Chapter 700： Zhao Yong's original intention

Chapter 700 Zhao Yong's Original Intention (Subscribe)

Qu Ping and Yang Peng are high school graduates from Tianfu Province, and just after completing their volunteers, the two of them, with the consent of their families, are going to Ludao to travel together.

Before the plane took off, just after seeing the news of the hyperloop, the two discussed it in the cabin.

"I'm going, Guanghua University, the super high-speed rail has been made, won't it be faster than flying in the future?"

"Bullshit, Lao Yang, let me tell you, the super high-speed rail is absolutely blowing! It's still 1,500 kilometers per hour, is it possible? Now the high-speed rail is only 350 kilometers per hour!"

"Uh, this difference is indeed a bit big... But isn't Guanghua University's scientific research ability quite powerful, maybe it's true."

"It's really hairy, even if it can achieve 1,500 kilometers per hour, it is Japan that really did it. Japan made the world's fastest train in 2016, with a speed of 603 kilometers per hour!"

Hearing this made Yang Peng bewildered. He patted the back of his head and asked blankly, "Isn't the fastest high-speed train in our country called Fuxing? I remember that the fastest Shinkansen in Japan seems to be only 320 kilometers per hour?"

"Fuxing?" Qu Ping sneered and said with disdain, "Let me tell you, Fuxing, Harmony, these EMUs are all copied from Japan, you can tell by looking at the model, they are almost exactly the same as the Japanese Shinkansen. "

"This is also in our country. Infringement of Japanese intellectual property rights is so serious, many Chinese people are still arrogant every day, and it is really shameful to think about independent research and development."

Yang Peng was silent.

Following Qu Ping's words and thinking carefully, it seems that the models of Harmony and Fuxing are indeed quite similar to the Japanese Shinkansen Express?

Yang Peng didn't speak, but Qu Ping continued grumblingly:

"It is said that the first batch of EMUs were all imported from Japan, and they were not changed at all, so they were afraid of problems. Even the body had Japanese slogans on it. Can you believe it?"

"Stealing other people's technology and putting gold on my face, I'm embarrassed!"

For some reason, Qu Ping felt uncomfortable when he mentioned the word "steal".

Before he could speak, an angry shout came from beside him:

"What nonsense! Which We Media account did you see this on?"

"The Fuxing high-speed rail is 100% China's independent design, independent research and development, and has complete intellectual property rights. Why is it not domestic?"

"How can you be regarded as a traitor at such a young age? Are you touting the Japanese Shinkansen?"

"In the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail project in Indonesia, China has successfully defeated Japan and won this large international order."

"Don't brag about the spirit of Japanese craftsmen. The high-speed rail of the railway derailment incident in Baodao this year was built by Hitachi, and the high-speed rail of the 550 billion project in the UK also cracked in May this year. Finally, it was found that it was a train chassis produced by Hitachi, Japan. problem appear."

Yang Peng turned his head and spoke to an uncle who was sitting beside him near the aisle. He didn't look very old, but his hair was sparse and his hairline protruded.

At this moment, the uncle's face turned red, and he looked angry.

Perhaps the word "traitor" irritated Qu Ping, and across Yang Peng, Qu Ping counterattacked at the uncle:

"Isn't the EMU drawing used in Japan? As for the domestic production you said, I laughed! Now the engines of the EMU are still imported, which is called domestic production?"

Professor Zhao Yong was really **** off, really.

He looked at Qu Ping and stared straight at him, "Did you just say the engine was it?"

Qu Ping was inexplicably uncomfortable, but he still replied stubbornly, "Yeah, it's the engine, why, there's nothing left to say, right?"

"Haha!" Professor Zhao Yong sneered and looked at the other party like an idiot, "I thought you at least understood a little bit, but now it seems that you are not even as good as Zhao Kuo, who is talking about soldiers on paper."

"Engine? Where did the engine come from on the EMU? That's called a traction motor!"

Qu Ping was speechless, Professor Zhao Yong did not give the other party a chance to argue, and directly questioned with three consecutive hits:

"Do you know what a traction motor is?"

"Do you know what is a traction transformer, traction converter, auxiliary converter?"

"Do you know what aerodynamics, bogies are?"

Finally, Professor Zhao Yong came up with an ultimate move.

"By the way, the core components of the above-mentioned EMUs have all been localized!"

"Also, I want to correct you one more mistake. In my country, only the crh2 type is imported from Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The crh1 type is imported from Canada's Bombardier, and the crh3 type is imported from Germany's Siemens technology. The EMUs manufactured, the crh5 type imported EMUs manufactured by French Alstom technology."

"And Japan's EMU technology is also learned from Siemens. If Japan is your father, then Germany is your grandfather. You should praise Germany."

The last sentence caused a lot of laughter in the cabin, and even the good ones whistled.

"Master said it well! Today's young people are not patriotic after a good life. I think they grew up eating shit!"

