Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 256 [Trial Run Experience]

The price of each carriage of the Skytrain is as high as 5.41 million yuan. The total price of this train of seven carriages is 37.87 billion yuan. The cost of a J-20 fighter is about 7 million yuan. This can leave two or three hundred million yuan left after purchasing five J-20 fighters.

In a sense, the fact that the superconducting levitating train could appear so quickly was the result of Xiao Yu's forced breakthrough.

Because other cities do not have the financial resources to follow suit in a short period of time, only Linzhou City's strong financial situation can support such high construction costs.

The investment in this project is at the trillion level. Linzhou City has no intention of recovering the cost at all. This plan was made from the initial launch of the project, because after it is officially put into operation in the future, its ticket price will be the same as that of ordinary subways, or even cheaper.

The starting price is 2 yuan, and this price applies within 5 kilometers.

票价的计算方式是按照里程分段计价，每增加5公里票价增加1元，具体情况就是0~5公里的票价2元；5~10公里的票价3元；10~15公里的票价4元；15~20公里的票价5元；20~25公里的票价6元；25以上公里的票价均收7元。

Linzhou City's overall plan is to cover the entire city with 22 lines, with an average length of about 30 kilometers per line.

Ways to purchase tickets include swiping a physical ticket to enter the station, including one-way tickets, air-rail cards, student cards, welfare tickets, public transportation cards, senior citizen cards, military disability cards, and disability assistance cards.

In addition, you can also scan the QR code to enter the station, which supports Zhifubao QR code, Yunshanfu QR code, Weixin mini program QR code, etc.

With such cheap ticket prices, it is simply a fantasy to expect to recover the investment cost through ticket sales. Even the daily operating expenses are difficult to cover, and additional funding from Linzhou City is needed to maintain operations.

The biggest significance of the sky-rail train project coming out so quickly is, firstly, to enhance the image of Linzhou City, and secondly, Xiao Yu wants to popularize room-temperature superconducting materials and provide a theoretical basis for reducing costs in the future through large-scale commercial use.

With the current cost of one carriage being more than 5 million yuan, only Linzhou City in the country can afford it in a short period of time.

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But at this moment, the floating train that Xiao Yu was trying out had already started slowly.

A blue halo flickered at the bottom of the train, and an invisible force slowly pushed the train forward. There was no roar of traditional trains, only a slight whistling sound of air flow.

Superconducting levitation makes the train seem to be free from the constraints of gravity and fly lightly on the track.

Its speed was getting faster and faster, but the carriage was unusually stable. Xiao Yu and others could hardly feel any bumps. It was so stable that people could hardly feel it moving. Only the city scenery passing by quickly outside the window served as a reference for people in the carriage to know that the train was moving forward. The occasional acceleration only brought a slight push on the back.

Outside the hub station, the floating train has already left the station and is speeding above the green belt in the middle of a newly built main highway.

Such scenes give contemporary people a very strong visual shock. During the trial run today, many citizens came to watch nearby.

When people nearby saw the train flying in the air above the green belt of the main highway, they immediately exclaimed: My God, a train without wings can actually fly!
A young passerby was shocked and said: "I can't believe that science fiction has once again become reality."

This main highway is an infrastructure built along with the construction of the new headquarters park. There is not much traffic at present, and this section of the route is temporarily closed.

The hovercraft is speeding at a height of 5 meters above the ground, but just below it, under the green belt, there is actually a magnetic track laid. After the laying of the magnetic track, the green belt is covered above the magnetic track.

Since the magnetic track is completely covered by the green belt, the floating train actually runs along the magnetic track, but it looks as if the floating train has escaped the constraints of gravity and the magnetic track, and is just suspended in the air. In the control center, engineers are staring at the data displayed on the screen.

"The temperature is stable and the superconducting system is operating well." An engineer wearing black-framed glasses leaned forward and stared at the temperature data area on the screen. After confirming that everything was correct, he turned around and reported to his colleagues around him.

"The speed is within the preset range and the magnetic track sensing is normal." Another engineer with short hair was comparing the plan in his hand with the speed and magnetic track sensing data feedback that kept jumping on the screen, with a sense of relief in his tone.

At this moment, all members in the control center were filled with a tense and excited atmosphere. They were nervous because the big boss, including several important leaders of Linzhou City, were taking a test ride in the car, and they were excited because of the current data feedback, which showed that the trial run was going very well.

There is a camera in the train compartment where Xiao Yu is, and the control center can also see the real-time images inside.

The project leader saw the screen and saw Xiao Yu talking with several leaders of Linzhou City. He also took out his mobile phone to take various photos and short videos, as if he wanted to post them on Weibo. Several people nodded from time to time with satisfied looks on their faces.

This made the project leader feel relieved, but he did not completely relax. As long as the big boss was still in the car, it meant that the potential risks had not been completely eliminated.

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At the same time, when the floating train was being tested here, in the capital market, the stock of Zhongguo CRRC suddenly began to rise and quickly reached the daily limit.

In just five or six minutes, the stock price rose by +10.00% and hit the daily limit, with a market value of 7225.57 billion yuan.

Not long after, discussions on the trial run of Linzhou City's floating train appeared in the stock forum's comment section, and even photos taken appeared in the comment section.

A few minutes later, Cailianshe Telecom also pushed a news flash about the matter, and the popularity index of Zhongguo CRRC's stock also rose rapidly.

The market value of this stock previously reached as high as 9000 billion yuan, and the stock price once soared to 32 yuan, not far from the historical high in 2015, but then entered a period of adjustment along with the broader market.

Today, combined with this positive news and the rebound of the overall market index, the stock easily hit the daily limit and is showing signs of entering the third wave of the market.

CRRC Corporation Limited won the trillion-yuan super order for sky-rail trains from Linzhou City, which brought about an epic reversal for this stock. Last year, its lowest market value was just over 100 billion yuan. In less than a year, it has skyrocketed five or six times, making it the most rapidly surging blue-chip stock among the stocks with the Chinese character "中" in their names.

It seems that overnight, the stock that was despised by dogs has become a hot commodity that all kinds of funds are competing to pursue. Many investors are saying that the "trillion-dollar god car" is about to return and break through the ten-year universe peak.

The reason why it is so favored by investors is that the cooperation between CRRC and AVIC Linfei has opened up huge room for imagination and expectations for the company.

Over the past few years, the stock price has been stagnant and has been hitting new lows. There are many reasons for this. One of the important reasons is that the infrastructure construction of Dongda University has basically been completed, so there are no major expectations for the future of Zhongguo CRRC, and there are no strong growth points in performance. Coupled with the poor performance of the A-share market, the stock price has always been stagnant.

But things are different today. With the advent of room-temperature superconducting materials, the first commercial scenario is air-rail infrastructure.

CRRC Zhongche became one of the first beneficiaries of room-temperature superconducting materials. The upgrade of aerial railways in the superconducting era opened up the imagination space and also allowed CRRC Zhongche to usher in a Davis double-click reversal.

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(End of this chapter)