Chapter 1575: The Eurasian Railway
The Chinese construction team fighting on the Kra Canal is not only huge, with a scale of 700,000 people, which is rare in the world, that is, China's manpower, can make up such a huge construction team in a short period of time, don't underestimate them, they are not improvised patchwork, such as the method of pulling Zhuang Ding, pull it out, and integrate it into the army, these have at least 3 years of work experience, and the experience is unusually rich, China has spent 8 years, so that the whole China is covered with dense railways and highways, There are also many huge cities, all built by construction teams, and China's current population engaged in the construction industry is even several times higher than that of the military, and from tens of millions, or even tens of millions of workers, the rest of the businesses are the best of the best, most of which have the Kiel Canal, or the experience of other canals. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At least 20,000 excavators and 30,000 bulldozers are fighting on this huge construction site, and at least 50,000 trucks are working day and night to transport the excavated things from the construction site, and 1.1 billion cubic meters of earthwork will be used to reclaim the sea to create an area of nearly 150 square kilometers to the sea, straighten part of the rugged and narrow bay, and fill some low-lying places.
In the future, the Kra Canal area, in the direction of the Indian Ocean, will be a military port, as long as it protects the mouth of the Kra Canal to prevent attack, and on the side of Thailand, it will be a large port, which cannot reach the level of Bangkok, but it also needs to have a certain temporary berth and safe haven, after all, when the typhoon arrives, the canal is impassable, and some ships that rushed to the vicinity of the canal can enter the port nearby, and some particularly close must be anchored in the entrance area.
The site selection of the Kra Canal, the most considered, is the difficulty of mining, after all, the canal to be dug out, to be able to play a role, as for the location of the entrance and exit, whether it is appropriate to do the port, there is not so much consideration, after all, the importance of this is not high, but the designer comprehensively considered the whole, put forward a creative plan, reclamation of the sea, artificial construction of the harbor, although the investment is huge, but this point in the throwing of excavated waste, directly save half of the cost, after all, can be in two directions, One is the Indian Ocean direction, the other is the Pacific Ocean direction, with an average of 50-75 square kilometers of land reclamation, which is enough to make this area more suitable for the needs of ports, of course, just the most ordinary ports.
A world-class deep-water port, that is unavoidable, in the whole world, such a natural port is how much, a place that is not suitable as a port, into a place that can berth less than 50,000 tons of freighters, and has a wave and safe haven role of the area, it is enough, the real throughput is huge, is in Thailand Bend, such a port construction difficulty and investment, at least reduced by more than half, such a matching, directly the waste disposal funds, and the sea reclamation funds combined, The cost of reclamation from the sea has been reduced by 70%, and the construction of the Kra Canal has not actually been accelerated, but the added value has been increased.
The emergence of machinery has changed the process of human engineering, a large excavator, the earthwork completed every day, at least more than 500, if it is not a fixed shape, and the bottom of the rock mining, maybe less than 2 months, you can complete the canal earthwork thoroughly, this is the most difficult place to excavate the canal, but it is the follow-up lock and the bottom next to the hardening, this is not difficult, at most it is just the relationship between how many people and how many working faces.
Modern tools provide far more powerful work efficiency than manpower, not to mention, China has invested 700,000 manpower, even if it is a lock, necessary equipment, and other aspects, it is estimated that at most 6 months, a complete, so that the world's attention of the Kra Canal will appear in East Asia, for China and the Middle East, and even Germany to liaison, bricks and tiles, saving 1200 kilometers, on average, the materials transported to the Middle East will save 3 days of time, efficiency, will also increase a lot, after all, the ship is to two-way.
From the start of construction to the present, the Kra Canal has started construction for 40 days, and the amount of construction completed has been equivalent to about 3 months above the plan, which is equivalent to about a month and a half of time in time, but similar savings, next, it is difficult to see, in fact, after 30 days, the explosives have basically withdrawn from the stage, replaced by 10,000 hydraulic stone crushers, a such machine, can complete 300 square meters of gravel work in one day, 20 days, It takes at least 40 days to push the canal down 1 meter, from about 14 meters to 16.5 meters, which is also the final battle and the most difficult part of the canal construction.
