{"id":153754,"date":"2026-06-30T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153754"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:55:04","slug":"in-2011-shanghai-beijing-high-speed-rail-link-officially-began-operations-scmp-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153754","title":{"rendered":"In 2011, Shanghai\u2013Beijing high-speed rail link officially began operations \u2013 SCMP archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis article was first published on July 1, 2011<br \/>\nPlane beats train, but winning isn\u2019t everything<br \/>\nby Will Clem, Shi Jiangtao<br \/>\nTwo South China Morning Post reporters yesterday pitted the new high-speed Shanghai\u2013to\u2013Beijing train against an airliner and discovered that although taking to the skies had the edge for speed, rail won out for comfort and convenience.<br \/>\nThey set off from the SCMP\u2019s Shanghai bureau at 2.34pm, taking separate taxis for Hongqiao International Airport and the adjacent railway&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3358865\/2011-shanghai-beijing-high-speed-rail-link-officially-began-operations-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis article was first published on July 1, 2011 Plane beats train, but winning isn\u2019t everything by Will Clem, Shi Jiangtao Two South China&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}