Thanks to God. After fighting with the “Premature end of script headers” error in Links 2.0 for the whole night, it finally suddenly worked. Before that, it was always 500 Internal Server Error.
Now all the links directory and the related entry section of this website back to normal again. The migration is a long process. The Links 2.0 took longest time. Anyway, it started to work just now.
I found a train ticket office at the MagLev Long Yang Station. That means, you can directly buy train ticket from Shanghai Railway Station to any train destinations. Here are the instructions:
1. Get out of the Maglev Station to the ground floor.
2. Turn north (if you still can tell directions) and enter the building of Metro Line #2 Long Yang Rd. Station.
3. Go straightly ahead till to go through the building and reach the Long Yang Rd.
4. Turn back and you will see an outlet of the train ticket office on the first floor of the building.
I believe this piece of information is very helpful to visitors who want to transit to train after leaving Pudong Airport by Maglev.
I am back to Shanghai via train 1657 (from Luoyang to Shanghai). After the fifth speed-up of the whole train system in China, the train I rely on to go home and get back to Shanghai – No. 1658/1660, is even slower than before. :-( It has to give way for other “faster” trains.
Anyway, it is very nice to get to Shanghai and I observe something new. There are some new building and the weather is hotter. It smells as summer already.
Update August 2, 2004
Comparing to the miserable condition of normal sleeper train, the new Beijing to Shanghai train is much better. Check pictures here:
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In the last two days, I travelled to Nanyang (Wendy’s hometown) to visit her parents and family. We took the second day to Baotianman (宝天曼). It was fatanstic travel. Due to the limitation of Internet access speed (via GC75), I can only upload two pictures about the trip:
The Tianxin Cave (天心洞).
The water fall of Baotianman.
As you know, during travel, it is not easy to sort all the pictures taken and write full travelogue. I hope I can upload more after I am back to Shanghai. I start to miss my car in Shanghai and the newly built garden in the new apartment….
Luoyang is famous for its penoy. Every April, millions of visitors will come to Luoyang to enjoy the colorful peony all around the city. I missed the chance this year. Thanks for my mom and aunt. They took pictures of some peony flowers for me so I can share with you all.
Red peony. The large flower is just unbelievablely beautiful.
Hi, I am back to my hometown, the place I grew up and one of the cities I am most familiar with (Shanghai is the other).
Industrial City
More than 50% of the city was built after 1949. The city quickly became an immigration city after the first 5 years of the New China. 10+ extremely huge factories were built in 5 years with millions of people migrating from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taiyuan and Shenyang. For example, the First Tractor Group employees 60,000 people and they came to the city together. The population of the city grows from 400,000 to 6 million quickly due the immigration. It is a piece of history hard to reproduce at any place in the world.
Look at the Jian Xi District, where most factories were built. There is still a lot of buildings reflecting the history. There are two statues of Chairman Mao in the city. Others have been pulled down in the last ten years.
© Jian Shuo Wang. The statue of Chairman Mao before the Luoyang No. 1 Tractor Factory
This statue was planned to be removed in the last decade but the factor workers gathered and protsted agaist the proposal. The deep feelings with Mao was still in their hearts. So it was kept at the gate of the Luoyang No. 1 Tractor Factory. I am very happy to see the statue is there. No mater whether it was a good idea to build up the same statue everywhere in the country, it is right to keep some sense of history and don’t destroy all at the same time.
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Above is another statue at the entrance of another factory in Luoyang. I got out of the taxi and took a picture with it (below):
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Beautiful City
I love the green tree covered streets in Luoyang. The streets are wide (relative to the current traffic volume) and beautiful. Look at the Zhong Zhou West Rd. in the picture below.
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© Jian Shuo Wang. The Zhong Zhou West Rd.
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Below is one of my favorite road. The tall trees have formed a green cave and the cave for the single pass road. There is another “cave” for the lane to the opposite direction. The Xiyuan Rd. extended westward for several kilometers.
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Below is the tower of the Luoyang No. 1 Tractor Factory. I see people are very curious about the small white boxes on the wall. Your guess is right. They are Aircons. The Jianxi district of Luoyang is made up this Russian style buildings. You can find this kind of nice building along the long Zhouzhou West Road. They look very nice even in the recent years. The Aircons do deface the facade of the building.
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Luoyang was also infected by McDonald’s (virus) as any other cities.
