Chapter 28 To get rich, build roads first

Facts speak louder than words!

When the GPS navigation system steadily showed that the high-speed rail speed fluctuated around 360km/h, even the most stubborn foreign netizens could no longer talk nonsense about "data falsification"!

Instead, they felt a sense of shock that their entire worldview had been refreshed!

"How could this be... This shouldn't be possible? How could China have such advanced high-speed rail technology? There's no reason for this!!! Isn't China a very backward country? Their people often don't have enough food! How could they have such an advanced subway?"

"They stole our technology!"

"Bullshit! Didn't you just say that even if they have the technology, they don't have the corresponding industrial system to implement this advanced technology? Laying high-speed rail tracks requires high-strength seamless steel, and providing power for a speed of 360 kilometers per hour requires a powerful engine, as well as a variety of other problems. Didn't you say all of this yourself?"

"Not only that, the Shinkansen's stable speed is less than 300 km/h. Is it because they don't want to reach 300 km/h? It's obvious that they have encountered technical difficulties that they can't solve and can't achieve a stable 300 km/h! Don't ask me what the difficulties are, I don't know either, but I have indeed encountered something like a 'bottleneck' in my own field, so I feel deeply about it!"

"But China has broken through the technical bottleneck that the Shinkansen cannot break through! This alone is enough to prove that China's technology is developed by themselves, and it is impossible to steal technology from other countries - just like you can't steal cash from a penniless beggar!"

"Damn it. I always thought that the glamour in the camera was a false illusion created by China. They can't have so many tall buildings, and they can't have so many happy people who have no worries about food and clothing. But if the speed of this most difficult high-speed rail is not fake, then doesn't it mean..."

Rational foreign netizens can't help but sweat profusely.

Attack one point and you will be unstoppable!

In fact, it is not just this live broadcast. They have also learned from various channels that China seems to have undergone some incredible changes in recent decades, which are no longer the same as it was decades ago.

But they all scoffed at it.

It's like a student who ranks last in the class suddenly declares that he will study hard and become the first in the class after two monthly exams. It's not that it's impossible, but only a ghost would believe it.

Therefore, they still look at today's China with the same eyes as they did thirty years ago. Even though they have seen many changes and the prosperity of Jinghai at this moment, they use various reasons to convince themselves that all this is not real.

But as they have always emphasized, fake is fake after all! It will eventually reveal its flaws!

However, this time the "falsehood" came from their own hearts! They were unwilling to believe that China would undergo such earth-shaking changes, so they would rather weave a false lie in their hearts to convince themselves that China was still lagging behind.

And now, as China's high-speed rail speeds along, the cracks in their hearts have begun to crack!

No other country can achieve a stable speed of 360km/h, but China has done it! This shows that China's technological advantage in the field of high-speed rail is truly unrivaled in the world!
This is the case in the field of high-speed rail, but what about other fields? Will it be the same?

Watching the foreign netizens in the live broadcast room gradually fall into self-doubt and finally stop one-sidedly questioning whether China was cheating, Martha was even happier than Lin Yan, a native Chinese!
Strike while the iron is hot, she pulled Lin Yan's arm and begged like a child:

"Yan! Yan! Tell me the story of your Chinese high-speed rail, please! You didn't have such a great high-speed rail before, right? Is this also the result of thirty years of unremitting efforts? And you said that China's high-speed rail is built all over China, and even to the roof of the world. Are these things true?"

"You have so many curious questions!"

Lin Yan joked, "There are too many stories about how China built its own high-speed rail. I can't finish telling them all in a short time. But you asked me at the end if there are high-speed rails everywhere. I can tell you in advance. That's it!" Martha asked again, "Are there really high-speed rails even in the deep mountains and forests? But I remember that the geological requirements for laying railways are very strict. It must be a very flat place. Can railways really be built in the mountains? Not to mention high-speed railways?"

At this time, a netizen with the IP Milijian suddenly made a violent statement in the live broadcast room:

"This is absolutely fake! I work for the railway department, how could I not know! Railways are different from airports. Laying tracks and maintaining them require very high infrastructure and labor costs! Even busy lines often operate at a loss, and this is a busy line in the plains. How could anyone build a railway in the deep mountains and forests? And it's a high-speed railway!"

"This is a completely unprofitable business that will result in a total loss of money! There is no way I'm going to do this! Not to mention, according to what you said, China has built not just one or two high-speed railways, but many in sparsely populated mountainous areas!"

"I respect China's technological capabilities, but I also ask you to respect the objective laws of economics. Please don't really treat us as fools, okay? Even if China has mastered the world's top high-speed rail technology and can even reduce costs to a certain extent, it is impossible to do something that is completely unprofitable!"

Martha: “This…”

It has to be said that although the man who claimed to be an American railway worker also questioned the construction of China's high-speed railway, his reasons for questioning were much more reasonable and well-founded than those of the previous people.

Indeed, unless China really has some alien technology that can build railways at a very low cost, otherwise, the cost of building high-speed railways is astronomical. How can it be built in those uninhabited places? Isn't this a pure loss?

Even a country as wealthy as the UAE would not do such a stupid thing as having too much money and nowhere to spend it!
China has been living a hard life for so long, and finally after thirty years of hard work, it has some hope for the future. Has it surpassed the old tycoon of the UAE and started to spend money directly to light its own cigarettes?

Foreign netizens also agreed with this statement.

There are people who do things that will get them killed, but no one cares about business that will lose money.

Especially America itself.

As the world's recognized first power, how could the United States really not have mastered high-speed rail technology? However, in front of their powerful aviation logistics network, the investment cost of high-speed rail is so horrible compared to the benefits that can be obtained that no American company is willing to invest.

It is for this reason that Rhine-Doharo, a technical consultant for a California private railway company, can directly point out the Achilles' heel of China's high-speed rail.

However, facing the questioning of professionals, Lin Yan gradually changed from his previous relaxed expression of joking to an extremely serious look.

"That's a good question, my American friend."

He did not deny the problem of high-speed rail losses, but admitted it very sincerely: "You are right. Apart from the golden routes such as the Beijing-Magic High-speed Railway, almost every high-speed rail in China is operating at a loss, not to mention those routes that are obviously loss-making at a glance."

"But you're not right. China is indeed aware of the loss of these routes, but we are determined to build high-speed rail to all places even if it means losing money on paper. Your doubts about the loss are not valid in reality."

"Actually, this question is very simple. I'll tell you an old Chinese saying, and everything will become clear—"

“If you want to be rich, build roads first.”

(End of this chapter)