Huaining County, Chenzhou Prefecture, flows through the Shahe River of Zhoujiakou Town, the commercial pearl of eastern Henan. Not long ago, the Jialu River experienced a large-scale rainfall, followed by rain in the area of Chenzhou Mansion in eastern Henan, so that the water level of the Shahe River soared, the river rolled rapidly, and the waves continued.

On the north bank of the river. The joint construction team composed of the Central Plains No. 2 Construction Company and the Bridge Research Institute under the Ministry of Construction of the People's Republic of China is making final preparations for the construction of the Shahe Bridge, one of the first batch of reinforced concrete cross-river bridge projects in China.

The Yellow River Bridge in Xuzhou is a railway bridge, and the Shahe Bridge in Zhoujiakou is purely pedestrian.

The construction of a cross-river bridge in Zhoujiakou, the closest commercial point to Lushan, to connect the traffic between the two sides of the strait is one of the important goals of the new round of transportation construction strategy set off by the country. The Shahe Bridge is one of a series of bridges across the river, and this strategic plan is a major test of road and bridge engineering construction technology, and it is also a node for China to move from traditional bridge construction technology to a new era.

The total investment in this transportation construction plan is not less than 500 million yuan, and the time on the plan is by no means more than five years. This will even implicate the seventh cabinet in five years' time, and the additional funding is also trivial.

For ordinary people, they don't care about the future. They only care about the present.

Once the Shahe Bridge is completed, it will not have a qualitative effect on the economy of Zhoujiakou itself, but the benefits are many. At least the traffic on both sides of the river is much more convenient.

In the past, the Shahe River could only be carried by boat, or by light horse-drawn carriage - there were old-fashioned bridges on the Shahe River, and it was possible to walk by individual and manned carriages, but horse-drawn carriages full of goods, and heavy carriages such as public carriages, were not good. Old-fashioned bridges can't afford it!

But what about the reinforced concrete ones?

Since the Ministry of Construction dared to hit the Yellow River with the idea when designing the railway, the small Shahe River would definitely not be a problem. China's bridge engineering mechanics can do it today, and the so-called advanced machinery used in the project is only a few heavy-duty steam tractors or cranes, as well as some inland river floating platforms.

Even on second- or third-class bridges such as the Shahe Bridge, some people have proposed the use of traction bridge design, but in the end it was rejected by the superiors. The bridge construction scheme made of reinforced concrete and stone has relatively mature construction technology, low cost and more insurance. Many of the technologies required for towed bridges, especially the machining and riveting of large metal components, are subject to considerable uncertainty.

The construction of large-scale bridge projects is a major project for the country to stimulate domestic demand, cultivate road and bridge technical construction talents, and promote social and economic development. It will not only provide a ready-made engineering internship for bridge construction students in higher education institutions around the world, but also provide a large number of jobs for the society.

Don't look at the whole plan is only 500 million Chinese dollars, but the flow and operation of these 500 million Chinese dollars in society, and the final economic volume that can explode will be double, triple, or even more than this number. As far as Chen Ming knows, in the first half of this year alone, there were more than 100 new construction engineering enterprises and factories in various prefectures and counties in Chen Han's native territory. The stimulating effect is obvious.

Taking the Shahe Bridge as an example, there are two more building materials companies in Chenzhou Prefecture, with a registered capital of 100,000 yuan, which are engaged in river sand, cement, hardware, etc. The local government of Chenzhou Prefecture also specially gathered the heads of local enterprises in related industries, including the two new companies, to mobilize everyone to improve product quality and production efficiency, and try to strive for all kinds of demand orders in bridge construction projects to fall locally.

Although it is clear to all of them that this is impossible.

But the prospects for building materials are obvious to all. If the Shahe Bridge is built, only in the territory of Chenzhou Mansion, see how many old-fashioned bridges will be replaced with solid and solid reinforced concrete bridges? These are the real hopes of building materials companies.

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Fengguo Town, Lijin County, Qilu Wuding.

The richest town market before the mouth of the Daqing River, the wharf here can be said to be the mouth of the Daqing River.

Recently, Shandong has also been rainy, and the rainy days in the middle and upper reaches of the Daqing River have lasted for several days, and there is no need to say much about the rolling river water downstream. However, the expansion project of Fengguo Town Wharf has not been slowed down by rain, and it is still very lively.

This is not a construction project planned by the Central Cabinet, but one of the key constructions in the province carried out by the Qilu government in this wave of national transportation project construction. Nearly 500 workers were involved in the port work on this rainy day, half of whom were from Fengguo Town.

Groups of dock workers in raincoats busily shuttle between the port and the storage area, and heavy steam cranes lift truckloads of wagons full of large bluestone to the front line of construction.

These bluestones are all produced in Wuding Mansion itself, whether it is the outer stone of the port breakwater or the carved stone slabs used for wharf paving, all of which are produced in Wuding Mansion. And between the port terminal and the storage area, there are also rail pallet cars pulled by animal power. This track was not urgently repaired because of this project, but the wharf design of Fengguo Town has its own tracks.

Over the years, the latter has become one of the standard equipment for large and medium-sized terminals.

Of course, the wharf throughput of Fengguo Town cannot be compared with Yantai and Qingdao, or even worse than that of Laizhou, but it is also close to the Daqing River, and it cannot be a small port again.