"If I were younger, I would just slap it with a big mouth, what the hell!"

"Hetui!"

There was so much tossing and moving that the stewardess immediately ran over to mediate the conflict.

And Professor Zhao Yong is also a lot less angry. As for Qu Ping, he has already transformed into an ostrich. If he hadn't been on the plane, he would have run away in despair.

It's no wonder that Professor Zhao Yong was furious, but Qu Ping's remarks went too far.

In just a few words, the efforts and sweat of the Chinese railway people for more than ten years have been denied!

China's high-speed rail, from introduction to digestion and absorption, from 0 to the present, occupies more than 60% of the world's high-speed rail lines. It took only a few decades to lead the world.

Who knows the hardships behind it?

Just like that lyric, who said that those who stand in the light are heroes!

After the storm dissipated, Professor Zhao Yong was about to continue closing his eyes and resting, but another voice came from beside him.

"Master, how do you know so much?"

Professor Zhao Yong squinted slightly, and after seeing that the speaker was not Qu Ping but Yang Peng, he snorted, "I'm a university professor, and this is what I study, do you think I understand?"

As soon as he heard that he was a university professor, Qu Ping was a good loser.

On the contrary, Yang Peng asked humbly, "Your surname, sir?"

"Miangui's surname is Zhao, what's wrong?"

"Professor Zhao, it's like this. After hearing what you said just now, I'm very curious about our country's high-speed rail business. Can I get some advice from you?"

Looking at Yang Peng's modest and learning attitude, compared to Qu Ping, it is like a world, and Zhao Yong's words are very useful to Yang Peng.

"Okay, I'm so angry that I can't sleep, so I'll give you a good science, and let that little traitor listen to it."

A little traitor made Qu Ping move again, but when he remembered that the uncle was a university professor, he probably couldn't tell the other party, so he wouldn't humiliate himself, so he had to grit his teeth and endure it.

As for Zhao Yong, he briefly recalled and slowly told an unknown past of the Republic.

"Things have to start from 1978. October 22, 1978 is the starting point of the story of China's high-speed rail."

"The chief designer went to Japan to participate in the signing ceremony of the "China-Japan Friendship and Peace Treaty". During the visit, he took a test ride on the Japanese Shinkansen train. At that time, the speed of the Shinkansen reached 220 kilometers per hour, while the average speed of Chinese railways was only 43 kilometers per hour! "

The major gap between 43 kilometers and 220 kilometers is not an exaggeration to say that it is the world's largest.

"It is also looking up to the Shinkansen that opened the chapter of China's high-speed rail."

"But limited by economic level and engineering and technical capabilities, it was not until 1999 that the Ministry of Railways started construction of China's first experimental high-speed rail line, the Qin-Shen passenger line."

"There is a railway, so what train should we run?"

"At this time, the "China Star" EMU came into being as the culmination of the domestically produced trains. It's just a pity that the China Star has frequent failures. In the end, the Ministry of Railways only allowed the China Star to travel at 160 kilometers per hour in Qinshen. Post-secondary operations.”

"Although the failure rate of China Star is not low, the Chinese railway engineers are confident in the road of independent research and development, and in time they will be able to match the operating speed of the Japanese Shinkansen."

"But that's why the new Minister of Railways is unwilling to spend decades just tying up the already mature technology abroad. The following series of operations by the Ministry of Railways have become a textbook case of business negotiation."

"On January 1, 2004, the National Academy of Sciences passed the "Medium and Long-Term Railway Network Planning". It is planned that by 2020, the national railway mileage will reach 100,000 kilometers, and the "four vertical and four horizontal" passenger dedicated lines will be built, which is today's high-speed rail. backbone network."

"This plan is the largest high-speed railway plan ever undertaken by mankind, and all railway technology companies around the world are unmoved. Various high-speed railway companies no longer hide advanced products, but take out their fist products as the Chinese market. the stepping stone."

"The second step of the Ministry of Railways is the "Invitation for Bidding of the 200-kilometer-per-hour Railway EMU Project" issued on June 17, 2004.

The subtlety of this tender is that it specifies that the bidding company must be a Sino-foreign joint venture, and the four foreign giants, Siemens, Alstom, Bombardier, and the Japan High Speed ​​Rail Consortium, cannot directly bid.

The real intention of the Ministry of Railways is to force Chinese companies to learn international advanced technologies from foreign companies, and at the same time use huge cakes to tempt foreign companies to transfer advanced technologies to China. "

Speaking of this, Professor Zhao admired the minister nicknamed Liu Leaping.

It is precisely because of Liu Leaping's boldness that China's high-speed rail has become the number one in the world today.

"The Ministry of Railways has only designated two Chinese companies to introduce technology, namely Sifang Locomotive and Changchun Bus. These two companies are called 'strategic buyers'."

