Chapter 928 Shock
"I personally went to experience the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail..."
Amber Sheehan lamented to Barron:
"I have to say that the Chinese are already ahead of us."
Barron understood Amber's words very well. Not to mention the current situation in 2013, even more than ten years later, after China opened its 144-hour visa-free policy, for foreigners who came to China for the first time, , landing in the magic city of "Novice Village", the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail is also something many people will experience...
Those people all admire this high-speed railway in China, let alone now.
If Amber was surprised by the process of personally experiencing the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, then after learning more about the construction data of the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, he could only be shocked...
You must know that compared with other high-speed rail lines, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail is longer in length - 1,318 kilometers in total. It is the longest and highest-standard high-speed rail in the world that has been built at one time...
Moreover, the construction line has complex terrain and extremely high technical difficulties. It passes through 16 tunnels along the way and can be called the "World High-speed Railway Technology Museum".
Even so, only 122.4 billion yuan (equivalent to 11.66 billion pounds at the time) was used for the construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway.
In addition, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway officially started construction on April 18, 2008, and was officially opened to traffic on June 30, 2011. The construction period is just over three years...
From Amber's point of view, these are nothing short of miracles, which is why he said from the bottom of his heart before, "China is already far ahead of England..."
From Amber Sheehan's perspective, the best way to build the British High-Speed Rail Line 2, which is managed by the First Railway Group, is to leave it entirely to the Chinese for construction and copy what they have done in Beijing and Shanghai. The success of high-speed rail.
But he also understood that this was unlikely...
After all, the Chinese people can just focus on construction, but the men in London have more to consider...
For example, the project of high-speed rail line 2 needs to be used to stimulate some relevant small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK and promote employment, and the interests of relevant suppliers within the EU need to be taken into consideration...
Even Barron, in the industries he controls, there are related companies such as Alstom that need to obtain orders.
However, for China, even if it can only obtain part of the British High-Speed Rail Line 2 project, it has already exceeded the expected results. Amber can start related contacts from now on.
After he returns to London, he will continue to acquire Eversholt Railway Group, one of the three largest railway vehicle leasing companies in the UK, through the First Railway Group in England, in order to enrich the related businesses of the First Railway Group.
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"Won't you come with me? Barron."
"I have plans today, honey. Ning is a very good tour guide. She will accompany you to visit the scenic spots in Yanjing these days."
In fact, this is not the main reason, but that Barron has seen the scenic spots in Yanjing more than once or twice. He does not want to have to visit Yanjing every time he accompanies others. Compared with this, he would rather go See some old friends.
It just so happened that Zhang Junning from Rich23 Capital was also in Yanjing - she had just reported some recent work to Barron last night. Of course, by the way, the two also had some learning and interaction - she would accompany Jenny to visit Yanjing. , which can be considered relatively appropriate.
This time, Barron and Jenny stayed in his four-door courtyard house in Yanjing. Jenny was also very novel about this style of traditional Chinese residence.
What is new to this is Barron’s next guest, former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is in charge of the Prosperous Earth Foundation.
"When I visited China, I visited a courtyard house like this, but the layout here is the most unique I have ever seen."
After entering this large courtyard, David Miliband couldn't help but admire it.
Well, someone who has served as Foreign Secretary can speak well, and Barron knows that there must be plenty of compliments in the other person's words.
As the chairman of the Prosperous Earth Foundation, David Miliband often travels between Europe, Asia and Africa. In fact, China is not currently the main target country of the Prosperous Earth Foundation. In Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are the main target countries of the Prosperous Earth Foundation. Where the foundation invests the most money.
Of course, because of China's importance, there are still some projects involving them.
For example, in the past year, the Prosperous Earth Foundation has helped Colo carry out many image promotion activities in China - after all, the fundamental purpose of the Prosperous Earth Foundation is to realize Barron's strategy and safeguard the interests of the industries he owns.
At present, Kolo is in great need of some high-quality talents. Relatively speaking, the comprehensive qualities of the Chinese are what Barron appreciates the most - including the Chinese's hard work, discipline, tolerance and friendliness.
But generally speaking, in China in this era, there are indeed many high-quality talents who hope to immigrate overseas, but their goals are developed countries in Europe and the United States, followed by Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand...
As for an African country like Kolo - I am afraid that most people have never heard of such a small African country, and African countries, in the eyes of Chinese people, are always associated with war, poverty and raging diseases.
Therefore, although the president of Kolo had invited Chinese people to work or travel in Kolo when he visited before, except for those state-owned enterprise employees and their families who were sent to Kolo for construction work, very few people took the initiative to go to Kolo.
For this reason, under the instruction of Barron, one of the main projects of the Prosperous Earth Foundation in China is to promote the image of Kolo - to put it bluntly, it is to show the prosperous and open side of Kolo to the Chinese through some programs and reports.
In this way, after removing prejudice, seeing Kolo's completely different appearance from other African countries in the impression is also conducive to Kolo's attraction to Chinese people.
At present, it seems that the effect of these practices is still good. According to the data in the second quarter of this year alone, the number of Chinese arriving in Kolo has increased by more than 200% year-on-year. Among them, there are tourists and those who come to find business opportunities...
Because it takes a period of time to obtain Kolo's permanent residence and nationality, the growth of these data is also quite lagging.
But this effect is already very good.
"Next, we can infiltrate our 'business' into the UK and other European countries, Mr. Miliband..."
Barron's words made David Miliband's eyes light up.
Being able to bring the influence of the foundation back to Europe is naturally what David is interested in.
For Barron, the first thing he needs to face is the construction of the UK High Speed Rail Line 2, which he is about to carry out. He will definitely need to face some domestic environmental protection and animal protection organizations. For these organizations, it is not convenient for him to face them directly. He thinks it is a feasible strategy to deal with them through the Prosperous Earth Foundation.
