Chapter 970: High-Speed Development Model
It is a major road connecting the two countries on the border between Syria and Iraq, along with the northern trade route of the two countries.
On the Iraqi side, Idris came to power and cleaned up the border with a new border checkpoint, six checkpoints, a border station, and a government border office to inspect and collect fees for vehicles entering and leaving the border and security checks.
All vehicles entering Iraq from Syria must be inspected and, in the case of goods, must pay a tax on the border.
In Syria, opposite Iraq, the old border post has long been destroyed by ISIS forces, and the Kurdish forces that occupy this border post do not have the funds to repair it.
The barracks on the border were renovated to become garrisons for armed soldiers on the border, and customs duties were also collected for entry into Syria from Iraq.
For Kurdish forces, controlling customs duties at the border is a good income, because this is a place where convoys of future technology groups from Iraq often pass through, and each time they can get a legal tax revenue.
On the Iraqi side, on the border between the two sides, you can also see a railway built to the edge of the border, but on the Syrian side, the railway is terminated.
This is the high-speed rail line built by the Future Technology Group, which will start the port of Basra and run through Baghdad, Marin, Tikrit, Erbil to Mosul, and the goal of this railway is to build through Mosul to the territory of Syria, along the important cities of the four northern provinces. It will eventually connect to Tartus and will continue from Tartus into Lebanese territory and then to Damascus, the capital of Syria.
And the railway was also forked in Mosul. The other has been built into Turkey, on the edge of the Sea of Love, and then through the undersea tunnel, into the territory of Europe.
Through high-speed rail, a large number of goods of Future Technology Group can quickly enter the territory of Europe, and there are also many goods in Europe. It can also quickly enter the Middle East.
This railway, known as a new life corridor connecting Europe and Asia, has received key support and support from all European countries.
And another. A year has passed, and there has been no way to start construction, the situation in Syria is not calm, and the Future Technology Group has no way to build a railway even if it wants to.
The political situation in the region is volatile. The policy is changed three times a day. Coupled with the war, the construction of the railway could hardly be carried forward.
Most of the goods destined for Syria need to be transported by road, which greatly increases the cost of transportation.
The main thing is that the port of Basra has reached the point of saturation of its loading and unloading capacity, and a second port has been built on the edge of the Persian Gulf in Iraq. It has also almost reached the saturation of loading and unloading forces.
Next, in the future, the technology group will import more minerals, and Cai Ruichen needs to find a new channel to load and unload ores. The port in the Tartus Industrial Zone has long been built, with an annual throughput of hundreds of millions of tons, making it the largest port in the whole of West Asia.
At present, such a port has been a decoration for several months, and the number of ore imports has begun to increase, so Cai Ruichen needs the success of this railway.
In addition to the ore that will be unloaded from Tartus, the remaining minerals need to be transported to the town of Marin by high-speed rail as soon as possible.
The trucks have a good transport capacity, but they are far less efficient than the high-speed rail, and the freight sports cars can directly hear the railway through the port, and then transport them to the town of Marin at a speed of 375 kilometers per hour.
This is the real efficiency, a bullet train can run back and forth several times a day, and each time it can transport at least 1,000 tons of minerals.
If it is a truck, not to mention the slow distance, the fuel consumed by the truck is much more expensive than the cheap electric energy of the Future Technology Group.
Kurdish forces launched an attack on the industrial zone, and Cai Ruichen didn't care how much conspiracy there was behind it, nor did he care who did it.
He now wants to open a passage from Mosul to Tartus, and the entire passage will be able to pass directly through the Kurdish enclave, as planned.
Destroy the Kurdish armament, and the construction of the railway can begin, and once the construction of the railway is completed, the traffic between the two sides will be faster and more convenient.
The opening of the high-speed rail can also be used to quickly transport troops to Syria or to quickly transport more weapons and equipment to Syria.
When Syria is reunified, more high-speed rail lines will be built to connect all the key cities of the two countries.
Whether it is Iraq or Syria, in the case of comprehensive backwardness in economy and national strength, if you want to catch up with the world's economic footsteps, Cai Ruichen can only let the two countries enter a high-speed economic model together from the beginning.
This kind of economic model is already being carried out in Iraq, and a little effect can already be seen in a year, and with the successful reference, Cai Ruichen will naturally not give up the method that has achieved success.
An Iraq that has developed for more than two years, and Syria, which has developed for more than a year, plus Lebanon, Cai Ruichen feels that in this case, he should barely be able to have a dragon fight with Israel.
If you count the power in the wasteland world, Cai Ruichen feels that he still has a lot of chance of winning.
And the footsteps of the war, silently, descended on this small border station.
On the Syrian side, hundreds of Kurdish armed soldiers, wearing the uniforms of the Syrian government army, are also on duty at border stations every day.
However, in the past two days, due to the wind and sand, the border line closed on the Iraqi side will naturally be closed on the Syrian side.
The sandstorm covered the entire border line, covering hundreds of kilometers from east to west, north and south, and at this moment, all the Kurdish armed soldiers were sheltering from the sandstorm in their barracks.
Moreover, due to the sandstorm, the border station, which was not very well-equipped, has also temporarily lost contact with the country.
At this moment, the Kurdish soldiers here do not know that a civil war is breaking out in their own armed forces, nor do they know that the future technology group is carrying out air strikes on the Kurdish forces.
For the soldiers here, the weather was terrible, but it was good to stay in the house quietly, because only then did they have time to enjoy the art films.
In the room with the doors and windows closed, dozens of soldiers were staring at the ****** TV screen in front of them with relish. (To be continued.) )