Preface
As we all know, the mainland is a well-known infrastructure maniac, and over the years, many projects have been built that have shocked the world.
Among them, there is the high-speed rail project, which runs through the north and south of the mainland, and in China, you can see high-speed rail in most provinces, which is enough to prove China's ability to build high-speed rail.
However, I did not expect that the mainland's "CRRC" railway construction company actually lost to a small country Spain in the bidding for high-speed rail.
The reason they gave was even more ridiculous: now that the delivery deadline has arrived, Spain has not delivered the car for a long time, resulting in the cancellation of the project.
In the eyes of many people, Bulgaria is so surprising that it chose Spain to build high-speed rail, compared to Spain, the mainland obviously has more suitable construction conditions, so why did Bulgaria choose to let Spain build it?
I'd rather buy the expensive ones than the right ones
In fact, one of the reasons why Bulgaria did not choose the mainland to build high-speed rail is because of the price, but it is not that the price given by the mainland is too high, but that the price given by the mainland is much lower than that of Spain.
The high-speed rail project in Bulgaria not only needs to purchase 20 trains, but also provides them with 15 years of maintenance services, and these maintenance knowledge must also be taught to their employees.
Therefore, it has also led to a high budget in Bulgaria, and the mainland is just the opposite of Bulgaria, all goods on the mainland have always had low prices, thick skins and durable fabrication.
The budget price given by the mainland is 46.7% lower than Bulgaria's estimate and 47.5% lower than Spain's competitor, which seems to be a good deal.
(Information source: Observer.com 2024.03.27 on "CRRC was forced to withdraw from the Bulgarian contract bid, the EU-China Chamber of Commerce: This has become a "new tool for the EU to deter foreign companies")
However, Bulgaria rejected the mainland on the grounds that the price was too low, and many netizens believed that the reason why the mainland bid failed was related to the European Union to a certain extent.
They do not allow their country's money to be earned by the mainland, because the price given by the mainland is too low and there is a high probability that it will disrupt their EU market.
This may seem absurd to us, but in the capitalist world, these things are all the more normal.
Netizens believe that Bulgaria, as a member of the European Union, is bound by the "Foreign Subsidies Regulations", which is a policy issued by the European Union.
If a non-EU country finances an EU member state in various ways, the EU can investigate and break the deal.
At that time, when the mainland bid for high-speed rail, some people even believed that the high-speed rail that the mainland helped them build had already provided subsidies, and these subsidies added up to nearly 2 billion euros.
(Information source: Jiemian News 2024.03.27 report on "CRRC was forced to withdraw from the Bulgarian train contract bidding due to countervailing investigation")
Although the mainland has always stressed that the EU should not exclude or suppress Chinese companies, they still do the same.
The continent has a low price of production, and if we succeed in opening up the European market, and they don't stop us from developing, it is very likely that we will occupy the European market.
And the EU does not allow this, if all the money is earned by the mainland, then what do they earn, so the current EU market is full of rejection of Chinese companies.
Since it does not choose the mainland, Bulgaria will have to pay nearly twice the price of the mainland and go to Spain to build a high-speed railway.
Spain does not have as much manpower and material resources as the mainland, and both the construction time and the quality are very different from the mainland.
The 33-month construction period offered by Bulgaria alone made it difficult for Spain to deliver, let alone maintain and upgrade after the construction was completed.
Hang as high as Haman
Now, 33 months have passed, and the people of Bulgaria can already see the high-speed rail in their country according to the scheduled progress of the project.
However, they did not see even a shadow of it, because Spain could not deliver these trains for a long time, and Spain simply did not have the capacity to deliver.
Spain delayed the delivery time again and again, and the time took longer, and Bulgaria invested more and more money, and finally Bulgaria had to cancel the high-speed rail project.
(Information source: Guangming.com 2024.02.22 on "The Ministry of Commerce's response to CRRC's countervailing investigation: I hope the EU will strictly abide by WTO rules")
At this time, some netizens questioned, since the EU suspected that the mainland had subsidies and let the mainland withdraw from the bidding, why didn't it raise the price very high at the beginning?
The proud head of the European Union has always refused to bow down, and they have to admit that we are very good at what the mainland has achieved over the years.
The mainland has always won the bidding at a very low price to open the overseas market, because the mainland's industry is complete and the production process of various configuration parts is mature.
Unlike other small countries, some small items have to be imported from other countries, and mainland state-owned enterprises are very closely connected, and the items purchased between them will not have a high price, so the price is so low.
But if Bulgaria had chosen China to build it in the first place, what would it be like now?
The industry of a large country is incomparable
The fate and development of a country are in the hands of its own country, and Bulgaria has made a ridiculous policy for the sake of the European Union, which has led to the entire high-speed rail project being affected, which can be said to be self-inflicted.
High-speed rail is the most convenient way to travel in our daily life, with the characteristics of fast, stable and convenient, and the speed of the mainland passenger high-speed rail has reached 350 kilometers per hour.
(Information source: Xinhua News Agency 2023.09.28 on "Xinhua All Media +|The mainland's first 350 kilometers per hour cross-sea high-speed railway officially opened for operation")
That's a very fast pace, and Bulgaria is a small country, about the size of Zhejiang Province on the mainland.
In such a small country, if a high-speed rail is built, it can achieve "hourly reach", within an hour, and even from any city to all parts of Bulgaria.
In addition, high-speed rail can also increase the connection between various places, greatly improve the possibility of trade, and is very conducive to the coordinated development of the country.
There is no country in the world that is more experienced in building high-speed rail than ours, and the mainland is also the only country in the world with a complete industrial classification, and its industrial capacity is the first in the world.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency 2019.09.20 report on "The mainland is the only country in the world with all industrial categories")
With the development of the network, the connection between countries around the world is getting closer and closer, and the cooperation is getting closer and closer, successfully making "Made in China" go to the world.
epilogue
All countries in the world are one big family, only cooperation can achieve a win-win situation, human beings are a whole, and it is impossible to avoid China for commodities in the world now.
The rise of the mainland is not harmful to any country in the world, and the people of the mainland have always had the merit of being peace-loving and helpful.
Policies such as the "European Express" and "One Belt, One Road" have been fully interpreted, and after the mainland's economic development improves, it will also drive the development of other countries in the world and build a community with a shared future for mankind.