The United States is finally going to build high-speed rail. A few days ago to Las Vegas, the United States ** Biden solemnly announced: "We are building the first high-speed rail line in the history of the United States." It starts here. "It's been a long time coming. Looking at the data, as of now, the total mileage of China's high-speed rail has exceeded 40,000 kilometers, and the construction of the first one in the United States has not yet begun. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced that it has allocated $8.2 billion for 10 passenger rail projects across the United States, while announcing corridor planning activities that will affect every region of the United States, according to a national television report from Washington on December 8. The unprecedented investment in the nation's national passenger rail network builds on the $16.4 billion investment announced last month for 25 nationally significant projects along the nation's busiest rail corridor. To date, Biden** has announced an investment of nearly $30 billion in the U.S. rail system. The significant investment, announced through the federal Interstate Passenger Rail Partnership Program, will advance two high-speed rail corridors and fund improvements to existing rail corridors to expand service and performance. 
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The U.S. Department of Transportation said the investment will have an impact on the benefits of including helping to provide high-speed rail service in California's Valley, Las Vegas, Building a brand new high-speed rail corridor between Nevada and Southern California that will carry approximately 11 million passengers annually, major upgrades to existing legacy rail corridors to better connect northern and southeastern Virginia with the Northeast Corridor, expanding and increasing the frequency of the Pennsylvania Keystone corridor between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, extending the Piedmont corridor in North Carolina north as part of the high-speed connection between Raleigh and Richmond, Virginia, investing in Chicago Union Station as a first step toward future improvements to the Midwest Corridor hub, and improving Maine, Montana and Alaska. The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has secured $3.1 billion in funding to continue construction of its system, which will eventually connect Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours. Brightline West, a subsidiary of Florida-based Brightline Intercity Rail Services, has received $3 billion in federal funding for its proposed high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that will allow passengers between the two cities to reach quickly within 2 hours. According to a press release from the California High-Speed Rail Authority, the appropriations announced the other day will be primarily used to build a high-speed rail system in California's ** Valley region. This part of the project will connect Merced, Frey**, and Bakersfield, California between 2030-33. Once completed, the project will expand to the Bay Area and eventually to Los Angeles. So far, the California High-Speed Rail Authority has laid 119 miles of track in the ** Valley at a cost of $11.2 billion, creating 1More than 20,000 jobs. The total cost is estimated to be between $88 billion and $128 billion, raising concerns about whether the project is worth the money. The U.S. does not currently operate any high-speed rail lines, and Amtrak's Acela high-speed rail in the northeast can sometimes reach 150 miles per hour. The definition of high-speed rail currently varies from country to country, but it generally refers to passenger trains with speeds of at least 125 miles per hour and up to 220 miles per hour. The comprehensive upgrade of the U.S. rail network is a big plan, and the dream is beautiful. So, Biden also admitted: the United States is lagging behind. 
Biden greeted ** by the train in his trademark greeting style
"Railroads have made the United States a force for business and innovation in the world, uniting the nation and building the most powerful economic circle in history," he said. However, over time, we have fallen behind, and our infrastructure should be the best in the world. "Indeed, railroads transformed the United States, contributed to the rise of the United States, and ultimately to become a world superpower. In order to limit the rise of the Chinese in the United States, a variety of regulations have been promulgated, such as the "Treaty of Puanchen", the "Treaty of Angeli", and the "Treaty of the Restriction of Chinese Laborers" signed with the Qing Dynasty, and many other treaties such as the "Treaty of Prohibiting Chinese Workers from Coming to the United States and Protecting Chinese in the United States" have been passed in the United States. Therefore, the history of railroads in the United States is inextricably linked with the Chinese. 
The transcontinental Pacific Railroad in the United States. It was also the world's first transcontinental railway line.
But in terms of infrastructure, the United States has been eating its old roots for a long time, Europe has high-speed rail, Japan has high-speed rail, and Indonesia now has high-speed rail, but the United States has never had it. Of course, without mentioning China, Biden can't let go of it. According to Biden, "we are in the midst of economic competition in the 21st century," and "Chinese trains have been running at 220 miles per hour for some time." What about the United States?"How can we be the best economy without the best infrastructure in the world?," Biden agitated"That's what we're going to do. In Las Vegas, Biden announced $8.2 billion in new federal funding for 10 major U.S. passenger rail projects. The United States is going to do it!
