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Hello A, G'Day mate & Aloha!
I'm Wang Ping, a freelance grew up in Beijing.
Welcome to my personal website. This is the 3rd time of my site updated since it started running in 2005.
As you know, travelling in China has become much easier than 10 years ago as all information is available through Google. However, for non-Mandarin speakers, are you sure you would get a comfortable & awesome trip anywhere in China just with the help of your guidebook? Don't you ever mind of overcharging? Do you think that, what you had got with your agency tour guide is authentic Chinese life, or your original willing? If you're a photographer, a journalist or an architect, do you know how to get a best & most budget way working here?
Bingo! Try to get an individual car of which the owner speaks pretty good English and is a professional at customer service, one that can be trust and is reliable to provide you reasonable service to avoid push, and your unwillingness.
Yes, that is my job! I have been running Private Taxi Beijing for more than 4 years. But actually, my work is more like a tour operator, a free adviser, and a transport service provider.
I really like this job, as making money by helping foreigners at the same time is so much fun. Sometimes their experience sounds so exciting, because shooting the shit makes all of us awesome as well. 
As a local Beijinger, I'd like to show you all helpful information I learnt, without any commercial propose. Because my initial business is started with the help of my first foreign customer - Micheal Schinkel, a nice Dutch guy who came over with his friend in May 2005. We met by chance on a raining evening, while they were waiting for a taxi to return to their hotel after dinner. They hired my car for the trip to Chengde Mountain Resort in the next 2 days, and he encouraged me to keep working in the way - making clean money without any commissions.
I appreciate Micheal's help very much, as his advice made my family life changed a lot. I appreciate all the recommendation from my clients, and thanks so much for their messages in the forums & websites. Actually, Private Taxi Beijing usually needs to be reserved several weeks earlier, because Trust and Honest is my mission forever, not English speaking capability only.
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Wang Ping & His Family¡¡
Almost every customer ask me where I learnt my English. I started learning English when I was in  middle school, and after that I learned English by myself. I tried to learn in collage, but in the eighties of the last century in China,around 3% of high school students only could get a chance learning in universities. I continue learning English every day nowadays as I meet so many foreign people.
Some of my customers wonder where I was born. I was born in Beijing in 1964, my parents and my grandparents were also born in Beijing. As more and more Chinese people are becoming into affluent these days, they should travel abroad, but I have never traveled abroad myself since I have a twin, a boy and a girl. Thanks Godthey are lovely and healthy as well, they will be 6 years old, and will learning in the primary school this September. My wife is accountant with a part time job. So, I'm a real "Beijinger", I love Beijing, because it is a lot different to other modern cities, and I know a lot about its culture.
The Story of Michael Schinkel¡¡I have been driving for 12 years, butrunning Private Taxi&Guide for foreign travellers  withmy own small car, started 3 years ago. My family have been definitely changedsince I met my first foreign customers, in a rainy night in May 2005-Mr.Michael Schinkel, a Dutch and his friend-a French lady. They took my car with the help of a waitress in a restaurant which they finished their dinner. They were surprised when I asked them in English where they wanted to go, and wondered if my car is as same as other taxis. I said: "no, this is a Private Taxi, it's cheaper than others". They told me they were staying in Beijing for 5 days and they just arrived. They would trip to Chengde Mountain Resort by train the next day. I left them a business card printed in Chinese and said I hoped they call me when they needed a taxi again. But I never expect they called me the next morning: they missed their train from Beijing to Chengde. I was asked to drive a 2Days Trip.
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Well, please click the next page for more details, and thanks again for your reading
Wang Ping, April 2009, Beijing " |
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