Some people say that the net profit of high-speed rail in the first half of the year is negative 11 billion yuan, and high-speed rail is losing money every year, why is China still building vigorously?
Because the importance of high-speed rail is comparable to the "Three Gorges Project", even if we lose money, we will do it.
Important means of transportation can change the international political and economic pattern, the emergence of steam engines will change the world, from the era of land power to the era of sea power, some experts believe that high-speed rail can re-turn the era of sea power into the era of land power. The most typical symbol is the Belt and Road, through high-speed rail to promote the economic integration of Eurasia, such as: the Strait of Malacca is the heart disease of the mainland, about 80% of the mainland's oil, 23% of natural gas, 50% of import and export materials need to pass through the Strait of Malacca, once blocked here, it will cause China's energy supply crisis, affecting China's economic development and national economy and people's livelihood. Once the China-Pakistan Railway from Kashgar, China, to Pakistan is completed, China will have access to the Indian Ocean and alleviate the problem of the Malacca Strait.
Therefore, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the mainland has listed high-speed rail as "strategic high-tech", without which many of our strategic needs cannot be realized.
Looking at the world, the cost of China's high-speed rail is not high. China's high-speed rail international quotation is 30 million US dollars per kilometer, while Japan is 50 million US dollars per kilometer, European high-speed rail is only the cost is higher than our quotation, their high-speed rail is also a loss, and the loss is more serious than China. Not only that, China's high-speed railway engineering standards are higher, and the project progress rate is more than 1 times that of Japan, Europe and the United States. More importantly, from the overall economic account, the construction of high-speed rail is actually not a loss.
In the past, it was said that when the train rang, the gold taels. Now as soon as the high-speed rail opens, wealth comes. Studies have shown that every 100 million yuan invested in high-speed rail can increase the surrounding GDP by 180 million yuan and drive the output value of upstream and downstream industries by more than 1 billion yuan.
For example, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, which invested more than 200 billion yuan, indirectly boosted the surrounding GDP of more than 400 billion. In the three years since the opening of the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, more than 3,000 industrial transfer projects have been undertaken in the southern part of Shonan, and the retail sales of consumer goods in cities along the Hunan route have increased significantly year-on-year, far exceeding the average level of the province.
Building high-speed rail can also upgrade industries, train talents, and increase jobs. For example: upgrading the industry, the mainland crude steel production ranks first in the world, but high-end steel has been stuck in the past, because we did not have demand in the past, and the research and development momentum is not large. The construction of high-speed railway is upgraded together with the mainland steel industry, such as: the wheel steel used in high-speed rail wheels requires that the hydrogen content cannot exceed 0.0002%, the impurity content is extremely low and evenly distributed, and the requirements for sawing, forging, heat treatment and machining during processing are very high. There are also high-speed rail milling cutters, corresponding to super-hard carbide steel, high-speed rail bearings, and steel upgrades are also needed.
Not only steel, the construction of high-speed rail, but also the mainland's new materials, machinery, metallurgy, construction, rubber, synthetic materials, electricity, information, computers, precision instruments and other industries, these industries in turn will be invested in the production of other industrial products.
In the process of tackling key problems, high-speed rail technology has also invisibly cultivated a large number of scientific and technological talents for the mainland, increased jobs, and given many college students in related majors a stage to display their ambitions.
Therefore, although the high-speed rail itself is losing money, the indirect benefits and social value it brings exceed the loss of the high-speed rail itself, and from the overall point of view, the construction of high-speed rail is very cost-effective. #妙笔生花创作挑战#
