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With the help of China, India finally ushered in the first driverless train off the assembly line, which should have been a happy day, but India continued to make a fuss and refused to issue visas to our Chinese experts. Behind this, it is still India's cautious desire to take advantage of it.
The second phase of the Bangalore Metro project is the third project obtained by CRRC Puzhen Company in the Indian market after Mumbai and New Delhi Metro, and the total number of stainless steel metro cars included in this order is also the largest, reaching 216. Since the contract was signed in February 2020, China has not slackened off and stepped up to rush work, and now the day has finally come for the train to roll off the line.
So, the next task is that China needs to transport the finished train to India and test it. According to the plan, the train will first arrive at the port of Chennai and is expected to be transported by road to the warehouse in Bangalore on January 14 next year, before the Sangrati festival. In fact, according to the original plan, the train could have started running a month ago, but because India has delayed issuing visas to Chinese experts, the opening time has to be postponed.
【The first train of the second phase of the Bangalore Metro project rolled off the assembly line at Puzhen Company】
According to Indian officials, the car uses a state-of-the-art communications-based train control system (CBTC) and is India's first driverless train to roll off the assembly line. Although we made the car, the technology was not shared with India. As a result, if Chinese experts are not able to provide on-site guidance, it is completely pointless to just transport the train there. In addition, there are some body shells made in India, which also need to be assembled with the help of Chinese experts.
It is understood that a total of 65 CRRC experts are now waiting for visas, but after a period of communication and coordination, India has now only approved 21 visas. So now we can only let this group of experts go first, and then slowly follow up. In fact, this is not the first time India has done such a thing. This comes after Log9 Materials, India's first lithium-ion battery manufacturer, warned that the company's battery production would be severely affected due to the Indian government's delay in approving visa applications for Chinese personnel.
The reason for this situation is that many of the company's imported equipment must rely on the technology of Chinese experts to complete maintenance and equipment upgrades, otherwise production will be delayed. This happened at a time when India was trying to move away from China and become the new manufacturing center of the world. According to public information, in order to promote Indian manufacturing, India has restricted the import of Chinese products in many fields this year. At the same time, the entry of Chinese personnel has also been affected.
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In this way, we can guess the careful thinking behind India. After the Bangalore Metro project is completed, it can provide a convenient, comfortable and environmentally friendly way for Bengaluru citizens to travel, so India is actually more anxious than us. But India will also think that if the subway operation needs to be completed by Chinese experts in the future, one will be stuck, and the other is not conducive to the development of local manufacturing in India, so India will not issue visas as a bargaining chip, hoping that we will directly teach the operation technology to India.
This can also be reflected in another thing. Previously, India froze 4.8 billion assets in the account of a Chinese mobile phone company on the grounds of illegally transferring funds abroad. On the surface, India is doing this because it is just looking at Chinese companies to make more money and find an excuse to make them "spit out" a little, but in the end, we still think of India as too kind. When the Chinese company and India were negotiating on the fine, India showed its true face, saying that it was okay not to pay the fine, but the premise was that all the senior management of the company must be replaced by Indians, and the Indian company should also be involved in the manufacturing process, making it clear that it just wants our technology.
However, India does not seem to have imagined that behind China's technological development, there is a huge supply chain support, and at the same time, it is inextricably linked to supporting policy support, including providing preferential land, taxation, improving the business environment, and so on. As a country with a large population, India has taken China as a benchmark in its development model, hoping to become a new world factory. India's progress in recent years is obvious to all, but the gap with China is also real.
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Including India's need to ask China to help build a subway, in fact, some problems have already been reflected. The pace of metro construction in India is very, very slow, and only a few cities currently have metro systems, and they are not very large. At the same time, the technical level of India's metro is not high, and the quality and safety need to be improved. But China's title of "infrastructure madman" has long been well-known at home and abroad. If India wants to catch up with China's pace, it should bow its head and tackle key problems, instead of directly using China's technology and threatening it if it doesn't give it, so it will never become a manufacturing power.
This kind of narrow-minded thinking will lead to India's constant hitting a wall in the process of development. China has no intention of provoking confrontation, and is even willing to help India develop, and I hope India will be clear about this, and it is India's development path that is blocking Chinese experts from the door. Although India can gain some benefits in the short term by doing so, the repeated implementation of this "take-it-or-leave-it" doctrine will inevitably leave an impression in the international community that the business environment is bad. However, it also reminds us that we must pay more attention to cooperation with India in the future, especially in terms of technology, we must protect it well, and we must not give it away in vain.