Throughout December, exciting things not only happened in the field of national defense and armaments, but also a far-reaching event that had a major boost to the national economy.
That is, through more than a year of intensive research and development, and with the support of complete vehicle technology and various powerful enterprises, my country's ultra-high-speed railway vehicle technology has finally completed the overall research work.
At the same time, in terms of ultra-high-speed railway rail transit construction technology, theoretical certification and research and development of related construction equipment have also been completed, and it has finally entered the construction stage.
After research and investigation by relevant central departments, the relevant technology and physical objects have been accepted and accepted. This marks that my country's ultra-high-speed railway technology research and development has finally achieved complete success, and the construction of ultra-high-speed railway can be officially implemented.
In fact, before this, there have been relevant conclusions about where the first ultra-high-speed railway will be built in the construction plan of the first ultra-high-speed railway in China.
As my country's first ultra-high-speed railway, it is necessary to take into account the necessity of economic development at both ends of the railway, and at the same time verify the specific effects of the ultra-high-speed railway in actual construction and operation.
Therefore, after consultations between all parties, my country’s first ultra-high-speed railway was decided to start construction between Kyoto and Tianjin. The distance between the two cities is short, suitable for verification work, and the construction period is also short.
In addition, Kyoto and Tianjin are both cities with relatively developed economies in my country, and the construction of ultra-high-speed railways between them will put relatively little operational pressure.
More importantly, in order to take the lead in building my country's ultra-high-speed railway, the two cities are willing to provide a certain share of funds for this ultra-high-speed railway, which has reduced the pressure on construction funds for my country's railway department.
The reason why it is called a super high-speed railway, rather than a high-speed railway, is because the design speed of this railway reaches 500 kilometers per hour, which far exceeds the operating speed of international high-speed railways.
This is the first time in the world that such a high-speed rail transit has been implemented. Although it passed the laboratory verification, the technologies of all parties have also been verified and passed.
However, to be cautious, it is still necessary to conduct actual operational tests as soon as possible. When the actual operational tests are passed, it will mark that our country has the world's leading ultra-high-speed railway technology and has entered a leading position in this field.
The start of construction of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway is a great event, at least among the private sector and the government. They even called Zhao Yi in the laboratory, hoping that he could participate in the construction groundbreaking ceremony.
Although my country's ultra-high-speed railway construction has received support from all walks of life in the country, everyone understands that without Zhao Yi providing complete related technologies, my country's ultra-high-speed railway technology would not be born at all.
You must know that in this era, Japan's Shinkansen is already considered a technologically advanced high-speed railway technology, but their design speed is only more than 200 kilometers per hour. If you want to reach a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, you will have to wait until the 1990s.
In this era when a railway with a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour can be called a high-speed railway, my country's stable operating speed of 500 kilometers per hour is not an exaggeration at all.
At the same time, he also expressed how incredible this technology is in this era. It is definitely a railway technology that can be taken to the world and shock the whole world.
In fact, my country's ultra-high-speed railway technology has received widespread attention from the international community through ATV's broadcast around the world, including those who are interested and, of course, those who laugh.
However, only a small number of clowns jumped out and questioned whether such a heaven-defying technology existed in our country. Most of the others took their seats and prepared to watch quietly.
This is not necessarily because people who eat melon are friendly to our country, but because there have been a lot of incidents about our country’s technological breakthroughs in recent years, and they are not sure whether this ultra-high-speed railway technology is true or false.
Without understanding the real situation, a rational person would certainly not be able to jump out and question it right away. Instead, they would choose to wait and see for the time being. It would not be too late to complain and ridicule when it fails.
Fortunately, ultra-high-speed rail technology does not involve many interests around the world. Only Japan and Germany have similar technologies, but only Japan has actually implemented them. Germany itself has not built many high-speed rail projects.
Moreover, the land area of these two countries is relatively small, and the market space is not very large. Even if the ultra-high-speed railway comes out, the possibility of them actually using it is relatively low, because there is no need.
But our country is different. Our country not only has a vast territory, but also has a large population. If we want to speed up personnel exchanges and economic exchanges within our territory, we must have the support of ultra-high-speed railways.
Just like the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway, the total length is only 166 kilometers. If ultra-high-speed railway technology is used and runs at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, transportation between the two will only take more than 20 minutes.
At this time, the two cities can be operated as one city. If the high-speed rail fares are not considered, the people in the two cities are no different from living in the same city. It takes dozens of minutes to take the subway.
The construction of ultra-high-speed railways has provided necessary transportation support for my country to build urban agglomerations, and can completely shorten the transportation time in urban agglomerations to less than one hour.
