The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 674: Build another 30 kilometers of high-speed rail in years? (asking for monthly tickets)

With the completion ceremony of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway", the media have been reporting on the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" for a period of time, interpreting and reporting on the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" from all aspects!
There are reasons for the huge scale of investment, the difficulty of construction, and the technology.
A comprehensive interpretation of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" from various angles.

During the previous construction process, the photos and videos taken by reporters have become precious videos. CCTV has produced a six-episode large-scale documentary specifically introducing the entire construction process of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" and a comprehensive comparison of China's high-speed railway with Japan's high-speed railway and Europe's high-speed railway.

These reports caused a great response in society, and many people even splurged and took the high-speed rail to Beijing or Shenzhen to experience it for themselves.

As for Hong Kong, if you want to go to Hong Kong, you have to apply for a pass in advance.

The pricing of high-speed rail is higher than that of ordinary railways. Normally, people will not take the train if they have nothing to do, let alone the high-speed rail.

But this time, many people came purely for the experience of riding the high-speed rail.

If you have money, you can take the bus directly to Beijing West Station or Pengcheng Station; if you don’t have money, you can just take the bus for one or two stops to experience it.

The excellent performance of the "Fuxing" EMU makes people fall in love with it as soon as they sit on it. After all, whether in terms of environment or comfort, it far exceeds the green-skinned train, and the speed is also faster.

This immediately made people decide to make it their first choice in the future.

Liu Tao and others discussed the issue with great interest, and even the head of the Ministry of Railways discussed the planning of high-speed rail lines and the speed-up of existing railways.

The high-speed railways that have been built or are under construction are currently taking freight into consideration because the passenger flow will not reach the design value in the short term. However, as the passenger flow increases in the future, freight will gradually decrease and eventually become pure passenger transport.

As for the current railways, the previously built railways have been renovated and their speeds have been increased, eventually forming a structure where high-speed railways are used for passenger transport, and the original railways are renovated and speeded up for freight transport.

The head of the Ministry of Railways said very proudly that China would build another 30 kilometers in 2 years and become the world's largest and most powerful high-speed rail country.

A leader joked that 30 years might not be enough, and it would take at least 50 years. The Ministry of Railways must not be anxious or eager for quick success and instant benefits, but must proceed step by step.

After all, the cost of high-speed rail construction has reached 3000 to 7000 million yuan per kilometer. Even at the current cost, 2 kilometers will cost 6000 to 14000 trillion yuan!

Liu Tao laughed in his heart. The leader thought that the statement made by the head of the Ministry of Railways was too radical, but in fact it was conservative. In the original time and space, China's high-speed railway developed relatively late, but it only took more than ten years, and the total mileage of China's high-speed railway was close to 4 kilometers.

Let alone building another 30 kilometers of high-speed railways in 2 years, even building another 6 kilometers of high-speed railways is not impossible as long as we are bold enough.

After all, China's economy is much better now than in history.

"You have to thank Comrade Liu Tao this time. The total mileage of the three high-speed railways, Wuhan-Guangzhou High-Speed ​​Railway, Guangzhou-Kunming High-Speed ​​Railway, and Chengdu-Kunming High-Speed ​​Railway, is 3484 kilometers, with a total investment of 2000 billion yuan. Their Panshan Group paid 1500 billion yuan." The leader smiled and said, "You must cooperate well and create new glory for the high-speed railway. Don't do anything dirty."

The leader was praising Liu Tao, but also warning other relevant departments not to forget who paid the most money and to abide by the rules.

Two expressway arteries and three high-speed rail arteries, with a total investment of 4000 billion yuan. Panshan Group paid out 3000 billion yuan, which can be said to be rich enough to rival a country, but in fact it is a bit bullying.

Although it seems fair and just that Panshan Group cooperated with the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport to establish a group company and hold shares, in fact, everyone is generally pessimistic about the profitability of highways and high-speed railways.

In other words, it is a miracle that highways and high-speed railways can maintain no losses during the operation period, and it is simply impossible to make a profit.

And 10 billion yuan, according to the current bank deposit interest rate of at least %, the deposit interest for that year is billion yuan.

It can be said that Panshan Group suffered huge losses!
When the deadline is up, the operating rights of the expressways and high-speed railways will be returned to the state. Liu Tao cooperated with a bitter expression and complained: "This time, there are many different voices within our Panshan Group. Many comrades think that we are not doing our job properly. If we continue like this, our main business will be operating railways and expressways."

The others couldn't help but burst out laughing.

They did not doubt Liu Tao's words.

After all, if you put yourself in Liu Tao's shoes and make such a decision, others will definitely have strong objections.

It is normal to have internal dissenting opinions.

Everyone knows that Panshan Group’s core business is military industry, and Panshan Group’s basic foundation is manufacturing, not anything else.

It is not wrong to say that it is not a proper job.

"Comrade Liu Tao, do you think that in the next 30 to 50 years, we in China have the hope of building another 20,000 kilometers of high-speed railways?" the leader asked.

Liu Tao nodded and said, "There is no problem in this regard. China is vast and rich in resources. We have cities to develop. We have a large population and a large number of county towns. High-speed rail is very suitable for the development of China."

"With our development speed, it will be no problem to build another 20,000 kilometers of high-speed railways in 30 to 50 years," said Liu Tao.

Liu Tao firmly believed in this.

China has now revealed its true colors as an infrastructure maniac.

When it comes to launching one century-long project after another, no country in the world is as crazy as China.

There are a large number of century-long projects and infrastructure projects. Commercial housing is being built crazily in various places. All the shipyards in China are full of orders. Under this circumstance, even the steel mills that have been continuously increasing production in recent years cannot keep up.

Only Liu Qi and his team were able to barely make up the gap by bringing back large amounts of steel from the Soviet Union.

You know, China's steel production growth rate is not slow.

When the reform and opening up just started, China's crude steel output was only 3712 million tons, which was 1/3 and slightly more than 1/3 of Japan and the United States respectively. But now China's steel output has reached 10124 million tons, an increase of 272.7% in almost ten years. This growth rate is extremely terrifying.

That is to say, the statistical data released every year are revised again and again. The steel production announced last year was 6135 million tons. Otherwise, if it was announced that China's steel production exceeded million tons, it would definitely cause shock.

You should know that steel production exceeding 100 million tons means that China's steel production has jumped to first place in the world.

In the past, steel production was a very important indicator of a country's comprehensive strength, because everyone knew that a large amount of steel was needed to manufacture weapons.

Only now has the importance of steel production been weakened.

However, the rapid growth in steel production also reflects how terrifyingly fast China's development speed is now.

Liu Tao can foresee that as the country's development speed becomes faster and faster, the investment in infrastructure will definitely increase. As an important infrastructure, high-speed rail will definitely be one of the country's investment priorities. It is definitely not a problem to build another 30 kilometers of high-speed rail in years, and this is still a very conservative figure.

(End of this chapter)