Trains are displacing jets in China. You can go Shanghai to Beijing by train in 4 hours and 55 minutes for 550 RMB. The same transit by jet takes 2 hours and 25

Trains are displacing jets in China. You can go Shanghai to Beijing by train in 4 hours and 55 minutes for 550 RMB. The same transit by jet takes 2 hours and 25 minutes and costs 615 RMB (which is the cheapest ticket, the average is more like 800). The checking process for trains in China is amazing. You arrive at least 5 minutes early. Walk through a huge metal detector and luggage scanner. Then you are in a huge room. When your train is ready you board. Usually they have at least 5 ticket checking stations, and then the train will have at ten or twenty doors for fast efficient parallel boarding. Anyway, I love traveling by train.