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Preamble:
High-speed rail network as the mainland's economic artery, its status has not been shaken, although the mainland in the start behind the West, but in the efforts of countless people, whether it is the number of kilometers built, or the core technology, has been far ahead of the world, his emergence and popularization, directly changed the way we go out.
However, now, high-speed rail seems to have changed its taste, and even many people have doubts about high-speed rail, and said that high-speed rail was the first choice in the past, but now it is not, what is going on?
High-speed rail development
First of all, we must first understand why the mainland vigorously develops high-speed rail, a very core concept of "if you want to get rich, first build roads" only "roads" are opened up, the economy will improve, in the past when the transportation was underdeveloped, transportation has always been a problem for the mainland.
There are a lot of products and mined minerals, because the transportation and transportation are underdeveloped, there is no way to realize the development of the economy, so after the founding of New China, the first goal is to build roads, but the main standard of this road construction is people-oriented, in order to make it more convenient for people to travel.
On this basis, the "roads" were built more and more perfectly, and gradually began to increase in diversity, and it was during this period that the railways began to advance by leaps and bounds, although in the eyes of our people today, the trains were too slow, and the trains from Beijing to Shanghai at that time took several days.
But at that time, the emergence of trains has marked an evolution of the mainland's transportation network, and at that time, whether it was to build roads or railways, there was a goal, when the central government approved several special economic zones after the reform and opening up, and in order to make the special economic zones can get rich as quickly as possible, transportation is the foundation.
Later, after the popularization of trains in the country, high-speed rail has become a new goal, the mainland's high-speed rail started from the 80s of the last century to 2007, during this time the mainland is in the exploration stage, in 2005 the mainland officially built the first Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway, December 15, 2007 the whole line paved.
The completion of this railway immediately caused a social sensation, the completion of the railway directly compressed the distance between Beijing and Tianjin to 30 minutes, this time was unimaginable before, after the two cities were convenient transportation, GDP was also instantly driven.
This allows the mainland to see the future of the development of the transportation network, and after the success of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway, several more lines have been built for testing in the next few years, which is the first stage of the development of the mainland's high-speed railway.
The second stage is from 2008 to 2015, this period is a period of rapid development of high-speed rail in the mainland, the mainland's transportation construction center is basically on the high-speed rail, various cities began to build one after another, just a few years in the total number of high-speed rail kilometers in the mainland came to 18,000 kilometers.
Major cities in major provinces across the country are basically connected to high-speed rail, but the speed of high-speed rail is still far behind that of advanced countries in the West.
The third stage is from 2015 to today, the theme of this stage is no longer expansion, if we are a student in the previous construction of high-speed rail, learning other people's technology and methods, then the theme of the third stage is independence and innovation, the mainland's scientific researchers have finally created a unique technology in the mainland after innovation and improvement.
And the speed has also reached 400 kilometers per hour, so that the mainland's high-speed rail directly ranks among the world's forefront, from the former students to the world's teachers, and the completion of the high-speed rail network is very important to the mainland, take this year's fire "Southern Small Potato Incident" as an example.
In order to be able to see the heavy snow with their own eyes, friends in the south used a short time to cross most of China to Harbin, and the number is very large, this situation was not thought of before, if there is no high-speed rail, you need to take the train for several days, and the holidays are all delayed on the road.
Even if there is a plane, not to mention that it is not very convenient, the air ticket is still very expensive in the tourist season, if you happen to take your family to travel, some of the elderly are very resistant to taking a plane, it can be said that the tourism industry in various provinces is now hot and the huge transportation network of the mainland is inseparable.
And the take-off of the tourism industry is only the "tip of the iceberg" brought by the high-speed rail network, but in recent years, people seem to have some different views on high-speed rail, and some people even bluntly say that high-speed rail is no longer the first means of transportation to go out in the future, why is this?
The price-performance ratio of high-speed rail
There are many reasons for this, the most important of which is the price of high-speed rail, although high-speed rail is indeed fast, but the price is about twice as high as the train ticket, so the best choice for ordinary families to go out is the train or bus.
Because in their consumption values, they can spend more time to save a little money, so the positioning of high-speed rail in terms of time is reserved for those who want to exchange money for time, and these people also have a superior alternative to travel, such as airplanes.
In the past, the ticket price of taking a plane was very high, and even so, there were still people rushing to sit every day, but now the market is different, there are many choices for the way to go out, and the plane has to put down its body in this competition, and the ticket prices of various broken bones are even cheaper than high-speed rail.
The biggest advantage of high-speed rail is that it is fast, but compared with the airplane, it has lost its greatest competitiveness, if you insist on saying one, it is estimated that it is the popularity rate of high-speed rail, and now high-speed rail is built relatively well in many third- and fourth-tier cities, but the airport does not have this advantage.
Therefore, if in terms of speed alone, high-speed rail is not comparable to airplanes, and the fare price is also five or five open to airplanes, then if these two most important factors are put aside, then high-speed rail is really beaten by other "brothers".
First of all, comfort, now that our living conditions are good, the pursuit of a higher standard of life has become the main goal, even if it is a car to go out comfort is also a major indicator for us to consider, the first to appear is the train, because of the slow speed, hard sleeper and soft sleeper are basically the standard configuration of the train.
And the train has precipitated several of its own unique characteristics, the first is the problem of eating, there is generally a special carriage used as a restaurant on the train, all passengers can go to eat, even if you don't want to go every time the train arrives at the meal, there will be a crew member pushing a cart to sell food, as for the taste is not delicious, the price is generally around 20.
In addition to staple food, all kinds of snacks and fruits are sold on the train, and even there will be a special salesman to promote the product halfway, although it has been criticized on the Internet, but this has become a sign on the train, of course, there are people who like the train, this part of the people think that going out to travel has to be a train, the other is too fast, and the process is over before feeling.
As for the high-speed rail and the plane, because of the relatively fast speed, there is generally no sleeper, even if you sit uncomfortable, there is no way, this is the common problem caused by too fast, and then there is the meal, there are special in-flight meals on the plane, which will be provided regularly in the restaurant, in addition to the staple food, there are drinks.
And the high-speed rail in this regard, not to mention the plane, even the train is not as good, although he has rice on the car, but the price makes people look silent, obviously it is a box lunch, in some places can even be sold for 40 yuan, not that the price is very high, people can't afford it, it's just that the taste of his rice really can't match the price.
If you go out for a long time and want to save money, the train or bus is the first choice, if you want to go fast, the plane is the first choice, unless there is no airport where you want to go, but the high-speed rail can go directly, only at this time the high-speed rail is the best choice.
Various reasons have led to the high-speed rail in a relatively middle embarrassing situation, but we don't have to worry about this situation, after all, high-speed rail is still a key development project in the mainland, and I believe that the mainland's high-speed rail can make everyone applaud.
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