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Despite the terrible Wenzhou train disaster that ensued a mere three weeks after the opening, the year 2011 still is remembered chez moi as the year of the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Rail. This was a railway line, and indeed, an event that, to me, was the second most important thing of the year — after getting married to my darling, Tracy Liu (which was the number one event of 2011).
The Beijing to Shanghai HSR has major stops in five key cities in northern and eastern China: Beijing, Tianjin, Ji’nan, Nanjing and Shanghai. This is a big thing to me as I’ve friends in the media, educational, and arts worlds — and all folks I’ve met both on Twitter and in the real world — in every single one of these metropolises. How cool can getting off the train and meeting a pal that very city be!?
There was vast media coverage of the very first trip that both me and Tracy took. Train G1 departed Beijing South at 15:00 on 30 June 2011. Onboard was both me and Tracy, but also quite unforgettably, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao. Mr Wen sure had a busy schedule ahead, but he was kind enough to take a quick moment to chat to us. We loved the entire trip.
Before this, I had taken already 32,475.33 km of railways (the great majority of which were in mainland China) and completed 207 rail travel legs since high speed services began in China with the Beijing-Tianjin intercity HSR on 1 August 2008. This had already clearly established me as one of the major train folks in China. Chinese trains had taken me to Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and further out, to Hong Kong, Taipei and Kaohsiung.
This inaugural debut on the Beijing-Shanghai HSR earnt both me and Tracy, one of China’s most HSR new families and world rail travellers at heart, international media attention. Government media (Chinese Central TV), regional media (including the free-leaning Southern Metropolis Daily), local media (the Metropolitan Women Daily from Ji’nan landed us front page coverage!) and overseas media (including media from Hong Kong, Europe and the Americas) ran either pictures of me (and Tracy) or my reports or interviews. On the online world, CNNgo spread the word that I’d be livetweeting the event in a report just before the HSR line opened. Shanghai-based Asian TV host Steven Weathers, Lanzhou-based language professor Lonnie Hodge, and Chinese next-gen online photo site Diandian.com, amongst others, all linked to my live coverage or collaborated with me in my live tweeting from the train.
雖然在京滬高鐵開通三個多星期後，發生了令人震驚和十分痛苦的溫州動車撞車事故，但是對於我來說，2011 年依然是京滬高鐵之年。對我來說，京滬高鐵的開通，是 2011 年僅次於和我的老婆 Tracy（劉乃嘉）結婚的特大喜事。
京滬高速鐵路全線經過七個省市，五大始發車站位於北京（南站）、天津（西站）、濟南（西站）、南京（南站）和上海（虹橋站）。恰好，我在京、津、濟、寧、滬五大城市都認識來自媒體、教育、藝術等各界朋友，而且我們不僅在網路上交流過，甚至於合作過，也在線下實際見過面。坐高鐵，在五大城市下車，即可會友，真是件大好事啊!
我們所乘搭的列車是由北京南始發的頭版列車（G1 次列車）。2011 年 6 月 30 日 15 時整，列車準時從北京南站 1 站台始發。車上有我，有老婆，但是也有特別來賓 — 中國總理溫家寶先生。溫先生雖然很忙，但是很榮幸可以和我們短暫交流。這趟旅途，終身難忘，真是期盼已久的一次旅途。這裡說「我們喜歡這趟旅途的每一分，每一秒」，毫不誇張。
在登上京滬高鐵頭班車前，從 2008 年 8 月 1 日中國第一條高速高鐵京津城際開通以來，我已乘搭 32,475.33 公里鐵路旅客列車，絕大部分在中國大陸境內完成，乘車次數高達 207 次。這已經讓我成為新浪所認證之「高鐵達人」。乘搭列車，我已去過北京、天津、石家莊、青島、上海、南京、杭州、成都、武漢、廣州、深圳，還有香港、臺北及高雄。
登上京滬高鐵頭班車，我和 Tracy 組成之中國高鐵常客家庭得到國內外媒體關注。中國大陸官方媒體（如中國中央電視台）、區域性媒體（如較為「自由」之《南方都市報》）、地方媒體（如濟南《都市女報》）及來自香港、歐洲及每週之海外媒體，都以各種方式，或採訪我們，或直接將我們圖片與報導載入網路。在網上，CNNgo 在高鐵開通前就為我做了「預告」，邀請人們「圍觀」我在臉譜網、推特及新浪微博要做的現場直播。居滬亞洲媒體主持人史宗靈（Steven Weathers）、居住在蘭州的美籍語言教授宋志（Lonnie Hodge）、新一代圖片微博網站點點網等，也與我進行各種推廣或合作。
SEE THE MEDIA COVERAGE • 媒體採訪資訊連結
- Global Times (China): How foreign media are looking at the China of today through the Beijing-Shanghai HSR (Chinese)
中國《環球時報》:「外媒從京滬高鐵看當代中國」(華語)
At 15:00 on 30 June, the first trains on the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway will leave Beijing South Railway Station and Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station. David Feng, a Beijing-born Swiss-Chinese, was the first “laowai” to purchase a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail ticket. Cable News Network (CNN) from the United States said that the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway will span 7 provinces in eastern China, which has a quarter of China’s population and 40% of the nation’s GDP. David Feng broadcasted live his journey via Facebook, Twitter and Sina Weibo.
