all electric

So the Beijing subway is going all electric, getting rid of the old paper tickets. Finally. Yeah, alright, it’s been bloody obvious for a while, what with the necessary equipment being installed in the stations. But this article by 新京报/The Beijing News’ Zuo Lin suggests the system is just about all ready to go and will be open for business on May 17.

Anyway, I don’t really want to translate it, or even read the whole thing, because there’s a big, huge, long post involving a lot of translation that I started on Saturday, which was interrupted by the HSK, and for which I’m trying to find the energy to finish.

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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