Category Archives: Transport

Real no-car days in Kunming

Posted on 2007-10-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From GoKunming: Kunming first Chinese city with monthly ‘No-car Days’ Kunming newspaper Dushi Shibao is reporting that beginning on the 27th of this month, Kunming will be the first city in China to have monthly ‘No-car days’. After this month, … Continue reading →

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Geely cars and CEO Li Shufu

Posted on 2007-08-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China Car Times has posted a series of videos profiling the Geely automobile company and its charismatic founder Li Shufu. The above is the first installment; watch the rest of it here, where there are links to other stories about … Continue reading →

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Air China profits rise 2,000%

Posted on 2007-07-26 by Jeremy Goldkorn

No money spent on food or logo design From yesterday’s Financial Times: Air China on Wednesday said profits soared in the first half due to the strengthening Chinese currency, investment gains and a booming travel market. The carrier said its … Continue reading →

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Angry air passenger

Posted on 2007-07-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Technical difficulties caused delays to Air China flights nationwide; an angry passenger filmed the scene at Hangzhou airport and uploaded the footage to Youku.

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World’s longest sea bridge connects Shanghai to Ningbo

Posted on 2007-06-27 by Jeremy Goldkorn

According to Xinhua, the bridge has the world’s longest cross-sea span. It will cut the length of the drive from Shanghai to Ningbo from 400 km to 80km.

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Traffic safety advice for Europeans

Posted on 2007-06-22 by maya

Jean-Pierre, how do I drive through this? No doubt responding to constituent demand, the folks at the European Union Chamber of Commerce are hosting a “Road Safety in China” seminar. The program’s stated goal “is to provide information and guidance … Continue reading →

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The return of bike registration greeted with derision

Posted on 2007-03-01 by Joel Martinsen

China’s regulatory authorities announce plans to register all bike purchasers. People laugh dismissively.

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Ministry of Communication Problems

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Joel Martinsen

The Ministry of Communications (交通部) has an illogical English name. Zhai Hua (翟华) critiques it.

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Slow, polluting seniors removed from Beijing city streets

Posted on 2007-01-01 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Rui writes about a Beijing plan to ban seniors from the city’s streets, with the goal of reducing gridlock among pedestrians.

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Chinese air ticketing goes fully electronic

Posted on 2006-10-23 by Bill Zhang

Xinhua reported last week that the China Air Transport Association (CATA) has stopped providing paper flight tickets and hopes to eliminate them in China by the end of this year. In the meantime, airlines will continue using exisiting stocks of … Continue reading →

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