The high-speed rail line project from Los Angeles to San Francisco started soon. Compared with other projects in Laos and the United States, this time they are really amazingly efficient.
Since exploration and design work had been carried out in the early stage, but construction had not started due to issues such as investment, equity, etc., therefore, after the public announcement of the launch of the project, various construction machinery began to enter the site in less than three days. , a huge construction team is also ready to go.
Judging from the aerial footage specially arranged by the United States, this time they invested heavily and the team was professional. Even when setting off, all the workers even agreed on the dress code.
At first glance, the neat team, the tall and straight work uniforms, and the various tools hung on the workers looked like a well-trained army.
Moreover, this project will be reported in an uninterrupted live broadcast.
According to the United States, they will complete the main construction of the entire high-speed railway within six years, and complete the construction of the first 30-kilometer demonstration line within three months.
600 kilometers, 6 years.
This kind of speed can be regarded as amazing no matter which country it is placed in.
Even when Chen Nian saw this plan, the first thought that came to his mind was:
Is he bragging?
After all, when the UK built a 530-kilometer high-speed railway, the construction period was delayed for more than 20 years.
After our high-speed rail technology was fully mature and the engineering construction process was extremely complete, it took a full five years to build a 300-kilometer high-speed rail.
Now, at this point in time in 2006, you told me that you only need 6 years to cover 600 kilometers?
No one will believe it
Sitting in Li Xiang's room, Chen Nian looked at the text that was constantly refreshing on the computer screen with some curiosity, and asked:
"So this is your daily job? Reading posts on the website every day?"
Li Xiang almost couldn't help rolling his eyes. He put down the mouse in his hand and answered:
"I would be exhausted if I really did this. Nowadays, it's basically keyword searches, but the problem is, to search for keywords, you have to filter out the keywords first."
"So, preparatory work must be done well."
"For example, what are the keywords in the posts we just looked at?"
Chen Nian frowned and thought for a moment before replying:
"Normalization?"
"clever!"
Li Xiang glanced at Chen Nian approvingly, and then continued:
"So, that's what a large number of what we call trolls are doing on the Internet."
"They will seize on the hot words in a hot event and continue to publish the same type of posts in various forums to create public opinion."
"Some of this behavior is spontaneous, and some is organized. It is difficult to distinguish."
"However, their impact is the same."
As he said that, Li Xiang entered the keyword "standardized" into the computer. After a short search, a lot of results popped up on the screen.
Chen Nian took a closer look, and sure enough, most of them were the same as what Li Xiang said, and the output was homogeneous content.
“Looking at America’s infrastructure capabilities from the Los Angeles-San Francisco Railway: the level of standardization may exceed China’s in fifty years!”
"This is called standards! Standardized construction, when can we achieve it?"
"Standardization is an unspeakable pain for domestic engineering projects."
"Strict discipline is like an army! Do we dare to talk about standardization in front of the United States?"
Although the titles of the posts are not the same, you can easily find after clicking on them that they all follow the same path in terms of opinions, arguments, and argumentation process.
It's like being taught by a master.
Seeing this, Chen Nian couldn't help but shook his head and said:
"Isn't it good for this session of public intellectuals? Is it just this little attack power?"
According to Chen Nian's idea, if the United States launches such a bold and iconic project, the public should at least praise its economic resilience and the American nation's indomitable spirit, and then attack the domestic market economic environment and humanities. Environment or something.
Is this the result?
After hearing his words, Li Xiang asked curiously:
"Then what do you think it should contain?"
Chen Nian thought for a moment and replied:
"If I were to write it, I would have to write a title like, 'Though we have accumulated little experience, the United States once again slaps the whole world in the face.'"
"You see, everyone thought they would be in trouble after the financial crisis. But not only did they survive, they also launched a big project."
"What kind of cool plot is this? This is what people like to watch most."
"...You quite understand, it really is like this."
