Yesterday, I nipped from Suzhou to Shanghai on the train - a dry run for Thursday. Over the last 5 years, the station at Suzhou has changed beyond all recognition, in fact, an entirely new one has been built. It's gone through many changes and this, I think is almost it. I think it's finished. Man, the train systems in China are second to none. The new building is huge, gleaming marble floors where once there were regular tiles, automated gates where there were cattle like metal railings with pushing and shoving and rushing of great numbers of people. It's clean, safe, efficient and luxurious. And that's only the station in Suzhou. On the platform, it is also orderly, the train stops so that the doors to the carriages stop exactly at the related number on
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