Time magazine aug. 16 (advance) published articles, the original problem: growth enginesIn 1996, I first train to Shanghai, suzhou, from feeling as refugees in passengers.Hundreds of thousands of people to go to the train.To a position, they lifted or use bamboo sticks to carry baggage flocking, will move the car to an impenetrable wall.I didn’t like the masculine, only in the passenger train compartments standing or sitting on the ground.Two hours’ drive, most of the time, I could smell the track of flavour — from the toilet of waste.
Nowadays, the trunk of the wheels, instead of bamboo sticks in suzhou train station as easily comfortable walking commonly.Find your seat, I lay in a comfortable with the activity the armchairs. Armrest,When the car’s speed per hour speed to display when the opposite, 231 kilometers, several Japanese businessmen can nod.This journey, no smell 42 minutes when no smell made me feel gratified.
In July, Shanghai, suzhou, nanjing and open up to 350 kilometers between the high-speed train.Recently, such speed trains in China are everywhere.This country painstakingly nearly 30 years ahead of all kinds of infrastructure improvement, the most remarkable is probably railway system.In this increasingly u.s.-european infrastructure in the aging, with world-class economies of competition, the railway might make China advantage.
To help achieve long-term development of the west is one of its target, high iron will make the inland development “as coastal area”.This network is to become part of a city and in between.”Really,” a very convenient LuKe (sound), weekly on the car trip in Shanghai, hangzhou civil servants said.
But critics worry about half the population, China is still rural residents spent so gorgeous, construction of the railway is an extravagance.For each such as robust in both the white-collar, between each year are just sit two dozens of migrant workers train.Their monthly income almost can’t afford a car high iron luxurious seat.
Some experts say, “cheap but basic comfortable travel for ordinary Chinese passenger, they will not only shorten the itinerary for several hours to choose to three times the price of ordinary trains high iron.”
But the risk is not China had better but not necessary, but for advanced network, it produces a huge debt.In recent years, the huge investment in infrastructure to help China first get rid of the economic crisis, but if YuCuo recovery, it will become a heavy burden.
However, China will be reduced by railway technology export the risk.Chinese companies have started to win in overseas projects.Last year, Saudi Arabia will connect the mecca and high iron project to medina, including Chinese companies LianJian company.Chinese companies are venezuela and Turkey, and bid to build high iron California high iron project.
Now in the United States had a high operating iron, average speed only 116 kilometers.The backward didn’t escape ordinary Chinese people’s eyes.”China’s train is much better,” the teacher XuWenHong (55) said, “now, even in America.”When we train with 200 kilometres per hour, when he headed afar brimming with the satisfied smile.(the author Austin, Mr WangHuiCong).
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