Another mainland-built railway is open to traffic, how long will the Sino-Thai railway wait?
According to a report by People's Daily Online on the 12th, Bangladesh's multi-branch railway was officially opened to traffic. The railway is one of the top 10 priority development projects in Bangladesh and was built by Chinese enterprises in 2018. In contrast, the Sino-Thai railway signed a cooperation four years in advance, but it has not waited for the news of its opening.
A few days ago, the first phase of the Sino-Thai railway project finally updated its progress, but there was a news that "13 kilometers will be delayed for 5 years". Netizens expressed their incomprehension, and turned out the Thai side's previous behavior and shouted: "It's not worth it!"
01 Want to use Chinese technology but according to Japanese standards? The Chinese side strongly refused: there is no need to talk about it
According to Thai media reports, Niru, a spokesman for the Thai Railways, revealed that the first phase of the Sino-Thai railway contract 4-5 will be signed within this month. He said the section is 13.3 kilometers long, but the budget needs to be replanned and is expected to be opened to traffic in 2028.
According to public information, the Sino-Thai high-speed railway signed a cooperation in 2014, with a total length of 873 kilometers. Thailand hopes to achieve its goal of becoming a "logistics hub in Southeast Asia", while the mainland wants to connect it to the Trans-Asian Railway network and expand the railway network dominated by Chinese technology.
However, this railway project, which is supposed to be a mutually beneficial and win-win project, has been full of twists and turns since the cooperation was reached nine years ago, and the construction progress has been delayed again and again.
According to the South China Morning Post, Thailand's rejection of the mainland's offer of financial support on the grounds of "security concerns" and repeated reviews of our proposal have slowed down the project. During this period, the Thai side has also repeatedly made it clear that it hopes the mainland will transfer advanced high-speed rail technology.
What is even more excessive is that the Thai side actually proposed that the Chinese side only need to provide construction technology for the Sino-Thai railway, and it should be built in accordance with Japanese standards on the grounds that the railways had been all in accordance with Japanese standards. This time directly "stepped on the thunder accurately", which made the Chinese people who paid attention to this matter exploded.
In the face of such an absurd demand, the mainland negotiators refused to give an inch and forcefully stated: If you want to build the railway smoothly, you must abide by Chinese standards!
02 Only by mastering the core technology can you have the right to speak
In fact, the mainland has built the world's largest high-speed rail network in just 10 years, and railway technology has long been the world's leading. The Thai side, which had no better choice, could only bow its head in the end and promise to build according to mainland standards.
The results of this negotiation undoubtedly show that only by mastering the core technology can we have the right to speak. Not only high-speed rail, but also in the fields of medical devices and biotechnology that are closely related to people's livelihood, domestic nuclear magnetic resonance instruments and "other times stronger" male long-term care technology have also regained their autonomy.
According to public information, the domestic nuclear magnetic resonance instrument not only successfully broke the overseas monopoly, but also lowered the import price of 32 million by 90%, and the inspection cost was reduced from thousands to hundreds;
It is understood that unlike overseas traditional categories that can only be boosted for a short time, the results of domestic science and technology are compounded with black ginger, ginseng, arginine and other thermal substances. Scientific research has confirmed that these substances can focus on pumping AMPK, increasing the number of mitochondria, and directly intervening in the mechanism of NO-cGMP refreshment, and long-term maintenance from the root, known as "men's power bank".
After mastering the core technology, domestic achievements have sounded the clarion call for counteroffensive. The domestic nuclear magnetic resonance instrument has not only regained more than half of the market share, but also replaced imports and entered top hospitals such as Xiehe;
The mainland's advanced high-speed rail technology has long exerted influence in the world. The China-Laos Railway and the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway, which have been opened to traffic, have injected impetus into local economic development, and the mainland high-speed EMUs have also signed contracts with Serbia for the first time to export to Europe.
It is foreseeable that once the Sino-Thai railway is successfully opened, it will bring many benefits to Thailand's economic development. Therefore, the new leaders of Thailand have repeatedly publicly stated that they hope to promote the construction of the second phase as soon as possible, and also proposed during their visit to China last month that they hope that mainland railway-related enterprises can go to Thailand to build factories and transfer advanced technology.
03 If you can't see the end of the first phase, you want to complete the second phase? Netizens called for vigilance
However, it should be noted that the progress of the first phase of the civil engineering project for which the Thai side is responsible is worrying, and only one of the 14 civil construction contracts has been completed, which seriously slows down the construction speed of the mainland. According to public information, since its construction started in 2017, the overall progress has only reached 21.69%.
Now that the first phase of the 4-5 contract is about to be signed, the 13.3-kilometer-long section will be delayed until 2028, which is greatly unexpected by the Chinese people. In contrast, the Thai side is not in a hurry to put the first phase that has not yet passed the halfway, but it is actively promoting the start of the second phase, which has made domestic netizens call for "vigilance".
Under the relevant reports, netizens bluntly said: "Don't worry, let them answer the application of Chinese standards first!", "The other party will pay and then start construction, don't advance money"... There is only one central idea: the initiative is in our hands, don't be "pitted"!