Qi Yiming held his girlfriend Jiang Huayan's hand and stood on the platform, although the atmosphere was gradually opening at this time, there were still not many such blatant little couples, so it was also more eye-catching, Jiang Huayan's little face was crimson, but she didn't pull out the softness.

As the train pulled into the station, the men and women on the platform craned their necks to look at the cool train. This is an EMU, and it is very uninnovative to print a few large characters "Harmony" on the body.

"It is said that the whole train from Beijing to Shencheng only takes 5 hours."

"Fake, right? Didn't you say that you can travel from Heilongjiang, the northernmost part of the motherland, to Hainan in one day? ”

"Otherwise, how can it be called a high-speed train, a high-speed train!"

"It turns out that the high-speed rail is the meaning of telling the train, I thought the high-speed rail is just a railway running on a viaduct."

The slightly curious travelers beside him were talking one after another, and Qi Yiming didn't feel it when he heard it. This Harmony EMU was just opened to traffic at the beginning of the year, and now only one line of the Beijing-Shanghai line is running, but the Ministry of Railways is ambitious and is preparing to carry out the "five vertical, six horizontal and seven lines" plan in the future, which can make the mileage of the high-speed rail of the Celestial Empire jump to the first place in the world in one fell swoop.

Qi Yiming took his little girlfriend to Shencheng this time, so that her, the nominal chairman of Fuhua Gas, signed a contract, and the agreement with the local government has been completed, and Qi Yiming can build a household gas supply network in China's largest city after signing. Originally, he planned to take his own special plane, but the high-speed rail had just opened, and he was also very novel, so he took his little girlfriend to take the train.

For a vast country, railways are far more important than aviation, and while China is also heavily supporting its own air transport, both in terms of airlines and aviation manufacturing, the lifeblood of the Celestial Empire is still the railway.

First of all, the Chinese population is large, and the population is highly mobile, think about the annual Spring Festival, it can simply make foreigners feel collapsed, even if there are more planes, it is impossible to support the migration of hundreds of millions of people, only trains with large passenger capacity can do it. In addition, the speed of the bullet train is fast, and the turnover times are high, which improves the transportation capacity in disguise, especially in the intercity/intra-provincial transportation below 650 kilometers, which is particularly convenient. For Chinese with limited economic level, air tickets are too expensive, while high-speed rail tickets can basically be afforded.

In addition, from the perspective of passengers, the safety of high-speed rail is higher than that of airplanes and buses (provided that the manager is reliable), and the Japanese Shinkansen has been operating for decades and has maintained zero accidents, which naturally has something to do with the meticulous character of the Japanese, but it also shows that the high-speed rail is much safer than the plane that falls from two ends in three days. In addition, because the space is relatively large, the activity area is large, and there are functional areas such as dining cars on the high-speed rail, taking the high-speed rail is much more comfortable than doing an airplane.

Qi Yiming's Red Alert Base provides high-speed rail technology for the country, which is basically the crystallization technology of China's high-speed rail in later generations, and has also been optimized and improved on the original basis. Especially in terms of speed, it is the best in terms of speed, with an average speed of more than 250 km/h.

The completion of the high-speed railway, of course, also has its military significance, the efficiency of large-scale cross-regional troop mobilization has been improved, and in addition to transport aircraft, the PLA has obtained a faster ability to deploy troops within the country.

Qi Jiang and the two got on the train, because there were no luxury cars such as business classes and sleepers on this bullet train, so they sat with everyone. However, Qi Yiming will not be reckless, his bodyguards are all dressed in civilian clothes, and they are always vigilant in the crowd.

At the beginning, these EMUs were not the products of the state-owned enterprises of railway equipment manufacturing, but the creation of the chariot factory of the Red Police Base.

The environment in the carriage seemed to people of this era to be as luxurious, and even a few young people came in and were surprised: "It's all soft seats, no wonder you have to sell hard seat tickets." ”

The young man touched the woolen coat on the back of the chair and praised: "What a pleasure! ”

His companion came over from the dining car in front of him, handed a few bottles of water to a few people and said: "The mineral water on the car is quite expensive, but the dining car in front is the same as the activity room of our school, you can buy food there, and the table is very spacious, why don't we buy a pair of poker and play in front?" ”

Qi Yiming couldn't help but smile after hearing this, when he took the train with his classmates before crossing, he also liked to run to the dining car to play poker. The dining car in front of this EMU sells a lot of food, and even souvenirs and other things, and the number of consumer goods on the market has increased in the past two years, so the food on the car is not limited to instant noodles, ham sausages and the like. Snacks such as potato chips and shrimp crackers, preserved fruits, sour plums, and other drinks, plus drinks such as cola and juice, you won't have a hard time taking the bullet train if you have enough money.

