2024-11-08
12 分钟The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed trains aren't just traveling between China's biggest cosmopolitans at top speed of 350 km/h, they also serve as important workspaces as busy workers are transforming travel time into productive office hours. What's driving this shift to mobile workspaces on rails? On the show: Heyang, Steve Hatherly & Yushun
Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is Round Table.
It's the hour of roundtable with myself.
Heyoung.
I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yuxun in the studio.
The Beijing to Shanghai high speed rail has basically become a work train.
If you catch the 7:00 G2 morning train, you'll see what looks like bosses and their employees sitting next to each other doing one on one ppt Rails reviews Colleagues lined up with laptops syncing their work.
A lady juggling a tablet and a laptop, her eyes darting between the screens.
Even an older guy with thinning gray hair is fiercely typing away editing documents.
The work vibe is so intense that regular folks accidentally boarding this train are seriously taken aback.
One college student, thinking he'd relax in first class with some fried chicken and soda drinking, threw on headphones, fired up his iPad and queued up some hype anime, only to be surrounded by the clacking of keyboards and conference call chatter as soon as the train started moving.
And that student ended up spending the entire trip attending online classes.
Steve, as an international traveler, what do you make of this Beijing to Shanghai high speed rail train ride?
I haven't taken it yet.
I've only taken the high speed train from Beijing to to Xi'an and then back again.
But as far as I know, this is a really reliable train.
According to the schedule on 12306, that's the official train ticket service application.
If you're not familiar with that, the train to Beijing or to Shanghai, depending on which way you're going, it departs every 30 minutes and the shortest gap between two trains is just four minutes.
That's basically like if you miss the subway in the morning, you just wait a couple of minutes and the next one comes.
Except we're talking about something that takes you between between two of the biggest cities in this country.