"CSR Sifang has a soft spot for the Shinkansen, so they negotiated with the Japanese high-speed rail consortium; the Ministry of Railways was most optimistic about Siemens' high-speed rail at the beginning, so CNR Changchun instructed to negotiate with Siemens; as for Bombardier, in 1990 , and established a joint venture with CSR Sifang, so Bombardier does not have to worry about bidding qualifications.”

"Among the four foreign giants, only French Alstom is the most worried.

Fortunately, at this time, Germany's Siemens sent Alstom a godsend.

Siemens' platform technology is the most advanced, but the Germans maintain their superior technology and have always been unable to negotiate with the Chinese side on price.

Even the lion opened his mouth, the prototype car was 350 million yuan per row, and the technology transfer fee was 390 million euros. As of one month before the opening of the bid, Siemens still refused to let go, and Changchun Bus would not give in. It simply sent away the Germans and invited Alstom. .

In the final bidding results, in addition to Siemens, the other three major foreign giants have made some gains, and all received orders from the Ministry of Railways. The incident made Siemens executives furious, and the negotiating team was fired collectively. "

"In 2005, one year after the first tender, the Ministry of Railways launched the second round of tenders, this time for trains with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, which is today's high-speed rail.

Siemens ate a fight once, and learned to behave well the second time. In the second round of bidding, it reached an agreement with Tangshan Bus of RMB 250 million per vehicle and a technology transfer fee of EUR 80 million, and the content of the technology transfer is very complete, which is equivalent to German hands teaching Chinese how to design high-speed rail.

Therefore, what China's high-speed rail really learns is Germany's Siemens, not Japan's Shinkansen! "

What follows is the story of how Chinese railway people took these technologies and turned them into their own stories.

For example, Tangshan Bus realized the localization of Siemens EMUs within three years;

CSR Sifang also produced a self-developed train with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour.

On August 1, 2008, China's first high-speed rail line with a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity High-speed Railway, was officially put into operation. Chinese enterprises have mastered the advanced technology of the four major international high-speed rail giants.

Since then, China's high-speed railway has taken a new step and opened an era of rapid development.

It is a pity that the good times did not last long. In 2011, a major railway traffic accident occurred in the Wenzhou section of the Yong-Wenzhou line, which brought the high-speed railway business of the Republic into a dark period.

Until 2013, the Ministry of Railways was revoked, China Railway Group appeared, and China's high-speed railway came back to life.

In particular, the launch of Fuxinghao marks that China's high-speed rail industry has the ability to completely independently develop the most advanced platforms. China's high-speed rail is not only the leader of the world's high-speed rail industry, but also the best business card made in China.

At the end, Professor Zhao Yong shook his head and sighed: "China's high-speed rail is actually the way of Chinese cars. First, build a wave of roads to form a huge market cake, and then use the market for technology, share the market with joint ventures, and then digest, absorb, self-produce, Swallow the internal market, and finally grab the external market through independent research and development, innovation, and export.”

"It's a pity that the high-speed rail has gone through, but the car has not yet gone through!"

After listening to Professor Zhao Yong's speech, Yang Peng suddenly realized that the development of China's high-speed rail has been so difficult.

The Harmony EMU is not for the time being, but the Fuxing EMU is completely self-designed, and most of it is independently developed. It is no problem to say that it is made in China.

After listening to this sentence, many passengers in the cabin also felt that they had gained a new knowledge.

On the other hand, Qu Ping has made a comeback again Hehe, he didn't learn it from foreigners, how can he say that he is made in China? "

Professor Zhao Yong sneered, "China invented gunpowder, so is the 98k also a Chinese gun?"

Qu Ping blushed, opened his mouth, and finally closed it again.

No one was arguing, and Professor Zhao Yong closed his eyes again.

It was the past of the Republic that he just mentioned that reminded him of some things.

A soft spot in my heart was touched.

The development of China's railways is not easy, especially in the early days behind every section of the railway was the sacrifice of dozens or hundreds of railway workers.

Inexplicably, he remembered his original intention of studying...

He can also be regarded as a "railway family". His grandfather joined the railway guerrillas during the Anti-Japanese period, and his father was a train driver. Perhaps this is the reason why he was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University after he resumed the college entrance examination and began to study transportation.

The reason for choosing the transportation major is because he wants to build the Chinese's own train!

Then he went to graduate school, and then became the first doctorate in the field of high-temperature superconductivity in China.

After graduating from Ph.D., Zhao Yong started his overseas study trip.

After studying in Italy, Australia and Japan for 13 years, he finally returned home and returned to his alma mater, Southwest Jiaotong University, to teach with a bunch of titles and achievements.

Doing projects, applying for funds, publishing papers...

The talent hat on the head has grown more and more over time.

He became obsessed with a "game" called academics.

So... when did he lose his original ideal?

Zhao Yong's eyes were blank.

ps: There is a lot of information in this chapter, I'm really sorry... In fact, in order to understand the EMU and high-speed rail technology, it took me four or five hours to check the information. In the future, I will try my best to control the popular science part, sorry!