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Accient Luoyang
Luoyang was the capital of more than 13 dynasties in China. Due to continuous wars, the old city has been almost removed from the horizontal. Recently, a gate was rebuilt according its original design. Here is the gate, Liing Gate (丽京门).
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Below is the West Street of the accident Luoyang city.
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Luoyang Railway Station
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P.S. This article was updated by Jian Shuo Wang on May 7, 2004. More description of the pictures were added.
I will go back to my hometown Luoyang this afternoon and get back after the long May holiday. I will bring the GC75 with me so I can access Internet only even on train.
Besides Gubei Area in Hongqiao, there is another raising international district – Jinqiao Biyun International District. We visited the area today and were very impressed by the high quality of life there.
It is in Pudong, near the Yangpu Bridge, and very near to Zhang Jiang High Tech Park and Jinqiao Export Zone.
International District
As Jinqiao (or Golden Bridge) is a place with intensive foreign investment, many multi-national companies open their factories or R&D center there. There are many foreign area manager or employees working there. The Biyun district was designed to provide a comfortable living area for them. Large potation of the houses were bought or rented by foreigners.
In the 3 sq. km area, there are churches, hospitals, Carrefour, OBI, international schools and the China European International Business School (CEIBS).
© Jian Shuo Wang. Map of the area
© Jian Shuo Wang. The Biyun Sports Center, with very nice facilities – swimming pools, tennis courts…
© Jian Shuo Wang. My FIAT Siena before the community church.
© Jian Shuo Wang. The top of the church.
© Jian Shuo Wang. Business buildings
High cost of living
Good as the living condition it is, it is relatively more expensive to live there. An apartment with 80 sq. meters (two bed rooms, one living room) costs about 1200 USD. Some good 270 sq. meters apartment costs as high as 4000 USD, which is the best choice to GM of GE (according to local people).
This is much higher than the same apartment in downtown already.
Last night, I saw a new Kodak kiosk at the east gate of Metro City. It provides self-service for customers with digital cameras.
Basically, it support almost all media currently available on market. Here is he picture of the IO part of the kiosk.
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As you can see from the picture, it support blue tooth, SM, CF/MD, SD/MMC, XD, Memory Stike/MSPRO, IrDA, 3” Disk and CD. Wow! I would say, the only media that it does not suport is a USD port, that movable hard disk or laptop can output pictures into the magic yellow box.
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It can print out 6” picture. It provide some basic image processing functions, like rotate, coloring, frame. It can also burn a CDR of all the files on your digital camera media (MemoryStick or CF card).
It may be very good service for backpackers to Shanghai. If they don’t bring laptops with them, and their small MemoryStike or CF card is full, they can insert the card into card area and burn a CD on it. No computer needed.
I tried to insert the MemoryStike of my Sony P8 into the window. The green light above the MemoryStike flashes and I can use the touch screen to perform all the tasks. There was a very helpful guy explaining how the machine works. He predicted that the Credit Card module will be installed very soon, so he don’t have to standby to receive cash. People can completely help themselves to print color pictures or burn picture CDs.
It is on display at the Metro City East Gate (the gate to Metro Tower) for one month. I believe it is a marketing research to test the reaction of the Chinese market. I hope this kind of machine will be popular in Shanghai soon.
BTW, a 6” photo costs 5 RMB and a CD burning operation costs 15 RMB.
P.S. I am uploading this blog entry via Sony Ericsson GC75 at home.
After I setup this site, I am often mistakenly regarded as Mr. Know-Everything… I am surely not. I only took the advantage of knowing both Chinese/English languages. :-D
XHJ asked me about how to get India visa for Chinese citizen. I didn’t know that before, but I saw this information may help XHJ to get married with the girl he loves. I read some Chinese website and got the following information:
Visa Type: Business Visa
Valid period: 2 months
Max days to stay: 30 days
Requirement: All passport visa holder
Materials needed: two 2′ photos, photocopy of national ID (both side), passport valid for 9 months.
Source: http://www.china.org.cn/chinese/TR-c/215864.htm
More information on India Visa:
My friend is in bad mood these days. His visa application to U.S. was rejected so he cannot attend TechEd 2004 in San Diego. This is the second time he missed the chance due to Visa problems.
Visa is one of the biggest barriers for people to go out of the country. I heard it is due to SARS, but it is not confirmed. There is no report on this on major international media, but many of them reported “Illegal US visa call centre closed“.
