Speaking of which, after Minister Wang came to power, he had been engaged in high-speed railways. There have always been many controversies in the country.

Because among the countries that engage in high-speed railways internationally, in addition to Japan's Shinkansen, it seems that few other countries that have developed such things, such as France and Germany, make money in the operation of high-speed railways.

Even China is the same. After the high-speed railway was first developed, it has been operating money. Whether during the period when Minister Wang was in power or his successor, it has never made any money when the high-speed railway was operating.

But if you analyze it carefully and rationally, is it really not profitable to run high-speed rail?

This requires a specific analysis. The situation in China is different from that in Japan, France, Germany or the United States, because this country has a quarter of the world's population. Every year during the Spring Festival or other major holidays, the flow of people is particularly large.

Moreover, in terms of Chinese consumption habits, more people actually prefer to travel by train. After all, this kind of transportation is relatively safe.

Moreover, before the high-speed rail appeared, although air travel had gradually become popular, the high air ticket price was really daunting. However, when the high-speed rail appeared, the air ticket price was frequently discounted, which really made many ordinary people affordable. This can definitely be regarded as one of the achievements of Minister Wang.

But some people may say, you say so much, but look at the high-speed rail ticket price, it is so expensive, how many seats are divided into, and the ticket price is often 700 to 800 yuan. Who can take it for ordinary people?

It is true that the ticket price of the high-speed rail is not cheap, but in fact, it is not that Minister Wang doesn't want the ticket price to be cheap, but that he has no choice. He wants to be cheap, but he dares not.

In fact, since he started working on the high-speed rail, he was under a lot of pressure because once you set up a project and wanted to take the high-speed rail project, you will offend a lot of vested interests.

For example, the completion of this high-speed rail gave the cystics behind the vast highway system a heavy first-level right hook.

I believe everyone knows very well what the domestic expressway system is. A highway that has been built for more than 20 years has already recovered its costs in the toll. It is still charging, and it has been subject to the forever day. It can be seen that the shamelessness of this system.

This system is generally made by many red children as pioneers, and behind it is a system group dominated by foreign capital groups. This money not only makes those fat guys eat and make a lot of money, but also makes the foreign interest group make a fortune. In the end, the unlucky one is the domestic people.

In fact, ten years later, the inflation faced by domestic people is most basically reflected in the inflation on vegetables, rice, flour, grain and oil. A large part of it comes from the contribution of this highway.

First of all, he charges fees, and secondly, he can provide fines to local traffic managers. Thirdly, he contributed a lot of profits to companies like PetroChina and Sinopec.

And this money will eventually be passed on to the people at the consumption terminal. Farmers who farm in this way will not get any benefits, and the vegetables produced will be priced at a few cents per kilogram. However, these vegetables will become more than ten yuan or even dozens of yuan from rural fields to the people's dining tables.

The emergence of the high-speed rail gave these guys a heavy slap. For example, many people choose to take the high-speed rail instead of taking the bus. The emergence of the high-speed rail can free up a lot of transportation capacity for the original railway transportation system to those in need. This is equivalent to cheating the expressway system twice. So do you think those people hate Minister Wang?

The second is the giants engaged in aviation. Anyone who can afford to play airlines in China is generally large state-owned enterprises led by state-owned enterprises, but these state-owned enterprises. Anyone who understands them understands what is going on.

On the surface, these state-owned enterprises claim to be state-owned, but they are basically on-the-trade meals that belong to some of the children of the big clans. This is definitely an indisputable fact.

The emergence of high-speed rail has forced these so-called airlines to frequently discount and give in. Do you think these people hate Minister Wang?

The third is some people in charge of approval within the railway and the upper level. After Minister Wang took office, he performed extremely strongly. First of all, he implemented high-pressure rule within the railway, which made many people lose the opportunity to make money.

You should know that before he took office, there were many factions within the domestic railway system, and the rights of the North-South Railway Branches and major branches were very large.

Even when the main leaders of some branches can make separate decisions for procurement or negotiate for cargo transportation.

