This Wednesday is the day when Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway has been in operation for half a year, and a fresh report card has also been released. According to statistics, in the past six months, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway has sent more than 2.5 million passengers, and the cumulative mileage has exceeded 1.2 million kilometers, and the operation is very safe and stable. After the opening of this high-speed railway, it is a major benefit to the travel and economic development of the Indonesian people, and the most significant change is that the connection time between the two major cities of Jakarta and Bandung has been shortened from more than 3 hours in the past to less than 50 minutes now. In modern society, time is money, efficiency represents the speed of development, and the role of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in driving the flow of economic resources between the two cities is visible to the naked eye.
It is reported that since the opening of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, the seat rate of this line has been steadily improving, at the beginning, the daily train set is 14 trains, and now it has reached 52 trains, when it is busy, it can send more than 20,000 passengers a day, and the seat rate can reach 99.6%, which can almost be described as "hard to find". On the premise of ensuring efficiency and safety, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway has also learned from the successful experience of China's high-speed rail operation in the past, and tried its best to provide convenient and comfortable services for passengers. This dazzling report card has undoubtedly slapped the American media in the face. Why do you say that, because from the time a Chinese company won the bid for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, to the investment and construction of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, and then to the opening and operation, some American media have been singing about this high-speed railway.
For example, in October last year, after the opening of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, the US media "Voice of America" reported the news, and the picture was not a brand-new passenger car in operation, but a photo of a maintenance vehicle. The Associated Press and CNN also questioned the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, claiming that after the railway is put into operation, it is unlikely to make a profit, Indonesia's per capita income is too low to afford a high-speed rail ticket, and after a long time, the high-speed rail will be yellow, but Indonesia still has to pay back the money it owes, and finally it is related to China's "debt trap" This kind of smear remarks.
To tell the truth, this is the perverted psychology of "not being able to eat grapes, saying that grapes are sour", and the only reason why the American media sings about the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is that this high-speed railway is invested and built by Chinese enterprises. However, the American media has to face a reality: at present, in the world, no country can compare with China in the construction and operation of high-speed rail. For example, the first high-speed railway built by a Japanese company for India, which started construction in 2017 and has not yet opened, has not yet been opened, according to Indian media reports, the opening time has been delayed again and again, and now it has been postponed to 2026, three years later than planned.
The high-speed rail in the United States has also been built and stopped, stopped and built, and has been delayed for 10 years now. Recently, during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the construction of high-speed rail with Kishida, meaning to ask Japan for some help. As far as the efficiency of the United States is concerned, Biden may not see the opening of high-speed rail in the United States in the true sense. Instead of sourcing China's participation in the high-speed rail project, the American media should publish an article urging its own high-speed rail project.