Li Xiang deleted the keyword "standardized" and then entered the keyword "slap in the face". After a while, a large number of posts came out.
"Shame on you! You are arrogantly advocating the theory of financial annihilation, and the United States slaps you in the face."
"Are you a slap in the face? Where is the poster who said that the United States will die this time? Is it you who will die?"
"What a slap in the face! A financial crisis clearly exposed China's villain mentality!"
"A slap in the face! You don't want to strengthen yourself, you only want others to be weak, and the results are self-evident!"
After looking at it for a while, Chen Nian finally recognized the ability of these public intellectuals to make trouble.
"It's really good. Is there anything else besides these?"
"There are too many."
Li Xiang replied without hesitation.
"But there's no point in looking at these things."
"What we have to do is identify those with obvious malicious tendencies, and then do whatever we need to do."
"As for the really stupid ones, let them go."
"I understand, the law can't control the real scoundrel?"
".That's pretty much what it means."
Hearing this answer, Chen Nian shook his head and said helplessly:
"It seems that the road to popularizing knowledge is still long."
"No, it shouldn't be said that it is a road to popularizing knowledge. It should be said that the road to cognitive education is still very long."
"Now, our people will listen to whoever has the big fist, and believe whoever has the loudest voice. This is not good in the long run, even if we can one day occupy a dominant position on the issue of 'right to speak' , and cannot truly cultivate the kind of 'national self-confidence' that can withstand the test."
"That's right. It's not wrong at all."
Li Xiang nodded in agreement again.
"Chen Nian, I find that this world is really strange. You are obviously a technical person, but you also know a lot about this set of things."
"I honestly say that he is no weaker than me - and I should be considered a genius in this area."
"You are such a monster."
Chen Nian ignored Li Xiang's emotion. During the conversation just now, he suddenly had an inspiration.
Previously, I had already made suggestions related to "knowledge education reform" to Chen Guo, and the core of this suggestion was to widely popularize basic cutting-edge knowledge at the social level.
But it's not that easy to do this.
The first step is to arouse public interest.
In his previous life, some TV programs including "National Treasure" and "Collection of China" were actually doing well.
Unfortunately, those are concentrated in the cultural field.
So this time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Americans to build high-speed rail, can we think of a way to make use of it?
Chen Nian thought for a while, organized his words, and explained his thoughts to Li Xiang.
The more Li Xiang listened, the brighter his eyes became. After Chen Nian finished speaking, he immediately clapped his hands and said:
"good idea!"
"I already have an idea!"
"Tomorrow, I will go and communicate with Professor Chen. Don't worry, this matter will be left to us!"
A few days later, a piece of news appeared on the front pages of major media with extremely high weight.
The content of the news shocked everyone who is familiar with the properties of rabbit urine.
"How is the high-speed rail built?" The Beijing-Shijiazhuang section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway is under construction and the entire process is live broadcast! 》
According to the news preview, this live broadcast will start with the official groundbreaking of the Beijing-Shijiazhuang section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway and will continue until the 30-kilometer line is laid in the first quarter.
In the process, the program is not just a simple live broadcast, but also introduces new equipment and new technologies used in this project to people across the country.
In other words, this is actually more of a live series than a live broadcast from The Americans.
It has a strong science popularization attribute, but even stronger
Or its undisguised willingness to fight for the Los Angeles-San Francisco rail project.
Obviously, it wants to compete with the United States.
Moreover, the people who organized this project seem to be full of confidence in the success of this project.
This confidence is so strong that he doesn't care at all about the engineering inspiration that the United States may get from it, and even wants to tell you what we are doing one by one and show it to you.
What are you afraid of?
Even if you see it, can you learn it?
——
The people who organized this show generally think so.
However, not everyone thinks so.
Since the news was released, there have been endless doubts about this program, including this project.
The biggest question is whether, with the country's current infrastructure strength, it can complete the construction of a 30-kilometer high-speed rail within a three-month period like the United States.