Amtrak Joe Train Joe.
The first high-speed rail line is no longer Los Angeles to San Francisco, which used to be in the spotlight. The line, which connects two major cities in California, was established in 2008 with a budget of $30 billion and completed in 2020. 2020 has long passed, high-speed rail is still being discussed, and the budget cost has exceeded $100 billion, and the Americans have silently forgotten about this line. The first high-speed rail in the United States, which currently seems most likely, will be from Los Angeles, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada. It is expected to be completed before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. I have to say that Biden still has a bit of a complex for railways. During his more than 30 years as a senator, Biden often traveled by train between Washington and his hometown in Delaware, earning him the nickname "Amtrak Joe." But in the United States, slow trains are one characteristic, and another characteristic is that they are not punctual. It looks like a green train in China back then. Frankly, China's green trains are much more punctual than Amtrak's. Oh, and one more feature, there are many accidents. The accidents that derailed and overturned in the past two years, one after another, and the fight with the Indian Ah Sanyou, made Americans sigh. High-speed rail is also a dream for Americans. Biden also said that high-speed rail promotes environmental protection, and that this high-speed rail has been discussed for decades and is now finally about to be realized, with a goal of transporting 31 million passengers a year and using 100% renewable energy. Biden is ambitious, and the construction of high-speed rail in the United States is finally about to begin. 
In his speech, Biden acknowledged that the United States is lagging behind on high-speed rail.
Finally, what do you think?The United States wants to learn from China, oh no, or the United States wants to follow the old path of large-scale infrastructure construction. I said before that the American mentality has changed, and I really broke my promise. Take high-speed rail as an example, it's good to engage in high-speed rail!What's the benefit?
Biden inspects the footage on a train.
First, the opening of high-speed rail has increased the choice of means of transportation for people to travel, and increased a means of transportation for residents around the high-speed rail line. Second, with the help of the layout of the high-speed rail network, the barriers between regions at the national level have been gradually broken, which not only improves the connectivity between regions, but also reduces transportation costs and time costs, facilitates the flow of various elements between different regions, and closes the economic ties between regions, thus providing favorable conditions for the rapid development of regional economies. The "space-time compression" effect generated by the opening of high-speed rail has shortened the distance between the two places to a large extent, thereby strengthening the mobility of human capital between regions. At the same time, the construction and opening of high-speed rail in various regions will promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure in various regions, especially the impact on the tertiary industry, which indirectly increases the demand for new talents in various regions, thereby promoting the flow of human capital elements between regions. In addition, as a large-scale transportation infrastructure, high-speed rail has a long construction period and a large investment scale, which will inevitably lead to the expansion of several times the national income under the effect of investment multiplier, thereby triggering the impact of high-speed rail on capital factors. For example, in the process of construction of high-speed rail, it not only has a huge demand for a country's means of production, consuming a large amount of cement, steel, wood, metal, etc., which stimulates the output level of these means of production, but also further increases the demand for high-speed rail construction, machinery industry, electronic and communication equipment manufacturing and other related industries, and these industries related to the construction of high-speed rail will also increase investment accordingly, thereby indirectly promoting the economic growth of a country. This should be what Biden wants. Although consumption in the United States has gone up in recent months, it is the Americans who have been shaved out, but the money has been earned by the Chinese!Especially the American company of the evil Pinduoduo. An annual Black Friday carnival has simply become the performance art of Chinese taking bags of dollars, alas!Biden is not in a hurry?In April last year, Biden said in a speech: "If I blindfold you in the middle of the night and take you into O'Hare airport, and then you into an airport in China......You might think that China's airport is ours because it's so modern, so different. Going back in time, in October 2021, during a speech in Pennsylvania, Biden asked a question: "You know what?".How fast is the high-speed rail being built in China?300 miles per hour (about 480 kilometers – as it is)!"Envy, jealousy, hatred, that's Biden's mentality. However, one problem that Biden seems unwilling to face is that the longitude and latitude of the Chinese and American systems are distinctly differentAs of 2022, China has the world's largest high-speed rail network, with 15 miles of railways operating in the country50,000 kilometers, of which the high-speed rail mileage reaches 420,000 km. However, this huge scale of construction also brings with it huge debts. According to the data, as of December 31, 2022, China Railway Group had a debt of 611 trillion yuan, and the debt ratio reached 6641%。