Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 259 [Its granularity is]

Even if the sky train plan is fully implemented, the resources and sunk costs that have already been invested in the high-speed rail system on a large scale will not be directly scrapped. Instead, they can be shared with the high-speed rail system without causing too much conflict.

Therefore, the total investment cost is much lower than that of urban aerial rail transit, because the urban rail network needs to lay new magnetic tracks, and this cost cannot be saved, but the high-speed rail system has been built long ago, and it happens to be basically powered by electricity, so there is no need to change the existing basic structure.

The only operation is to add a function that enables the track to generate an artificial electromagnetic field, but this can be easily done as long as there is support from the power grid system.

At this moment, Chen Zaiqing continued, "There is a great downward pressure on the economy as a whole. Referring to past examples, infrastructure projects are often used to stimulate the economy at this time. However, the rail transit system is basically almost complete. Forcing large-scale infrastructure construction will only bring lower and lower returns. It is likely to cause the road surface to be repaired and renovated again, which is a huge waste of resources."

"The advent of the SkyTrain is different. It can build infrastructure routes and bring high returns. Once the SkyTrain project is underway, it can really greatly reduce the cost and efficiency of long-distance communication."

Xiao Yu nodded silently in approval, and Chen Zaiqing added: "In addition, there is another benefit on the military level. The air train can reach a speed of 1000 kilometers per hour, which will increase the mobilization capacity and efficiency of the troops by several times."

"To sum up these outlines, these reasons are fully sufficient to support the country's vigorous promotion of the eight-vertical and eight-horizontal national chessboard of the air train project."

Finally, Xiao Yu said straightforwardly: "If the province wants to build this special air train line, then go ahead and our company will be responsible for supplying the production capacity of room-temperature superconducting materials."

Anyway, the plan is clear: room-temperature superconducting materials will reduce costs and increase efficiency in a cycle of every two years, reducing costs by 30% and tripling production capacity.

Chen Zaiqing said: "If we want to build this special air train line to the provincial capital, the province wants Linzhou to pay for it."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu smiled and said, "I knew it would be like this."

Although empty trains can share most of the sunk cost resources already invested in the high-speed rail system, they are actually still very expensive, mainly because the money is spent on the empty train carriages. According to the current quotation, a standard empty train carriage costs more than 5 million yuan.

It cannot be done without a budget of two or three hundred billion yuan, and the province certainly cannot come up with that much money.

The country is unlikely to provide funding unless it is really determined to fully popularize the air-train project in the future. Now there are rumors that the country is going to launch a large-scale infrastructure project again. It is said that the budget has reached an astonishing 20 trillion yuan, which is five times the size of the 4 trillion yuan plan.

Chen Zaiqing smiled and said, "When I attended the meeting this time, the provincial leaders talked about this matter. They said that if this special line is opened, it will benefit Linzhou in the long run and hurt the provincial capital. The commuting time between the two places will be further shortened to 20 minutes, which will inevitably lead to further population flow to Linzhou City."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu couldn't help but smile: "There's nothing wrong with this."

Linzhou City now has huge external appeal because of the many opportunities here. The city is now much more well-known and attractive than the provincial capital where it is located, and is also constantly siphoning a net inflow of high-quality population from the surrounding areas.

If this special line of skytrains is opened, the commuting time from the provincial capital to Linzhou will be shortened to about 20 minutes. In the future, it is really possible that some high-income earners will have their registered residence in the provincial capital, but work in Linzhou City.

It is not impossible to significantly reduce commuting time.

As long as the income can support such commuting expenses, this phenomenon will definitely occur. Working in the provincial capital may earn 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a month, but if you find a job in Linzhou that can earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, even if you have to spend 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a month on commuting expenses, it is still higher than the absolute income of working in the provincial capital.

A significant increase in commuting efficiency will certainly benefit more attractive cities, and will significantly increase the floating population in those cities. Even if it is floating population, as long as people come here, they will definitely spend money here, and the boost to the local consumer economy is self-evident. It is reasonable for Linzhou City to pay unilaterally.

Moreover, if Linzhou is unwilling to pay the money, then this matter cannot be done, because the province does not have the money, and the two prefecture-level cities along the way still need transfer payments, so we can't count on it, and Linzhou City will also siphon off the migrant population.

However, things work both ways. The two prefecture-level cities along the way have their own characteristics and can also attract people with strong purchasing power in Linzhou City to visit and consume.

Because commuting time is greatly saved, you can leave at any time and get back to work quickly.

After a while, Xiao Yu asked, "What is the city's attitude?"

Hearing this, Chen Zaiqing smiled and said, "Of course it's about aligning the granularity."

Xiao Yu was speechless when he heard this.

Chen Zaiqing added: "However, whether the project can be approved in the end still depends on whether the country approves it. The local government cannot make the final decision."

Because the space column engineering project involves room-temperature superconducting materials, the country currently has extremely strict control over the whereabouts of this new material. It can even be said that every kilogram of output material must have a clear destination, and if it cannot be traced, it will be strictly investigated.

The main concern is that technology will be leaked and obtained by foreigners for research and reverse engineering.

Although Xiao Yu vowed that it was basically impossible for foreigners to reverse the process, this situation still needed to be eliminated at the national level. No matter whether they could reverse the process or not, the safest thing to do was to directly eliminate the conditions for them to reverse the process.

Even for the first empty train carriages for civilian use, a special team was set up to guard them to prevent the room-temperature superconducting materials on the carriages from being stolen.

Therefore, blank column items have become more special and require approval from a higher level before they can be truly implemented.

Finally, Xiao Yu said, "That's it. We don't need to worry about it. We just need to wait for the instructions from the top leaders of the country. If they want to do it, we just need to ensure the supply and quietly be an upstream supplier of the industry. Let other people and other units worry about other things. We just need to do our own part."

Chen Zaiqing nodded and said, "I understand."

Judging from the current situation, Xiao Yu estimated that there is a high probability that the air train dedicated line project will be approved, and air trains will definitely be included in the national layout, and the layout of eight vertical and eight horizontal is absolutely indispensable.

Because the significant benefit boost is visible, the investment cost is acceptable, and there is no need to immediately eliminate the high-speed rail system that has already been invested in on a large scale. There is no reason not to use such new technology.

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(End of this chapter)