Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 253: Big Construction
After the inauguration ceremony of the new government, the whole of Myanmar began to embark on a path of rapid development.

In order to solve the hyperinflation caused by the previous government's improper governance as soon as possible, the new government led by the National Liberation Front has taken a variety of measures to solve this urgent problem.

First, referring to the practices during the period of low domestic productivity and material scarcity, it was announced that a two-year ticket system would be implemented.

Mainly in terms of basic necessities such as food, medicine, clothing, etc., they must be purchased according to the grades assessed by the streets and communities.

Every household has a corresponding amount, and within the amount, the price is very cheap and almost all families with normal working ability can afford it.

Streets and communities have also vigorously promoted this policy, saying that this is only an emergency policy to deal with special periods. The new government led by the All-China Federation of Liberation Army has ensured that in two years, the tickets in these basic people's livelihood areas will be cancelled, and everyone will be able to purchase them freely at that time.

Although ordinary citizens were somewhat dissatisfied with this restriction, they still felt quite considerate of it compared to the hyperinflation during the previous government period, so they endured it silently.

The top management of Quanjiezhen also knew that this approach could not last long and would cause many problems over time.

So after ensuring that all citizens could buy basic food and supplies, another major plan was officially implemented.

That is to build high-speed railways and highways of various grades.

This is also based on the practice of government investment in infrastructure to stimulate domestic demand that began in the United States during the Great Depression and in Germany in the 30s.

Because the construction of high-speed railways and highways requires the employment of a large number of unemployed workers and poor farmers.

The qualities of these people range from low-level manual workers to high-level technical engineers, and the need is long-term.

In this way, when the government invests in the construction of these infrastructures, a large part of the funds will be distributed to workers in the form of wages.

These workers will consume after receiving their wages, and their consumption demand can enable the products produced by other domestic factories to be sold.

After the products of these factories are sold, a portion of the proceeds are used to repay bank loans, and a considerable portion is distributed to the employed workers.

In this way, all industries and sectors have funds to develop, and the funds invested by the state in infrastructure projects flow to all industries and sectors, and most people can benefit from it.

In addition, the constructed railways and highways also provide convenience for the subsequent economic development. The entire national economy has entered a flywheel cycle, and the development speed will become faster and faster, as if it has an endless source of power.

On October 1984, 10, the site selection for the first high-speed railway was basically completed thanks to the efforts of a large number of new human engineers.

The starting point of this railway is Myitkyina in the north and the end point is the coastal city of Yangon. Some of the larger stations along the way are Bhamo, Shwepaw, Mandalay, Meiktila, Naypyidaw, Taungoo and Bago from north to south.

On October 1984, 10, the top leadership meeting reviewed and approved the construction plan of the first high-speed railway.

After the meeting, all local governments in Myanmar led by the All-China Federation of Liberation Front received a notice that, based on their population size and transportation convenience, they could form a number of infrastructure construction teams to carry out infrastructure construction along the railway.

This first high-speed railway mainly passes through the Great Central Plains, which is also the most populous area in Myanmar, so many families will benefit from the railway construction.

Those places in the eastern and western plateaus and mountainous areas also formed some infrastructure engineering teams in accordance with the instructions. They first widened and reinforced the provincial highways in their respective territories, and then began to harden and flatten the roads after the cement plant's production capacity was increased and asphalt was transported in large quantities from the Persian region.

The total mileage of the entire railway is more than 1200 kilometers. Wang Jiankun asked Zhizi to make a comprehensive calculation. With the assistance of his superpowers, it is expected to be fully open to traffic within 5 years.

The infrastructure project of the railway line was under the charge of the First Construction Bureau of the ** Institute. In the early stage, some auxiliary roads along the line were mainly built using shovels, wheelbarrows, steel drills, explosives, etc.

It is expected to take more than a year.

Although the tools used were very primitive, the number of ordinary workers employed was also the largest, estimated to reach 80.

Behind these people are 80 families and more than 3 million people, accounting for about one-tenth of Myanmar’s population at that time.

Led by the engineers of the Quanjiezhen Front, these young and middle-aged people left the towns and went to work on the railway lines, which not only reduced the security pressure in the towns.

