The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 621 High-speed Rail Route Regulations (asking for monthly tickets)
Night, dead of night.

A low and melodious voice can be vaguely heard.

The starry sky outside is full of bright stars, and a full moon is hanging in the sky.

Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. The moon on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar is always very round and bright, and the bright moonlight fills the earth.

It happened to be snowing lightly tonight, and snowflakes were falling from the sky.

The northwest wind was howling, and if someone was outside, they would probably be frozen into an ice stick.

Inside the house, the noise had stopped and silence returned.

Zhu Lin snuggled in Liu Tao's arms, quietly enjoying the tranquility of the moment. In Liu Tao's arms, she felt a sense of security.

Every time at this time, she feels the strongest sense of security and her heart is the calmest.

The two of them were whispering in private, and gradually, their voices became quieter and quieter, until finally it became quiet, with only the sound of their sleeping breathing.

The next morning, when the two woke up, it was already eight o'clock.

The children had already gone out to play one by one.

Liu Tao yawned, stretched, washed up, put on his pajamas, and then went to the living room.

I turned on the TV and started watching the news.

Today's news is that Kuwaiti King Jaber Al Sabah visits China.

China gave the King of Kuwait extremely high diplomatic courtesy. When the special plane entered China's airspace, two fighter jets escorted it. When the special plane landed at the Beijing airport, the leader of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs personally went to the airport to greet the King of Kuwait and welcome him to China.

Liu Tao watched the news, trying to capture some information from it to make judgments.

Around dusk, Liu Tao received a call, saying that the flight was booked.

Liu Tao smiled happily.

In the past few days, the negotiated contract agreements have been signed one by one, leaving only the issue of the aircraft in Kuwait.

For Kuwait's aircraft order, Liu Tao stayed in Beijing for two more days, waiting for the King of Kuwait to visit China.

And now this result proves that it was worth it for him to stay for two more days.

20架歼10，2架‘歼教7A’和3架‘雄鹰’高教机，总订单价值6亿美元。

Soon after signing the contract agreement, Liu Tao left Beijing. This time he did not take a special plane, but took the "Fuxing" EMU from Beijing to Shanghai.

After three lines of construction, the Beijing-Shanghai Railway has finally completed double-track construction and is now about to begin full-line trial runs.

As for the double-track construction, it was not completed and opened to traffic until 1992.

Beijing South Railway Station has been rebuilt at this time and is in no way inferior to Beijing West Railway Station.

The entire Beijing South Railway Station covers a very large area and is a modern railway station.

Liu Tao boarded the 'Fuxing' EMU, which has 8 carriages and has undergone road tests many times before.

The crew members have also been trained in the past few years.

After all, high-speed rail is different from traditional rail and has different operating concepts.

Even for buying tickets, there are automatic ticket machines, and you need your ID card to buy tickets at the window. As for letters of introduction, they are no longer needed now.

On the platforms of train stations, you can still see rows of green trains. Perhaps within 20 years, the green trains will be eliminated and will no longer be used for passenger transport, but only for freight transport.

The doors of the Fuxing EMU trains began to close and then opened for full-line testing.

In addition to leaders from the Ministry of Railways, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, leaders from Beijing and Shanghai also participated in this test.

Everyone was discussing with great interest.

Many of them have taken the Beijing-Kowloon high-speed railway, but some of them are taking the Fuxing EMU for the first time. Although the Beijing-Shanghai railway will not start trial operation until half a year later, it has extraordinary significance for all cities along the Beijing-Shanghai railway.

This is of great significance in strengthening the connection between Shanghai and Beijing.

Liu Tao looked at the virtual panel and monitored the status of the "Fuxing" EMU at any time.

Although the probability of an emergency is extremely small and he has explored the entire route before, he still has to be prepared.

Otherwise, if anything happens, the casualties will be staggering.

This is how the full-line test runs are conducted. No one knows what problems may arise.

You can never go too far wrong.

Finally, the "Fuxing" EMU arrived at Hongqiao Station in Shanghai.

After dinner, Liu Tao met with the head of the Ministry of Railways.

Leader Li took out a map with railway lines on it.

Liu Tao took a look and realized that this was the planned high-speed rail route of China.

Among them, the 'Beijing-Kowloon High-Speed ​​Railway' and the 'Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway' are marked as under construction, and there are many other lines.

Although the Beijing-Kowloon High-Speed ​​Railway and the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway are still under construction and have not been fully completed, it is clear that the Ministry of Railways has not stopped and is already planning the future high-speed rail network.

Liu Tao admired in his heart, it seems that the infrastructure obsession is really rooted in the bones of every Chinese, and it is deeply rooted, even in this era.

For example, Liu Tao saw a high-speed rail line that was connected by the Nanning-Kunming High-Speed ​​Railway, Nanning-Guangzhou High-Speed ​​Railway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed ​​Railway, Xiamen-Shenzhen High-Speed ​​Railway, Fuzhou-Xiamen High-Speed ​​Railway, Hangzhou-Ningbo High-Speed ​​Railway, and Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed ​​Railway, and then connected to the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway to form a roughly arc-shaped high-speed rail line.

There is also the 'Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed ​​Railway' which consists of three sections: Beijing-Shijiazhuang High-Speed ​​Railway, Shijiazhuang-Wuhan High-Speed ​​Railway and Wuhan-Guangzhou High-Speed ​​Railway, with a total length of 2298 kilometers!

Liu Tao looked at these high-speed rail networks and was afraid that if they were really built, the total length of high-speed rail would exceed 2 kilometers.

"In the future, we in China will build high-speed railways to make transportation between cities faster. High-speed railways will mainly be used for passenger transport, and the original railways will be developed towards freight transport." Li Senmao looked expectant.

Liu Tao smiled and said, "Yes, one day, it will come true!"

He knew that within 30 years, China's high-speed rail mileage would exceed 2 kilometers, and by then the high-speed rail network would be well-connected.

Even China's high-speed rail can be said to be invincible.

But now, it is clear that not many high-speed railways will be built in the short term.

Because the country does not have that much money to invest in this, at most they will build some more lines, but it will not be like the Beijing-Kowloon High-Speed ​​Railway or the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway.

Panshan Group will no longer make large investments like the Beijing-Kowloon High-Speed ​​Railway and the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway, because with the rise in prices and labor costs, the cost of building high-speed railways is rising rapidly.

Panshan Group will only invest in individual high-speed rail lines with large passenger flow instead of spending money recklessly, because even if Panshan Group is good at making money, it cannot support the entire high-speed rail network.

Liu Tao understood what his leader meant, but he couldn't take it up because Panshan Group couldn't afford such a huge project.

Unless the Ministry of Railways takes over two-thirds of the work, it would be better to slow down the pace.

The leader felt helpless when he saw this. If it were the Ministry of Railways, where would the Ministry of Railways have so much money? If he dared to propose a high-speed railway, it would require the country to invest tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of yuan, and the leaders above would definitely scold him.

The reason why the Beijing-Kowloon High-Speed ​​Railway and the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ​​Railway were successfully started and the leaders above were very supportive was because the money was provided by Panshan Group.

If the Ministry of Finance were to pay for everything, the leaders of the Ministry of Finance would be very angry with him.

He took out such a high-speed rail line planning map, intending to drag Liu Tao into getting Panshan Group to pay for it, but unfortunately Liu Tao refused to fall into the trap at all.

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