Shanghai Maglev - Shanghai Maglev Museum
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Shanghai Maglev Museum opened Aug. 16 , 2007, displaying models of the city’s Shanghai Maglev Train and offering interactive games that teach people about the Shanghai Maglev Train technology.
Shanghai maglev museum is located at the first floor of Maglev Longyang Rd station, 1250 square meters, which containing most of the history and technology of Shanghai Maglev Train. The museum is composed of “Birth of Maglev”, “Maglev Shanghai Line”, “Maglev Technology”, “Maglev Superiorities” and “Prospects for Maglev”, totally five sections.
The museum is also a part of the 11th Five Year Plan (2006-2010) of the city’s Science and Technology Commission announced last year.
Shanghai’s maglev line, the only one in China, stretches 30 kilometers from Pudong International Airport to Longyang Road Station.
The line, with an investment of 8.9 billion yuan (US$1.18 billion), was opened in 2003. Shanghai Maglev Train can run at a maximum speed of 430 kilometers per hour and reach Pudong airport in eight minutes.
Shanghai Car - Honking Banned in Shanghai
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In Shanghai, you may try driving shanghai car Nissan Maxima and test how good its Nissan Maxima parts are (is the Maxima available in China?) –but, you may not use at all costs, your car’s horns.
A new law banning honking in the downtown area of Shanghai is prompting local residents and shanghai car owners to toot a different horn. Car owners are reportedly paying up to $100 to have their horns sound with music or a human-voiced warning instead of a honk, came the report from the Shanghai Daily newspaper.
Drivers of cars and motorcycles may no long lay on their horns within Shanghai’s Outer Ring Road and may not sound off at night outside the Outer Ring Road.
If they do, car operators face fines up to 200 yuan (26 dollars) and motorcyclists up to 50 yuan.
It is not stopping drivers and shanghai car owners from getting creative though.
Police said, however, a horn is a horn and drivers face a fine no matter if their horn plays a song or talks.
Chinese car ownership levels are growing rapidly, driven by the rapidly increasing middle class. Ted Conover, in an eye-opening piece in his recent article in New York Times, examines the explosion of roads in China and the country’s newfound love of cars and driving (“Capitalist Roaders”). China, with 2.6 percent of the world’s vehicles, had 21 percent of its road fatalities,” Conover said.
On April 20 2009, Porsche introduced its first luxury sedan during the eve of the Shanghai auto show at the Shanghai World Financial Center; indicating its focus on the Chinese automobile market.
The Shanghai Restoration Project (TSRP)
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The Shanghai Restoration Project is a contemporary electronic music group formed by Chinese American producer Dave Liang. The project debuted as MSN Music’s “New Artist of the Week” in Jan. 2006, reaching #1 on the site’s Top 100 Electronic Albums Chart that month. The release gained recognition globally, rising to the top 10 in several electronic charts, including Amazon, iTunes, and MSN Music. Since then select tracks have been licensed to numerous advertising campaigns, television shows, and films around the world. In late 2007, Shanghai Restoration Project partnered with China Records (the Chinese government’s record label) to release Remixed and Restored Vol. 1, a project remixing select classic Chinese hits from 1930s Shanghai. In 2010, Shanghai RestorationProject earned a New York Emmy® Award for the special entertainment news coverage of “New York 360 Angle: Shanghai Restoration Project” produced by Limei Wang.
Producer Dave Liang was born in Lawrence, Kansas and attended high school in upstate New York, where he was selected as the pianist for the NY All-State Jazz Ensemble. He attended college at Harvard University where he majored in Applied Mathematics and Economics. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC World Service, FADER Magazine, Wired.com, PRI’s The World, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has worked with artists on Bad Boy, Nettwerk, Yamaha, Warner, and Universal.
The Shanghai Restoration Project has also produced releases for various artists including Universal J artist MEG, Yamaha J-pop artist Miu Sakamoto, electro pop artist Di Johnston, singer-songwriter Heath Brandon, and Japanese jazz artist Emi Meyer.