The construction of high-speed rail requires huge investment, such as nearly 200 million yuan per kilometer, and the investment in high-speed rail projects has reached 8 trillion yuan. Not only does it require a lot of money to be invested in the construction process, but it also needs to be operated and maintained and other later costs, including vehicle maintenance, track and facility maintenance, employee salaries, energy consumption, etc., which are all a lot of expenses. In addition, the construction of high-speed rail requires a large number of geological surveys, environmental assessments and design planning, and the cost of compensation for land acquisition is also high. Due to the complex and diverse terrain in China and the high cost of construction, it has become the norm to build roads and bridges over rivers in high mountains, further pushing up the cost of high-speed rail construction. The scale of high-speed rail construction is huge, and there is also a need to bear the cost of huge deficits. There are many reasons for this. First of all, as a means of public transportation, high-speed rail should consider its contribution to society and economy in addition to its own profitability. If fares are raised to make up for losses, it may lead to a decline in passenger flow, resulting in an impact on public travel. Secondly, the operation mode and cost of high-speed rail are also important factors causing losses. High-speed rail is a complex system that requires people to operate and manage in addition to building and maintaining facilities. Operating costs include vehicle maintenance, track and facility maintenance, employee salaries, energy consumption, and more. In the early stage of high-speed rail operation, the pressure on construction investment is high, and the operating income is difficult to cover the operating costs, resulting in losses. In addition, the characteristics of high-speed rail transportation also affect its profitability. High-speed rail is a means of mass transportation, and its operating costs are relatively high, but the single ticket price needs to be controlled within a reasonable range to meet the travel needs of the masses. Therefore, the profitability of high-speed rail is greatly limited. All this, Biden can't afford. Although the construction of high-speed rail at the national level can not only drive rapid transportation between cities, but also promote the economic development and urban integration of the regions along the route. During the construction process, the construction of high-speed rail provided a large number of employment opportunities, providing jobs for tens of thousands of people. At the same time, the sustainable operation of high-speed rail has also led to the development of related industries, such as tourism, commerce and logistics. However, the national election mechanism in the United States determines that such a medium- and long-term plan is unlikely to be adopted during Biden's term. Second, the Chinese can endure the humiliation of carrying heavy loads and overtime to bear huge dangers to build high-speed rail, the Americans can't do it, there are no Chinese laborers!In addition, Biden's infrastructure support plan has a total of 10 projects and more than $8 billion. Among them, the Los Angeles-Las Vegas high-speed railway, which can receive about 3 billion US dollars. This money can't build a high-speed rail. It's okay for China, but the United States has no play on its own, first of all, the trade unions will kill themselves. Do you still print money?Even if you engage in M2 again, it will give priority to Jews and Ukrainians, right?My own railway, just wait!Finally, if the United States does it, it will definitely want a low-cost solution, which only China has!Over the years, the localization level of China's high-speed rail has been continuously improved, and the domestic production rate of China's standard EMUs, seamless rails, ballastless tracks and other technologies has exceeded 98%, making China the world's leading in the field of high-speed rail technology. The rapid development of high-speed rail has also proved China's scientific and technological strength and engineering capabilities, which have been widely recognized by the international community. Can you imagine it?Just in 2013, our country's high-speed rail project was still competing by Siemens of Germany and the Shinkansen of JapanSo, will Biden find cooperation with China?!How many hairs do you have on his head?That's an old guy who doesn't pull a dime!After Kissinger's death, there were no more politicians in the United States who were willing to cooperate peacefully with China. Then the final question is, can the first high-speed rail in the United States be completed in 2028?Move a small bench and eat a melon, right?