They work on the construction site, expending their energy and learning many skills. Except for a very small portion of their wages for their own use (the construction site store only provides some basic daily necessities, and pornography, gambling and drugs are strictly prohibited), most of the wages will be sent to families in the town through the government bank.

Before the official start of railway construction, Gaoya Steel City had already produced a large number of basic tools such as shovels, steel two-wheeled carts, steel drills of various specifications, hammers, etc. according to plan.

When the railway project was officially launched, C-800 transport ships set out from the Gaoya Steel City upstream of the Chindwin River, loaded with steel tools, and sailed downstream, entering the Irrawaddy River at the small town of Myingyan.

Then they stop at various ports along the Irrawaddy River to unload the goods and hand over the steel tools to various engineering teams.

After receiving the tools, these engineering teams began to work hard to transform the earth under the guidance of Quanjiezhen's engineers.

After entering November, Myanmar entered the dry season from south to north, and rainfall decreased significantly, which is very beneficial for the early infrastructure projects.

The engineering teams were building various roads, digging through small hills, and constructing temporary camps.

After these camps were leveled, shiploads of colored steel tiles of various specifications were delivered to the docks along the river.

These colored steel tiles were spliced ​​and fixed by the engineers of the Quanjiezhen Army using tools to become double-story steel houses.

Every time a batch is produced, a group of people move in from the open-air construction site.

Most of the workers had previously lived in very poor conditions, many of them were thatched huts, so they were very happy when they first moved into these tin houses.

Even some workers from towns were very happy to live in such clean tin houses, because even in towns, these workers who were willing to come to the construction site to earn hard-earned money only lived in some dilapidated and low houses.

In this way, camps sprang up along the railway, and in less than two months the entire railway line was covered.

These workers who live in the tin houses are more motivated because they can rest well at night and have three meals a day, which is much better than their previous life.

In addition to the construction sites along the railway, highway construction sites in the eastern and western regions have also completed the construction of such tin houses.

As large numbers of people moved to construction sites, the pressure on material supply in urban areas was greatly reduced, which gave the government more time to solve the domestic inflation problem.

What has Wang Jiankun been doing during this period?

He is busy preparing for the official construction of the railway and the mass production of trains in the future. The production of high-speed railways and high-speed trains is a systematic project that requires the coordination of multiple basic industries, covering materials, equipment, technology research and development, energy supply, infrastructure construction and other fields.

Currently, the early infrastructure construction is carried out by manual labor combined with some simple mechanical equipment. This is a measure that must be taken because Myanmar’s basic industrial level is not enough at this time.

While 80 railway workers were carrying earthworks on their shoulders and hands, the engineering machinery manufacturing plant in Gaoya Steel City was also under intensive construction.

He had previously asked the machinery factories in northern Myanmar to carry out trial production of the first batch of construction machinery according to the drawings he provided.

There are tunnel boring machines, bridge erecting machines, beam transporters, large cranes, large cement tankers, large casting machines, etc.

These engineering machines have been on trial operation for some time on the test railway from Landau to Magao.

The problems discovered during this period have been counted by the new human engineers and fed back to Wang Jiankun.

Based on the feedback, Wang Jiankun asked Zhizi to modify the design. Then he used his superpowers to manufacture some parts and asked the new human engineers to complete the replacement work.

At present, the latest design has been tested and the drawings can be finalized.

The factory building of the engineering machinery manufacturing plant in Gaoya Steel City was also completed, so Wang Jiankun created more than 1200 new human engineers according to the job requirements and began to carry out equipment installation and production debugging work in the factory building.

It is expected that by early 1985, the first batch of conventionally manufactured construction machinery will be able to roll off the production line and be supplied to high-speed railway engineering teams.

The engineering equipment needed for local low-grade roads is purchased domestically.

Previously, Xingyao Group and Guangdong Province jointly built an engineering vehicle manufacturing plant. Currently, the factory is carrying out the installation and commissioning of equipment, and it will be officially put into production in more than a month.

It is expected that by December, small cement tankers, small and medium-sized asphalt pavers, small and medium-sized excavators, bulldozers, road rollers, etc. will be able to roll off the production line.

