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The Science and Technology Museums of Beijing, China

China Science and Technology Museum

This is a centralized science and technology museum, meant to promote scientific and cultural literacy to the public. This museum holds science exhibitions, training-based exhibition programs and experiment-based exhibition programs.

There is Exhibition Hall A, which exhibits ancient Chinese technology, such as astronomy, the compass, gunpowder, bronze use, paper and printing. There is then a collection of exhibits on modern Chinese technology, such as heat, optics, electromagnetics, acoustics, nuclear and information technology. Exhibition Hall B has displays of astronautics, energy, communications, life science and environmental science. Exhibition Hall C has one of the biggest Astro-vision theaters in the world with very advanced cinematography.

Beijing Yushengtang Herbal Medicine Museum

This interesting museum has over 3,000 items on display, showing how herbs are a vital part of Chinese culture. There are not only herbal medicines for show, but also statues and fossil inscriptions from the Ming and Shang Dynasty that are related to the topic. The museum is a trace of herbal medicine in the contemporary world back into the ancient world 6,000 years ago.

Beijing Museum of Natural History

The Beijing Museum of Natural History has many exhibits of life from millions of years ago. There is a Dinosaur World that has a Jurassic Park and Cretaceous Park, with dozens of fossils on display from those eras. The Ancient Animal Exhibition Room that has many primitive and simple creatures on show. The Human Being Exhibition Room has evolutionary evidence of human development.

The Tank Museum

Interested in military technology?

The Tank Museum in Beijing exists between the Summer Palace, and the Badaling part of the Great Wall of China. Its eleven exhibition rooms contain about 1,400 items, including many photographic displays. Its rooms show many examples of Chinese armors, tank armored cars, and weapon models. It has tanks that date back to 1916 and go into the current age.

Geological Museum of China

This is an older museum, and is one of the best geological museums in Asia, containing about 200,000 specimens off all sorts. It contains dinosaur and bird fossils, as well as teeth from primitive humans. They also have stoneware, stone pearls, bone needles and other artifacts from ancient humans. Other halls have things on display like mineral rocks and crystals, diamonds and stratum paleontology. This museum is also host to several research projects about dinosaurs, volcanic activity, botany and primitive birds.

Public Transit in Shanghai, China: The Metro and Bus

Shanghai is China’s largest city, and has a substantial public transit system. The different types of transit are all integrated with each other.

The best way to buy tickets is to purchase a transit light blue IC card. It works as a debit card, as you put credit on it, and it takes the credit off whenever you use it for a ride. You can add more credit onto the card at metro stations, convenience stores and even at McDonald’s. You can use the same card in most vehicles, including buses, light rails, ferries, metro and even some taxis. You can purchase one of these cards at any counter of the Metro Stations. You must pay a deposit for the physical card, but you get it back once you return it.

Shanghai Metro

The Shanghai Metro, aka the Shanghai Rail Transit, includes the subway and the light rail lines. This system is the easiest and best way to get around Shanghai, even if you do not know the language. It is a newer system that has been open since 1995, and has been growing ever since.

Today, the Shanghai Metro includes 11 lines and 217 stations, which make up 367 kilometers of tracks. It has the second largest metro network of Asia, after Seoul, South Korea. Many new lines are under construction, and there are a projected 20 lines to be built by 2020. The metro and light rail are connected, but locals feel that the light rail is not as reliable as the metro.

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Buses

In Shanghai, there are both urban buses and long distance buses. In total, there are approximately 1,100 bus lines that run throughout the grounds of the city. The urban buses mostly have uniform rates, no matter how many stops you take, but the long distance buses have fluctuating prices, depending on how far your overall trip goes. There are special number codes to understand the bus lines. For instance, buses 01-200 are the downtown regular lines; 201-299 are the rush hour lines; 301-399 are the night lines; 401-499 are the cross-river lines. There are also special and suburban bus lines.

There are ten tourist bus lines, such as Tourist Line 6, that goes around the Shanghai Stadium to the Jiading District; Tourist Line 7 goes through many of Shanghai’s cultural and historic sites.