Chapter 929 Can't afford it
"What did the Prime Minister suddenly ask me for?" Although Lin Xiao followed the staff, he felt a little puzzled in his heart. Free Fiction Portal
After all, now that I've just been busy for a while, it's time to rest, and the security work is also in charge of the guards, Lin Xiao and the others only need to sit here, and there is no reason to be summoned again.
Could it be that in terms of security, there is something wrong that needs to be made up for by a master of yourself?
But Lin Xiao thought about it, and felt that this was unlikely, after all, if there was a mistake in security, then there would naturally be a staff member in charge of security to negotiate with him, and there was no need for the prime minister to personally give orders.
Today's situation seems a bit complicated.
"I don't know what the prime minister means, I'm just doing what I'm ordered." Naturally, the staff couldn't say why, but just said to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao nodded, and said in his heart that it was not a strange thing for the staff to ask questions, after all, only he knew what the prime minister had in mind, otherwise, he would not be one of the most successful economists in the world.
The word "economy" itself has a profound meaning, and it is not as simple as saying an economist in the modern sense.
The word "economy" is the synthesis and simplification of the words "Jingbang", "Jingguo" and "Jishi", "Jimin", and "Jingshi Jimin", etc., containing the meaning of "governing the country and leveling the world", it is a very big concept in ancient Chinese culture and ancient literature, full of rich humanistic ideas and social connotations.
Therefore, the word "economy" represented one of the responsibilities of intellectuals in ancient times, and it is a word with great depth, breadth and height.
Those who can achieve the word "economy" must be able to prosper the country in peace, and be able to resist insults but enemies.
Ancient intellectuals, especially those of Confucianism, would follow the requirements of the "Three Programs and Eight Objectives" in the "University" to do their studies and behave as human beings, and the highest requirement of the Three Programs and Eight Objectives was to "govern the country and level the world", which was the most outward-looking expression of the word "economy" in ancient times.
Lin Xiao is willing to treat the prime minister as an economist, and in fact, he also agrees with his talent from the side, which is indeed enough to help the people in the world.
Lin Xiao followed the staff through the garden and soon arrived at the place where the prime minister was staying.
At this time, there were more than a dozen staff members around the prime minister, and there were also more than a dozen state councilors, ministers, and business representatives accompanying the visit.
Everyone is obviously discussing this visit, after all, they have to attend the opening ceremony of the high-speed rail in Turkey, and they may also have to talk about the output of the high-speed rail project, so everyone pays more attention to this issue.
The first 10 high-speed trains were built by Spain's CAF with a maximum speed of 250km/h, and the next new trains will operate on the newly built high-speed line, with a joint venture factory in South Korea and Turkey to produce speeds of up to 352 per hour. 4km/h high-speed train HSR-350X.
The Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway phase II project has a total length of 158 kilometers and a contract value of 12. With a design speed of 700 million US dollars and a design speed of 250 kilometers per hour, this is the first electrified high-speed railway project contracted and implemented by a Chinese enterprise overseas, which is of great strategic significance for promoting the strategy of Huaxia high-speed rail going global.
Despite this, Huaxia is only responsible for civil engineering here, and the civil engineering is only built according to European standards, and other issues such as vehicles, power supply, and signals have nothing to do with civil engineering.
In other words, the core technology here still has nothing to do with Huaxia.
Speaking of which, this 158-kilometer high-speed railway has been built for eight years, and in the eyes of the Chinese, this is the epitome of the difficulty of entering the European market.
In that year, Huaxia Railway Construction and local partners in Turkey joined forces to 12. The price of 700 million US dollars beat Russia, Spain and other competitors to successfully win the bid, which set a new record for the total amount of a single contract for China's foreign engineering contracting at that time.
However, the sense of luck in winning the bid was fleeting, and the project design began to change endlessly.
From the beginning of the intervention in this project, no design plan is approved at one time, the Turks always keep putting forward new requirements, in less than five months, the design of a substation has been repeatedly revised ten times, and finally the owner is embarrassed, even said, this time really do not change, and then change it will be too sorry for you.
In addition to design changes, procurement, which is not a matter in China, has also become a major threshold for breaking into Europe.
Huaxia Railway Construction originally planned to use the platform of the Anyi high-speed railway to introduce its familiar Huaxia equipment into the European market, but because the project adopts European standards, all high-speed rail components and monitoring equipment must be certified by European laboratories, and most Huaxia enterprises do not have this qualification, so the project department has to purchase from Europe.
