Chapter 367 World Situation

The ‘Fuxing’ EMU set sail again.

This time the goal is to drive from Xingjiacun Station to Beijing West Station.

There are only a few people left in the cockpit.

Under the guidance of Liu Tao, one of the drivers is operating.

The staff of the high-speed rail EMU train includes drivers, crew members, public security police, on-board mechanics, on-board cleaning, and catering staff.

For example, 8 carriages are generally equipped with 16 train attendants (2 in each carriage) and 2 train conductors (1 chief and 1 deputy), 3-5 vehicle crew members, 2 drivers, 1 on-board mechanic, 3-5 public security police, 5 on-board cleaning staff, 5-10 catering staff, 2 train baggage handlers, 2 generator car attendants, and 1 broadcaster.

In other words, the staff establishment of the ‘Fuxing’ EMU with 8 standard carriages is 37-46 people!

There are core positions here, such as drivers and train conductors!

Because they are related to whether the train is running normally!

What Liu Tao needs to do is to spend time training drivers, train attendants and other core positions.

In the busy time, a month passed in a blink of an eye.

Liu Tao finally no longer needs to stay in the "Fuxing" EMU, freed from the tediousness of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway".

Five months have passed since this year, and a lot of things have happened at home and abroad in these five months.

On New Year's Day, China officially became a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and then Hong Kong announced statistical data just after New Year's Day. Stimulated by export trade and driven by huge investment, Hong Kong's economy has completely emerged from the quagmire, and all indicators have exceeded the peak in 1982, announcing that this round of economic crisis has been completely overcome and ushered in a new prosperity.

Of course, the East and the West are like ice and fire. Data released by the United States show that in 1983, a total of 48 banks went bankrupt, the highest record in more than 40 years. The economic growth of Western European countries is limited, and many even have negative economic growth. High inflation remains high, and unemployment remains high, making Europe and the United States hate high oil prices very much, and the voices of restricting oil prices are constantly increasing.

If you want to say which European country has the worst days, it is the United Kingdom. The number of bankruptcies in the United Kingdom reached 12,466 last year, the highest in history.

The Falklands War was a heavy blow to the United Kingdom.

On the contrary, the Soviet Union's economic situation continued to be good and rose to a higher level again. The economic situation of Eastern European countries was generally better than that of Western European countries last year, which made many Western European countries unstable.

So far, the United States has tried desperately to limit oil prices, but it has been unable to push them down.

Oil-producing countries do not want to push oil prices down, and polar bears make trouble from time to time.

As a result, the current oil price is still fluctuating around $35 per barrel.

The United States has to keep importing oil, because although the United States has a large oil production, it consumes more and is a complete oil importer.

Previously, it helped Britain by providing a large amount of oil and taking out reserve oil to pre-set oil prices. Last year, the reserve oil was exhausted. Now it has to buy oil for oil reserves.

The world situation has been quite turbulent in the past two years, and there are five or six places in the world where wars are going on.

Even the sense of existence is very low, so low that ordinary Chinese people don’t feel it, but in the past year, the number of participants on both sides has exceeded 500,000. In terms of the number of participants, it is no less than the number of troops deployed by both sides on the battlefield of Iran and Iraq.

The Iran-Iraq War in the Middle East is still going on, and there is no sign of ending so far.

Whether it is Saddam in Iraq or the leader of Persia, both sides have repeatedly made tough statements in the international arena, and have no intention of holding peace talks.

If you want to say which country has the strongest momentum, it is not China, which is developing silently, but Japan.

Japan takes emerging work as the direction of scientific research and focuses on the development of advanced technology. Last year, the scientific research expenditure reached the highest level in history. Japan's development is very rapid. It is still the largest deficit country in the United States. It can earn a lot of profits from the world every year. It is currently the largest creditor of the United States and also the country with the largest foreign exchange reserves.

In this era, Japan has developed very rapidly, and the American automobile industry and electronics industry have been hit hard. Various well-known American automobile brands have suffered losses one after another. In addition, automobile workers have been on strike from time to time. The American automobile industry can't resist the attack of Japanese car companies.

Shortly after New Year's Day this year, twelve American companies jointly established a microelectronic equipment and computer technology company to concentrate technical talents to compete with Japan.

Not only that, the United States and China signed a series of cooperation documents such as the Memorandum of Understanding on the Applied Science and Technology Cooperation Program, the Industrial Technology Cooperation Agreement, and the Investment Insurance Agreement, and the cooperation between the two sides has further advanced.

"Japan does have a lot to learn from." Liu Tao couldn't help but admire it in his heart after reading the intelligence information at the China Ordnance Industry Corporation.

Last year, Japan produced 11,111,659 vehicles and exported 5,669,000 vehicles.

Coupled with the rise of electronic products, Japan can earn huge profits from the world, especially the United States.

As a developed country in the world, it is no wonder that many professional magazines and newspapers continue to list Japanese industry as the world's number one industrial power.

In comparison, Germany, the future powerful country, was having a hard time at the time. The number of unemployed people reached 2.5393 million, and the unemployment rate rose to 10.2%. I don't know how many West Germans ran to East Germany.

Even the United States was not having a good time, because of the huge trade deficit every year, coupled with the high oil prices, which hit the US economy hard. The entire US economy has been in stagflation for several years. Last year, the US fiscal deficit was as high as more than 200 billion US dollars.

Compared with Japan's strength, China is relatively low-key. It has strengthened cooperation with the United States, Canada, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Portugal and other countries, and increased the number of students sent to North America, Europe and Japan to study. The two sides are strengthening exchanges.

As for Panshan Group's participation in the construction of Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, it is not noticeable at all in the world.

Even the border war is not noticeable in the world, and no one pays attention to it.

Instead of paying attention to the border war, it is better to pay more attention to the Iran-Iraq War, because the weapons and equipment of both sides are very advanced, and the Iran-Iraq War affects oil.

The Iran-Iraq War was even seen as a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East.

China is now implementing internal reforms and opening up to the outside world. It is carrying out reforms in all aspects internally and strengthening exchanges to attract foreign investment to China. For any war, China also calls on both sides to calm down from a peaceful perspective, not to fight, and to sit down at the negotiation table to resolve differences between the two sides through political consultation.

For various votes, most of them abstained from voting, and their attitude is very obvious, that is, they do not want to participate too much.

Now China is a country with a trade surplus with Europe and North America. It constantly sends students to study in Europe and North America, and imports various agricultural products, raw materials and some equipment. The trade deficit between the two sides is not small every year, and it is showing an increasing trend.