After Hu Wenhai finished speaking, Fu Zhiheng had to wave his hand again and again: "Mr. Hu's topic is too big, don't say that I am only the director of the Shengjing Bureau now." Even if I really become a minister one day, it will not be my turn to make decisions about such a plan. ”

"I am certainly optimistic about opening up a land corridor from Kazakhstan to Ukraine and finally to Europe. But what can be coordinated? The Ministry of Railways is actually limited in what it can do. Even if the expansion of the railways in the western region is expanded, it is not a matter that I can say alone. ”

Hu Wenhai shook his head silently, and said with a smile: "Of course, the construction of the central passage of the Eurasian continent cannot be completed without the promotion of ten years. But to say that the Ministry of Railways can't do anything, that's unrealistic, right?"

"I don't know if the Fu Bureau has noticed, this year's railway has undergone information transformation, but there have been great changes. ”

"Oh?" Fu Zhiheng frowned slightly, slightly puzzled by how Hu Wenhai's informatization transformation could be linked to the Central Asia-Europe Corridor. And to say that the railway information transformation itself is really amazing, but is there any change that he has not discovered?

Fu Zhiheng is still an engineer-turned-technical official, and his understanding of the social transformation that technology will bring about is not so clear.

"This year's performance of Shengjing Bureau is really good, after the heavy load and information transformation, the transportation volume has made a qualitative leap. ”

"It's not just the increase in traffic. Hu Wenhai said categorically: "The types of materials transported have also undergone profound changes. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but show a nostalgic look and said with a smile: "I still remember that a few years ago, Xinke was just established, and the first Spring Festival factory issued benefits. Other units in Xiucheng are nothing more than rice, pork and soybean oil. However, we did something that caused a sensation in the whole city back then, and the New Year's benefit issued by Xinke was watermelon!"

"Oh!"

Fu Zhiheng heard this story for the first time, he himself is a native of Hei Province, and after a little thought, he understood what it meant to have a chilled watermelon at home during the Chinese New Year in the northeast in the eighties.

Just putting it at home to brag about it is worth the ticket price.

Hu Wenhai smiled a little proudly, and then shook his head with some regret: "But such a showy treatment, I guess Xinke will not be able to enjoy it this year." ”

"Because of the heavy load and information transformation, after the railway capacity is improved, it will drive the activity of the entire social economy. At 60 km/h, the railway could only be used to transport steel and coal. At a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, watermelons and vegetables from the south can be transported to the northeast. If the railroad can reach 300 kilometers per hour, I can eat Boston lobster in the Northeast. ”

"This winter, although watermelons in the Northeast are still a little expensive, they are certainly not a rare commodity that cannot be bought in the market. Presumably, in a few years, eating watermelon in the winter of the Northeast will be a common thing. ”

Hu Wenhai said with a little deep meaning: "Maybe one day our transportation capacity is very abundant, and I can buy a train ticket for my Boston lobster." ”

"Hah-"

Fu Zhiheng smiled politely slightly, only thinking that Hu Wenhai was making a joke, but his mind was thinking about what he said.

What does the increase in capacity and transportation speed mean for the whole society?

Maybe to some people, how much difference is there between a green car and a high-speed rail? My train that used to take 24 hours to get to a place now only takes 12 hours. However, from a personal point of view, this doesn't seem to mean that much, does it? How many urgent matters need to hurry up for these 12 hours? Even if you are really in a hurry, you can choose to fly.

From this point of view, instead of investing 200 million yuan per kilometer to build high-speed rail, the people in the west are still eating grass!

Those who make such arguments often boast of being economists, and anyone who looks at the world with this kind of small-scale peasant economic worldview in feudal society can become celebrities, which really makes people feel like they are in a state of loss.

Only under the conditions of a small-scale peasant economy in feudal society can this cake-cutting theory arise that if a railway is built, there is no money to help the poor. In fact, the improvement of traffic efficiency will significantly enhance the economic vitality of society. The resulting growth of social wealth is the real route of sustainable development.

Just like the Daqin Line Railway, the investment is not small, right? In the world, it is also a miracle of engineering.

The investment in the transformation of the Daqin line is only more than 10 billion, but after the completion of the annual income in 2005 as high as 12.2 billion, the growth rate of transportation revenue has repeatedly exceeded 50%.

Not to mention that the completion of the Daqin Line has alleviated the energy crisis in the coastal zone and become the energy pillar of China's steel production, these benefits cannot be expressed simply by operating income.

