The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 363 High-speed Rail
The greater the risk you took back then, the greater the reward you will get now.

They had been able to make a lot of money every year before, and in 1982 they took advantage of the favorable market conditions to buy stocks at low prices. Coupled with their political status, the Huo family's influence expanded rapidly.

Not to mention in Hong Kong, but also in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the entire Southeast Asia, and even in the entire Chinese and overseas Chinese circle, Ho Ying-tung is already a big shot-level figure.

He also serves as a role model, actively assisting in the stable development of Hong Kong, and is a pioneer in entering the mainland for development, allowing more companies to invest and build factories in the mainland.

In addition, Ho Ying-Tong actively supported the national sports cause and donated money to sponsor the national team in preparation for the Los Angeles Olympics in the United States.

The cooperation between Panshan Group and the Huo family has been very pleasant so far, and both sides have achieved a win-win situation.

Panshan Group lacks management talent and external talent, and the Huo family can help.

Panshan Group will slowly sell off and dilute the shares of many assets and companies that it has bought at the bottom in Hong Kong, and then use more funds to build Hong Kong and the mainland.

"Discussions on the Macau issue are currently underway. For the sake of Sino-Portuguese friendship, Portugal is willing to return Macau in ten years," said Feng Defeng.

Macau is related to the two cities of Zhuhai and Zhongshan.

However, compared with the complexity of Hong Kong, Macau is relatively simpler.

Liu Tao nodded slightly. This was exactly what he expected.

As early as half a month ago, the two sides issued a joint statement. The general framework has been finalized and what they are discussing now are just some details.

The butterfly effect brought about by the flapping of his wings is still very obvious.

From a domestic perspective, China is developing faster, and things in Hong Kong and Macao are happening ten years ahead of schedule.

"The work here in Guangdong Province is complicated and extremely important. You must manage it well and make no mistakes!" Liu Tao said.

The entire Guangdong Province is related to the layout of Panshan Group.

For example, Yangcheng Port is still an important export hub for Panshan Group.

Because most of the weapons and equipment are exported through Yangcheng Port.

In order to ensure the safety of Yangcheng Port, the air defense force here is even equipped with a set of "Aegis" air defense missile system.

Although the possibility is small, we have to be cautious just in case.

Once those warehouses are bombed, the losses will be terrible.

Yangcheng and Pengcheng are the two centers of Panshan Group in Guangdong Province, and they echo each other in the distance with Hong Kong.

Beijing.

The Spring Festival has just passed and there is still snow in the sky.

Ministry of Railways, conference room.

A meeting on the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway' project is being held.

So far, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway has completed the line design, planning work and geological drilling work.

As early as last September, the country first announced the name of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" project. Just after the National Day in October, it was officially announced that China will build the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway", a railway from Beijing to Kowloon, Hong Kong, and strive to complete the entire line when Hong Kong returns to China on July 9, 10.

Now, the final technical meeting before the start of construction is underway. After the Third and Fourth Survey and Design Institutes of the Ministry of Railways reported on their work, Liu Tao also gave his introduction.

He focused on key core technologies, including track structure technology, trains, operation control systems and other key core technologies.

Many people were shocked after listening to Liu Tao's introduction.

For example, ballastless track. You should know that the current national railway regulations are all ballasted tracks, which are laid on the basis of small stones and then sleepers or cement sleepers. However, Liu Tao proposed ballastless track, that is, the roadbed does not use gravel, and the rails and sleepers are laid directly on the concrete road, and the horizontal error of the entire line does not exceed 0.1 mm.

In terms of tracks, long-distance seamless steel rails are widely used.

The reason for using seamless steel rails is to ensure that the high-speed rail will no longer have the clanging sounds of traditional trains.

The absence of rail joints also helps increase train speeds.

Moreover, the turnouts are high-speed passenger-driven turnouts, which have a much higher speed than ordinary turnouts. In addition, high-speed railway lines have fewer curves, and trains are as straight as possible.

The track plate manufacturing technology here was something they had never heard of or seen before.

Also, the trains used on high-speed railways are not traditional trains, but distributed power EMUs.

A distributed power train is a type of traction method for railway trains that is opposite to a centralized power type. Its characteristic is that the power source is dispersed among the engines in each carriage of the train, rather than being concentrated on the locomotive. The EMU is an electric multiple unit that uses overhead cables to provide electricity to drive the traction motor.

In this respect, it is very different from traditional trains. Ordinary trains are pulled by locomotives, which is a centralized power traction method.

Everyone looked at Liu Tao in shock. They didn't understand how Liu Tao came up with these technologies.

Many of these technologies are completely new in China and are not even known in China.

For example, the trains designed by Liu Tao are very beautiful, which makes the current green trains look clumsy and bulky. The train body is used as the installation foundation and load-bearing frame. The EMU body adopts an integral load-bearing steel structure or light metal structure to meet the strength and rigidity requirements under the lightest weight.

There are also bogies. Bogies are divided into power bogies and non-power bogies. Their functions are to carry, steer, reduce vibration, and brake. Power bogies also have driving functions. Bogies are composed of frames, suspension devices, wheelset axle box devices, and basic braking devices, while power bogies also have driving devices.

Then there is the traction control system, which is responsible for transmitting energy and controlling operation. The traction transmission system mainly refers to the electrical equipment of the train, which is divided into transmission circuit system, auxiliary circuit system and electronic and control circuit system. The main transmission circuit system mainly includes main transformer, main converter and traction motor. The auxiliary circuit system mainly includes ventilation and cooling device and in-vehicle power supply device.

Many experts and scholars who have been working on trains for a lifetime were stunned and confused by what they heard.

Because this is a completely new area for them.

Liu Tao didn't have too high expectations. They all understood all of a sudden that it would be good enough if they could master these technologies in ten or even twenty years.

He only needs the high-speed railway to be built according to the technology he provides, and then he will know whether it is useful or not by trying it out.

It doesn’t matter even if the existing state-owned train manufacturing factory does not have the ability to produce power train sets, he will build them specifically at the Panshan Machinery Factory.

Liu Tao is very optimistic about whether Panshan Machinery Factory can build train sets.

With a large number of precision instruments and processing equipment, there is nothing that cannot be produced.

As for whether this would affect Tie Lao Da's cake, Liu Tao didn't care at all. It was not the first or second time that he had touched other systems' cakes, but many times.

With core technology in hand, he is not afraid of Boss Tie at all.

The Iron Boss is the Iron Boss, but there are still people above him who can control him, and he is not the one who has the final say and covers everything with one hand.

(End of this chapter)