Just like Zhao Yi wants to build a city cluster in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the distance from Changsha to Nanchang is only more than 300 kilometers, and the distance from Wuhan to Nanchang and Changsha is within 500 kilometers.
Even if many high-speed rail stations are set up along the way, it can still be guaranteed to travel within an hour, which is of great significance to the development of urban agglomerations.
Of course, Zhao Yi also has technologies that are faster than ultra-high-speed railways, such as ultra-high-speed maglev technology. However, Zhao Yi feels that compared with high-speed rail, maglev technology has more limitations in addition to being faster.
For example, the load capacity is low, the magnetic field influence is large, and more importantly, it is incompatible with my country's existing railway network, making it difficult to use old railway lines.
Of course, what is more important is that Zhao Yi not only wants to use high-speed rail lines to carry people, but also wants to be able to use high-speed rail lines to carry goods to achieve high-speed circulation of goods transportation in our country.
If freight is also taken into consideration, the disadvantages of the maglev train will become even more obvious. It is difficult to be compatible and the unit cost is higher. At least for a long time, high-speed maglev technology will have no use.
Of course, high-speed maglev technology may not be able to gain a foothold in my country's transportation field for a long time, but Zhao Yiyi is still more concerned about low-speed maglev technology.
Because Zhao Yi wants to apply low-speed maglev technology to my country's subways. First, the subway is aimed at transporting people and does not need to consider freight issues.
Second, the subway lines are relatively closed and there is no need to consider compatibility issues. This is an important reason why Zhao Yi feels that the subway is more suitable for using low-speed maglev technology.
Third, the noise of the maglev subway is very small. As long as the problem of magnetic field overflow is solved, it is very suitable for urban operations and the lives of residents along the line will be relatively comfortable.
Fourth, the turning radius and climbing distance of the low-speed maglev are much smaller than those of the subway, which results in its footprint being much smaller than that of the ordinary subway, which actually saves the cost of land acquisition and demolition.
Of course, if you want to apply medium and low-speed maglev technology to subway projects, there are also many problems that need to be solved. One is the construction cost issue, which is the most important construction basis.
However, Zhao Yi has a relatively mature set of medium and low magnetic levitation technology that can solve these problems, and because the research and development costs are low, a lot of costs are saved in research and development.
The second is to reduce the operating cost of the maglev while increasing the number of passengers it carries. It is important to know that the operating cost of the subway is equally important as the construction cost. If the operating cost is too high, it will face continuous losses.
At the same time, the subway needs to have the characteristics of high passenger capacity. People who have taken the subway in big cities have a deep understanding of this. During the rush hour, the subway cars are crowded with people. The current maglev technology cannot achieve high passenger capacity. Amount of customers.
In fact, the cost of magnetic levitation technology lies in the cost of maintaining superconductors. If there are room-temperature superconductors, then there is no need to spend money to maintain low temperatures to maintain the superconductors.
Of course, room temperature superconductors belong to the black technology level. Although Zhao Yi has these technologies in his hands, he has no intention of taking them out immediately because this is a strategic level technology and is not only used for magnetic levitation.
So he will come up with high-temperature superconductor technology. Although this will inevitably increase the operating cost of the maglev subway, it can avoid causing him a lot of trouble.
Moreover, high-temperature superconducting materials must be prepared on a large scale to reduce the cost of the production process, which is equivalent to reducing the construction cost of the maglev subway.
Although Zhao Yi did not go to the opening ceremony of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed rail project and refused because of his busy schedule, he spent a few days at home to sort out a set of medium and low-speed maglev train technology and handed it over to China Rail Vehicle Corporation.
At the same time, he handed over various key technologies involved to his various companies, asking them to cooperate with China Rail Vehicle Company to develop medium and low-speed maglev trains as soon as possible.
The reason why he is so eager to enter the field of medium and low-speed maglev trains is because with the acceleration of urbanization in our country, subways will become an indispensable mode of transportation in medium and large cities in the future.
Moreover, our country's future population will be much larger than in previous generations, more large cities will appear, and the demand for subways will inevitably be much higher than in previous generations.
According to Zhao Yi's plan, there will be more than 150 medium and large cities across the country in the future. These cities will launch subway projects in the future to effectively alleviate traffic congestion problems.
Of course, in order to solve future traffic problems, China Housing Corporation has already taken relevant issues into consideration when building new cities, such as building a large number of underground parking lots and not allowing cars to park casually on the side of the road in the future.
At the same time, a large number of pedestrian facilities will be built to try to avoid the problem of people and vehicles merging, speed up vehicle traffic, and also reduce pedestrian waiting times.
