Chapter 9 Railways in Russia

After Fang Yun's interview, the program was quickly produced, and Qu Lihua watched the program through her mobile phone and was very emotional.

"Head Xia, our motherland is prosperous, and more and more foreigners come to China to study, work, live and settle down, and they are willing to join the Belt and Road Initiative and cooperate with our Chinese-funded enterprises. ”

"Yes, as a Chinese, I am really proud, Xiao Su has already booked a hotel for us, everyone will go to the hotel for a night's rest, tomorrow morning, we will visit Moscow's traffic and transportation hub." ”

Su Xiaoyu did not set a more expensive five-star hotel in the city center, but booked a relatively affordable three-star hotel, the Astrus Hotel.

In a city like Moscow, a good hotel in the center of the city is expensive and difficult to book, and the Astrus Hotel is a three-star hotel, close to the city center, with a beautiful environment and good food, and the cost performance is really good.

The hotel has a variety of room types to choose from, including Standard Double Room, Comfort Twin Room, Standard Twin Room, Comfort Twin Room, Each guest room is equipped with air conditioning, desk, seating area, heating, carpeted floor, the room is clean and tidy, Qu Lihua walked into the room, the orange curtains, the sheets on the bed and the curtains complement each other perfectly, and the match is very good, the walls are hung with oil paintings with Russian characteristics, there are wall lamps on both sides of the bed, there are carpets on the floor, and LCD screen TVs are also hung on the walls, which looks good, Su Xiaoyu is very thoughtful for everyone.

The next day, Qu Lihua got up very early, had breakfast in the hotel, and set off with Xia Yuxiang, and when she arrived at the construction office, the delegation changed into work clothes as required before they could go in to visit, the workers were working, Xia Yuxiang stood aside with the members of the group, and Su Xiaoyu explained to everyone.

"Moscow is a very attractive city with well-developed transportation, a hub of railways, roads, river transport and aviation throughout Russia, with electrified railways and roads leading to all directions. As the center of the Russian railway system, Moscow accounts for about 1/10 of the country's total cargo volume. ”

"When you think of Russian railways, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the Trans-Siberian Railway, which has a total length of more than 9,000 kilometers, from Moscow through the Ural Mountains to the port city of Vladivostok, crossing a total of eight time zones, making it one of the longest and most spectacular railway lines in the world. ”

"Moscow has nine passenger railway stations, and a 550-kilometer-long circular railway has been built on the periphery of about 50 kilometers from the city. The railway connects St. Petersburg, Kirov, Kiev, Vladivostok, Kharkiv, Donbass, Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin and other domestic and foreign cities and the Urals, the lower reaches of the Volga, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Crimea, Siberia, the Baltic Sea and other regions. ”

"The construction of the Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2018 and be completed in 2024. It is a high-speed railway planned and constructed by Russia, connecting the capital Moscow and Kazan, the capital of the Tatar Autonomous Republic, and is a part of the planned Beijing-Moscow high-speed railway, with a total length of more than 7,000 kilometers, passing through Russia, Kazakhstan and China, forming an Asia-Europe high-speed railway corridor, this new high-speed railway will become the first phase of the high-speed railway network between Europe and Asia, helping to improve the transportation and cargo transportation between Beijing and Moscow, and promote the economic growth of the two countries. ”

Xia Yuxiang nodded and said: "There is a principle in the construction of cross-border high-speed rail, which is that the Chinese side will contribute funds, technology and equipment for construction, and after completion, the passing countries will participate in the operation. In this process, China will negotiate with relevant countries to replace local resources with the construction of high-speed railways, so as to establish a long-term cooperation mechanism to ensure the use of China's resources. ”

On the construction site, Qu Lihua saw that Russian workers were laying the railway, and also saw a bullet locomotive with a very modern and fashionable design, a beautiful arc, and a white body, which was very beautiful.

On August 1, 2008, China's first high-speed railway with completely independent intellectual property rights, the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway, was officially put into operation, and China launched a new revolution in the construction of high-speed railways in the world. Now, ten years later, China's high-speed railway mileage has exceeded 25,000 kilometers, which is far more than the rest of the world's combined, and China's high-speed railway has become a bright world business card made in China.

More and more countries in the world began to recognize the achievements of China's high-speed rail, but also produced the idea of innovation of their own railways, China's high-speed rail out of China to the world has been imperative, as a department manager, Qu Lihua used to often need to travel, ten years ago, when there was no high-speed rail, it was very inconvenient at that time, she had to get up early in the morning, go to the train station to queue up to buy tickets, the people who bought tickets are very good, to wait for a long time, and may not be able to buy a ticket.

During the holidays, there are more tourists who go home or come out to travel, and the scene of the train station is crowded with people, which still remains in Qu Lihua's mind, the feeling of being crowded is really bad, Qu Lihua has had two experiences, one is when she went to Yunnan from Shanghai, it was ten years ago, and it was not easy to buy a slow train, which was still a green carriage at that time.

There are a lot of people on the bus, the soft sleeper tickets have been sold out, Qu Lihua only bought a hard seat, to sit for three days and three nights, it is really not easy, no way, the company sent her over, she must complete the work, the branch has made an appointment with the customer, it is not possible to put the customer "pigeon", Qu Lihua sat on the hard seat for three days and three nights, sat on the butt and hurt, it was very uncomfortable at night, sitting with her eyes closed to rest, and she didn't dare to fall asleep, she also had to look at her bag.

Another experience was also ten years ago to take a slow train, that time was from Suzhou to Shanghai to visit relatives, happened to meet May Day, crowded with people, finally squeezed up, like "candles", there is no place to stand, the carriage is full of people, Qu Lihua can only stand not far from the door, the slow train is very slow, standing like this, it is really a torment.

No one expected that China's high-speed rail only took ten years, it has achieved the achievements that the world admires, today's high-speed rail extends in all directions, and it is very fast and convenient to go anywhere, which greatly shortens the riding time of passengers, and the facilities on the car are also very modern, the design is very humane, the seats are very soft, and the hard seat ten years ago, it feels completely different.

China's wisdom is vividly reflected in China's high-speed rail, and with China's wisdom, more and more Chinese standards will become world standards in the future.

After the struggle of several generations of railway people, China's high-speed rail has run faster than China's speed and created a Chinese miracle. In the vast land of the motherland, China's high-speed rail is weaving a huge network of flows, rewriting the time and space pattern of the entire Chinese society.

Su Xiaoyu's explanation pulled Qu Lihua's train of thought back.

"The construction of this railway itself will bring considerable profits to related industries in China and neighboring countries. At the same time, it can also improve the trade status of China's northwest interior, create convenience for Chinese products to be sold to West Asia and Europe, and be conducive to the revival of the Silk Road. ”

"The route is expected to provide 10.5 million passenger services in its first year of operation, with passenger traffic expected to reach 20 million passengers per year by 2035 and 25 million passengers per year by 2050. ”

"The construction of high-speed rail facilitates the flow of people, logistics and information, and has a long-term impact on regional social and economic development. ”