Finally, after Minister Wang came to power, he called all these leaders together, held a meeting, and announced directly that I had the final say in the future of the railway department's procurement, especially in the high-speed rail project, you interrupted. If anyone dares to contact foreigners in private and engage in procurement matters, then consider whether his head is heavy enough.

This has saved a lot of costs in the construction of high-speed rail.

For example, in order to please Minister Wang, the Zhuzhou Factory of CRRC Group, he knew that he would have to run high-speed rail after he came to power. As a result, he joined forces with Alstom of France to get a set of backward technologies from the French that could not be backward. He pieced together all the way to create a so-called domestic pride, which is known as the nose of the Chinese Star EMU.

It is claimed that the maximum speed can reach 250 kilometers per hour, but Minister Wang took a look and rejected the project, which directly made Zhuzhou South Railway Co., Ltd. feel bad.

After all, it’s okay to fool this thing into a layman, but if you get it in front of an insider, you will definitely be exposed.

I won’t say anything else, you’re pieced together. Anyway, Chinese people like to use this set to fool their superiors. However, your so-called power motorcycle is actually using concentrated power. This is all technology from decades ago. At present, the mainstream technology from international countries is all dispersed power technology. You are still using junk from decades ago to fool people. Do you still have a conscience?

Do you just like to join foreigners to fool us domestic people?

At that time, because the so-called China Star technology of CRRC was not adopted in the high-speed rail project, Minister Wang was under a lot of pressure. Because just denied this project, the so-called experts and scholars invited by CRRC jumped on TV, scolded their mothers, and even called names to scold Minister Wang's eight generations of ancestors.

It can be seen from this that in China, after you become an official, it is difficult to do something practical. Not to mention that if you do a job, it will cause dissatisfaction in other conflicting industries. Even if you are in charge of this pool, there will be many discordant people or voices, because you block their way to make money or promotion, and challenge you.

And just saying that his performance in his job after taking office in the Railway Department was enough to leave many people speechless.

Logically speaking, after you become a minister, it is equivalent to becoming a first-rank official in the court in the previous dynasty, which is a world of difference from the ninth-rank sesame official.

When we got outside, we could not have carried the sedan chair in the eighth car, shouting in front of us to avoid it, quiet, etc. Compared with the emperor, we are just a few details such as paving the loess road and cleaning water and dust removal.

Think about the so-called travel of provincial and ministerial cadres over the years. It was not a road closure, but police cars led it, and then went to the local area for inspection, and was also a show. It was mainly accompanied by journalists to inspect some designated locations, check the situation, express a few words of emotion, and then it was thrown out.

Minister Wang is different, especially from his predecessor. He has been in power for eight years and every time he goes to his subordinates of the Railway Department for inspection, he is without exception the nose of the train.

The railway minister who can be such a person can be said to be the only one who has been in the railway. Anyone who has done it on the railway knows what this means?

Everyone knows the train's nose and the environment is noisy, noisy, and dirty. This is definitely not the so-called place where gentlemen should go, but rather a place where they should stay away from.

Other ministers came to inspect, that is, they took a special train car, walked around the way, saw the scenery, and then enjoyed the wine and food delivered by their subordinates, which was equivalent to traveling.

But this minister is different. He just goes to the machine stop. In this way, he can't hide the situation of each branch along the way. He, the minister who comes from the bottom, knows everything about the branch offices along the way and the railway crossings.

Although such behavior is also suspected of making a show, it is much better than those show that goes around and enjoys filial piety.

So from this point of view, he is still a very pragmatic minister.

The most important thing is that since he came to power, he has made a series of violent reform policies on the railway system, which is one of the few that the departed ministers can do in the history of the railway system.

More than 50 railway branches were removed overnight and nearly 10,000 redundant personnel were removed. Such courage, let alone the Railway Department, is unique even in the domestic officialdom.

Even much stronger than the so-called iron-fisted Tsar who shouted to go to the mine formation back then...
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