 4800,000km or 12 years.

With regular maintenance, safety is guaranteed.

 

[cirr]

'4S store' for locomotives
September 22, 2015


Ailing locomotives receive checks. (Photo/cnwest.com)

The Harmony high-power electric locomotive, weighing 150 tons and with a pulling force of 5,000 tons, is the most widely used locomotive in Chinese railways currently. Just like cars, which needs maintenance after a certain mileage, locomotives need overhaul after having run over 1 million kilometers. Xi'an locomotive repair depot is an overhaul base for Harmony locomotives, in other words, the "4S store" of locomotives.

Xi'an locomotive repair depot undertakes the mission of overhauling the 1,400 locomotives serving in northwest China.

In this base, disassembling, cleaning, testing, assembling, through all these procedures, the tired or ailing locomotives have regained strength and energy and are ready to go back to the rail again.


Workers prepare to disassemble the locomotive. (Photo/cnwest.com)


The yellow jack lifts the locomotive and the workers spate the bogie and the car body.(Photo/cnwest.com)


Workers push the bogie to the workshop for overhaul.(Photo/cnwest.com)


A worker uses ultrasonic detector to test the locomotive wheel. (Photo/cnwest.com)


The locomotive’s roof is lifted by the overhead crane.(Photo/cnwest.com)


The overhead crane is remote controlled. (Photo/cnwest.com)


A worker washes the roof. (Photo/cnwest.com)

@AndrewJin , @cirr

Only a selected few in the world are capable of what the pics convey。

 

[AndrewJin]

Only a selected few in the world are capable of what the pics convey。

Enjoy some photos about Menyuan Railway Station.


Menyuan Railway Station, inaugurated in December of 2014.
Located in Menyuan County, an autonomous county of Hui Muslims in Qinghai Province
On Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway

Famous for rape flower fields and Qilian Mountains during summer vocation.
photos

@Gufi @waz @Hu Songshan @Rasengan @Horus @Oscar

3000+m above the see level

The background is 5000+m high Qilian Mountains

waiting room

Train Z42, Shanghai-Urumqi South, 4000km

Bullet train D2701 Lanzhou West - Urumqi South, 1700+km

The highest HSR on the planet

@anant_s @Bussard Ramjet @Echo_419 @Azizam @ahojunk @powastick @Gibbs @liubang @Huan @Rajaraja Chola @kuge @somsak @Götterdämmerung @Whazzup @Nan Yang @Nihonjin1051 et al

 

[AndrewJin]

Menyuan County's last summer, tourism boom!
The first summer vocation after inauguration of Lanzhou-Xinjiang HSR

Enjoy rape flowers in Menyuan, China's Qinghai - Xinhua | English.news.cn
Come and enjoy blooming flowers in China's Qinghai - Xinhua | English.news.cn
Summer the golden travel season in Qinghai - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Menyuan's location

Just relax from trolling!
@Yizhi @Shotgunner51 @TaiShang @Stranagor @cirr @Keel @Jlaw @Place Of Space @FairAndUnbiased @zeronet @Raphael @sweetgrape @Edison Chen @Chinese Bamboo @Chinese-Dragon @cnleio @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @onebyone @yusheng @Kyle Sun @dy1022 @Beast @YoucanYouup @terranMarine @ahojunk @kuge@Economic superpower @Beidou2020 @cirr @JSCh @jkroo @Pangu @ChineseTiger1986 @powastick @Bussard Ramjet et al

 

[jkroo]

It's really a good place.

 

[waz]

Enjoy some photos about Menyuan Railway Station.


Menyuan Railway Station, inaugurated in December of 2014.
Located in Menyuan County, an autonomous county of Hui Muslims in Qinghai Province
On Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway

Famous for rape flower fields and Qilian Mountains during summer vocation.
photos

@Gufi @waz @Hu Songshan @Rasengan @Horus @Oscar

3000+m above the see level
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The background is 5000+m high Qilian Mountains
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waiting room
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Train Z42, Shanghai-Urumqi South, 4000km
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Bullet train D2701 Lanzhou West - Urumqi South, 1700+km
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The highest HSR on the planet
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@anant_s @Bussard Ramjet @Echo_419 @Azizam @ahojunk @powastick @Gibbs @liubang @Huan @Rajaraja Chola @kuge @somsak @Götterdämmerung @Whazzup @Nan Yang @Nihonjin1051 et al

I love the mountain setting!

 

[AndrewJin]

I love the mountain setting!

The railway literally passes through the mountains with 16.36km-long tunnels 3600m above the see level.

 

[TaiShang]

The ever-deepening integration and mobility is indeed creating a whole new nation which has never been the case in this scale in history.

Domestic tourism is to boom.

 

[AndrewJin]

The ever-deepening integration and mobility is indeed creating a whole new nation which has never been the case in this scale in history.

Domestic tourism is to boom.

I don't like future tense, domestic tourism boom is already happening!

 

[TaiShang]

I don't like future tense, domestic tourism boom is already happening!

Exactly. It is already happening. Looks like, with growth, per capita expenditure is also growing fast.


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Tourism Flows Domestic in China
Jul 2014 |

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


TRENDS

Tourism flows domestic in China recorded a healthy increase of 12% in terms of the number of trips in 2013, resulting from the steady growth of China’s economy and rising income levels of Chinese residents. The convenient and fast public transportation system in modern China was another major factor behind the robust performance of domestic tourism during the review period. The rapidly-developing high-speed rail network and an increasing number of airlines and flights across the country have made it easier for Chinese consumers to travel domestically. The popularity of self-drive travel in China over the review period, due to China’s increasing level of private car ownership and constantly expanding highway network, also contributed to the vigorous growth of domestic tourism in China in 2013; however, impacted by the dynamic development of outbound tourism, growth in 2013 slowed down slightly in terms of the number of tourism trips compared to growth in the previous year.

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Here is a detailed database:

Domestic Tourism (STATCHINA) - Data and Charts from Quandl