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This year, a blogger on Tencent Microblog, a Twitter-like service in China, wrote a post saying Standing train tickets should be sold at half price. He said, Standing tickets are mostly bought by migrant workers, who cannot get a seat due to their un

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英闻天下——62 High Speed Train Too Expensive

A faster way of travel but with higher cost, high-speed rail in China continues to undergoing doublt. The 2,298-kilometer line which links five regional economic centers including Beijing, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and Guangzhou, largely shortens th

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英闻天下——160 Should Standing Train Tickets Be Sold at Half Price?

This year, a blogger on Tencent Microblog, a Twitter-like service in China, wrote a post saying Standing train tickets should be sold at half price. He said, Standing tickets are mostly bought by migrant workers, who cannot get a seat due to their un