Suzhou Transport; High Speed Train and Metro
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2023
- I travel to Suzhou on the high speed train and then proceed to travel on all of the five metro lines and visit the Pingjiang tourist area.
Suzhou is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the most populous city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce.
Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 6,715,559 in the city proper, and a total resident population of 12,748,262 as of the 2020 census in its administrative area. The city jurisdiction area's north waterfront is on a lower reach of the Yangtze whereas it has its more focal south-western waterfront on Lake Tai - crossed by several waterways, its district belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region. Suzhou is now part of the Greater Shanghai metro area, incorporating most of Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou urban districts plus Kunshan and Taicang, with a population of more than 38,000,000 residents as of 2020. Its urban population grew at an unprecedented rate of 6.5% between 2000 and 2014, which is the highest among cities with more than 5,000,000 people.
Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou has had a long and productive history. Local museums host abundant displays of its relics and many sites of historical interest exist. Around AD 100, during the Eastern Han dynasty, it became one of the ten largest cities in the world, mostly due to emigration from northern China. Since the 10th century, Suzhou has been an important center of China's industry and foreign trade. During the late 15th century to the 19th century, Suzhou was a national economic, cultural, and commercial center, as well as the largest non-capital city in the world, until it was overtaken by Shanghai. Since major economic reforms began in 1978, Suzhou has become one of the fastest growing major cities in the world, with GDP growth rates of about 14% in the past 35 years. With high life expectancy and per capita incomes, Suzhou's Human Development Index ratings is roughly comparable to a moderately developed country, making it one of the most highly developed and prosperous cities in China.
China has the best infrastructure on the planet - and it cost almost nothing to ride
Thanks, Tim. Your video about the metro is never boring. It is very interesting and enjoyable to watch. Shenzhen and Chengdu metro stations are futuristic.
Great video, really useful. The Metro in Suzhou looks really good
哇，没想到你一个外国人在搭乘上海和苏州的高铁/地铁过程中这么娴熟，完全掌握了中国交通系统的乘坐方法，给你点赞👍🏻
The scenery outside the window is breathtaking. It's amazing how the train can cover so much distance while still offering such incredible views. - New fan from Bangalore
I love my train, subway trips in China. Reliable and fast
Excellent work! It's also good to take a look at the Oriental Gate :)
Business Class is the most premium class for the train. Business - First - 2nd
Thanks for sharing. Absolutely love Suzhou.
Keep making videos i am liking your video
Mr Tim,thanks for your sharing,i like the way you introduce travel details so carefully and kindly,hope you have a nice day 👍👍👍
Great video, not just transit but some tourist stuff as well!
That's a great video on the trains. Very impressive and modern system and you also took us to Suzhou....wish I can travel there myself.....thanks for taking us with you.
Welcome to my historic home town! It looks you feel pretty comfortable to get around with modern Chinese transportation system. Great job! Really enjoy your video!
Great presentation style. Sometimes we are looking for efficient information, but very often we are watching something for the informative contents as well as for something emotional soothing and comforting.
I guess the Shanghai metros and Suzhou Metros has been connected directly.
the connection will open in a couple of months
@@timmytumblerplz do a vid on that when it opens! Thx
I just realize that the video did not include a very important part of the city: Suzhou classical gardens, hope you can make another trip to cover this section😜
guess Zhuo Zheng is one of the most.
(Yes, you have seen where the way to line 6 is. It is right behind the boarding where the map you pointed at is stuck on!)
This is interesting
Many new type automatic ticket gates can use passport.The glass part on the machine is be used to scan passport.
Very interesting trip, you must have planned everything ahead of time.
Oh ! Actually no I honestly didn’t, I made the choice to go about an hour before getting on the train, I did have an idea of the metro route before though.
I planned a trip to Suzhou for few days next week as well, any recommended sites for sightseeing around from your experience?
Wow, the water on the waterways is very clear 😯
Indeed it was clear
Hi Tim, I saw, in Pingjiang Road, about half amount of visitor who don't take the mask anymore...but have to in the train and train station, hahaha
Currently on the Shanghai metro it is confusing, I have not worn a mask and no one complains. I intend to wear a mask as it is socially accepted, but the specific rules are unclear.
it's an old city with many centuries of history, i don't think it's famous for any sort of hi-tech city, instead, it's more famous for its traditional old towns, villages, sight-seeing, history, etc. but these years, it's new city area is also expanding quickly with the growth of manufacturing industries.
The Chinese say the
"Above is heaven
Below is Suhang."
Suzhou was famous for silk, art, fine cuisine , retirement houses with poetic names, unique architecture and classic Chinese gardens ... It also has the famous kunlun (?) opera and many shops selling exquisite hand-embroidery , fans, art of Chinese ink and brush paintings, and beautiful Hanfus, a wide range of porcelain ware from the diff. Dynasties - blue and white Ming vases , Yuan- Sung-Tang-Qing - Mao pottery and vases... Maoist art of badges, scarves and berets...and scrolls of beautiful Chinese cloths ...
delicate cakes and pteserved fruit Yes.😮 and exquisite cuisine...
