Chapter 673 Completion Ceremony

Competition is competition.

What is the driving force of competition?

It is to win the competition!

Competition is the essence of sports competition!

Some people say that if a nation wants to be united, it depends on two things: war and sports.

It sounds scary at first, but in fact, the essence is indeed like this, and it is intriguing to savor it carefully.

In the final analysis, competitive sports competitions are the continuation of war.

Therefore, there is a very classic saying - sports are the "peace" in wartime and the "war" in peacetime!

War depends on weapons, technology, manpower, and unity. Therefore, from some aspects, some competitive competitions are high-tech competitions, and some competitions are united competitions, which are favorable situations for promoting the unity and progress of a nation.

In the final analysis, international competitions are about scientific and technological strength, the quality of the people, spirit, unity, image, etc.

Let’s not talk about before World War II. After World War II, in all Olympic Games, the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States was the most intense. The top two gold medals were these two countries, and the third place was far behind the Soviet Union and the United States.

As for China, the investment in sports has increased year by year in recent years. There is a better training environment, better nutrition, training team, more opportunities to participate in international competitions, and the achievements in international competitions are also increasing.

However, at present, China has a certain gap with the Soviet Union, the United States, East Germany, and West Germany in sports.

Liu Tao showed a thoughtful look, feeling that his support for sports in recent years has not been enough.

Panshan Group, each company and group will hold sports games every year, with various teams inside, but no specialization.

For sports support, it is mainly sponsored by its various companies, inviting sports stars to endorse, and occasionally donating some sports facilities.

Liu Tao felt it necessary to donate a modern swimming center and a modern tennis court, and increase investment in sports.

After staying in Beijing for three days, Liu Tao left Beijing.

The Turing Award is an honor for him, but this honor is already a thing of the past, not enough for him to stay for long, he still has more things to do.

In late May.

The completion ceremony of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" was held in Beijing.

Liu Tao attended the celebration in person.

At the celebration, the leaders gave a very high evaluation of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway". This is China's first high-speed railway, and it also represents that China's high-speed railway technology has reached the world's leading level. China has leapt from a country with backward railway development in the world to a country with the highest mileage of high-speed railways in the world. At the same time, this is also a century-long project.

The leaders paid tribute to and remembered the workers who died in the construction of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway", expressed condolences to their families, and expressed condolences to the workers injured in the construction project.

Large-scale infrastructure projects are like this. Even if they are done well, casualties are still difficult to avoid.

At the same time, this celebration also focused on praising individuals and units with outstanding performance. 500 people were awarded the first prize, 1,500 people were awarded the second prize, and 3,000 people were awarded the third prize. Ten units were awarded the first-class collective merit, 20 units were awarded the second-class merit, and 30 units were awarded the third-class merit.

It can be said that this is a completion meeting and also a celebration meeting.

Leaders delivered speeches one by one, all of which spoke highly of the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway'. After all, this was the largest single project investment in China in the 1980s, covering a wide area, and played a great role in boosting the economy of provinces and cities along the line. Railway stations along the line took this opportunity to build new ones or demolish and rebuild them, and built modern railway stations one after another.

This also made the exchanges between the north and the south much more convenient and promoted the exchanges between the north and the south.

Liu Tao also delivered a speech. He also spoke highly of the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway'. This is a railway, a high-speed railway, and the first high-speed railway in China. At the same time, it is not just a railway, but also a network, a communication network and an Internet network, directly connecting China to various provinces in Hong Kong.

Although 'Tietong' is not owned by Panshan Group alone, but jointly held by Panshan Group and the Ministry of Railways, it will inevitably become a giant in the field of communications in the future by relying on the railway network.

Doing so is suspected of duplicate construction and waste of resources, but at the same time it is also a double or even triple guarantee for the communication system.

As for the promotion of personnel flow and regional economic development in different regions, it will become more and more obvious.

In the past, it would take two days and two nights to get from Beijing to Guangdong Province, even if it was fast, and three days and three nights if it was slow.

But now it doesn't need to be, you can leave in the morning and arrive in the evening!

And in the short term, this is not only passenger transportation, but also freight transportation, the significance of which is self-evident.

At least in the next five years, the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway' will be enough to meet the needs of passenger and freight transportation.

And this railway has another function that has never been mentioned, which is to accommodate soldiers with streamlined troop numbers, so that these soldiers can be transferred from soldiers to workers and have a stable job.

This plays a very important role in social stability.

In addition, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway is convenient for going to Hong Kong or from Hong Kong to the mainland, without having to take a boat or a car to Pengcheng or a plane. There is no doubt that this is very important.

It can be said that no matter how highly the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway' is evaluated, it is not an exaggeration.

As for the operation of this railway, Liu Tao and the Ministry of Railways have already communicated that there will be no dividends in the next ten years, and they can even invest money in this railway at any time.

With a "Fuxing" EMU and a freight train with a speed of 180 kilometers per hour departing from Beijing West Station at the same time, the ceremony officially ended.

As for the individuals and units who won awards, there will naturally be people who specialize in this aspect.

At the same time, everyone who participated in the construction of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" will ride the high-speed rail of this line for free for life, and this rule will also be extended to the workers who built various high-speed railways.

This is also what Liu Tao believes that the workers should be compensated. After all, at the beginning of the year, many people's monthly salary was 20 to 30 yuan, 30 to 40 yuan. Although the salary is also adjusted upward year by year with the society, these people are really hard-working, especially the workers who fight on the front line, they are basically on the construction site, and they may not go home once a year.

It is because of their struggle that the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" has been completely built now.

It can be said that these people have made great contributions and great sacrifices.

All the workers who died during the construction process were rated as martyrs, and their families were treated as martyrs' families.

Liu Tao and others came to the command hall. On the large screen in the command hall, the schedule and location of each train can be seen at any time, and the corresponding train can be contacted at any time.

In terms of communication, in addition to two communication cables, communication can also be carried out through communication satellites to ensure the safety of communication as much as possible.

Even through the network, the train situation can be directly called up, after all, there are surveillance cameras inside the train.