After Hu Wenhai said this, Fu Zhiheng had to wave his hands repeatedly: "Mr. Hu's topic is really too big. Don't say that I am just the director of Shengjing Bureau now. Even if one day I really become the minister, it's not my turn to make a decision with such a plan."

"I am certainly optimistic about this to open up the land channel from Kazakhstan to Ukraine and finally connect Europe. But what can I say to coordinate? What the Ministry of Railways can do is actually limited. Even if I expand the railways in the western region, it is not something I can only say."

Hu Wenhai shook his head silently and said with a smile: "Of course, the construction of the central channel in the Eurasian continent cannot be completed without a ten-year push. However, it would be unrealistic to say that the Ministry of Railways can't do anything, right?"

"I don't know if Director Fu noticed it. This year, the railway has undergone information transformation, but there have been very extraordinary changes."

"Oh?" Fu Zhiheng frowned slightly, and was a little puzzled by how Hu Wenhai could connect information transformation with the central Asia-Europe channel. Moreover, it is true that railway information transformation itself is amazing, but is there any changes he did not discover?

Fu Zhiheng is still a technical official from an engineer and does not have that clear understanding of the social transformation that technology can lead to.

"The Shengjing Bureau's performance this year is indeed good. After the heavy load and information transformation, the transportation volume has made a qualitative leap."

"It's not only an increase in transportation volume." Hu Wenhai said flatly: "The types of transportation materials have also undergone profound changes."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but look nostalgic and smiled: "I still remember that Xinke was just established a few years ago, and the first Spring Festival factory was distributed to the factory. Other units in the Embroidery City gave nothing more than rice, pork and soybean oil. However, we did something that sensational in the whole city. The New Year benefits distributed by Xinke were watermelons!"

"oh!"

This is the first time Fu Zhiheng has heard this story. He is from Hei Province. After a little thought, he can understand what the meaning of having an iced watermelon at home during the Chinese New Year in the Northeast of the 1980s.

Just putting it at home to brag about it will be worth the fare.

Hu Wenhai smiled slightly proudly, then shook his head with some regret: "But I believe the new students won't be able to enjoy this year."

"Because of heavy load and information transformation, the railway capacity has increased, which drives the entire social and economic activity. At a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, the railway can only be used to transport steel and coal. At a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, the watermelons and vegetables from the south can be transported to the northeast. If the railway speed can reach 300 kilometers per hour, I can also eat Boston lobsters in the northeast."

"This winter, although watermelons in Northeast China are still a bit expensive, they are definitely not rare goods that cannot be bought on the market. I believe that in a few years, eating watermelons in Northeast China will be a common thing."

Hu Wenhai said a little meaningfully: "Maybe we will have a lot of transportation capacity one day, and I can also buy a train ticket for my Boston lobster."

"ha"

Fu Zhiheng smiled slightly politely, just thinking that Hu Wenhai was making a joke, but his mind was thinking about what he said.

What does the increase in transportation capacity and transportation speed mean for the entire society?

Perhaps in the eyes of some people, how big is the difference between green-skinned cars and high-speed railways? The train I used to get to the local area only took 12 hours now. However, from a personal point of view, this does not seem to be that great, right? How many urgent matters need to hurry up and rush for these 12 hours? Even if I am really in a hurry, I can choose to take a plane.

From this perspective, instead of investing 200 million yuan per kilometer to build high-speed rail, the people in the west are still eating grass!

Those who make such arguments often claim to be an economist. People who use this feudal social peasant economic worldview to look at the world can become celebrities, which really makes people feel like they are in a bad mood.

Only under the conditions of a small peasant economy in feudal society can this cake-cut theory that there is no money to help the poor after building a railway. In fact, the improvement of transportation efficiency will significantly enhance the economic vitality of the society. The resulting growth of social wealth is the real route of sustainable development.

Just like the Daqin Line Railway, investment is not small, right? It is also a huge engineering miracle in the world.

The renovation investment of the Daqin Line was only more than 10 billion yuan, but after completion, the annual revenue in 2005 was as high as 12.2 billion yuan, and the subsequent growth rate of transportation revenue exceeded 50%.

Not to mention that the completion of the Daqin Line has eased the energy crisis in the coastal areas and became the energy pillar of China's steel production. These benefits cannot be expressed simply by operating income.

With the increase in the total amount of social wealth, it is not much easier to go back to help the poor and provide welfare than building a temple in a snail shell?