With the increase in the total amount of social wealth, isn't it much easier to go back to poverty alleviation and welfare than to build a dojo in a snail shell?

The impact of each step in transport capacity on the entire socio-economic vitality is like adding another centimeter to the radius of a circle.

The result is not as simple as addition.

Fu Zhiheng has been in charge of the Shengjing Bureau for several years, and has been exposed to a lot of practice, and he has some vague concepts about these economic phenomena.

Now that Hu Wenhai clicked like this, his mind suddenly opened.

What Mr. Hu said makes sense, the economic value of the railway is not only its own profit. From the country's point of view, no matter how large the amount of basic investment, it is still profitable at the level of society as a whole. ”

At this time, Fu Zhiheng was already thinking about how to operate the concept of the railway's role in promoting the market economy. The demand for investment in the early stage of railway construction is huge, and although it is a way to engage in railway bonds, it is really annoying to always have to fight with Fuyou Street.

If it can be argued that railways are not only a business, but also have economic significance at the social level, can this treatment be the same?

At that time, the railway investment will take on the color of political tasks, and see who dares to touch the cheese of the iron boss!

Seeing that Fu Zhiheng understood what he meant, Hu Wenhai and him looked at each other and smiled, everything was silent.

At this time, Hu Wenhai really threw out his killer idea: "To promote the construction of the China-Kazakhstan railway, it is not difficult to convince the above." You must know that Kazakhstan has oil, and it is also a world-class oil field! Based on this, we should tie Kazakhstan to our body. ”

"There are big oil fields in Kazakhstan?!" Fu Zhiheng's eyes were about to pop out: "Transporting oil, transporting oil!"

Hu Wenhai nodded vigorously: "Yes, transport oil." ”

One only has to look at the current craze for coal transportation within the railways to see how attractive the business of energy transportation is. Just transporting coal makes the Ministry of Railways crazy, so what if it is replaced with more economically valuable oil?

Even if an oil pipeline is to be built in the future, the railroad side will be able to enjoy a lucrative period of at least ten years.

Flipping through the map and thinking about the transport routes between China and Europe, it is difficult not to notice the country of Kazakhstan. Compared with the detached Russia on the northern front and the dazzling camels on the southern front, the original Kazakhstan middle line is too unique.

First of all, the political situation in Kazakhstan is not stable! Nazarbayev can be called a hero of a generation, so he asked which country publishes a certain book, and like Kazakhstan, it is deleted, revised and revised......

Secondly, Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country and the ninth largest country in the world, but its population is only about 10 million. In other words, Kazakhstan does not have the delusions that Russia's heart is higher than the sky.

But on the other hand, Kazakhstan has a significant part of the Caspian oil fields. In addition, there are abundant minerals in China, iron, coal, tungsten reserves are considerable - China's use of tungsten to make armor-piercing bullets has been regarded as a luxury move, but Kazakhstan's tungsten reserves are the world's first!

Kazakhstan is such a big oil and gas country, and it is also a neighbor of China, so the amount of oil imports must be huge, right? Unfortunately, the vast majority of Kazakhstan's oil exports are exported to Europe, and less than 20 percent of the share is allocated to China.

Of course, two barrels of oil are not a day.

But as a result, China's share of the economy in Kazakhstan is not so good. Without the most basic economic presence, it is impossible to exert more influence.

It is a pity that China did not take Kazakhstan's oil and gas resources.

Of course, it is impossible for Kazakhstan to get out of Russian control due to its geopolitical relations with Russia. But first of all, it has to be a unified Russia with a little father, not a Russia that has been dragged into the abyss by the Khitans and is ready to turn the tables by a group of Soviet Communist Party remnants.

It can be seen from this that oil in Kazakhstan is not only a capital issue, not only an economic issue, or even a political issue, but a major issue related to the world pattern.

Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, from Ukraine to Poland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, if this route can be opened in ten years, China will have the hard power and soft power to no longer fear US blackmail.

But to take Kazakhstan, this time is not something he can do alone. The railway system is just the beginning, and Hu Wenhai will also pull the agriculture, energy, chemical, steel, real estate and other industries to form a national team, which will be a comprehensive mobilization of the new department.

Of course, there are some side benefits to increasing Kazakhstan's strategic importance to China. For example, any policy to weaken the central government's control over the western region will be absolutely unacceptable in this strategic environment.