Spark

The high-speed rail line project from Los Angeles to San Francisco started soon. Compared with other projects in Laomei, this time, they are really amazingly efficient.

Since the exploration and design work had already been carried out in the early stage, it was only due to investment, equity and other issues that the construction was delayed. Therefore, after the public announcement of the start of the project, in less than three days, various types of construction machinery began to enter the site , a huge construction team is also ready to go.

Judging from the aerial footage specially arranged by the US side, this time they have invested heavily and the team is professional. Even when they set off, all the workers even agreed on the dress.

The neat team, the tall and straight work uniforms, and the various tools hanging on the workers, at first glance, it looks like a well-trained army.

Moreover, this project will be reported in the form of uninterrupted live broadcast.

According to the US side, they will complete the construction of the main part of the entire section of the high-speed railway within six years, and will complete the construction of the first 30-kilometer demonstration line within three months.

600 kilometers, 6 years.

Such a speed, no matter which country it is placed in, can be called astonishing.

Even when Chen Nian saw this plan, the first thought that popped into his mind was:

Is this him bragging?

After all, the construction period of the 530-kilometer high-speed rail in the UK was delayed for more than 20 years.

After the high-speed rail technology is fully mature and the construction process is extremely complete, it took us a full five years to build a 300-kilometer high-speed rail.

Now, at this point in 2006, you told me that you only need 6 years to drive 600 kilometers?

no one will believe it

Sitting in Li Xiang's room, Chen Nian looked at the constantly refreshing text on the computer screen with some curiosity, and asked:

"So this is your daily job? Brushing posts on the website every day?"

Li Xiang almost couldn't help rolling his eyes, he put down the mouse in his hand, and replied:

"If I were to really do this, I'd be exhausted. Now it's basically a keyword search, but the problem is, to search for keywords, you have to filter out the keywords first."

"Therefore, the pre-preparation work must be done well."

"For example, what are the keywords in the posts we read just now?"

Chen Nian frowned and thought for a moment, then replied:

"Normalization?"

"clever!"

Li Xiang glanced at Chen Nian approvingly, and then continued:

"So, that's what a lot of what we call trolls on the Internet do."

"They will seize the hot words in a hot event, and keep posting the same type of posts in various forums to create public opinion."

"Some of these behaviors are spontaneous and some are organized, so it's hard to distinguish."

"Still, their impact is the same."

As he spoke, Li Xiang entered the keyword "standardized" into the computer. After a brief search, a lot of results popped up on the screen instantly.

Chen Nian took a closer look, and sure enough, most of the content was the same as what Li Xiang said, and the output was homogeneous content.

"Looking at the US infrastructure capacity from the Los Angeles-San Francisco Railway: the degree of standardization may exceed that of China by 50 years!"

"This is the standard! Standardized construction, when can we achieve it?"

"Standardization is an unspeakable pain for domestic engineering projects."

"Discipline is as strict as the army! In front of the United States, do we still dare to talk about standardization?"

One post after another, although the titles are not the same, but after clicking in, you can easily find that whether it is the point of view, argument or argumentation process, they all follow the same path.

It's almost like being taught by a master.

Seeing this, Chen Nian couldn't help shaking his head and said:

"This year's public knowledge is not good, is this attack power?"

According to Chen Nian's idea, if the United States came up with such a bold and iconic project, public intellectuals should at least praise their economic resilience and the indomitable spirit of the American nation, and then attack the domestic market economy environment and humanities. Environment or something.

This is the result?

Hearing his words, Li Xiang asked curiously:

"Then what do you think it should contain?"

Chen Nian thought for a while and replied:

"If I were to write it, I would have to write a headline such as 'The United States has once again slapped the world in the face of the world'."

"Look, everyone thought that after the financial crisis, they would definitely fail. As a result, they not only survived, but also threw out a big project backhand."

"What kind of cool story is this? This is what people like to watch the most."

".You know quite well. There really is such a thing."

Li Xiang deleted the keyword of "standardization", and then entered the keyword of "slap in the face". After a while, a large number of posts came out again.

"Shameful! The self-respecting advocacy of the theory of financial destruction of the country, the face of the United States was slapped on the spot."

"Have you slapped your face? Where is the landlord who said that the United States will die this time? Are you the one who died?"

"What a slap in the face! A financial crisis has undoubtedly exposed Huaxia's villain mentality!"

"Slap in the face! Don't try to be self-improvement, just hope that people are weak, the result is self-evident!"

After a round of reading, Chen Nian finally recognized the ability of these public knowledge to make trouble.

"It's really good. Is there anything else besides these?"

"There are too many."

Li Xiang replied without thinking.

"But there's no point in seeing these things."

"What we have to do is to identify those with obvious malicious tendencies, and then just do what we should do."

"As for the really stupid ones, let them go."

"Understood, the law can't control real scs?"

"...that's pretty much what it means."

Hearing this answer, Chen Nian shook his head and said helplessly:

"It seems that there is still a long way to go to popularize knowledge."

"No, it should not be said that the road to knowledge popularization should be that the road to cognitive education is still very long."