6 月 30 日 15 時，京滬高鐵分別從北京南站和上海虹橋站對發出首趟列車。在北京出生的瑞士人馮琰成為第一個購買上海到北京高鐵車票的「老外」。報道這一消息的美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）當天說，京滬高鐵跨越中國東部 7 個省市，這裡有中國 1/4 人口和佔全國 GDP 40% 的經濟總量。一路上，馮琰通過微博、「臉譜」和「推特」全程直播了自己的旅行。 - CNNgo: First ride on China’s historic Shanghai-Beijing high-speed train (English)
《CNNgo》:「坐上第一趟歷史性的京滬高鐵列車」(英語)
See PDFs from newspapers across China featuring David and Tracy
請瀏覽有 David & Tracy 照片的中國國內報紙
- Metropolitan Women Daily (Ji’nan, China; page 1, 1 July 2011 issue)
《都市女報》(中國濟南，2011 年 7 月 1 日頭版) - Shenyang Evening News (Shenyang, China; page 3, 1 July 2011 issue)
《瀋陽晚報》(中國瀋陽，2011 年 7 月 1 日第 3 版)
China’s central television interviews me. It’s the lie-flat seats I’m after!
中國中央電視台採訪，我比較喜歡京滬高鐵的「全躺平式」商務座座席。
CNN and CNNgo featured my first-hand train ride report on their website.
CNN 與 CNNgo 均發佈了我的京滬高鐵頭班車出行手記。
The moment I got my tickets, Hong Kong-based media totally surrounded me!
沒想到，京滬高鐵 G1 次列車車票剛入手，港媒立即包圍!
The Metropolitan Women Daily from Ji’nan gave me and Tracy front page coverage.
濟南《都市女報》把我和老婆 Tracy (劉乃嘉) 坐高鐵放在頭版。
Switzerland’s 20 Minuten shows our picture in a report in German.
瑞士的《20 Minuten》報發表有關京滬高鐵新聞，同時用了我們乘車圖像。
We could not get a moment’s rest! The media were set loose…
沒辦法，京滬高鐵太新了，被媒體全部給包圍了!
Shenyang’s Evening News features us in their HSR special.
《瀋陽晚報》也照了我們了，高鐵上坐的好開心啊!
Finally, the Southern Metropolis Daily catches me about to fall asleep! (See the video.)
最後，《南方都市報》全媒體拍到了我要睡著的那一時刻…! (可觀看視訊)
If you are a member of the media from any country, regardless of size or ownership, and you’d like to talk to someone who’s on the Chinese rails often (or has also been abroad — especially western Europe), and has an independent point of view “outside the rail system” as a frequent traveller (a “private citizen”), just write me and I’ll see what we can pull off. I’d love to talk!
從綠皮到高鐵，從硬座到高包，我在中國坐過許多列車，去過許多地方，對中國鐵路以旅客角度比較熟悉，對中國的鐵路系統也有屬於自己獨有的一些看法，當然也去過國外，坐過那裡的車（在海外乘車的國家與地區為香港及臺灣，以及瑞士、義大利、英國、美國、奧地利、法國、德國）。若你從事傳媒工作（不分媒體組織大小）且想聽到來自民間的一些較為個人化的鐵路常客看法，歡迎與我取得聯絡。