High speed rail is an irreplaceable business card of China

"There is no high-speed rail in America, the high-speed rail in America is in the sky.". The sentence, which appeared on Weibo some time ago, triggered a new round of discussions on infrastructure construction between China and the United States. At this time, some people claimed that the "high-speed rail in the air" can stack dozens of layers without occupying land. The air resistance is smaller than that of the rail, saving energy and so on. "There are more than 20000 airports in the United States, only more than 250 in China, and the price of air tickets in the United States is twice the price of sleeper train tickets in the United States." After all kinds of "shocking" comparisons, the publishers have come to the conclusion that the development of China's high-speed rail just shows its backwardness. The bizarre conclusion of

is actually flawed. The first is about the number of airports in the United States. Some netizens quoted data from professional aviation websites to point out that, as of 2016, there are 19700 airports in the United States, but only 503 airports provide commercial flight services; aircraft using aviation kerosene is not necessarily more environmentally friendly than high-speed rail using electricity; President trump of the United States also criticized American airports during the 2016 election as "the third world", and the railway situation is not as good as China's high-speed rail; China China's infrastructure construction has made rapid progress in recent years, but on the whole, the "foundation" of American infrastructure is better than that of China. It is high-speed rail that shortens the gap between China and the United States in the field of infrastructure.

the choice of transportation mode between Chinese and American people is related to their own national conditions. The United States and China are rich in land and resources, but the terrain of the United States is high in the west, gentle in the East and south. In addition to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River as well as the northeast, most of them are mountains, hills and plateaus, so many large-scale The airport is not suitable for the development of China at all. The cost and maintenance of the aircraft, the training of pilots, the volume of passengers carried by the aircraft, and whether the traffic around the airport can cope with the huge passenger flow Although the United States has a population of 400 million, compared with China, it is still a lot less. Considering the infrastructure and transportation capacity, high-speed rail is the most suitable mode of rapid transportation for China, which is relatively slow in speed and has a lot of traffic volume. On December 22, 2016, the ticket sales of railway spring festival began to enter the 11th day. The railway department began to sell tickets on January 20, 2020 (December 26). On that day, a total of 13.553 million tickets were sold by the national railway, including 11.665 million tickets sold by the railway 12306 network. According to the State Railway Group, only on December 19, the eighth day of spring festival ticket sales, the railway department has sold 102 million tickets in total. With such a huge traffic volume, the national railway is expected to send 440 million passengers in just 40 days of spring transportation. Such a large-scale and short-term population flow is unimaginable in the United States and even in any country in the world. Only the Chinese people have the traditional tradition of gathering at the Spring Festival. This is the national feeling of blood melting into water, which is worth all Chinese people to maintain and remember. The Chinese railway will also carry the way home for generations of Chinese people to witness the most beautiful traffic hymn in human history.

connection: Chen Zhenli