The author was (sadly) lucky (drama) to participate in the 2017 and 2018 ChinaJoy in succession, and felt it necessary to write a simple travel note for the readers who are going to the next ChinaJoy. If you want to go to ChinaJoy, you need to make the following psychological preparations first.
In addition to the reputation of the four interactive entertainment exhibitions "E3 in the United States, Tokyo Game Show in Japan, Cologne International Game Show in Germany, and Taipei International Game Show", ChinaJoy China International Digital Interactive Entertainment Exhibition is the largest interactive entertainment exhibition held in the mainland. In addition to the first session held in Beijing in 2004, the subsequent sessions were held in Shanghai's Pudong New International Expo Center, and this year is the 16th.
In the eyes of most people in China, ChinaJoy is watching showgirl. Although there were requirements for "business line" and skirt length in 2015, the hot game and animation market in China has kept ChinaJoy hot for years. This year, it set a new record. During the 4-day period from August 3 to 6, the number of visitors reached 354500 (an increase of 11800). August 4 (Saturday) The number of one-day visitors reached 133900, a new record of 121000 last year.
The hole arranged by the official, and be prepared for the enclosure
ChinaJoy official website
To see the exhibition, you must first look at the arrangement on the official website. Time, transportation, exhibition hall arrangement and other information should be collected in advance. However, as far as the official website of the exhibition is concerned, the guidance information provided by ChinaJoy to the audience is seriously insufficient, and this habit has been "persisted" for many years. In the early morning of August 3 this year, ChinaJoy's official website was not even accessible
Transportation: Traffic is the most clearly marked one. In addition, our map app also has a lot of public transport information;
Time: The official website only has exhibition arrangements of different dates. You have to ask the search engine for the specific start and end time. According to custom, the exhibition is from 9:00 to 17:00. Generally, the exhibition area will be closed one after another around 3:30 p.m;
Exhibition area distribution: The floor plan of the exhibition area is usually placed at the entrance of the exhibition area, but the floor plan of CJ's exhibition area is placed in the N1 exhibition area, which means you have to walk to the end of the exhibition hall to see them (this operation is really annoying). The exhibition hall arrangement on the official website is a bunch of lists, and the audience has to use the exhibition area code of the list to brain fill and convert it into a map.
If you come from other cities by plane, it is recommended to take the maglev train directly from Pudong Airport, take a taxi or transfer to a subway station, or even walk to the exhibition area. Only the maglev train at 10 am and 3 pm has a limit of 430km/h, and the rest of the time is 300km/h. The grand event is 50 one-way and 80 two-way Shenghui. It is much cheaper than a taxi (the whole journey is about 35km) and much faster (8 minutes). On the other hand, if the plane lands in the early morning, there will be a night watchman bus in Pudong Airport, and it will go to the CJ pavilion nearby.
Be psychologically prepared to walk a broken leg
ChinaJoy Exhibition Hall Arrangement
Actual queuing route and distance
The second thing to note is the walking distance. Shanghai New International Expo Center is a triangle composed of "W1-W5 exhibition area at the far left, E1-E7 exhibition area at the lower right corner, and N1-N5 exhibition area above", with a huge lawn space in the middle. The triangle has a short side of 600 meters and a long side of 700 meters. It is nearly 2 kilometers long just by walking around the inner circle 。 However, including ChinaJoy, the vast majority of exhibitions only use E1-E7 and N1-N5 exhibition halls, a total of 12 exhibition halls.
Over the years, CJ's showrooms have focused on the E1 to E7 showrooms in the lower right corner. This year, it will go through the stage of the Cosplay Carnival Finals, the Robot All Star Challenge, and the two showrooms of selling models, followed by the hardware and game experience areas of Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm and other hardware manufacturers. The N1 to N5 on the top are the exhibition halls of game developers like Tencent NetEase. They are mainly stage activities. They are not as popular as the front exhibition area.
Unfortunately, it would be a tragedy to think that the entrance to CJ is W1/E1 marked on the map. You have to run to the Huamu Road in the upper left corner when you enter from the main gate (finally understand why there is no subway station at the main gate, because this is the main gate in the physical sense) and start to queue up, and walk for 600 meters in vain.
subsequently Line up to go back to the main gate, and then go through three more turns before officially starting the tour from Gate 5 of E2. Congratulations, you have already walked 2.2 kilometers before you started watching. Among them, 1.3km is covered with no tiles, which is very hot and sunny. If it rains, it will be even more embarrassing.
I understand that various detours in front of the door are for the purpose of controlling the flow of people and public safety. It took me a whole hour from entering the door to formally entering the exhibition hall, which I can bear. But next time, dare you use the position of W1-W5 exhibition hall to queue up, Don't let spectators who pay for tickets queue up 1.3 kilometers in the sun?
Be mentally prepared to be roasted
The third problem is temperature. ChinaJoy is held every year in the midsummer of July and August. If you are careless, you encounter a typhoon or the airflow around the typhoon before and after the exhibition, the temperature will be higher. More interestingly, on the first day of this year's exhibition (August 3), typhoon "skylark" landed in Shanghai, and the following days were sunny and hot.
In addition, CJ has been overcrowded in the past two years, and the exhibition area with the largest number of people from E2 to E7 (E1 is used to queue for diversion), You can enjoy the experience of "the air conditioner is on at its maximum, but you are still sweating" 。 It is estimated that many showgirls have to wear waterproof makeup, otherwise they may be sweated off... You will know why every year exhibitors have small gifts such as fans, fans and cold stickers.
Before you go, you'd better bring your own big fan. If you choose a portable fan, please bring the one with the maximum wind power, and prepare the mobile power supply, because you have to keep the fan on for 5-7 hours during the exhibition
Be prepared for disconnection
2017 CJ, a temporary base station car in the center of the Expo Center
In any activity where the number of people exceeds 10W, be prepared to be disconnected or close to disconnection. Last year, even though there were mobile base stations of China Mobile and China Unicom in the center of the venue, the network speed was average. The more pathetic telecom can only be used to make phone calls at noon when there are most people in the exhibition. This year, the treatment of Telecom is better, and the network speed is fast enough to see the picture information of WeChat.
Really fragrant
Joining ChinaJoy is very tiring. The bracelet recorded more than 20000 steps that day, with a total distance of 16km. And it was sweaty almost the whole time
You may not curse your mother when you see the scale of the queue. But in the flow of people of this scale, when we walked for half an hour and still could not feel the temperature of the air conditioner, we already had thousands of grass mud horses galloping in our hearts.
In the process, you will see many young people who were full of vitality before coming in to the empty space beside the stadium, and you will mistakenly think that they ran into the bus station of the Spring Festival travel.
However, here you will see various famous belief animation IP:
Hardware and game manufacturers of all faiths:
There will also be robot fights and cosplays that have never been seen before:
Of course, there are various showgirls:
Although the process is full of frustrations and hardships, when I see my favorite IP, games and cosplays, or look back at photos, I can't help sighing - really fragrant.
If you are a fan of animation or games, you should go to ChinaJoy or the same level exhibition once in your life. But whether you will go again depends on your physical quality (covering your face and laughing and crying).
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