The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 366: The Exciting First Test

Liu Tao's mouth curled up slightly.

That’s nothing!
Bigger surprises are yet to come!

He has inspected the entire "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" test section, and all problematic parts such as the tracks, traction substations, and contact wires above the tracks have been repaired or restored.

The power supply steps for the "Fuxing" EMU are very simple. First, the State Grid transmits electricity to the traction substation, which provides electricity to the train through the contact wire above the rails. This electricity can drive the train and the train's lighting, air-conditioning and other equipment. A pantograph is installed on the top of the EMU. The pantograph of a moving high-speed train maintains sliding contact with the contact wire, forming a huge "mobile battery" to supply the EMU's driving needs.

The speed of the 'Fuxing' EMU became faster and faster, soon breaking through the 150 km/h speed, and then, amid the exclamations of the crowd, it once again broke through the 200 km/h speed.

Finally, the speed of the 'Fuxing' EMU reached 250 km/h.

This made everyone burst into cheers of excitement, and this was undoubtedly a milestone for China Trains.

Breaking records in one day will go down in history, and they are witnessing history!

The mobility and shock of witnessing history cannot be described in words.

During the whole process, there were no faults and the display screen and various display lights were normal.

After driving for half an hour, Liu Tao continued to accelerate, and the speed of the "Fuxing" EMU became faster and faster.

300 km/h!

350 km/h!

400 km/h!

Liu Tao looked at the virtual panel at the corner of his eye, paying close attention to the "Fuxing" EMU.

When the speed reached 478 km/h, Liu Tao did not accelerate any further.

Because if we accelerate further, the risks will increase dramatically.

The Beijing-Kowloon Railway was designed and built for a speed of 250 km/h. This does not mean that the train can only reach a maximum speed of 250 km/h, but that the train is safest and most economical to operate at a speed of 250 km/h.

As speed continues to increase, energy consumption will also continue to increase.

As of now, we can say that the maximum speed of the 'Fuxing' EMU is 478 km/h. Any higher speed would be very dangerous.

However, this speed is not suitable as an operating speed because the energy consumption is too high and it is not safe enough.

On the 'Fuxing' EMU, everyone felt their souls were shaken.

A speed of 478 km/h is something they dare not even think about, not even in their dreams.

But now it actually appeared before them.

Even the reporters and photographers who followed were shocked to the point of trembling with their souls.

The news reports about Japan's Shinkansen caused a huge shock. Everyone realized that steam locomotives had been eliminated, and even China's cutting-edge diesel locomotives were about to be eliminated. The Japanese Shinkansen's train speed reached 210 kilometers per hour, which was much faster than the most advanced diesel locomotives developed by China.

The speed of our most advanced diesel locomotive is only being tested, and it is not known how many years it will take before it can be put into operation. However, other people's trains with a speed of 210 km/h are in operation, and they were put into operation in 1964.

The difference is too big!
The gap is too big!
But now, the Fuxing EMU has directly broken all kinds of Chinese records, bringing China's trains to the world's leading level. Almost everyone couldn't help but shed tears of excitement, excitement, and shock.

Liu Tao felt quite complicated.

The weapons and equipment and military ships developed in the past were actually far beyond the reach of ordinary people.

However, this 'Fuxing' EMU can come into close contact with ordinary people and benefit them.

The entire Chinese railway transportation will be greatly changed, and this change will be earth-shaking.

More importantly, it can inject a stimulant into the people of this era who lack confidence, so that they can have confidence in their own country.

We need advanced military equipment and advanced civilian equipment.

Both hands must be grasped, both hands must be hard!
The rejuvenation of China is not enough to rely solely on advanced weapons and equipment, but also requires advanced civilian equipment. Civilian equipment can improve people's livelihood and can be exported to earn huge profits.

We need to strengthen the army and enrich the people!
When we were about to arrive at Xingjiacun Station, the speed began to slow down. If you didn't feel it carefully, you wouldn't be able to detect it at all.

At this time, Xingjiacun Station was still under construction, and the "Fuxing" EMU stopped smoothly.

At this time, the workers at Xingjiacun Station couldn't help but look at the "Fuxing" EMU.

There is no way, the 'Fuxing' EMU is just too good-looking!

"Hello, Chief!" The person in charge of Xingjia Village saluted everyone.

This was the first test of the 'Fuxing' EMU. During the entire process, there were people monitoring at each station and even in the middle, and they were constantly reporting.

Liu Tao took a look at the person in charge and estimated that he was a former railway engineer.

Everyone was discussing in the temporary meeting room here.

"Comrade Liu Tao, I think this test section was very successful, and the first test of the 'Fuxing' EMU was also very successful. There is no need to worry anymore, and other sections can be constructed. Time is money, time is life. The 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway' is time-sensitive and the task is heavy. We have to race against time. There are only three years left in 1987, and we can't waste any time!" Chen Puru said in a deep voice.

Chen Puru, the person in charge of the Railway Group, is an old cadre who joined the revolution in 1932 at the age of 14. This time-tested old revolutionary, 66 years old this year, personally participated in the first test of the "Fuxing" EMU, which made the old revolutionary full of confidence in the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" and the "Fuxing" EMU.

He was a man of great courage and firm belief. At the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he boldly emancipated his mind, dared to forge ahead, took the lead in opening up rural market trade in Liaoning Province, supported individual operations and collective economy, vigorously supported township enterprises, implemented policy preferences for light industry, changed the ratio of light and heavy industries, and actively promoted the contract responsibility system for linking output to remuneration in rural areas, breaking through the situation in which grain production had stagnated for many years.

Similarly, as the head of the railway company, Chen Puru was actively doing the preliminary work for the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" project, and then last year he gritted his teeth and proposed again to build the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway".

Personally participating in the first test of the 'Fuxing' EMU gave him great confidence.

Liu Tao smiled and said, "That's no problem. I will take the train crew to conduct a series of tests later to train them to master the 'Fuxing' EMU."

This is just the first test, and there will be a series of tests in the future, including energy consumption at different speeds, energy consumption under different conditions at different speeds, and taking measures in special situations at different speeds.

And this is just the empty one, there will be various loads and even full loads later.

These all need to be tested, and what Liu Tao needs to do is to train two crews and let them serve as seeds, so that a single spark can start a prairie fire, and then the old will bring up the new and continuously train more crews.

(End of this chapter)