[Ten Years of Chinese Style] "Land Flight" of 1.4 Billion People

　　China News Service, Beijing, October 1st, title:

　　Reporter Kan Feng

　　"Please look inside China's high-speed rail. It's pretty good, with very stable WiFi and sockets."

　　On February 7 this year, Sen Lai, an American journalist who participated in the coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics, posted a series of videos and pictures on social media to "live broadcast" his experience of riding China's high-speed rail.

Video: [Ten Years of Changes] China's high-speed rail "counterattack" in the Western blockade

　　These two tweets, which caused a lot of interaction, made China's high-speed rail another wave of goodwill among foreign netizens.

Some netizens also posted a photo of Amtrak in the comment area: a train drove past the messy tracks.

　　It is true that in the past 10 years, China's development, which emphasizes both speed and quality, has attracted global attention, and to show this speed and quality to the world, high-speed rail is undoubtedly the best business card.

The first business card of China's high-speed rail is called "Counter Attack".

　　China's high-speed rail, which started more than 40 years later than developed countries, is now bearing a number of "world's highest": the longest operating mileage, the largest scale under construction, the largest number of EMUs in operation, and the fastest commercial operation speed.

　　The growth story of China's high-speed rail is also an inspirational story of independent innovation by industrial powers.

　　Ten years ago, in 2012, the design and development of China's standard EMU "Fuxing" began. Five years later, the "Fuxing" with completely independent intellectual property rights was launched.

Behind the unimaginable speed is the technical research of Chinese high-speed rail R&D personnel day and night.

　　In a test of the "Fuxing", the train suffered a 300-microsecond communication interruption failure. In order to study this moment, which is shorter than lightning, the technicians groped for 7 days and finally found the cause of the failure.

　　The world is afraid of the word "serious".

From scratch, from introduction, digestion, absorption and re-innovation to independent innovation, leading the world, the high-speed rail successfully "counterattack", to put it bluntly, is to achieve the ultimate in "seriousness".

Data map: Aerial photography of the golden countryside of Renhe Township, Yushui District, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province in autumn.

The picture shows the high-speed train galloping past.

Photo by Zhao Chunliang

The second business card of China's high-speed rail is called "Happiness".

　　"If you want to be rich, build roads first." This is the simple Chinese understanding of a better life.

　　In the past 10 years, China's high-speed rail has been put into operation for an average of 3,500 kilometers per year, and the "four vertical and four horizontal" has been expanded to "eight vertical and eight horizontal". The total mileage has been extended from more than 9,000 kilometers to more than 40,000 kilometers, accounting for two-thirds of the world.

　　The high-speed rail that travels through mountains, rivers and rivers not only redefines the concept of time and space for the Chinese, but also profoundly drives the urbanization process and regional economic linkage of the entire country.

　　In Forty-eight Town, Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province, Wufushan Station, the "smallest high-speed railway station in China", is built on a hilltop surrounded by mountains.

Officially opened to traffic in June 2015, the small station covers an area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters with only two platforms, solving the travel problems of 300,000 people in the surrounding mountainous areas.

From here, it takes two hours to Hangzhou and Fuzhou, and three hours to Shanghai.

　　Like Forty-Eight Towns, in the past 10 years, many small Chinese towns have stepped into the "high-speed rail era". The travel convenience and economic improvement brought by high-speed rail have increased the income of ordinary people and broadened children's horizons. High-speed rail has accelerated people's "happiness". sense" increase.

Data map: On August 25, 2022, local time, the No. 2 tunnel of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway was successfully completed, and the beam passages on the entire line were all connected.

The picture shows the construction workers celebrating the completion.

Photo courtesy of China News Agency, China Power Construction Yawan High-speed Railway Project Department

The third business card of China's high-speed rail is called "Sharing".

　　On September 2 this year, at the Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed EMU train made in China slowly moved out of the freighter. The slogan attached to the body read "Indonesia's first high-speed rail" in English.

　　The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is the first time that China's high-speed railway has implemented a whole system, all elements, and a whole industrial chain overseas.

It not only allowed 270 million Indonesians to have the first high-speed rail, but also trained a large number of local high-speed rail technical talents in Indonesia.

　　Ramdani, an Indonesian high-speed rail construction technician, has been highlighted by the media.

Under the guidance of the Chinese team's "mentor and apprentice", he has changed from a new technical novice to a skilled technical person. In the past two years, his Chinese proficiency has improved a lot, and his income has increased a lot.

　　Like Ramdani, more than 10,000 local Indonesian workers and a large number of local engineers and technicians participated in the construction of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway.

It not only adapts measures to local conditions, but also teaches people how to fish. The transmission of this "happiness" is another important reason why China's high-speed rail is "applauded and popular" overseas.

　　Over the past 10 years, the story of China's high-speed rail has reflected the silhouette of the era of the development of many countries - "Fuxing" is a microcosm of independent innovation, Wufushan Station is a microcosm of the improvement of people's livelihood, and the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is a microcosm of high-level opening. …And the speeding high-speed rail itself is a microcosm of Chinese-style modernization.

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