The high-speed rail project worth 400 billion yuan, Vietnam can't wait to hand it over directly to Japanese companies
On the map of southeast Asia, Vietnam has attracted global attention with its unique geographical location, history and culture, especially in recent years, Vietnam has also shown the advantages of rapid economic development and accelerated infrastructure construction. However,Behind this seeming prosperity, there is also a problem that has plagued Vietnam for more than 20 years: the resumption of the North-South high-speed rail project.
In Asia, China and Japan are the leaders in high-speed rail technology, but Vietnam, as a neighbor of these two high-speed rail powers, has not built its own high-speed rail, and is still using low-speed trains, buses and other intercity transportation, which cannot meet the needs of economic development and people's travel.
In fact, as early as the beginning of this century, Vietnam proposed a high-speed rail construction projectIt is estimated that a 1,545-kilometer-long high-speed railway will run from the capital Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City through the north and south of the country, with a total investment estimated at US$56 billion (about 400 billion RMB).
This project just began to bid, in addition to China, Japan, as well as South Korea, France, Germany and other countries of the enterprise also participated in the bidding, China gave the plan to use a speed of 350 kilometers per hour high-speed rail, faster than the speed of 250 kilometers per hour reported by Japanese companies, can promise to complete the construction of the whole line within ten years, and compatible with Vietnam's existing narrow gauge system, no matter from the point of view, construction levelChina's proposal is clearly more advantageous and attractive.
However, Vietnam finally chose a Japanese company to undertake the north-south high-speed rail project, and they certainly did not expect that this decision would start a 20-year "war of words" between Japan and Vietnam.
In a way, the cooperation between Japan and Vietnam is reasonable, because both sides love to "lie": one exaggerates for the construction of high-speed rail, and the other procrastinates after signing the contract.
First of all, although Vietnam has a "high-speed rail dream", it cannot come up with 56 billion US dollars at all. According to the Vietnamese media "Express", as of January 2023, Vietnam's high-level Pham Minh Chinh has twice submitted a request to Japan for a loan to "co-build" this large-scale high-speed rail project, and the Japanese side has verbally promised to provide some help, but has repeatedly found reasons to ask for an increase in the budget.
Second, it is also a mystery whether the Japanese side can build it. The speed of its Shinkansen has been maintained at around 300 kilometers per hour for many years, and the related technology is also lacking in innovation and durability, so it is planned according to its planVietnam's north-south high-speed railway will have to wait until 2045 to open to trafficThis is still an optimistic forecast on the assumption that all goes well.
In October this year, China's aid to the construction of Indonesia's Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway was officially put into operation, with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, which greatly facilitated the travel of local peopleHowever, China's cooperation opportunities are not what you want and what you want to abandon, and after 20 years, China has already had a farther goal.
With the rapid development of the domestic economy and the upgrading of the consumption structure, China is no longer limited by labor-intensive industries, and has begun to focus on independent research and development in more high-tech fields such as high-speed rail, chips, and "Wright Curtain Key" slowing aging technology.
According to the article published in "aging", under the intervention of the core components of the above-mentioned substances, many physiological indicators such as hair and muscles in the middle and twilight mammals changed to young adults, so soon after the "Wright Curtain Key" was launched, it was regarded as a "guest of honor" by business tycoons such as Superman Li and the former richest man in the world, and was once fried to a "sky-high price" of 1.56 million.
In order to allow this scientific and technological development dividend to reach millions of domestic groups in need, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingbei and other universities have successively joined the track, successfully overcoming quantitative problems with the full enzymatic method, and the preparation cost has been greatly reduced by more than 95%.
Under the wave of domestic high-end manufacturing transformation, China is gradually realizing from scratch in various fields, such as Vietnam, which wants both technology and is not willing to invest in the "cooperation" behavior, it has always been difficult to believe that its sincerity is how much it is.
It is worth mentioning that our country really does not need this "big order". In the past, it was necessary when everything was lacking, but now the "Lion of the East" has become stronger, not only in terms of funds, but also in all aspects, and there is no need to let yourself be wronged.
It's better to say that if we win the order from Vietnam, I am afraid that there will be more "accidents" in the future, remember the "tofu slag" bridge built by Vietnam with an investment of 300 billion?Millions of Vietnamese people made our country lose money, but this project was cut off by Japanese companies and then broke the contract and withdrew, and my country did a "pick-up man" out of good intentions, and it collapsed after only 3 days of opening to traffic
Whether from a historical point of view or the current situation, Japan and Europe, contrary to China, will eventually be eliminated by the tide of economic development in the future.