Top 10 Advantages of Travelling by High Speed Train in China

High speed trains in China have linked most big and small cities and popular tourist places together, which offer better access for you to a lot of destinations in this beautiful country. Also, at the average speed of 250 km/h for D trains, 350 km/h for G trains and 400 km/h for the new Fuxing trains, much faster than normal trains, the high speed trains sharply cut down the transferring hours between two cities. Besides, the comfortable seats, large room, better budget, nice view outside your window, advanced equipment…… are all good reasons to take the cool and super high speed train in your tour. Still hesitate? Let’s see the top 10 advantages concluded by most travelers at below and understand why they highly recommend travelling by high speed train in China as a great way, instead of flights.

Super Fast High Speed Train

The super speed of the high speed train is like that of the unbelievable development of China, so it also is regarded as the “Chinese Speed” by some foreign media. So far, all high speed trains are under good service with the high speed at about 250-350 km/h for the D trains and G trains, which has saved many hours than the normal trains that usually need over 10 hours. Furthermore, the latest generation of Chinese high speed train - Fuxing Train even has drawn the attention of world people with its highest speed at 400 km/h, and that proudly is now the world’s fastest high speed train. While from Beijing to Shanghai, it takes around 15 hours by normal trains (a distance over 1200 km), the high speed trains just need 5 hours. And if by the Fuxing trains, it even need only less than 4.5 hours, which has no big difference from the flight catching that need about 2.5 hours for flying and another over 2 hours for the check in, security check, luggage collection, etc. By comparing, the high speed Fuxing train is the best way to go between Beijing and Shanghai.

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You may think flying in the air cannot meet your high consciousness of safety. The high speed trains will do that. Running on land and on the particular well-constructed railway, the high speed train assures a safe journey for every passenger, without any bumper like a flight meets unsteady winds. In the carriage, there is one police on duty in every carriage. Moreover, as every person need to go with the real-name policy to get onboard, you can feel relieved in such safe and peace environment.

High speed trains offer you highly smooth trips, which has been testified after one person lifted his coin on the shelf of the window and witnessed its 9 minutes’ steady standing there. As every place on the train is neat and clean, like that on an airplane, you can totally leave alone your worries and use all the equipment there. Besides, all seats of all classes are elaborately designed and use good materials to meet most satisfaction of people, such as the bigger legroom, adjustable seats, etc. Furthermore, unlike on a flight, there are much fewer announcements to disturb you, thus, you will spend every minute in great comfort in reading, music, chatting, view appreciation, etc.

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Bullet Train Police

Fuxing Train Policies

High speed trains are much better for travelling with kids and babies, since they who dislike to keep sitting for long time can stand up, stretch out and walk around from one carriage to another to relax their exciting minds and bodies. However, on a flight, your children have to sit there on still with the seat belt fastened to ensure safety. Moreover, service staff would recommend various snacks and beverages about every half an hour, so your kids could move their attentions and enjoyment onto the food during the hard hours.

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Though the fast high speed trains are like flying, it is actually cheaper than taking flights most of the time. Usually, the flight ticket of an economy seat is over 1000 RMB for a person, and some even need up to 1500 RMB or 1800 RMB. Although, yes, you may get some discounts by booking in advance for many days or several months, there still are not too many expenses going back into your wallet. However, the high speed trains charge only no more than 800 RMB of a second class seat mostly for long distance ridings, and usually only about 200-600 RMB for most common railway routes between cities. Furthermore, it is necessary to say that it is much worthy traveling by high speed trains since you can get the awesome natural view outside the window. However, on an airplane, you also have paid, there is nothing but only the clouds out there.

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There would be no minutes boring like when sitting in the air, you have to keep 1.5 and more hours watching the monotonous clouds or browsing the not much interesting magazine in the bag on the 30,000 feet high place. Down on the land by high speed train, you will see the real China IN STYLE, up close and personal from the super large train windows. Just let it take you to see the real countryside and super natural scenery as it departs from the railway station in the city. In the several hours or dozens of minutes, you can totally feel ease to know what there are between the two cities, and during different seasons, you may meet the exact time to appreciate the seasonal blossoms and other exciting scenes in good mood. However, if you go by driving, you need to pay high attention on the road and cars, so you also would miss the highlights on the way.

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Appreciate Sceneries outside High Speed Train

Taking a high speed train can avoid too many procedures and steps. The line moves very quick as the ticket checking is very simple but still serious. You do not have to take off your coat and shoes for the security check, or spend more time showing your digital devices to the staff. The Automatic Ticket Checkers cut much more time to make people can go through that step within 5-15 minutes. After that, you can directly get to the platform and easily find your right carriage usually for about 1-5 minutes. However, by taking a flight, you have to wait in a queue for at least half an hour to check your boarding pass and get the security check, what’s more, you have to walk another long way to reach your boarding gate, which often costs 10-20 minutes.

That’s not over. Besides the about 1-2 hours spent before it taking off, you still need more time to pick up your luggage, find the right gate out and decide the transportation to the downtown after landing in your destination.

By such comparison, it shows again that traveling by high speed trains saves you a lot of time than by flight. Especially for a journey within 5 hours, the long procedure for taking a flight would make such way cost exceeded hours.

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Security Check Procedure

Convenient Automatic Ticket Checker