Chapter 431: Thoughts on the High-Speed Train
As a Westerner, Perona actually has a deep sense of crisis in her heart, that is, in the face of large-scale Chinese manufacturing, the Western industry that is currently taking the high-precision route will collapse sooner or later, Westerners look down on China's cottages, and the government arbitrarily belittles the competitiveness of Chinese products, but when the Chinese begin to enter their country with their products, they will only despair. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Industry, the larger the scale of production, the lower the cost, not to mention that China is still a relatively low cost of manpower, and the related industries are very complete in the country, which means that they from the procurement of raw materials, to the processing and production of every step, the cost will be much lower than the price of similar products in the West, and the cost of this product is low, the competitiveness will naturally be very strong.
So as long as the West opens up its market, then its own enterprises will definitely be squeezed into bankruptcy!
The secondary industry in the economic structure of Western countries is generally not high, and the tertiary industry is relatively developed, but if all of them are tertiary industries and there is no secondary industry, then when trading with other countries, especially China, a large trade and export country, Western countries will definitely go bankrupt, and no one knows what it will be like after bankruptcy.
This is what people of insight in the West are more vigilant again, and this is why trade protection, which has been discarded in the 20 th century, has now been brought up again?
From this point of view, China's factories that produce huge amounts of pollution are not only damaging the environment of their own countries, but also killing Western countries that compete with them to the same extent or even higher.
So, when Perona saw the haze produced by these factories, she felt that under the superposition of two emotions in her heart, it was no wonder that she could get better!
However, as the train got faster and faster, two hours later, they were out of the North China Plain.
This kind of train, known as the high-speed train, is really not to mention the experience of riding, it is very good, and it even makes people feel amazing.
There is no such thing in the United States, where the rail network has not changed significantly in decades.
As a country with a vast territory, if the land area is too large, there are advantages and disadvantages.
For example, the United States and Russia.
The United States has a large land area, with prosperous urban circles on the east and west coasts, while the population density here is very low in the central region because of the distribution of the Rocky Mountains, so the population of the United States is divided into coastal urban circles on both sides.
This may be even worse than China, at least China's population is decreasing step by step, from the southeast coast to the western plateau, the population density is constantly weakening, and the United States is different, the United States is like a dumbbell, the middle is very small, the two sides are very large, and the traffic is to connect the two places in series, and if they are connected, it is very important to build a railway line across the east and west.
It's just that Americans don't seem to have endured much hardship, so the East-West Railway was built by Chinese laborers, and the Chinese laborers who paid countless lives to build such a shocking railroad were exchanged for Roosevelt's paper Chinese order, which was the first clear administrative directive on racial discrimination in the United States, which was aimed at the Chinese.
With the first one, there is the second, in the last century, the enthusiasm of the Americans to engage in infrastructure is actually very high, in the peak century of industrialization, the Americans built a large number of railways and highway networks, if you go back to the United States fifty years ago, you will find that in fact, the United States at that time was very developed, and there is almost no big difference from the current United States.
At this time, with the two giants of the Cold War crazy Biao technology, crazy spending money to climb the science and technology tree, so many advanced technologies in the military field have flowed into the civilian market, such as the aviation field, which was originally converted from bombers and transport aircraft, and quickly began its rapid development of the road.
The United States is the most developed aviation country in the world, there is no one, because of its unique geographical environment, so that its people are the first choice when traveling is the plane, you ask why?
There are so many people on the east and west coastlines, separated by 108,000 miles, and there is no high-speed rail in the United States, you let them take an ordinary train, Emma, it will take a day or two at a time, and it will not kill people!
The Americans said that they were not bad for money, and they couldn't stand the crime, and his meow's train ticket was expensive, and he would only take the train to suffer if he had a hole in his head, so everyone voted with their feet, and did not take the train and took the plane, so the domestic aviation industry in the United States is very developed, and the aviation industry in the United States is so developed that it probably has a fight with China's Ministry of Railways, but China's Ministry of Railways later collapsed......
The population of the United States is only 300 million, tourists who need to travel short distances have their own cars, and the highway is convenient, driving a car, racing on the highway, comfortable, and windy, and much faster and more convenient than the train, as a result, people who travel for short distances are not willing to take the train, and people who travel long distances do not want to waste time, plus the train ticket price is too expensive, so everyone chooses a faster and more comfortable plane, so the railway department in the United States has become a clear water yamen, no business, no future, and naturally there is no big man and big chaebol behind it.
Therefore, in the United States, the market potential for high-speed rail is not large, and even if it is large, it will be blocked by vested interest groups that support the aviation industry, such as Boeing or something......
So the railroad in the United States has not increased for a long time, with the gradual rise in labor costs, laborious to repair the railway, after repairing it is useless, everyone is naturally unwilling to do it, building an airport is cheaper than building a railway, I don't know hundreds of times, as long as arithmetic is not taught by a physical education teacher, everyone will not know how to calculate this account.
So Perona sighed, such a good thing, unfortunately in the United States, it is a pity that it is not seen, but in China, a country with the same vast territory, it can be done, and it is done very well, because China's population concentration area is relatively concentrated, and the population density is large enough, if it is like Russia, such a large area, and the population is so scattered, then no one will build railways or roads.
Sometimes, the land is too large, and it is also a burden, a huge burden, and the strong polar bears will be dragged to death by the vast land that their ancestors grabbed with guns and bullets!