The "infrastructure maniac" actually lost to Japan, and in the bidding for a project in which Thailand invested more than 80 billion yuan to build a high-speed railway, China's infrastructure was unexpectedly cut off by Japanese companies.
Is it China's infrastructure to release water, or Japan's deliberate spoiling? What's behind it? And what are the hidden secrets?
The final winner of the Thai high-speed rail project was Japan. As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused everyone's strong concern, because everyone did not expect such a result, and the total investment of this project was as high as 420 billion baht, which was equivalent to about 80 billion yuan.
It is a tempting mega project for all countries, and it is also a project that China's infrastructure construction is determined to win.
As China's most shining business card in the world, the development of China's high-speed rail in recent years has made remarkable achievements, it has experienced a process from scratch, from low to high, from weak to strong, from catching up to surpassing, so that all countries in the world have sighed, it is difficult to look back.
We can proudly say that today's China's high-speed rail is leading a new trend in the development of high-speed rail in the world, and its international status is unshakable by any country.
However, to everyone's surprise, in the bidding for the high-speed rail project in Thailand, it was finally Japan that won it.
When you think of Thailand, what comes to mind first? Whether it's Pattaya, known as the Hawaii of the East, the resort of Phuket, or the curious mysterious shemale.
As one of the "Four Little Tigers" in Asia, Thailand has become the most popular tourist country in the world with its unique geographical advantages and rich domestic tourism resources. The developed tourism industry brings very considerable financial revenue to Thailand every year.
According to relevant data, in 2019, Thailand's tourism revenue reached 1.91 trillion baht, about 363.7 billion yuan, and its domestic tourism employment has more than 4.4 million, accounting for 11.7% of the national labor force.
As the most important pillar industry in the country, Thailand attaches great importance to the development of tourism, but in order for tourism to continue to develop at a high speed, the premise is that you must have a developed transportation configuration.
Therefore, Thailand decided to build a direct railway from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. As the second largest city after the capital Bangkok, Chiang Mai has a long history and numerous cultural monuments, known as the "Rose of Northern Thailand".
The unique textiles produced in the region are loved by people from all over the world, so this railway is of great significance to Thailand.
According to Thailand's plan, the railway covers a total distance of 680 kilometers and can carry 800 passengers at a time, reducing the journey time from Bangkok to Chiang Mai to three hours.
In order to build this new economic artery, Thailand spared no expense and spent a lot of money, facing this 80 billion "big fat meat", countries around the world immediately flocked to participate in the bidding.
As "infrastructure demons", we are naturally not willing to be left behind. In the fierce competition for the competition, our country has passed the hurdles and quickly stood out from all the bidding companies, and it was a Japanese company that stayed with us to the end, at that time our morale was high, and compared with the overall strength of both sides, it is obvious that we are better.
However, the result was unexpected by everyone, that is, Japan finally won the bid to win the project. After that, Japanese companies immediately submitted a report and plan for the high-speed rail project to Thailand.
But what's the problem? On the whole, it is clear that we have more advantages, so this matter makes us puzzled. So what exactly are the reasons why we lost to Japan?
The truth of the matter is that Japan used a ridiculously low offer to snatch away the project, and seeing this situation, China's infrastructure simply withdrew.
However, the matter did not end here, more exciting is yet to come, although Japan got the right to build the project, but not long after, the Thai side claimed that they very regret choosing Japanese companies. Why? What exactly did Japan do to make Thailand tear its face out?
It happened more than a dozen days after the bidding was over, when our country was still lamenting the loss of this super project, but bad news came from Thailand.
It turned out that because of the cost of the project, the speed of this Shinkansen had to be reduced. Simply put, Japan forcibly lowered the specifications of the project because of the low price. It's like you go to the mall to buy something, take a fancy to a commodity, and buy it after some haggling, but the last one delivered to your home is not the one you value, but another low-grade similar product, isn't this naked fraud?
Japan's approach is nothing short of irresponsible and untrustworthy. Therefore, Thailand said in a later interview that the decision made at the beginning was too hasty and did not examine the actual problems, resulting in the maximum speed of the high-speed rail now being reduced from the original plan of 300 kilometers per hour to 180 to 200 kilometers per hour due to cost problems.
This news immediately caused strong dissatisfaction among the Thai people, and many people even more severely condemned Japan's untrustworthy behavior, when the project quotation did not describe the specific information of the high-speed rail project in detail, but now it has greatly discounted the Shinkansen project, which is completely fraudulent.
At this time, the Japanese company was already in a state of disarray, and there was no time to take care of the dissatisfaction of the Thai side. Because at this time, not only the Thai side has a problem, but also frequent thunderstorms in other projects.
Not long ago, Japan's Shinkansen was revealed to have a noticeable crack in the bogie of their train, and complaints were also made. There is also a train on their Shinkansen that after entering the station, the door of the train cannot be opened normally due to a malfunction, which not only prevents the passengers who arrive at the station from getting off the train, but also the passengers who get on the train are also turned away.
The passengers inside and outside the train looked at each other and watched helplessly as the train left the station. In the end, not only the delayed passengers, but even more than 200 people, including the train attendants, jointly sued the train manufacturers.
One of the most unacceptable things happened in Japan, a year after the Shinkansen won the bid in Thailand, a high-speed train in Japan actually had a crack in the carriage, which can scare the Japanese people half to death, because the speed of the high-speed rail in the process of traveling can reach 200 kilometers per hour, to know that under such high-speed driving, if there is a crack in the carriage, once the danger occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable.
According to the results of subsequent investigations, the reason for this is that the strength of the steel used by Japanese companies does not meet the relevant standards for the construction of high-speed rail, resulting in metal fatigue after the driving process.
After further inspection, a more serious problem was found, and the original eight centimeters of steel was worn to only about four centimeters.
The Japanese people immediately expressed strong dissatisfaction, and the development of the situation intensified, and the Japanese high-level decision was to immediately bring back the same batch of 140 trains from the company, and this company was Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries. As things continue to ferment, not only in Japan, but also in various projects abroad.
There is an old Saying in China, "If a house is not swept, why sweep the world"? You even have such incredible problems in your own country, just imagine, who would dare to cooperate with such a country with confidence?
There is also an old saying in China that "people do not stand without faith, industry does not prosper without faith, and the country will decline without faith." Although Japan has learned from our country for thousands of years, it seems that there is still a lot more to learn.
In recent years, with the continuous development of China's infrastructure, a series of amazing large-scale infrastructure construction and super projects have been completed, and the name of China's "infrastructure demon" has also become famous all over the world.
In contrast, Japan's foreign infrastructure projects are not as good as a year, and this incident has made it a joke in the world's infrastructure. It can be said that Thailand regrets that its intestines are blue.
I believe that after these things, other countries will no longer dare to be careless when cooperating with Japanese companies.
In recent years, China's infrastructure industry has been soaring, according to relevant data, in 2020 alone, China's infrastructure has won more than 5,000 overseas projects, the total number of orders signed is a staggering 255 billion US dollars, China's infrastructure world first, in fact, any country can not deny the fact, but china will still not stop the pace of progress, our goal will always be only ourselves.
In the future, we will become stronger in the process of self-transcendence again and again, what do you think?