Maybe due to security concerns, the United States Consulate in Shanghai has replaced the tall gate with tall walls at the interaction of Huai Hai Rd. and Wulumuqi Rd. Now there is only a small gate at Wulumuqi Rd. now.
Eric kindly lent me his Sony Ericsson GC75 GPRS Wireless Modem.
Image in courtesy of Sony Ericsson
With this card and my GPRS enabled China Mobile SIM card, I can access Internet at any time. Here is the driver (download from jbhg.com.cn). It has pre-entered all the information needed to connect to China Mobile network.
After downloading, simply open the GC75 Manager and I am connected to the next work in few minutes. Now, I can update my blog from home. It is great!
Screen short of GC75 Manager
Speed is good
Hehe. Wireless + Pudong is a great combination.
Where to buy flowers, grass, and trees in Shanghai? This is the best place I found so far. It is just by the Long Yang Road Maglev train station.
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If you have a garden, you have to visit this place. It is fantastic.
Check this article: Traveling Across China: Need Your Help!. I am excited about Dan Washburn’s plan to travel across China. Dan is my friend I never met. We planned the Kanas trip last year via phone and email, but never met up. My wife and I didn’t go there at last, but Dan managed to go with my other friends, Eric and Simon.
His Plan
His plan to travel across China is so exciting. This is quoted from his plan:
To me, the most interesting stories are found far away from what is considered “famous,” far away from tour busses and tourist sites marked by colorful flags. I want to see the China not often seen … so my readers can see it, too.
There’s a good chance that I might be making this trip alone – and my Chinese language skills are just a little bit better than bu hao. So, wherever I go, it would be great to have a guide or a translator or just someone to have a beer with. Interested? Actually, if you are fluent in Chinese and English, have a sense of adventure – and have some time to kill this summer – maybe you could tag along for part of the trip. And if you happen to be an unemployed documentary filmmaker, all the better. (But you’d need to be able to pay your own way … otherwise, I’ll probably be broke by Beijing).
Help Dan
Since I know my blog has large number of reader in many different places in China, and they know both English and Chinese, I’d like to ask help for Dan. Please visit Dan’s plan and give him suggestions. If Dan happens to be in your city, just invite him for a cup of tea if you have time. That must be valuable memory for both you and Dan.
P.S. This is his plan on his Shanghai Diary.
According to news report, more and more new SARS cases are discovered these days. 4 patients were discovered around the previous SARS patient found in Beijing.
Image credit: Sina.com.cn
Shanghai
In Shanghai, every protection measures started automatically. The building I am working at start to post the daily disinfected report in all the elevators.
© Jian Shuo Wang. Taken at Metro City in Shanghai
Since I don’t take taxi any more, I don’t know what is happening on taxis. Anyway, people here are quite skillful to handle SARS and I am not worried at all.
In my First Week in Pudong report, I wrote:
After I moved to Pudong, I can see the sun set again. I can see the redish clouds on the west before the sunset. There is a long preriod of time from sunset to completely dark. This recalls the life in my home town in Luoyang. This is so common in most places in the world, but not in downtown in Puxi. It seemed to me that in Puxi, when the Sun sets, it becomes dark very soon. There is no colorful clouds after the sunset. I suspect it may because of the high buildings that blocked the view and the reflection of the remaining sunlight after sunset.
I didn’t find a chance to take the red-clouds yet, but here is a picture I took when I drove back home (I took it at a long red light, not during driving.)
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This is what I called “a long preriod of time from sunset to completely dark”.
P.S. Since I don’t have Internet access at my current temp home, this article is created offline and uploaded in a batch when I can access Internet.
I hope my reader don’t mind too much for irregular update these days. There are some short pause during the updates (two days at most). It is because there is no Internet access in my current rented houes. So I will create the blog offline – using Notepad – and store it. When I can access my site, I will upload them in batch, so it is still at least one post everyday.
Today, I am in very good mood. I wandered in the public market with my camera in Becai, Pudong, Shanghai. Here are some interesting pictures.
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Curious about the other end of the Maglev, after seeing the pictures at Pudong Airport? Here you are:
The building with curve roof is the Maglev station. The white building behind is the station of Shanghai Metro Line #2. So you can take Metro directly after you get off the Maglev train.
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XGAO recommended a very interesting tool to me, the Microsoft Office Home Style+. It can create cartoon pictures for you from any pictures. Here is my experiment. Very interesting.
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