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Guangzhou: Guangzhou Metro
built 656 days ago
Guangzhou is South China's biggest national and foreign oriented city with flourishing commerce, and China's chief foreign trade center as well. It's ... one of China's most historical and cultural city. The city, with long summers and no winters, is always green with flowers in bloom all the year round, hence reputed as "Flower City". As stated above, ffforts are being made to build Guangzhou into an international metropolis functioning primarily as the biggest financial, high-tech and light industrial, as well as communication and transport center in South China.
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Under the terms of the contract, Nokia is providing the Guangzhou Metro Corporation with a Nokia TETRA system, including DXTip exchanges, TETRA base stations, and a dispatcher workstation. Nokia will ... provide implementation and training services. Equipment deliveries will begin at the start of 2005 and the system launch is expected to take place in the second half of year 2005.
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With the Guangzhou Metro, opened in 1999, Guangzhou is the fourth city in China to build an underground railway system. Currently there are four lines in operation with an ambitious plan to expand rapidly with three lines under construction and four lines that are being planned.
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UAL's application proposes nonstop service between San Francisco and Guangzhou in 2008. San Francisco has the largest Chinese-American population of any city in the nation and the proposed route would be the first daily, nonstop U.S. carrier service between the U.S. and Guangzhou. Guangzhou is the business center of the Pearl River Delta region of China and home to a large number of U.S. and other manufacturing facilities. It is ... the third most populous city in China. The San Francisco area has more Guangzhou traffic than any other metropolitan area without nonstop service.
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The airport is 28 km north from downtown Guangzhou, and should not be confused with the former Baiyun Airport which was closed in 2004. A metro line to the airport is under construction but won't be ready until around 2009. In the meantime, taxi is the fastest option. See the airport fare table [29] for approximate fare cost. A taxi ride to downtown should cost no more than ¥120, inclusive of a ¥15 toll fee. As of the end of 2005, there is a ¥1 fuel surcharge that is not shown on the fare meter.
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ESPOO, Finland, November 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia has been selected as the supplier of a digital radio communications system based on TETRA technology for the Guangzhou Metro Corporation in Guangdong province, China. Nokia TETRA system will provide secure voice and data services for the new metro line in the urban rail system of Guangzhou Metro.
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