In the front seat of him and his girlfriend were two middle-aged people who looked a little bit of identity, also chatting about the high-speed rail.

"Although the ticket is a little more expensive, but the conditions are much stronger than the ordinary green car, spend this more money to make the bullet train, comfortable and fast, when all the domestic passenger trains are replaced by the bullet train, that would be great."

The middle-aged man wearing glasses next to him seemed to be very knowledgeable, and said: "Sooner or later, there will be a day, since you have mastered the skills of manufacturing bullet trains, there is no problem with self-production, and the benefits of high-speed rail can be seen by everyone." I read the information in school, Japan's Shinkansen operation 8 years to recover all the investment, hehe, our country labor costs are low, and the status of train transportation is heavy, I am afraid that our Beijing-Shanghai line bullet train, three or four years of cost will come back, with money will naturally continue to invest in railway construction. ”

"Yes, although this transportation does not directly produce benefits, but it assists the circulation of all walks of life, the transportation capacity has increased, and the economy has doubled up. In the past few years, I always didn't expect that life was still tight in 8384, but I didn't expect that life would be so much better in the past few years. ”

Another person said: "If the passenger transport is transferred to the high-speed railway, then the line of the ordinary railway will be concentrated on the freight, which is also the improvement of transportation. ”

Qi Yiming sat in the back seat and grinned, of course he gave the Ministry of Railways a lot of skills, and there are also new fronts for ordinary railway freight, which can at least be upgraded to the level of the fifth major speed increase of the national railway in another plane. It is said that he crossed the former Ministry of Railways as if it was a place to hide dirt and dirt, and the call for marketization of the Ministry of Railways also came and went, but a certain corrupt official made several big speeds, and each speed up was a big boost to the country's economic development.

Except for those countries with waterways, railways are basically the most important mode of freight transportation, especially in countries like China, which have a vast interior and rich resources. After Qi Yiming decided not to engage in the set of getting rich first and then getting rich, the economic development of the mainland needs a large manufacturing industry, and a large manufacturing industry needs logistics, so the speed of freight railways is especially important in Qi Yiming's view, especially the construction of high-speed railways.

The importance of the railway for economic development is self-evident, the capital of Hebei was Baoding, but after the railway was opened, Shijiazhuang took advantage of the rise and eventually squeezed Baoding out of the position of the provincial capital. All cities along the railway line will benefit from the opening of high-speed rail.

The middle-aged man who looked like a university professor in front of him talked eloquently: "The completion of the high-speed rail is a shot in the arm for our country's economic development." Taking the Yangtze River Delta region as an example, from Shencheng to all parts of southern Jiangsu, the usual travel of several hours is now an hour or even dozens of minutes, and the talents, logistics and information of the Yangtze River Delta can be turned over at a very fast speed, and the radiation of the entire economic circle is also greater, and the use of land and influence is wider. In view of our country is undertaking the industrial transfer of Europe and the United States and other countries, soon these areas with high-speed rail will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and it will not take three or five years to work hard, these areas will change greatly, more factories, more large companies will appear, and then the labor force along the high-speed rail will enrich the population here. ”

Qi Yiming nodded behind his back, feeling that what this middle-aged man said was very insightful. Liquidity is not only a financial concept, but also an important part of economic and regional development. Not only can the high-speed rail serve it, Qi Yiming is also working hard in the combat laboratory to develop the technology of magnetic levitation.

The applicable objects of maglev are mainly urban transportation and intercity transportation, and the service goal is to make the city bigger and bigger. Thinking about the congestion situation in the later generations of Jingshi, the Beipiao people lived in Langfang, and they had to get up at five o'clock and take the bus to work within the third ring road, which caused immeasurable harm to the health of residents. At that time, the construction of the Beijing division had been solidified, and it was difficult to carry out any major construction, so it was not a big problem to do anything at this time.

After the construction of the urban maglev, the real Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou urban circle can be created, and the economic energy formed at that time can easily overpower several medium-sized countries, which is definitely not a joke. The railway is the blood vessel of China, and wealth is the blood rushing in it, and the faster the flow rate, the higher the hematopoietic capacity, and the stronger China will be.

Thinking of this, Qi Yiming couldn't help but smile, and the little girlfriend next to him patted him and said, "What good thing did you think of again, smiling so happily?" ”

Qi Yiming quipped: "After thinking of Shencheng, do you want to find a hotel to exercise with you first." ”

The little girlfriend's face turned even redder, and she slapped him coquettishly, but her eyes were like silk, and she seemed to be picked up.