Yesterday, large-scale touring activities named "Trip to London" held by the London Investment Board arrived in Chengdu. As one of the main characters, this blue-and-white taxi marked "THINKLONDON" drives onto the streets of Chengdu to invite Chengdu businessmen to set foot on the "trip to London."

London taxi is very spacious and environment-friendly

Twenty minutes after 1:15 p.m., according to the clues Miss Liu provided, the taxi drivers caught this blue-and-white taxi after a long chase at the Rainbow Bridge on the fast lane. Hu Jin, who is driving the taxi, is an employee of a Shanghai car company. According to his introduction, London taxi is not only one of the hallmarks of London, but also the world's most comfortable, most humane, and most professional taxi. From the end of August, it started to "tour" in China.

From yesterday morning to 14 o'clock, Hu Jin drove the car to Kuan Alley and Zhai Alley, Qintai Road, Wuhou Temple, Jinli and some other well-known sites in Chengdu, so that the public can visit it, and our reporters are invited to experience the car.

London taxi is of distinctive appearance. From the rear, its high roof looked like a hat of British gentleman in cartoon. For this tour in Chengdu, they change the color of body from black to blue and white, but the inside facilities is authentic version of London: While the car has only one driver seat in the front row, but its back seat space is very large, 2-3 times more than ordinary vehicles and capable of carrying 4 persons. The extra-wide carriage has more than one meter wide spacing, so the reporter cannot reach the front seat even he stretched his legs. In addition, its human barrier-free contraction pedal and rotating seat is also a major feature. This vehicle also uses the most advanced energy-saving emission reduction technology, 100% carbon-neutral, that is, completely offset the environmental pollution caused by carbon dioxide. Inside the vehicle is installed with touch-screen liquid crystal display and let people know London, England better.

"We hope that after this tour in Chengdu, more people will come to London to watch the 2012 Olympic Games." Hu Jin said.

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London Sent the Taxi to Attract more Audience

As a business card of London, this taxi is also carrying the business opportunities of London Olympics. "It represents that the Investment Board in London invited Chinese enterprises to embark on trip to London," Cao Jie, director of Greater China of London Investment Board, said. It is understood that this activity is only held in China, following the red double-decker bus which appeared in the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. This activity aims to encourage Chinese enterprises to carry out business investment in London before the Olympics.

Since the late August, when Beijing Olympic Games ended, the London taxi started a tour in China starting from Beijing, the entire activity will last 3 months and will go to 12 cities, such as Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen. Chengdu is their eighth station. Following Chengdu, the car will enter the next city - Wuhan.

It is learned that there is no mass production of the TX4 London taxi in China. 30 of the 32 first trial ones produced in Shanghai were used as the Special Purpose Vehicle in the Beijing Paralympic Games and one of them was given to a Beijing as a gift, and another one will tour China along with a London tour Bureau.

Source: Chengdu Online