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preface
2023, this is a year that can change the course of history in Indonesia, why say so, because from this year, Indonesia officially has its own high-speed rail, which makes everyone in Indonesia very happy, but in five years, their country has undergone such earth-shaking changes.
Of course, the fundamental reason for all these changes is from China, China's success in building high-speed railways, must be let China in Southeast Asia to open the gap between itself and other countries, other countries see Indonesia's success, how envious, that is definitely not a sentence or two clear.
China's high-speed rail has its own name
Now when it comes to China, to talk about China's influence in other countries, then high-speed rail must be a very important business card, after all, because of this title of infrastructure maniac, China has received a lot of orders abroad, in this case not only to consider whether it can make money, but also the key is international reputation.
Although China is not the invention country of high-speed rail, but it is definitely the first country that can use and create high-speed rail, China has experienced its own development and continuously improved its own creative ability, and also formed a unique technology, which eventually formed China's high-speed rail more and more powerful situation.
In fact, Japan's high-speed rail started very early, and it has been through high-speed rail a long time ago, and its development speed is also very fast, and because Japan's high-speed rail has a very high degree of originality, so the recognition of Japan's high-speed rail in the world is still very high.
But at the same time, Japan's high-speed rail also has many problems, especially in the construction process with other countries. Japan's high-speed railways always present a very long construction period, and there may be other difficult contradictions in the construction process. As a result, the reputation of Japan's high-speed rail in the world is also deteriorating.
So, why is China's high-speed railway so powerful, in fact, because China's high-speed rail has been constantly developing, because China's land and resources are rich from the most fundamental reason, China has the experience of dealing with many difficult areas.
China's experience in building high-speed railways in complex terrain will actually play on China's experience in building high-speed railways in other countries. Because China's high-speed rail has built one railway after another in other countries, it has also led to the growing reputation of China's high-speed rail in the world.
And more crucially, China has very strongly demonstrated the spirit that a superpower should have when building high-speed railways, and China has never built high-speed railways in other countries for the main purpose of making money, but to expand its international reputation.
Considering that China itself is an infrastructure maniac, when China began to build high-speed railways for other countries, from the first success to the last, many countries were willing to find China to help them build railways.
When China helps other countries build railways, it also fully plays its image as a big country, no matter what kind of country the other party is, no matter how complex the terrain of the other country, China can reflect its own unique advantages.
The most obvious example, such as when China helped Saudi Arabia build a railway, was actually very troubled by their terrain, but fortunately, China has been studying the map and finally succeeded in building a high-speed rail line that they are very satisfied with.
It was also at this time that the international community recognized China as a country with very strong infrastructure, and even gave China the title of infrastructure maniac, but it was also because China successfully built railways, and other countries' recognition of China slowly increased.
On this basis, China wants to build railways in other countries, which actually has its own business card. Therefore, in 2017, when Indonesia was preparing to build a railway, China participated in this bid. This time, China successfully defeated Japan and helped Indonesia build the railroad.
China successfully helped Indonesia build a railway
Why Indonesia only plans to build a railway at this time, in fact, because Indonesia's terrain is very complicated, before that, Indonesia was not a high-speed rail line in the entire country, which was very inconvenient.
In this case, they felt that if they could build a high-speed rail line, could it help the entire country drive economic development, so in 2017, Indonesia finally decided to build a railway in its own country.
The destination of this railway is also to Southeast Asia, Indonesia's purpose is very obvious, is to drive the development of the entire country through this railway, but considering that Indonesia itself does not have the technology to build high-speed rail, so Indonesia began to bid throughout the world.
In addition to China, there are many other countries interested in signing this order, but only China and Japan survived in this order competition.
The reason why these two countries can last until the end is because everyone knows that the profit that can be obtained from this order in Indonesia is very high, and in the whole process, Japan very much hopes that it can get Indonesia's support.
Because Japan was the first country to create high-speed rail, Japan has always insisted that the high-speed rail it built is the world's unique high-speed rail line, and Japan promises that he can also give Indonesia a lot of economic support.
However, with the deepening of exchanges, Indonesia found that Japan was completely drawing a pie, Japan said to give Indonesia economic support, but this has not been implemented, not only that, in Japan's plan, in the face of Indonesia's entire railway planning is also dissatisfied with Indonesia.
In fact, for Indonesia, it is just the money to build a high-speed rail line, Indonesia is absolutely taken out, they do not care very much about how much economic support the other party can give themselves, but care about the orders given by the other party, whether they are in line with their national conditions, whether they can achieve the goals they want to achieve.
In this case, Japan carried out many rounds, but the plan he gave still could not satisfy Indonesia, so Indonesia turned to China. When he saw the plan given by China, Indonesia suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, which was a good plan strategy.
