Rebirth of England.

Chapter 928 Shock
"I personally experienced a trip on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway..."

Amber Sheen sighed to Barron:
"It must be said that the Chinese are already ahead of us."

Barron understood Amber's words very well. Not to mention the current situation in 2013, even more than ten years later, after China opened up the 144-hour visa-free policy, for those foreigners who came to China for the first time, landing in the "newbie village" Shanghai and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway would be something that many people would experience...

Those people were all amazed at China's high-speed railway, especially now.

If Amber was surprised by his personal experience of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway, then after learning more about the construction data of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway, he was only shocked...

You should know that compared with other high-speed rail lines, the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway is not only longer - with a total length of 1318 kilometers, it is the longest and highest-standard high-speed railway built in one go in the world...

Moreover, the construction route has complex terrain and extremely high technical difficulty. It passes through 16 tunnels along the way and can be called the "World High-speed Railway Technology Museum."

Even so, the construction funds for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway were only 1224 billion yuan (equivalent to 116.6 billion pounds at the time).

加上京沪高铁于2008年4月18日正式开工，2011年6月30日全线正式通车，建设周期仅仅三年多……

To Amber, these were miracles, which was why he had said from the bottom of his heart before, "China is already far ahead of England..."

If we just follow Amber Sheehan's opinion, the best approach for the UK High Speed ​​Rail Line 2, which is under the responsibility of the UK's First Rail Group, is to completely hand it over to the Chinese for construction and replicate their success in the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed ​​Railway.

But he also knew that this was unlikely...

After all, the Chinese just need to focus on construction, but the masters in London need to consider more...

For example, the High Speed ​​Rail Line 2 project needs to stimulate some related small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK and promote employment, and the interests of relevant suppliers within the EU also need to be taken into account...

Even Barron, in the industry he controls, has related companies such as Alstom that need to obtain orders.

However, for China, even if it can only obtain part of the UK High Speed ​​Rail Line 2 project, it is already a result that exceeds expectations. Amber can start relevant contacts from now on.

After he returns to London, he will continue to acquire Eversholt Railway Group, one of the three largest railway vehicle leasing companies in the UK, through the British First Railway Group to enrich the related business of the British First Railway Group.

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"Won't you come with me, Barron?"

"I have plans for today, baby. Ning is a very good tour guide. She will accompany you to visit the famous places in Yanjing in the next few days."

In fact, this is not the main reason. Baron has seen the famous places in Yanjing more than once or twice. He doesn't want to visit them every time he accompanies others to Yanjing. Compared with this, he would rather meet some old friends.

It just so happened that Zhang Junning from Rich23 Capital was also in Yanjing - she had just reported some recent work to Barron last night, and of course, by the way, the two of them also had some learning interactions - it was quite appropriate for her to accompany Jenny to visit Yanjing.

This time, Barron and Jenny stayed in his four-courtyard house in Yanjing. Jenny was also very curious about this style of traditional Chinese residence. Barron's next guest, former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who was in charge of the Prosperous Earth Foundation, was also curious about it.

"I have visited courtyard houses like this before when I visited Huaxia, but the layout here is the most unique I have ever seen."

After entering this large courtyard, David Miliband couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Well, the one who used to be the Foreign Secretary is still good at speaking. Barron knew that the other party’s words would definitely be full of compliments.

As the chairman of the Prosperous Earth Foundation, David Miliband often travels between Europe, Asia and Africa. In fact, China is not currently the main target country of the Prosperous Earth Foundation. In Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are where the Prosperous Earth Foundation invests the most funds.

Of course, due to the importance of China, there are still some projects involving them.

For example, in the past year, the Prosperous Earth Foundation has helped Colo carry out many image promotion activities in China - after all, the fundamental purpose of the Prosperous Earth Foundation is to realize Barron's strategy and safeguard the interests of the industries he owns.

At present, Colo is in great need of some high-quality talents. Relatively speaking, the comprehensive qualities of the Chinese are what Barron appreciates the most - including the Chinese people's diligence, discipline, tolerance and friendliness.

But generally speaking, in this era, there are indeed many high-quality talents in China who hope to immigrate overseas, but the targets of these people are all developed countries in Europe and the United States, followed by Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand...

As for the African country of Kolo - I'm afraid most people have never heard of such a small African country. Moreover, in the eyes of the Chinese, African countries are always associated with war, poverty and rampant disease.

Therefore, although the president of Kolo had invited Chinese people to work or travel in Kolo when he visited before, except for the employees of state-owned enterprises and their families who were sent to Kolo for construction work, there were very few people who took the initiative to go to Kolo.

It is also for this reason that, at the instruction of Barron, one of the main projects of the Prosperous Earth Foundation in China is to promote the image of Colo - to put it bluntly, it is to show the prosperous and open side of Colo to the Chinese people through some programs and reports.

In this way, after removing the prejudice, seeing the completely different face of Kolo from other African countries will also help to attract Kolo to the Chinese.

At present, it seems that these measures have achieved good results. According to the data from the second quarter of this year alone, the number of Chinese arriving in Colo increased by more than 200% year-on-year. Some of them came to travel, while others came to look for business opportunities...

Because obtaining Kolo permanent residency and citizenship requires a period of observation, the growth of these data is also quite lagging.

But this effect is already very good.

"Next, we can expand our 'business' to the UK and other European countries, Mr. Miliband..."

Barron's words made David Miliband's eyes light up.

David is naturally interested in being able to bring the foundation's influence back to Europe.

For Barron, the first thing he needs to face is the upcoming construction of the UK High Speed ​​Rail Line 2. He will definitely need to deal with some domestic environmental protection, animal protection and other organizations. It is not convenient for him to face these organizations directly. He believes that dealing with them through the Prosperous Earth Foundation is a feasible strategy.

(End of this chapter)