In addition, it is to cooperate with the smart city brain to intelligently control the time interval of traffic lights according to traffic congestion, accelerate traffic circulation efficiency and other measures.
In fact, the main cause of traffic congestion is caused by human operation, so autonomous driving will also play an important role in urban transportation in the future. Cooperating with the smart city brain, it can greatly reduce traffic congestion problems.
Just when our country announced the construction of the first ultra-high-speed railway, the Beijing-Tianjin High-speed Railway, it brought a great shock to Japan. Relevant Japanese companies and governments even communicated with relevant Chinese departments as soon as possible, wanting to strengthen work in this regard. Cooperation.
The main reason why Japan has such a fast reaction speed is that over the years, they have felt our country's increasingly powerful high-tech capabilities in various fields, which led them to have the lowest suspicion of the news.
You must know that Japan, as a neighboring country, feels the most about my country's development speed in the automobile industry and semiconductor industry, and it also feels the most pain in these two fields.
After my country's ultra-high-speed railway came out, Japan basically had no doubts about it, but wanted to cooperate as soon as possible. It would of course be better if relevant technology could be obtained.
But our country is different from the past. Although the per capita economic level is still relatively low, its performance in other aspects can be described as outstanding.
Especially on the ultra-high-speed railway where we own all intellectual property rights, there is no need to cooperate with Japan at all, so the cooperation request was rejected by our country because it has not yet conducted actual operational testing.
Because we understand very well that under the current background, it is very difficult to export ultra-high-speed railways abroad. This request for cooperation is just a cover, and there is no need to waste time.
Even if someone has an urgent need for ultra-high-speed railways, they will not rashly introduce ultra-high-speed railway projects without going through actual operation tests. After all, the construction cost is not a small amount, and it is considered a large-scale project in any country. .
In addition to the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway construction project, another important thing is that the Hong Kong Housing Company's new town has officially started operations. Although this matter is not as attention-grabbing as the former, it is still relatively important to Zhao Yi.
In order to acquire all the undeveloped land in Hong Kong, Zhao Yi spent hundreds of billions of dollars, but the investment of so much money did not bring him any more actual benefits besides the increase in book value.
The start of operation of the Yuen Long District New Town of the Hong Kong Housing Company this time finally gave the Hong Kong Housing Company its first project of its own, officially marking that the operation model of the Hong Kong Housing Company is on the right track.
Judging from the operation situation in the past half month, all performances are in line with expectations. Whether it is the occupancy rate of commercial real estate projects or the occupancy rate of residential real estate, they have met the expectations of the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, and even exceeded them.
Due to the presence of many commercial enterprises, the occupancy rate of commercial real estate has reached nearly 80%, and the occupancy rate of residential properties has been close to 90%. It is only a matter of time before they are all rented out in the future.
If all are rented out, even if the unit area price is low, it can bring tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars in rental income to Hong Kong housing companies every year.
As Hong Kong's economy continues to develop and per capita income continues to increase, rental income will further increase in the future. Although the current rental income of more than one billion US dollars is nothing compared to the investment, it can be regarded as a gratifying start.
Moreover, the commercial system built around the new city has benefited Zhao Yi's commercial enterprises a lot, because these enterprises occupy the best shops and the best office buildings.
In addition to common commercial facilities, the new town also has several welfare facilities, such as schools, hospitals and nursing homes, which are all indispensable components of the new town.
Due to the professional nature of schools, the Hong Kong Housing Company cooperates with Chinese education companies to run schools. The Chinese education companies even registered a subsidiary called Hong Kong Education Company in Hong Kong to be responsible for operating these schools.
The operation of the nursing home is also handed over to the China Nursing Home Company for cooperation, which also adopts a subsidiary operation model. However, the China Nursing Home Company hopes to accumulate experience in the operation of nursing homes for itself through such cooperation.
Although there are nursing homes in China, they are mostly lonely elderly people. Those with children generally do not let their relatives live in nursing homes. This trend has not yet formed in China.
Compared with schools and nursing homes, the start of operation of Xincheng Hospital has attracted great attention from Hong Kong citizens, if only because this hospital is owned by a Chinese medical company.
You must know that no hospital of a Chinese medical company has been outside the mainland before. This time, Suncity Hospital is the first of its kind to play an important role in the medical health of Hong Kong citizens.
We must know that only Chinese medical companies can completely cure major diseases and terminal illnesses in the world. Other hospitals in the world can only delay the treatment at most. Not only can they not completely cure them, but they will also increase the cost of the entire treatment process.