And why did the Qilu provincial government build this wharf?

It's because of the geographical advantage.

Qilu has such a long coastline, but the two large ports are on the south side of the peninsula and the east side of the peninsula, and the development prospects of Laizhou Port in the north are not very good. The northwest coastal area of Qilu, where Fengguo Town is located, has been greatly influenced by Tianjin. The existence and developed eyes of Tianjin Port have squeezed the living space along Laizhou Bay.

But what does a saying say? Less than the top is more than the bottom. The current situation of Laizhou Port is that the standard is less than the upper and more than the lower. Laizhou Port is located between Fengguo Town Port and Yantai, and the Qilu government's abacus is to expect Fengguo Town to be more than less than the top, so that the Daqing River Basin is also popular.

A Daqing River runs through the northern border of Qilu, and if it can be developed, it will have a huge effect on the whole province of Qilu.

Don't look at the development speed and prosperity of Laizhou, which is far less than Yantai and Qingdao, but compared with other prefectures in Qilu, it is already very good.

Fengguo Town and Laizhou Port are the small Yantai and small Qingdao on the north side of the peninsula.

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The port area of Fengguo Town is lively, and the Qingdao port at this moment is also lively. This is not only because Qingdao itself is the largest port in Shandong, with an annual throughput that is stronger than Yantai, but also because Qingdao has the only large shipyard in Qilu - Qingdao Shipyard.

At this moment, the middle and senior leaders and shareholder representatives of Qingdao Shipyard are gathering together, they are not discussing the next development plan of the factory, but everyone is holding a book in their hands, exuding the vigor of cockfighting, which is the "Chen Han Container Standard Specification" just issued by the imperial court.

From today onwards, containers, which have been implemented for a long time in Chenhan, have even spread to Europe, and have been determined by the national government in the form of industry benchmarks.

Seriously, Chen Han's reaction was a bit slow. The fruit was ripe ten years ago and ready to be picked, and now China's ocean-going shipping industry, and even some British ocean-going merchant ships, have long been in the container mode. Of course, Chen Han's current container standard model also has its own inevitable significance. It simplifies the volume of the container from the original four grades and eleven standards to three standards, which is a super large range.

Large, medium and small!

The big one is how long and wide it is, and the small one is how long and wide it is.

To a certain extent, this is also an improvement for the marine transport industry.

Although Chen Ming would like to say that the size of the container should be exactly the same, this is impossible according to the current scientific and technological conditions. Besides, even in the 21st century, containers are divided into ordinary containers and high containers, and even ordinary containers are divided into large and small.

And for shipyards everywhere, this is also a matter that must be taken seriously. In the future, they will have to design the ship structure according to the size of the container. Otherwise, it will be abandoned by the trend of the times.

In the past 20 years, Chen Han has not used any administrative means, high pressure and pressure methods, but completely used the benefits that can be seen by the naked eye, so that thousands of shippers have made their own choices.

Any shipyard knows the role of containers for ships, and no aspiring shipyard will ignore the importance of containers for ships.

As a matter of fact, the maritime transportation force developed by the country over the past 10 or 20 years has added a lot of benefits because of the attention to this detail. The maximum cargo capacity of an ordinary civilian ocean-going merchant ship is generally around 500 tons, but this is only a theoretical load data. In the previous 100 years, the actual cargo capacity of such a merchant ship was not even 400 tons, and even 300 tons may be barely enough.

Because of the implicit performance constraints of the cabin space structure, coupled with safety considerations. In many cases, the utilization rate of the warehouse space is very low due to the characteristics of the commodity, and it often feels that it is already full, when in fact, all the goods may add up to less than 300 tons, wasting the capacity of the merchant ship. At the same time, all kinds of non-standard cargo boxes in the hold also lead to a very complicated process of loading, unloading, storage and transportation, and a lot of man-hours are wasted.

The 'generation' of containers solves this problem. Although the size of the container is much larger than the previous container, it definitely does not want to be as huge as in later generations. The largest container is only three feet wide and one foot long. It is carried to the deck by a steam crane or a large animal crane, or even directly from a specially set up 'patio' to the interior of the cabin, and then pushed deep into the cabin by a rickshaw. Finally, through the mobile crane - pulley block, it is easy to use every inch of space in each warehouse.

And now, Chen Han wants to reduce the standard of containers, and the previous eleven standards are too many. Unified standards for containers and guidance on the construction specifications of merchant ship cargo holds. That's what the Cabinet intended.

All kinds of standard containers can be reasonably reserved and transported bulk commodities to the greatest extent, and combined with the steam cranes that are matched on each wharf in Chen Han today, the efficiency of loading and unloading transportation can be greatly improved, which is of great significance to the business activities where the cost of cargo storage and transportation has been high in the current era.

It is also raining in the south of the Yangtze River, and it can even be said that the south of this month is shrouded in smoke and rain.

However, in this continuous rainfall, the rivers of Ganjiang, Xiangjiang, Qiantang and Minjiang in the south, and the inland wharves everywhere are also slowly expanding. After the whole of China entered the era of Pang Zhenkun, it seemed that it had returned to 20 years ago. There are construction sites everywhere in the country, and construction is everywhere......