After such discussions became more and more intensive, a table was gradually summarized on the Internet.
The name of this table is "Comparison of Conditions for Similar Railway Projects in China and the United States."
This form was widely circulated and generated huge popularity even before the show was broadcast.
The reason why the form can be widely circulated is inseparable from its rigorous and detailed content.
According to the records in the table, the two projects were compared in various fields such as geography, geology, hydrology, economy, investment, technology, and equipment.
After reading the comparison, most people have the same idea.
That is:
Whether it is hard conditions or soft conditions, China is much worse than the United States.
The first is the geological environment. According to the comparison table, among the two 30-kilometer high-speed rail lines, the US line only involves tunnel construction of less than 300 meters and one bridge with a span of 50 meters.
As for Huaxia, it involves a tunnel with a total length of about 1.2 kilometers and two bridges with a span of 100 meters.
In terms of investment, the United States plans to invest US$6 billion in this 30-kilometer-long demonstration high-speed railway.
As for China, it only plans to invest 9 billion yuan.
This is no longer a question of more or less. The US investment is six times that of China.
Also, in terms of technology, China's high-speed rail technology has just started, and although the United States is not strong in this aspect, it has already received technical support from Siemens in advance.
They have rich experience and the quality of their personnel is much higher than ours, not to mention their fully mature construction process.
In addition, even when it comes to China's only dominant engineering equipment, the advantage is not too obvious.
After all, the design standards for the Beijing-Shijiazhuang high-speed railway line do not require super-large shield machines like the Qiangguo, and in the field of small and medium-sized shield machines, the Americans are not weaker than us at all.
After such a comparison, at least on the surface, we do have little chance of winning.
What exactly do you rely on to win?
On the Internet, netizens' discussions were divided into two groups.
"So are we going to do a sea of people project again this time? But why do I feel that this kind of project may not win even if there is a sea of people?"
"Don't think so. You can't win for sure. Super-large projects all rely on system engineering. It doesn't mean that the more people, the better."
"On the contrary, the theoretical representation of diminishing marginal utility of manpower is particularly obvious. If we invest too much manpower, we will not only fail to improve efficiency, but may even become more chaotic."
"So it really doesn't make sense?"
"It's not that it's meaningless. If you don't deliberately compare it, the significance of this project is still very great."
"If you look at the trailer and publicity, the basis of the publicity for this project is actually the so-called 'new technology science popularization'. It originally existed to introduce the latest developments in our high-speed rail technology and engineering technology to the public."
"It's just that it might just happen to happen to be a US project - it's a bit unlucky. In this way, the effect of boosting confidence will be completely wiped out."
"Haha, you want to boost your confidence? I don't have much confidence anymore."
"Yeah, this time I probably gave my face to someone else to hit me again."
A series of comments left Chen Nian, who was following the show, a little confused. He couldn't help but go to Li Xiang, the designer of the show, and ask him what he thought.
Regarding his question, Li Xiang acted as if it were a matter of course.
"What else do you think? Of course I want to suppress them."
".I know you want to overwhelm them, but the problem is, judging from the current situation, it is really not easy for us to do it faster and better than them."
Chen Nian said helplessly.
In fact, he certainly hopes to make this project a landmark project.
But the problem is that there are some objective laws that are not so easy to change.
Hearing Chen Nian's words, Li Xiang showed a meaningful smile on his face.
He shook his head slightly and replied:
"Some things don't just depend on hardware conditions."
"In comparison, we are indeed inferior to Americans in terms of hardware."
"But the question is, can they really make good use of those conditions?"
"They've been out of touch with big projects like this for too long, and we're getting to the point where practice makes perfect."
"A strong leadership core is the key to determining victory or defeat."
"Don't worry, just focus on your skills."
"As for this one, let's wait and see!"
(There is another chapter after this early morning, but you can read it tomorrow. I was delayed driving back to my hometown today, and I will be sweeping the grave tomorrow.)
(End of chapter)