A walk-through the old town suffused with culture is like an unforgetable beautiful dream ... hope you can capture this on your Suzhou video, Tim!❤🎉
I think what Suzhou lacks? An international airport of its own.
It can be an alternative gateway to Shanghai’s Hongqiao and Pudong international airports to the north
It’s a political issue, Suzhou is a much lower level city and not qualified to have airport.
why would a second tier city need another airport.. there are lots of international gateway within an hour by HSR.. airport need huge land space.. they have better usage for something so valuable..
Suzhou is surrounded by airports and there is little air space for Suzhou to build another airport.
There is no need of an airport in Suzhou it’s useless .cause Suzhou is near to Wuxi and Shanghai
@@mandyzou860 可地级市无锡就有机场。
Wow all could by subway
your time there is a little bit of short, we planned a four days time there.
come to Wuxi to take a trip
I'm so glad that foreigners can now use eTicket on trains. I used to have to order train tickets online then stand in line to pickup paper tickets. They only have one line for ticket pickup and that line is usually long. Can't wait until China allows tourist Visa again.
It is so much more convenient this way, I bought the ticket online just 1 hour before going, in future videos I should focus on the simplicity of this process actually and comment about how much harder it used to be.
As I posted this comment, I saw the news that China is to resume all Visas on March 15. I've been waiting for that day. See you soon, China!
@@timmytumblerplz do an updated vid.. last time I went was 3 years ago...
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Top gear made a show that a competiton was set for who can reach a destination city by driving cars or by tain. route planning and traffic on the roads influence the most for this race.
I have also done something similar with ChinaDriver
Tim, Did you go to Suzhou museum which was designed by I. M. Pei, a world renowned architect ? That place itself is an art piece plus all the exhibits inside. Don't miss it.
I did visit several years ago, but not on this trip, thanks.
3:26 GPS seems to be blocked at Chinese high speed trains. I rode high speed trains 11 times in my last China trip around New Years Day of 2024, GPS never worked.
Tim. I believe Business Class is posher than First Class in the HRS. Not sure they have that in short haul trains, but if there is it should be in the very front/end of the train.
Yes, business is higher than first class, there was no availability on this trip, I’ll try it out in future
Its normal to buy tickets before queuing. Isn't it typical ? One doesn't get in line vwithout tickets.
have you good day in China
seems to be the Suzhou Metro passengers much less than those in Shanghai.
An old Chinese song runs,
" Above is heaven
Below is Su Hang,
Hangzhou - West Lake
Suzhou has celestial homes
Aiya and the two are exquisite landscapes !"
Suzhou is a beautiful canal town with quaint white washed houses on one side
A long canal runs through the old town. There' re pretty scenic little bridges across the canal banks and boats sailing up and down the canal, carrying passengers .
I Suzhou lies in an idyllic region of
a range of hills with running rivers and lakes of clesr water.
and The heavenly endowed region became a favourite place for retiring govt. officials of distinction to design their retirement houses, and of Classical Chinese design with patterned lattice windows, moon gates, stone bridges , and stone
gardens . pagodas ,
summer house , lakes, little islands
and ... for a table and chairs with a lamp for writing poetry.
Some if the famous names of the retired official's houses are
"The Humble Administrator's Lodge,"
"Timely Reflections
Past the Bureau,"
" Moongates to Contemplation under a Cedar tree."
.
"Moongates to Contemplation Garden."
i am not even there and i am already lost, never ride on the metro before in my life. My Area never have one, always find city life fascinating and scary at the same time.
Don’t worry, you can use navigation Apps to direct the trip. The mobile signal cover in China is pretty good, even in the tunnel.
Time was I leaving Suzhou, there ware only 2 lines metro............
The condensied population makes high speed train profitable and cheaper for travellers. As techno advances, it might be effecient to apply HSR to ship cargos across continent(from Asia to Europe) if solar power stations can provide cheap electricity.
not very realistic.
@@gfordong7609 Techno makes everything possible. 21st century is techno explosion era as ChatGPT, AI robots , flying cars are coming in reality
keeping up believing, those seems to be the conception of financial manipulating people's greedy. but I love Tesla.
@@serriajohn I admit yeah but no high speed freight train exists outside of Italy!!!!
Suzhou metro is easy, come to Nanjing and do the same, mister. 😂😂
In June this year, Shanghai metro will link Suzhou metro line 11, which means you could take metro to Suzhou directly,would you be able to experience again 😊
I intend to, thanks.
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Hi May i know shanghai and Suzhou stations have lifts??
Generally yes, see my general shanghai metro video for more about access.
Question, why did you have to show your passport? is that for all public transport?
It’s used as the ticket, links to the digital ticket and it’s the same for the locals who use their ID cards.
@@timmytumbler thanks very much
The ID requirement is for the HSR, not for the metro. Similar reasoning as taking a airflight.
most metros should be made by Nanjing Puzhen.
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