The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

At this time, the completion and trial operation ceremony of the "Maimai High-speed Railway" was being held.

The "Maimai High-speed Railway" has a total length of 480 kilometers, passing through the four cities of Medina, Rabigh, Jeddah and Mecca from north to south.

This is also the world's first desert high-speed railway with a speed of more than 360 kilometers per hour.

The completion of the "Maimai High-speed Railway" is of great significance.

This means that China has proved that it has mastered the construction technology of desert high-speed railways.

From then on, the entire Middle East high-speed railway market is completely open to China. Anyone who wants to build a high-speed railway will inevitably find China.

Because no other country in the world will do it, only China will!

Liu Tao rarely stepped out of the country and came here to participate in this ceremony.

Looking at these workers with tanned skin and dry and cracked skin, Liu Tao has only respect.

Although this "Maimai High-speed Railway" is only 480 kilometers, it is not long, but the railway workers of China have spent a full seven years to build it.

They overcame various difficulties and it took seven years to finally build the "Mecca-Mecca High-speed Railway".

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who had just ascended the throne, was all smiles.

The completion of the "Mecca-Mecca High-speed Railway" ended Saudi Arabia's history of not having a high-speed railway. From now on, Saudi Arabia also has a high-speed railway.

More importantly, this can win the hearts of Muslims.

The most important thing in the lives of Saudi Arabians is the pilgrimage, which is also the most concerned thing for Muslims every year.

Mecca is known as the "capital of religion", so in the 12th month of the Islamic calendar every year, millions of Muslims will gather in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

This religious custom is not only observed by Saudi Arabians, but for all Muslims, they must go to Mecca for pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime. This is their religious belief.

Saudi Arabia built the "Mecca-Mecca High-speed Railway" not only to develop the economy, but more importantly to solve the problem of people's pilgrimage.

In fact, Saudi Arabia wanted to build the Mecca-Mecca Railway as early as the 1980s. But to connect the two cities of Medina and Mecca, most of the railways have to be built in the desert and Gobi Desert.

Saudi Arabia has money, but it does not have the technology to build high-speed railways. Everyone who comes into contact with it can't help but feel a headache once they learn about it, and then shake their heads and refuse. In the end, China took over this matter.

Now, the "Madina-Makka High-speed Railway" has finally been built.

And not only has it been built, China also uses advanced sand fixation technology to prevent the Madina-Makka High-speed Railway from being threatened by wind and sand.

At this ceremony, Saudi Arabia's prominent figures came.

Even many heads of state, wealthy merchants, princes, etc. from Arab countries came.

Although energy prices have dropped sharply after the outbreak of the world economic crisis, everyone's life is not as good as before.

However, with the current international crude oil prices and natural gas prices, there is still a lot of profit space for oil-producing and gas-producing countries in the Middle East.

It's just not as profitable as before.

Last year, they had received Liu Tao's promise that China's shale oil technology would not be exported and spread abroad. China's shale oil will grow steadily in the next ten years, and by 2020, shale oil production will reach 10 million barrels per day.

Moreover, Saudi Arabia is no longer just exporting crude oil as before, but a considerable part of it is exported as refined oil. In addition to the oil production industry, Saudi Arabia also has a considerable scale of oil refining industry, as well as various chemical bases producing various chemical products, etc. At the same time, Saudi Arabia's annual export of natural gas is also very considerable.

In the world, environmental protection is increasingly emphasized, and natural gas, as a clean energy, is deeply favored by developed countries.

Although Saudi Arabia cannot be called an industrial country, Saudi Arabia's industry is still large.

Other Middle Eastern countries are exceptions. Life is not as good as before, but it is still very comfortable.

They want to see the "Maimai High-speed Railway" with their own eyes, and then see if they can build a high-speed railway in their own country.

For example, Kuwait, don't think about building a high-speed railway, cooperate with Saudi Arabia to build a high-speed railway connecting Kuwait City to Riyadh, that is, the "Li-Ku High-speed Railway", making transportation between the two cities convenient. This "Li-Koh High-speed Railway" is about 700 kilometers long. It requires a lot of investment to build, but it is naturally no problem for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman can all build high-speed railways to connect major cities in the country with high-speed railways, and then connect to Riyadh, thus forming a regional high-speed railway network.

The ceremony was very grand, and then in terms of trial operation, a high-speed railway has a total of 16 carriages.

Everyone entered the carriage and found a seat.

Then when the door closed, the high-speed railway started.

Someone took out a coin and stood it up on the window sill to see if it would fall down.

When it was confirmed that it would not fall down, I couldn't help but exclaimed.

Things like this are not uncommon on the Internet, and they are all taken on China's high-speed railways.

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And China's high-speed railway is now a shining business card for China.

China's high-speed railway technology and China's subway technology have all experienced the test of time.

And now, China has built a high-speed railway in the desert, which is simply a miracle.

This high-speed railway started from Mecca, went directly to Medina without a truce in the middle, and was 480 kilometers long, taking less than an hour and a half.

When the carriage display screen indicated that the high-speed rail speed reached 360 kilometers per hour, many people exclaimed and applauded.

The high-speed rail stopped at Medina Railway Station. Everyone got off the train and discussed excitedly.

Soon, with the speed of Internet transmission, the news about the "Maimai High-speed Railway" spread throughout Saudi Arabia.

The CCTV filming team continued to film.

This news must be on the seven o'clock news.

The "Maimai High-speed Railway" is also a symbol of friendship between China and Saudi Arabia and a landmark project.

With the completion of this railway, the relationship between the two sides will become closer.

The Saudi king held a grand reception in Medina to celebrate the completion of the "Maimai High-speed Railway".

Although there is still a trial operation stage, it will definitely be able to better transport believers during the pilgrimage in December 2009.

There are contradictions within Saudi Arabia, but because of the high social welfare, even the poorest people can live well, making the contradictions between people of higher classes not so sharp.

In other words, Saudi Arabia spends money to ease domestic conflicts so that the lower classes will not rise up and want to overthrow the royal family.

Even for different factions, they will reconcile instead of letting conflicts.

This "Maimai High-speed Railway" will definitely make the Saudi government and the royal family more supporters in Saudi Arabia, and win more people's hearts, and even the entire Arab world will have a better impression of the Saudi government and the Saudi royal family.

This is more important than making tens of billions! (End of this chapter)