Britain smashed a big order of 500 billion yuan, eagerly looking forward to China to build high-speed rail for it, while Japan was rejected three times, I wonder why China was finally chosen? If you ask what China's biggest bright spot in the world is, the answer is inevitably China's outstanding technology and strength in the field of infrastructure construction.
China's high-speed rail technology has become a global leader. In 2019, China's high-speed rail mileage reached 350,000 kilometers, a number that no one else can beat in the world.
There are only a few countries such as Japan and Germany that compete with China in high-speed rail technology, while the United States has a relatively small demand for high-speed rail due to its vast land and sparse population, mainly relying on aircraft and automobile transportation.
This is not the case in the UK, where the rail network is very well developed despite its small size, so high-speed rail technology is also widely used.
When Line 2 is mentioned, Line 1 is naturally associated with it. There was only one high-speed rail in the UK, which opened in 2003, connecting London with Paris, France, and crossing the English Channel.
Faced with this major opportunity, England and Scotland immediately began to compete fiercely.
Bullet train. The reason for this is that it is capable of traveling at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour and is the world's first high-speed railway to enter commercial operation. As a result, Japan is recognized as the birthplace of high-speed rail technology and enjoys a high reputation worldwide.
But this time, Britain chose to cooperate with China to build high-speed rail, which made Japan very puzzled. Could it be that Japan's Shinkansen is not good enough? Unfortunately, the answer seems to be so.
Over the past few decades, Japan's Shinkansen has been a symbol of high-speed rail technology, with global recognition for speed, safety, and comfort. However, the UK may have chosen to work with China because China's high-speed rail technology is rapidly rising and surpassing Japan in many ways.
Japan's land transportation relies heavily on rail and other rail transportation, not because they don't have access to better modes of transportation, but because their means of transportation are not very suitable.
Although the British have never seen the legendary Dongsheng Shenzhou Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, the hard-working Japanese have helped them realize this dream on the high-speed train. In 2017, the UK had just invested heavily in the construction of a new high-speed rail line.
China's high-speed rail construction is not only unique in terms of quality, but its cost is also much lower than that of other countries. Taking the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway as an example, the total length of 1318 kilometers, which is more than twice the number 2 project of the British high-speed railway, started in 2008 and officially opened to traffic in 2011, with a total investment of about 2209400 million yuan, which can be called the world's longest high-speed railway with the highest standard at one time.
In comparison, the pace of high-speed rail construction in other countries seems to be slower than a snail. Surprisingly, the planned opening of the UK high-speed rail 2 project turned out to be 2033.
For the UK**, the first challenge in building high-speed rail is how to beat China in the competition.
The main point of this passage is that there is constant opposition to a certain project. The question is, if the project is taken over by China, will the UK be criticized and questioned?