Most of these construction machinery will be transported to Yangon by sea-going vessels of Si Hai Shipping, and then delivered to various road construction sites in Myanmar.

Once these construction machines are in place, the speed of infrastructure construction will be greatly accelerated, and construction will be able to proceed even during the rainy season next year.

In addition, construction machinery is being prepared for production as planned.

The development of rail steel, bridge and tunnel steel, and car body materials also requires Wang Jiankun's participation.

Because basic material research is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive if done using conventional methods.

Currently, the world basically uses the trial and error method in material research and development.

Some top researchers may be able to narrow down the scope of trial and error through some theoretical calculations and intuition.

A large number of ordinary researchers and research institutes are testing various possible materials one by one.

These tests actually consumed a lot of manpower, time and money.

Wang Jiankun has superpowers. He can intuitively observe the structure of the manufactured materials from a microscopic perspective, and he can also let Zhizi perform some theoretical calculations based on the data on the physical and chemical properties of atoms collected during previous research on superconducting materials.

In this way, his participation in materials research can greatly speed up the research of required materials.

First of all, the performance of the rail steel required to manufacture high-speed railways is much higher than that of conventional rails.

The track steel for high-speed railways needs to be highly wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant.

After being pressed into shape in the steel plant, they need to be transported to the railway and welded into seamless rails, which requires that the thermal expansion and contraction of the rails be extremely small.

Ordinary rails now expand and contract greatly due to heat and cold, so there is a gap of 1 to 2 centimeters between the two sections of rails. That's why you often hear a rhythmic "what's more~" sound when you take the train. That's the sound produced by the collision when the train wheels pass through the gap between the rails.

The speed of a high-speed train is 4 to 5 times that of an ordinary train. Anyone who has studied physics knows that the greater the speed, the greater the kinetic energy and the greater the force of the impact. The steel wheels of a high-speed train cannot withstand a collision of that magnitude, so there must be no gaps on the entire section of the high-speed railway tracks.

Fortunately, Wang Jiankun has super powers and he also copied many samples from Japan's Shinkansen, so it is not difficult to research and trial-produce high-speed rail steel.

He conducted secondary research and development based on the rail steel used for Japan's Shinkansen, and then trial-produced several types, which he handed over to the newly established Steel Research Institute to test on the 1-kilometer experimental track within the base.

The research on bridge and tunnel steel also refers to the steel used on Japan's Shinkansen.

In addition to steel, copper materials and permanent magnet materials for motors also largely referenced Japan's achievements.

Wang Jiankun’s principle is to use it as it comes, and then improve it under the subtle observation of super powers.

Copper is mainly used in electrical systems such as power contact network wires and transformer coils.

Because up to now, the world's superconducting research is still below 40K. Even though Wang Jiankun secretly provided some high-temperature superconducting materials to BJ's Materials Research Institute, the research progress is still very slow.

In order to avoid causing trouble, this first generation of high-speed railways still used conventional copper conductors.

After Wang Jiankun's super-power optimization, the performance of the latest copper material is improved by about 30% compared to that used on the Shinkansen, but the manufacturing difficulty and cost are much lower than those of Japanese companies.

After the design was finalized, the first batch of mass production equipment was completed under the super manufacturing capabilities of Wang Jiankun, and then transported to the largest copper industrial base in northern Myanmar in Shinbettin, ready for mass production of new copper wires and copper components.

After completing the optimized design of rare earth permanent magnet motor production, Wang Jiankun provided the corresponding technology to Xingyao Group and other domestic motor manufacturing factories.

At present, rare earth materials in his hometown of Jiangxi Province are very cheap, and many Japanese companies are purchasing them in large quantities. Wang Jiankun began to use part of the proceeds from lighter sales to purchase and stockpile rare earth ores a few years ago.

For a period of time, he used his superpowers to refine those rare earth ores and produced a lot of 100% pure rare earth elements.

Now is the time to develop the motor industry in Jiangxi Province. In addition to utilizing the cheap rare earth raw materials in Jiangxi Province, it will also lay the foundation for the future production of pure electric vehicles.

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