In the past, Hong Kong citizens had to go through relevant procedures if they wanted to treat serious illnesses. The cost of treatment in foreign-related hospitals of Chinese medical companies in the mainland was much higher than that of ordinary hospitals.
The operation of Xincheng Hospital this time will firstly save Hong Kong citizens a lot of trouble, and secondly, it can appropriately reduce treatment costs and reduce the treatment burden on local citizens.
Of course, if you want to reduce the cost of treatment, you must participate in the medical insurance cooperated by Ping An Insurance Company and China Medical Company. Otherwise, it will still be the same as before.
Due to the outstanding performance of Chinese medical companies, Hong Kong citizens are flocking to the medical insurance launched through cooperation, because purchasing this insurance means that they are completely free from major diseases, at least for the diseases that have been discovered.
This has to be said about the outstanding performance of Chinese medical companies this year, not to mention that they can treat almost all tumor diseases in the world from the beginning.
With the joint efforts of Chinese medical companies and Chinese pharmaceutical companies, the treatment problems of many major diseases are gradually being overcome. For example, AIDS, which was just discovered, has been completely solved.
Many other diseases, especially major health hazards and diseases that threaten human life in a short period of time, have been gradually overcome by Chinese medical companies and Chinese pharmaceutical companies in this year.
In fact, ordinary people can treat minor diseases, but the most difficult ones are major diseases and terminal illnesses. Ordinary people, relying on their own abilities, will either lose their money or lose their lives because they cannot be treated at all.
Therefore, the critical illness insurance jointly launched by China Medical Company and Ping An Insurance has received widespread support around the world. The number of purchases continues to increase, and the monthly cost of a single insurance has been reduced to US$100.
Although the annual insurance premium is US$1,200, which is not very low, it is not outrageously high compared with the medical insurance costs in developed countries in Europe and the United States. The most important thing is that purchasing this kind of insurance can solve their problems. .
This means that about 400 million people around the world have purchased this medical insurance project. However, according to this insurance regulation, if the number of purchasers continues to increase, the cost will no longer fall off a cliff.
In other words, if you continue to upgrade, the insurance cost will be at least US$80 per month, and the annual insurance cost will be US$960.
This data has been strictly calculated, because according to this payment standard, without affecting daily life, the number of people who can bear this cost will instantly expand to more than 1 billion people.
Without expanding overseas medical institutions, relying on the scale of domestic foreign-related hospitals, this ratio of people is considered to be the limit. Even Chinese medical companies will not be able to handle any more.
Of course, this insurance only covers the treatment costs of major diseases and has no effect on the treatment of common minor illnesses. This reduces the pressure on foreign-related hospitals of Chinese medical companies.
As for considering the medical issues of the wider third world people, Chinese medical companies stated that they have no such obligation. Foreign-related business is only to make money, and it is definitely not to provide benefits to foreign people.
Some Hong Kong citizens have purchased this insurance project before. After the opening of Xincheng Hospital this time, they can receive treatment directly nearby, giving them more security.
Hong Kong citizens who have not purchased this insurance have also purchased this insurance after being recommended by insurance companies, medical companies and customers who have already purchased it.
According to estimates by China Medical Corporation, this critical illness insurance will cover about 50% of Hong Kong citizens in the next year.
Although this insurance is very well-known in Hong Kong, the cost is not very low compared to the income. It costs more than 9,000 Hong Kong dollars a year, and many people are reluctant to buy it.
Now Hong Kong citizens hope that the government can bear part of the insurance costs. The reason is that the British Hong Kong government has made a lot of money from selling land, and at the same time, the Hong Kong MTR Corporation has also made a lot of money from the sale.
This revenue was previously said to be used for land reclamation, but there has been no action from the British Hong Kong government, so some people began to pay attention to this money, hoping that the government could bear part of the insurance costs.
The specific results are still unclear, but some representatives have come out to propose this plan. If the plan is passed, the government will bear half of the insurance costs, and the purchase volume will definitely increase to more than 80%.
It stands to reason that most buyers of critical illness are mainly the elderly population, because the elderly population has more major diseases and the purchase is more cost-effective, followed by infants and young children. Purchasing this insurance is mainly for peace of mind.
As for young and middle-aged people, the proportion of purchases will show a cliff-like decline. First, the probability of major diseases in this age group is much lower, and they feel that they are not easy to get sick.
Second, people in this age group are the breadwinners of the family, and the whole family's livelihood depends on them. They are under a lot of pressure. If they spend a large amount of additional insurance premiums, the pressure will be even greater. (End of chapter)