Chapter 938 European High-Speed Rail Project
After the leader left.
Liu Tao began to collect relevant intelligence.
Liu Tao looked at the relevant intelligence he had collected, as if he saw a new wave of high-speed rail development coming.
Japan, a country with a long history of high-speed rail, plans to build another 400 kilometers of high-speed rail in the next fifteen years, thus forming a complete high-speed rail network in Japan. Liu Tao just watched Japan's high-speed rail, and there was absolutely no hope of competition.
Then there is France, a country with a long history of high-speed rail. France will build 1,452 kilometers of high-speed rail in the next fifteen years, so that the total mileage of France's high-speed rail will reach 2,482 kilometers. This part of the high-speed rail can only be envied. Even if France pays a higher price, it will be handed over to France's own companies.
Germany plans to build 1,343 kilometers of high-speed rail in the next 15 years, bringing the total mileage of Germany's high-speed rail to 1,571 kilometers.
Spain plans to build 2,386 kilometers of high-speed rail in the next 15 years, bringing the total mileage of Spain's high-speed rail to 2,859 kilometers, thus ensuring that Spain's high-speed rail basically covers the entire Spanish territory.
Italy plans to build 921 kilometers in the next 15 years.
What surprised Liu Tao was that South Korea also planned to build a high-speed railway. It planned to build a high-speed railway from Seoul to Busan, with a total length of 573 kilometers and an estimated investment of 3.2 billion US dollars, which means a cost of 5.58 million US dollars per kilometer.
Liu Tao smiled. It was undoubtedly a pipe dream to want to build a high-speed railway at this cost.
But it was normal. Now South Korea is frugal and has a foreign trade-oriented economy, but its product competitiveness is not as good as that of China, and South Korea has no money.
This is the world. The cake is so big. If you eat more, others will have to eat less.
Not everyone has the ability to make the cake bigger.
Now South Korea's GDP is about 100 billion US dollars, and its per capita GDP is 2,450 US dollars.
"Americans are also planning to build high-speed railways?" Liu Tao was a little surprised.
The United States does not have the technology to build high-speed railways, nor does it want to build high-speed railways directly, but continues to speed up the Northeast Corridor, which has a total mileage of 735 kilometers.
The total mileage of American railways exceeds 250,000 kilometers, which is the largest railway network in the world. Of course, the railways in the United States are mainly freight lines, and the passenger lines are only 35,000 kilometers. The situation of these railways is not satisfactory. After all, many railways have been built for a long time.
The United States mainly develops air transportation and has a very developed air transportation network. Most people are used to traveling by plane instead of by train.
Liu Tao shook his head. It is very difficult for the United States to build new railways now.
"It seems that Europe is serious this time. Spain, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden are the most suitable targets." Liu Tao pondered for a while.
The next morning, Liu Tao formed a working group specifically for the construction of European high-speed railways and subways, and went to these countries with the help of foreign affairs departments to carry out work.
It is naturally best to pass international bidding, and you can do things according to the rules. If not, you need to rely on the power of the country.
Just after New Year's Day.
Liu Tao set off for Shanghai.
The hotel near Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai held a completion ceremony for the Shanghai-Shenzhen high-speed railway project.
In fact, the Shanghai-Shenzhen High-speed Railway was fully opened to traffic several years ago, and now the entire project has been completed.
Four lines, that is, from Shanghai to Pengcheng or from Pengcheng to Shanghai, can have two trains at the same time.
This is also the reason why the main artery adopts such a high standard, otherwise a double-track railway would be enough.
In the early stage, when there were not so many EMUs, two lines could be used as passenger lines, and the other two lines could be used as freight lines or mixed passenger and freight lines. Later, as the passenger flow increased, all four lines became passenger lines.
During the construction process, the Shanghai-Shenzhen High-speed Railway overcame many difficulties and finally completed the entire project after several years. Its significance can be said to be extremely huge.
All train stations along the line have been built into modern train stations, which greatly improved the flow of people and goods.
It promotes the connection between Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.
The leaders of various provinces and cities and the leaders above came to the completion ceremony. It can be said that the completion ceremony was very grand.
At the meeting, Liu Tao highly affirmed the Shanghai-Shenzhen high-speed rail project, and then focused on the affirmation of the construction workers. These workers will ride the Shanghai-Shenzhen high-speed rail for free in the next 20 years.
This can also be regarded as a kind of welfare.
Now in China, the number of railway construction workers has reached 2 million, almost all of whom are retired soldiers. Behind the construction of high-speed rail, subway construction, and railway upgrading and reconstruction, there is such a large group of railway construction workers working hard.
The employees under the jurisdiction of the railway boss include construction workers, railway police, crew members, railway station staff, judicial staff, logistics staff, etc. The number of employees of the railway boss has reached 3.5 million.
Although Panshan Group and the railway boss jointly established the China High-speed Railway Group, China's high-speed railways are all invested, constructed, and managed by the China High-speed Railway Group, but most of them are actually cross-managed and dual-managed.
So far, the entire railway system has a very large degree of independence, with its own schools, hospitals, courts, public security, etc.
However, there are still some differences between Huaxia High-speed Railway Group and the railway boss. The most obvious difference is the salary system. Huaxia High-speed Railway Group adopts the salary system of Panshan Group, and the salary is much higher than that of other railway employees. In addition, employees of Huaxia High-speed Railway Group can go to Panshan Hospital or Panshan School to study.
The two seem to be a system, but in fact they are very different.
Even in terms of accounting, they are calculated separately, with their own revenue, profits and taxes.
Liu Tao is very optimistic about the prospects of the Shanghai-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway. It can be said that the Beijing-Kowloon High-Speed Railway, the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway and the Shanghai-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway are the easiest to make profits, and the profit level will still reach a very high level.
For other high-speed railways, the profit prospects are not as good as these three high-speed railways.
After the leader delivered a speech, he awarded advanced individuals and advanced units to commend individuals and units with outstanding performance throughout the project.
There must be material rewards, and spiritual rewards must also be there. Both hands must be there, and both hands must be strong, so as to better motivate everyone to continue to work hard.
The individual who received the highest reward even received a bonus of 1 million.
And the unit that received the highest reward received a bonus of 30 million.
Among them, there are even those who have received the National May 1st Labor Medal, and their deeds have been widely reported. Similarly, there are also experts with very high attainments in construction, or those who have achieved high academic attainments and have been selected as academicians.
This is the case with large-scale infrastructure projects. They can always make breakthroughs in some aspects, complete technological innovations, and solve many problems that could not be solved before.
For example, in this project, Panshan Group has made greater progress in large shield machines, which have larger diameters and higher working efficiency.
In addition, there has been greater progress in tunnel support or bridge construction.