The impact of every step of improvement in transportation capacity on the entire social and economic vitality is like adding another centimeter to the radius of the circle.

The result is by no means as simple as addition.

Fu Zhiheng has been in charge of Shengjing Bureau in recent years and has been exposed to a lot of practices and has already had some vague concepts about these economic phenomena.

Now that Hu Wenhai said this, his mind suddenly became enlightened.

"Mr. Hu's words make sense. The economic value of the railway is not just its own profits. From the perspective of the country, no matter how large the basic investment is, it is still profitable at the level of the entire society."

Fu Zhiheng was already thinking about how to operate the concept of the role of railways in promoting the market economy. The initial investment demand for railway construction is huge. Although it is a way to build railway bonds, it is always a quarrel with Fuyou Street. It is really annoying.

If we can prove that railways are not only a business, but also have economic significance at the social level, can the treatment be the same?

At that time, railway investment will bring the color of political tasks to see who dares to touch the cheese of the boss!

Seeing that Fu Zhiheng understood his meaning, Hu Wenhai looked at him and smiled, and everything was silent.

At this time, Hu Wenhai really put forward his killer weapon: "To promote the construction of the China-Kazakhstan Railway, it is actually not difficult to convince the above work. You must know that Kazakhstan has oil, and it is a world-class large oil field! With this point, we should tie Kazakhstan to us."

"There is a large oil field in Kazakhstan?!" Fu Zhiheng's eyes were almost glaring out: "Transport oil? Transport oil!"

Hu Wenhai nodded vigorously: "Yes, transport oil."

Just look at the current fanaticism about coal transportation within the railway, and you will know how attractive the energy transportation business is. Just transporting coal will make the Ministry of Railways crazy, so what if it is replaced by oil with more economical value?

Even if you want to build oil pipelines in the future, the railway will enjoy at least ten years of profitable period.

When you open the map and think about the transportation channels between China and Europe, it is difficult not to notice the country of Kazakhstan. Compared with Russia, which looks different from the northern line, the series of camels with dazzling political situations on the southern line, Kazakhstan's central line was originally too unique.

First of all, Kazakhstan’s political situation is not stable! Nazarbayev is a great master of his generation, so he asked which country issued a book, which was deleted and revised, just like Kazakhstan…

Secondly, Kazakhstan is the world's largest inland country, with a land area of ​​ninth in the world, but its population is only more than 10 million. This means that Kazakhstan does not have the delusions that are as tall as Russia.

But on the other hand, Kazakhstan has a considerable part of the Caspian Sea oil field. In addition, it also has a rich variety of minerals in China, iron, coal and tungsten reserves are quite considerable. China uses tungsten as armor-piercing bombs, which has been regarded as a luxury, but Kazakhstan's tungsten reserves are the world's number one!

As a major oil and gas country like Kazakhstan and a neighbor of China, the amount of oil imports must be huge, right? Unfortunately, most of Kazakhstan's oil exports are exported to Europe, and less than 20% of the share is allocated to China.

Of course, it will not be a day since the two barrels of oil nests are stuck.

But in this way, China's economic share in Kazakhstan is not so good-looking. Without the most basic economic existence, it is beyond the reach of trying to exert more influence.

It is really a pity that China has not taken over Kazakhstan's oil and gas resources.

Of course, it is impossible for Kazakhstan to escape Russian control due to its geopolitical relations with Russia. But first of all, it must be a unified Russia with a young father, rather than a Russia that was dragged into the abyss by the Khitans and was still ready to turn the tables by a group of Soviet Communist Party.

It can be seen from this that Kazakhstan's oil is not only a capital issue, but an economic issue, but also a major issue related to the world pattern.

Kazakhstan and the Caucasus region, from Ukraine to Poland, Germany, France, Britain, and Spain, if this route can be opened in ten years, China will have the hard and soft power that will no longer be afraid of the United States' blackmail.

However, if he wants to win Kazakhstan, this time it is not something he can do by fighting alone. The railway system is just the beginning. Next, Hu Wenhai will also form a national team with agriculture, energy, chemicals, steel, real estate and other industries. This will be a comprehensive mobilization of the new science department.

Of course, there are some side benefits to increasing the strategic significance of Kazakhstan to China. For example, any policy to weaken the central government's control over the West will be absolutely unacceptable in this strategic environment.
Chapter completed!