When the crusher is breaking underneath, and in the area where the crusher is working, the others begin to clean the accumulated earthwork on both sides, and basically in 3 months, the entire dam will form a rudimentary excavation stage. Then, it is to lay about 1 meter at the bottom of the surrounding embankment and a series of lock dams, in the case of industrialization, excavation is the most laborious, on the contrary, under the premise of a large number of prefabricated parts and the overall combination, it is actually carried out very fast, due to the premise of controllable drop, there are not many levels of locks, under a little control, the entire canal can be penetrated, the traffic conditions are also a little better than Suez and Panama, some similar to the Kiel Canal, the speed of passage will be much faster than Panama and the Suez Canal, to a certain extent, ships can even sail at cruising speed, which is nine better than the Suez Canal.
This is a good place, after all, the passage is convenient, the passage speed is fast, but also represents the improvement of efficiency, the annual traffic is expected to be about 80,000 ships, the average to more than 200 ships per day, but a year, not every day can be passed, aside from some force majeure typhoon weather, as well as high sea weather, plus sometimes more, sometimes less, the limit of a day must be guaranteed in about 700 to 1000 ships, which puts forward higher requirements for the canal, obviously, China in the design of the Kra Canal, It is beyond this standard, and under the premise of standard tonnage merchant ships, the daily limit of the number of ships can reach 1,800.
In order to ensure this, in the design, it has been noted, and reflected in the canal, some difficult projects, did not carry out the bend, but to face the difficulties, only the cost of paying is quite a lot, fortunately, almost have to be solved, as long as you stick to it, it is inevitable to finish ahead of schedule.
After finding Neilonggang, most of the designers have gone back, and even the chief who stayed here has also gone back, and then, it is just a simple question, at most, to cooperate with the coordinator to determine the subdivision process of the sections, so that each engineering section can do non-stop work, in order to ensure the integrity of the entire canal construction.
A project that will have a decisive effect on Central South Province is being started in Central South Province, and the focus of the whole of China is also placed here, all the plans, whether it is petrochemical, steel, or even transportation, are looking at the Kra Canal, the Kra Canal has accelerated its speed, these projects are the same, under the huge investment, the economic indicators of Central South Province, as if in this month, suddenly from the degree of balanced development, crazy upward, and the magnitude is getting higher and higher, and the huge investment, but also the entire Central South Province has become a big construction site.
On the mainland, the easiest to contact, it should seem that the railway, if at this time, there is a railway through the world, there are quite a lot of things that can be transported, the construction of the Kra Canal, because it is a physical object in China, and it is in the underappreciated province of Central and South China, it has only caused a huge repercussion in China, but it has not affected the world situation, and at this juncture, Germany sent an ambassador to China to promote the construction of the railway between China and the Asian land bridge. I want to connect directly with China by land to strengthen the ties between the two sides.
Such a proposal, which had been put forward before, even after the German occupation of Baku, rose to the extreme, because the distance between Baku and the Urals, which China currently occupies, does not seem to be far, only one or two thousand kilometers, and it seems that with a little more effort, it can be connected. How deceitful Germany is, and even uses land as a temptation, it has repeatedly stated that if China occupies the land, Germany will unconditionally recognize it and support China in acquiring these lands in Central Asia.
No matter what Germany says, China will not listen, even if there is no Kra Canal, not to mention, now the Kra Canal is in full swing, the central to the local, tens of billions of funds are invested in it, if the Eurasian railway really starts, it will directly affect this key project.
Yang Yuanzhao knows very well what Central Asia is like, which is also the place where China has not set foot after he expanded China, whether it is Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, or Iran, these countries located between China and the Middle East, which one is not a fuel-efficient lamp, others are not clear, Yang Yuanzhao of course knows that an Afghanistan has fallen into the sky, with the world's most powerful armor torrent of the Soviet Union, Iran has made the United States lose face, these huge, religious, rugged and changeable terrain, Where guerrilla warfare is easy to be carried out, of course, it is impossible to set foot in it easily, and it is not one result after another, but a pit, a pit where the dead are not compensated.
If they really take these places, what can they do, they have resources, how can they compare with Australia and Siberia, Iran's oil, in this era, is okay, compared with the Middle East in the future, it can't be compared at all, and it can't even be compared with tasteless chicken ribs, it's just a few bones with a bit of oil star, how can it be seen in China, which is eating now? )