Chapter 540 The railway is not built smoothly
The situation in Myanmar is very complicated.
With a land area of 676,578 square kilometers, Myanmar has 135 ethnic groups. More than 85% of the people in the country believe in Buddhism. The country is divided into 7 provinces, 7 states and 2 municipalities.
The forces here are complicated, with external forces and local forces, which are extremely complicated.
There are at least hundreds of forces with names.
The original government army controlled a smaller and smaller territory, and now controls about one-fifth of Myanmar's territory.
Kachin State, Shan State and Sagaing Province are where Panshan Group has invested the most energy and effort, and this is also where Chinese people gather.
However, even Chinese people are divided into different forces.
Zhao Guoping introduced the current situation in Myanmar. Myanmar seems to have been forgotten by the world, but in fact Myanmar has been in war.
In recent years, the government army has been losing soldiers and generals and losing pieces of territory. The territory it controls now is much smaller than before.
At present, the road passage to the east and the road passage to the Indian Ocean have been opened.
The bilateral trade volume is increasing rapidly, and natural resources such as minerals and wood are continuously transported to Yunnan Province.
After several years of hard work, Myanmar's original population is less than 30 million.
"It is estimated that the railway will be built to the Dali border in another year. The railway in Myanmar has not been built yet. The speed must be accelerated!" Liu Tao frowned slightly.
Relying only on road transportation, with the current road conditions in Yunnan Province and the worse roads in Myanmar, the transportation capacity is actually very limited.
Only if the railway is built, the transportation capacity of the railway will be much greater.
After the railway is built, not only the ability to transport personnel and goods is greatly improved, but also the ability to transport troops at critical times can be greatly improved.
Like a green train, a green train generally has 18 carriages, and each carriage has a total of 128 people. A normal green train can carry 2,300 people, and if it is squeezed, it can even carry 2,600 people!
As for goods, each freight train has a load capacity of about 4,000 tons. If a 60-ton truck is used, it is equivalent to 67 trucks!
The railway in Yunnan Province has been built before. It starts from Guangtong Station of the Yunnan section of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, and goes west through CX City, Nanhua County, Xiangyun County, Midu County of Yunnan Province to Xiaguan, DL City, with a total length of 213 kilometers. Then it will be built from Xiaguan, DL City to the Myanmar border.
The design level of this section of railway in Yunnan Province will be relatively high, with a double-track design and a maximum speed of 200 kilometers!
According to the plan, the railway in Myanmar also uses standard gauges, with a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour, and also uses double tracks, and then goes along the railway to Sittwe Port.
There are currently five major ports developed and constructed overseas by Panshan Group, one is the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Africa, one is the Port of Djibouti in Djibouti, East Africa, one is the Port of Gwadar in Pakistan, one is the Port of Sinuhak in Cambodia, and the last one is the Port of Sittwe in Myanmar.
These are not only trading ports, but also supply ports for the Chinese Navy when it escorts and strikes islands in the future.
Sittwe Port is located in the Bay of Bengal. It is an excellent deep-water port, but this excellent deep-water port has not been developed so far.
Panshan Group has obtained the 99-year operating rights of Sittwe Port!
In Liu Tao's planning, this place is not only a strategic sea outlet in the southwest, bypassing the Strait of Malacca directly, but also will be the terminal of the oil and gas pipeline in the future, from here to the southwest of China through the oil and gas pipeline to transport oil and natural gas.
It can be said that the location here is very important.
Just listening to Zhao Guoping's introduction, Liu Tao felt that it would be difficult to realize the opening of the China-Myanmar Railway in 1990.
Because now, the entire Myanmar is only building railways in Shan State, and other states and provinces have not started.
Sometimes it is not good to have too many forces, even so, the efficiency will be very slow.
As for the eastward direction, the six states are still fighting with the third brother, and have no intention of building railways. Now it is only in the preliminary demonstration stage, and there is still a long way to go from the design stage.
"Next, we will speed up the consultation with the relevant forces in Mandalay Province and speed up the implementation of the railway." Zhao Guoping said in a deep voice.
The construction of the railway involves various forces, and it is not an easy task to coordinate and communicate.
And we cannot rely solely on force, which will not work.
This requires wisdom!
The wisdom of solving problems.
"It is okay to give up some benefits. It is acceptable to give up benefits in a short period of time. We should look further ahead." Liu Tao said, "Short-term benefits do not mean long-term benefits!"
Now the construction of the China-Laos-Cambodia Railway is going smoothly, and it is expected that the entire line will be open to traffic by 1990.
But looking at the China-Myanmar Railway, there are still a lot of things to be solved.
Then, Zhao Guoping introduced the situation of Bhutan, Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram.
Bhutan and Sikkim have formed an alliance with these six states, each forming an alliance as an independent kingdom to fight against the threat brought by India.
Now the Indian army actually controls about 1.1 million square kilometers of territory, and it can be said that it has lost control of Kashmir. The Indian army, which is engaged in multi-front warfare, has a large number of troops, but has not performed brilliantly.
This year, India imported a large amount of weapons and ammunition from the Soviet Union at the cost of gold, a large amount of US dollars, and low-interest loans.
However, it is hard to say whether the lost territory can be recovered.
Liu Tao can influence Kashmir and Khalistan, and the Independent Democratic Alliance. As for the southern part, there are both the Communist Party of India and the forces supported by the United States, which are not under Liu Tao's influence.
However, it is certain that without resolving the southern and eastern regions and Khalistan, the Indian army can no longer use troops in Kashmir.
As long as Kashmir is not controlled, India will not be a world power, and at most it will be a South Asian power.
"The current situation in India is quite complicated. The Congress Party is gradually losing control of the situation and facing challenges from other political parties. In addition, the division between Hindus and Muslims is getting more and more serious." Zhao Guoping said in a deep voice.
Sometimes he finds it incredible that religious issues can be so terrible.
He thinks that all he needs is a document and a meeting, and representatives of various religions can sit in harmony and express their opinions. Everyone can discuss and act within the legal framework, and don't do anything too outrageous.
But he is happy to see this situation. After all, maintaining a balance in South Asia is actually the most important thing.
South Asia does not need a big country, let alone a hegemony. Hegemony is not a good thing. We should develop peacefully and make some money.
What's the good of fighting and killing? It's not as important as making money happily.
Li Fuguo added that in the past year, many wars have occurred in South Asia, and even a battle with more than 500,000 troops on both sides has broken out.
Wars of this level are always favored by military personnel, who understand and analyze them, and then analyze the military strength of both sides.
After all, it all depends on how hard each person's fist is.
Military force is the basis for solving everything in the end, just like the saying - power comes from the barrel of a gun!