Compared with Japan's false promises, China has given real benefits. In the process of construction, China not only promised to let Indonesian experts study at the same time, so that even if China built a railway for Indonesia, Indonesian experts could build their second and third railways.
Not only that, but China also made a very big concession, that is, China promised that after the construction of the railway, China is willing to transfer all its technology to Indonesia, which is definitely a big benefit for Indonesia, which is a skill that they do not necessarily learn with other countries.
In addition, China's infrastructure itself has had an international reputation before, so Indonesia is willing to believe that if it relies on China's infrastructure capacity, it can absolutely help them build this railway, and the quality will be guaranteed.
Under various circumstances, after comprehensive consideration, Indonesia finally decided that the plan that China could give was more feasible than Japan, so Indonesia finally decided to completely hand over the large order in its hands to China, and it turned out that there was no problem with Indonesia's choice.
Compared with Japan's refusal to start construction in other countries for 16 years, and even after the start of construction, China has given a very perfect answer, in just five years, China has helped Indonesia not only build its railway, but also open to traffic.
On October 17, 2023, Indonesia's railway has been officially opened, and once it is reported internationally, after this news, other countries are envious, and feel that Indonesia has really made a very good choice.
Especially for those countries that chose Japan before, such as Myanmar or India, for these two countries, they are really envious, after all, the answer given by China is very high-quality, these countries chose Japan because of the pie painted by Japan at that time, to help them build high-speed rail.
After a long time, they found that it was basically a very difficult thing to complete within the specified time, and they also understood that for Japan, although Japan can build a high-speed railway in its own country, it is unlikely to build a good railway internationally.
The significance of building high-speed railways in Southeast Asian countries
As a Southeast Asian country, why should it develop its own high-speed rail? In fact, because of the comprehensive consideration of the entire international strength of Southeast Asia, the significance of having a high-speed rail for their country is still very significant.
This degree of greatness is not only reflected in the process of building such a railway, which can help improve the daily living standards of the people, but more importantly, it will definitely drive the country's economic development. According to an old Chinese saying, if you want to be rich, you must first build roads.
This is because if there is no road, the country's economic development will be subject to various restrictions, and today, Indonesia has its first high-speed rail, and Indonesia's high-speed rail is the first high-speed rail in the entire Southeast Asian country.
It is foreseeable that in the next decade or so, Indonesia will once again achieve its own economic technological leap, which is good news for Indonesia, but it is not good news for those countries that have previously turned to Japan to build railways, such as Myanmar or Vietnam.
These two countries have long wanted to build a railway on their own scale, and the first country they chose was Japan, but the problem that Myanmar and Vietnam did not expect was that when they chose Japan to help them build the railway, they faced many crises.
These crises were largely caused by Japan, the country that built it, because of the lack of understanding of the entire Southeast Asian cities and the problems that may be encountered in the construction process, Japan was very slow to build the railway, and the railway was not repaired.
Take Vietnam as an example, in fact, in the past 30 years, the development of Vietnam has become very fast, but Vietnam also has a very big problem, that is, Vietnam's infrastructure construction is very backward.
To what extent infrastructure construction is backward may be unimaginable for ordinary Chinese people. Their country's current railways can only reach speeds of 60 kilometers per hour, which is a level that green trains in China can surpass.
Vietnam is not without money, he just does not have this technology, so Vietnam decided very early on to invest 50 billion US dollars in the construction of high-speed rail, but the only problem with Vietnam is that Vietnam chose the wrong country to work with.
In fact, for these countries in Southeast Asia, they do not have the ability, so the best solution is to choose a capable and reliable partner. Vietnam chose Japan for cooperation at that time, and on the surface, the 5 million given by Vietnam was very large.
But no one expected that in the process of cooperation with Japan, Japan's money to build a high-speed railway far exceeded this 5 million, and this is not over, 16 years have passed, and now this railway has not been repaired, saying that this railway has not been repaired, it is already to give face to Vietnam and Japan.
In fact, this railway is delayed again and again, 16 years have passed, this railway is still in a state of no ground, no construction, more importantly, Vietnam is a country, it not only did not build a good railway, but even brought itself a lot of unfinished projects.
Then dealing with this mess project requires more resources. Therefore, the time when Vietnam's high-speed railway can be formed should be far away, which is the result of finding an unreliable partner, hoping that other countries can take warning.
epilogue
When China and Japan participate in the bidding activities at the same time, if the factors affecting the international situation are not considered, can other countries that want to build high-speed railways take a look at the real cases of these previous countries.
Under this circumstance, I believe that many countries will become very excited to see Indonesia's railway, which is also a time for China to create railways internationally, and the experience is the same, which is also one of the successful examples of China's large infrastructure.