Look at the number of people in the picture. In the worlds most populated country, at a train station connecting two of the hubs of business, that’s all the people riding the toy trains? Looks like a typical light rail boondoggle to me.
I can promise you that the interior picture, taking just moments after the station was opened for the first time on Saturday, is not the standard. This is a much more accurate representation of what the Chinese railway platforms look like, taken on on of the outside platforms, later in the same day and for the same line...