"Now, our people listen to whoever has the biggest fist and believe whoever has the loudest voice. In the long run, even if we can dominate the issue of 'right to speak' one day , and it is impossible to truly cultivate the kind of 'national self-confidence' that can stand the test."

"That's right, it's not wrong at all."

Li Xiang nodded in agreement again.

"Chen Nian, I find this world really strange. You are obviously a technical person, but you know a lot about this set of things."

"I'm not, in good conscience, any weaker than I am—and I'm a genius at it."

"You are such a monster."

Chen Nian didn't care about Li Xiang's emotion. In the conversation just now, he suddenly had an inspiration.

Before, I had proposed to Chen Guo a suggestion about "knowledge education reform", and the core of this suggestion was to widely popularize basic cutting-edge knowledge to the society.

But it is not so easy to do this.

The first step is to arouse the interest of the public.

According to his cognition in the previous life, some TV programs including "National Treasure" and "Collection of China" are actually doing well.

Unfortunately, those are concentrated in the cultural field.

Then this time, taking advantage of the opportunity of Americans building high-speed rail, can we find a way to make use of it?

Chen Nian thought for a while, and after organizing his words, he explained his thoughts to Li Xiang.

Li Xiang's eyes became brighter the more he listened, and after Chen Nian finished speaking, he immediately clapped his hands and said:

"good idea!"

"I already have an idea!"

"Tomorrow, I will communicate with Professor Chen. Don't worry, we will handle this matter!"

A few days later, a piece of news appeared on the headlines of major media with extremely high weight.

The content of the news surprised everyone who was familiar with the nature of rabbit urine.

"How is the high-speed rail built?" The construction of the Jingshi section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway started, and the whole process was broadcast live! "

According to the news preview, this live broadcast will begin with the official groundbreaking of the Jingshi section of the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway and continue until the completion of the laying of the 30-kilometer line in the first quarter.

During the process, the program is not only a simple live broadcast, but also introduces the new equipment and new technologies used in this project to the people of the whole country.

That said, it's actually more of a live-streamed series than an American broadcast.

It has a strong popular science attribute, but more concentrated

Or its unabashedly expressed wariness against 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 have full confidence in the success of this project.

This kind of confidence is so strong that he doesn't care about the engineering inspiration that the US may get from it, and even wants to tell you what we are doing one by one.

What are you afraid of?

Even if you see it, can you learn it?

——

The people who organized this program should generally think so.

However, not everyone thinks so.

Since the news was released, there have been endless voices of doubts about this program, including this project.

One of the biggest doubts is whether the current domestic infrastructure strength 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 between China and the United States".

This form was widely circulated, and before the show was broadcast, it had already formed a huge popularity.

The reason why the form can be widely spread is also inseparable from its rigorous and detailed content.

According to the records in the form, the two projects were compared in the fields of 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 a bridge with a tunnel construction of less than 300 meters and a span of 50 meters.

As for Huaxia, it involves two bridges with a total length of about 1.2 kilometers of tunnels and a span of 100 meters.

In terms of investment, the US plans to invest US$6 billion in this 30-kilometer demonstration high-speed railway.

As for Huaxia, it only plans to invest 9 billion yuan.

This is no longer a question of more or less, the US investment is directly 6 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 area, it has already obtained technical support from Siemens in advance.

They have rich experience, and the quality of their personnel is much higher than ours, not to mention the fully mature construction process.

In addition, even when it comes to the only engineering equipment that China currently has an advantage in, the advantage is not too obvious.

After all, the design standards of the high-speed railway line of the Beijing-Shibai section do not require a super-large shield machine 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 really have little chance of winning.

How to win?

On the Internet, the discussion among netizens is divided into two factions.

"So we're going to do the crowd project again this time? But why do I think this kind of project can't be won even if there are crowds?"

"Don't think about it, you can't win. Super-large projects rely on system engineering. It doesn't mean that the more people you have, the better."

"On the contrary, manpower is particularly characterized by the basic theory of diminishing marginal utility. If we invest too much manpower, we will not be able to improve efficiency, and 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 great."

"Look at the preview announcement. The promotional standpoint of this project is actually the so-called 'new technology popularization'. It originally existed to introduce the latest development of our high-speed rail technology and engineering technology to the public."

"It's just that it might have just happened to be a U.S. project -- a little bit of bad luck, so the confidence-boosting effect would be completely erased."

"Hehe, is it still boosting confidence? I don't have much confidence in the first place."

"Yeah, this time I guess I sent my face up to be beaten by others again."

A series of comments made Chen Nian, who was following the show, a little confused. He couldn't help but went to Li Xiang, the designer of the show, and asked him what he thought.

As for his question, Li Xiang took it for granted.

"What do you think, of course you want to overwhelm 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 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 the Americans in terms of hardware."

"But the question is, can they really make good use of those conditions?"

"They've been out of a big project like this for too long, and we're getting ... practice makes perfect."

"A strong leadership core is the key to victory or defeat."

"Don't worry, you concentrate on your technology."

"As for this one. Let's wait and see!"

(There is still a chapter after this morning, but you can read it tomorrow. I was delayed by driving back to my hometown today, and I will visit the grave tomorrow.)