Chapter 318: Sky Train
On October 1, 2025, the National Day, the front of Xinghuo Technology Company is very lively.
A train consisting of more than 10 carriages is suspended in the air, which is the sky train produced by Xinghuo Technology.
It uses more advanced anti-gravity technology to allow the Sky Train to fly freely at altitudes of 5,000 to 20,000 meters.
The Sky Train is safer than an airplane, and even if it loses power, it will only hover in the air instead of falling like an airplane.
Zhou Yu hugged Zhou Shengge, Chen Jin hugged Zhou Hong, and they were also preparing to board the train at the Sky Train station.
This Sky Train is a trial route, and it only takes 5 minutes to travel between Xiong'an New Area and Yanjing.
"Welcome to the Sky Train of China Eastern Airlines, which will be sent from Xiong'an New Area to Yanjing without stopping at any station on the way."
"Please buy tickets to take the bus, our company has launched weekly cards, monthly cards, and season cards, and passengers in need are welcome to go to our company's official website to buy."
Most of the passengers who boarded this sky train were employees of Xinghuo Technology, and a small number of them were tourists who came to visit Xinghuo Technology and were ready to return to Yanjing.
As long as tourists bring smart devices into the Sky Train and open the password-free payment function, the ride price will be directly deducted.
Zhou Yu and Chen Jin also boarded the Sky Train, which was their first time on the Sky Train, but it was not the first time that the Sky Train had operated.
After nearly a month of trial operation, the Sky Train has been able to prove its safety. Zhou Yu has seen the test data reported internally, and he believes in the safety performance of the Sky Train.
The interior of the Sky Train is simple, with a protective cockpit installed on each seat on it.
There are also special family seats for couples, which allow a protective cockpit to cover two or more people together.
Zhou Yu and Chen Jin held the child and sat in their place, and he first put Zhou Shengge and Zhou Hong in the child seat and fixed them.
After fastening their seat belts, they close the protective cover of the protective cockpit.
Before Zhou Yu closed the protective cover, he held up a one-yuan coin on the ground.
"Please fasten your seat belts, close the protective cover of the protective cockpit, and our attendants will check you."
The protective cockpit was suspended in the carriage, and the sky train started quickly, without a trace of vibration during the entire start-up process, and the one-yuan coin that Zhou Yu was standing on the ground did not fall.
"Husband, why doesn't our company operate the Sky Train by itself, but chooses to sell the Sky Train." Chen Jin said curiously.
Zhou Yu explained with a smile: "Now that the social division of labor is clear, each company has its own positioning, and Xinghuo Technology has never been a service-oriented company.
Running the Sky Train by yourself requires learning business management from scratch, and there is no considerable profit.
In the foreseeable future, the Sky Train will become a public transport service.
I don't choose to do such a thankless job, how easy it is to sell a sky train.
The price of each carriage is 100 million yuan, and the profit of selling the car is high, which is also in line with the positioning of our company. ”
Sky trains are a fully competitive service industry, and it is a powerful complement to ground transportation.
The sky train can be regarded as a high-speed rail train in the sky, which is like a high-speed railway, which not only has operational attributes, but also undertakes certain public services.
The state will certainly not allow a single enterprise to monopolize this service, and policies must be introduced to allow the industry to compete fully.
A fully competitive industry is all about service and business management.
Xinghuo Technology has always monopolized the market with technology, and it is not suitable for this kind of service-oriented industry at all.
Fast forward 5 minutes, and the protective cockpit began to land on the carriage of the Sky Train.
"We have arrived at Yanjing Station, please get off the train in an orderly manner and don't forget your valuables."
Zhou Yu and Chen Jin picked up the child and prepared to get out of the car.
Zhou Shengge waved his little hand and said in a milky voice: "It's fun!" I'm still going to fly, I'm going to fly. ”
Zhou Hong stared at his little eyes and said, "I'm going to see my grandparents and grandma, they all like me as a good boy and don't like a certain crazy girl."
Zhou Shengge stretched out his hand from his father's arms and pinched Zhou Hong's little face: "Who are you talking about crazy girl."
"Shengge, don't always bully your brother." Chen Jin said with a straight face.
They stepped off the Sky Train and saw that it was a huge Sky Train station, and from the moment they walked out of the station, there were more than a dozen Sky Trains going to and from the station.
Chen Jin's mother's home is not far from this station, so they chose to take the sky train.
They walked to Chen Jin's mother's house and chatted on the way.
"The Sky Train has just been put into trial operation, and there are very few rail routes, so there are not many cities to visit. In this way, there is a busy scene, and it will definitely be the main artery of personnel communication in the future. Chen Jin said with emotion.
"It's not just the artery of human communication, it's also the artery of material transportation.
Regardless of the safety of passengers, the protective cockpit was eliminated, and only anti-gravity equipment and particle electric propulsion engines were retained.
The cost of the Sky Train has been further reduced, and the cost performance of the Sky Train, including the funds for the construction of the railroad tracks and tunnels, is higher than that of ordinary railway freight trains.
The Sky Train does not need to lay tracks and can go anywhere without any obstacles.
This is a very good choice for a country with a vast territory like China.
Laying railways in mountainous fault zones, karst landforms, plateaus, grasslands, deserts and other areas is basically not economically beneficial, but only to ensure the state's control over the localities.
If the sky train is used in this kind of place, it does not have the disadvantages of ordinary trains at all, but it has the advantages of trains. Zhou Yu briefly said the greater advantages of the sky train.
Zhou Yu also emphasized: "The sky train is an efficient mode of transportation, and the role of high-speed rail in promoting the economy is obvious to all.
The role of the Sky Train is stronger than that of high-speed rail, and it will certainly enhance the flow of people and goods within the country, making it possible for urban agglomerations of multiple cities. ”
Chen Jin suddenly thought of something, and asked with some distress: "Husband, your company's products are developing too fast, why haven't you learned to hide clumsy, first squeeze ordinary technology, squeeze the profit of a technology to the limit, replace the higher-level technology, and repeat the process."
The emergence of the sky train is not to directly strangle the super freight high-speed rail that is undergoing technical verification in the cradle.
The super freight high-speed rail is advanced enough, but the sky train is much more adaptable, easier to maintain, and less expensive than the super freight high-speed rail. ”
"It's true, the technology is developing too fast, and the new technology has not been officially put into use, and it has been eliminated by higher-level technology.
But we can't use technologies that have already been obsolete, and new technologies can obsolete old ones. It is because at the same cost, it can play a higher benefit.
It's not worth it to hurt our interests dramatically with old technology. Zhou Yu said helplessly.
For the development path of technology, Zhou Yu has discussed with scientists in the scientific research center for a long time through careful thinking, and artificial intelligence Xianghua has also calculated the development route. This ultimately determines the direction of the technology.
However, the actual development cannot be carried out exactly according to the plan, and a small technological breakthrough may bring about a series of technological breakthroughs.
With more advanced technology, only old technology can be phased out. Otherwise, the loss of profit will be even greater.