European certification should start from raw materials, all the way to cover product production equipment, such as what iron ore is used for rails, many domestic enterprises feel that it is time-consuming and cost-effective, so they are not interested in overseas business.
For this, Huaxia is also very regretful, after all, Huaxia's high-speed rail equipment is not worse than foreign countries, the European railway market is so large, why can't enterprises look farther?
Local businesses in Turkey are even more troublesome and notoriously unable to do their jobs.
Just a few months ago, two tunnels of the second phase of the Anyi high-speed railway project built by local companies had just landslided, resulting in the inability to continue the track-laying and electrification work in China.
In order to maintain its reputation, Huaxia Railway Construction had to stage a Chinese-style "three shifts" in Turkey, which refused to work overtime.
It took a local Turkish company two days to install seven poles, while Huaxia Railway Construction erected 100 overnight.
That night, the Spanish superintendent was stunned and said that Huaxia Enterprise was really amazing.
A week later, what surprised the supervisor even more was that the quality inspection showed that the error of the telephone poles laid by Huaxia enterprises was controlled at the micron level, which was perfect.
Lin Xiao didn't know much about this before, but when he heard them talk about it here, he couldn't help but sigh, it is indeed not easy for Chinese companies to go outside to make money, especially in the European market, which has always been a Chinese person, and there is indeed a long way to go if they want to occupy a place.
It seems that his plan to trade super batteries for a European stepping stone to high-speed rail may not be so easy to do.
After all, the leaders and entrepreneurs of these European countries are not stupid, they know very well when they should take it and when they should put down their bodies, otherwise, the current development of Europe will not be like this.
At this time, the prime minister saw Lin Xiao and beckoned to him.
Lin Xiao understood, and the two walked to the side to talk.
"Is it safe here?" The prime minister asked Lin Xiao in a low voice.
"Oh?" When Lin Xiao heard this, he was stunned for a moment.
Obviously, the Prime Minister's sudden questioning can only indicate that something is going on that makes it impossible for him to maintain a trusting attitude towards the current state of security.
Could it be that there is also monitoring equipment in this garden?
In that case, Turkey would have gone too far, because no one can tolerate spying on the prime minister of a country, who is also the prime minister of a nuclear power.
In all likelihood, such behavior will cause great trouble for their government.
Of course, Lin Xiao also suspected another point, after all, Turkey is one of the most frequent areas of international intelligence organizations, and many intelligence traffickers and agents from various countries are hanging here, and it is not impossible if someone else installs monitoring equipment here through some means.
As a result, Lin Xiao's divine thoughts began to extend outward, until they were outside the range of two hundred meters around him, and then stopped.
"I didn't find any problems, there were no bugs within two hundred meters." Lin Xiao nodded and said to the Prime Minister.
The prime minister listened, nodded and said, "That's good, the news has been a little wrong recently, our intelligence officers have received news that someone is going to make trouble at the opening ceremony this time." ”
"Doing trouble at this time, could it be that the Turkish side is not prepared at all?" When Lin Xiao heard this, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.
For Turkey, this is also their first high-speed railway, in the past construction, there were many obstacles, could it be that after the railway was built, they did not expect that someone might take this opportunity to embarrass them?
"The inside story of this matter is more complicated, and I guess it's more likely that insiders are doing something." The prime minister frowned and said, "Originally, I was thinking about taking this first high-speed train trip, but now it seems that this matter needs to be carefully considered." ”
When Lin Xiao heard this, he was also a little worried.
Although he is present, even if there is really something wrong with the high-speed rail, he can protect the safety of the prime minister and his party, but if there is a problem on the first day of the opening of the high-speed rail, all parties related to it, including the guests, will definitely be affected to a certain extent, which is indeed a very bad thing for Huaxia, which is eager to open the European high-speed rail market.
"The question now is, if I suddenly propose not to take part in the first trip of this railway, will the attitude of the Turkish side towards us change as a result?" The prime minister is concerned about another matter, "If this is the case, the hard work of the past eight years will be in vain." I can't afford this result. ”
Lin Xiao touched his chin with his hand and began to ponder this matter, as the prime minister said, this time, whether to participate or not, if you don't participate, it won't end well, it's really not easy to do.
If the European promotion plan of the Huaxia high-speed railway died from the beginning, the prime minister would naturally be to blame.
He wasn't wrong about that.
However, how to solve this matter? Lin Xiao fell into deep thought for a moment.
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