The rise of nanometers

Huaihua City.

Southern Petrochemical, which has its headquarters here, rose from obscurity to instant fame during the previous energy war.

As a transportation hub in southwest, south and central China, Huaihua's geographical location is very important. With the put into use of Feipeng Group's Huaihua Logistics Transfer Center, the development here has also accelerated rapidly.

Huaihua, Fenghuang County.

National Highway 209 and expressway both pass through the county town.

On the 209 National Highway leading from Fenghuang County to Huaihua City, a construction team was busy on the highway under the scorching sun.

Two large drilling machines are drilling holes deep into the ground, in the middle of the road and in the green belt on one side.

At the location where the holes have been drilled, workers feed pipes and special powder into the holes, and finally introduce another liquid. When the liquid and powder come into contact, they quickly react to form a hard rock layer.

These artificial hard rocks can often cover the periphery of the hole, and the radius can reach about 1 to 3 meters.

These hard rocks will also fuse with the surrounding ordinary rocks and columns to form a very solid foundation.

After the columns are erected, other construction workers will install silicon oxide-sodium chloride boards on the columns, and then lay light rails, isolation nets, and other infrastructure.

Lin Jiandong, who came from Huitong County, wore a simple exoskeleton and installed an isolation net on the small workbench of the crane.

Although being a construction worker is very hard, Feipeng Group's wages and benefits are good. He just graduated from junior high school and went to Changsha to work for four or five years. In the end, he ran back to his hometown without achieving anything.

After returning to his hometown, Lin Jiandong idled around in the village all day, followed a few friends and did some sneaky things all day long.

Seeing that he was about to turn thirty, his parents got angry and sent Lin Jiandong to the Suiren training base. The Suiren department had previously invested in a large number of township training bases, and there was one in Huitong County.

At first, Lin Jiandong didn't take it seriously, but the training institution of the Suiren Department absorbed the essence of various MLM trainings, coupled with its own hard power support and semi-military management.

After more than half a year of training, Lin Jiandong felt enlightened. He seemed to have been reborn. He learned many skills in construction at the training base and was then dragged to Huaihua to build suspended highway bridges.

It was built all the way from Huaihua City to the northwest along National Highway 209. After more than half a year of exposure to wind and sun, his skin turned dark, his body was covered with tendons, and his mental outlook also underwent a fundamental transformation.

The environment can change people. The working atmosphere within the Suiren Department can easily make employees enthusiastic about work and regard themselves as a member of the Suiren Department.

"Dongzi!"

Lin Jiandong turned around and replied: "Sir, what's the matter?"

The captain of the construction team below shouted loudly: "It's time to eat."

"Okay, I'll drive the last three nails in and then go down."

He operated the small working platform, raised it up half a meter, operated the locking nail machine on the side, and installed finger-thick screws on the pre-drilled screw holes. After the screws were put on the equipment, the moment he pressed the switch, A nail similar to a rivet was driven into the isolation net.

In less than five minutes, all three nails were completed.

Lin Jiandong looked below and found that there was no one there, so he pressed the landing switch, and the working platform slowly descended to the highway bridge deck.

Opening the guardrail door of the working platform, other workers also finished their work one after another. He walked more than 700 meters and came to a tram.

Remove the auxiliary exoskeleton and safety helmet, place them on the display rack in the carriage, and enter the second carriage, which is a professional carriage for washing and cleaning.

The cold water hit his face, and Lin Jiandong scrubbed his face vigorously. He was almost thirty years old, with a clean shaven head and a warm smile that showed confidence and perseverance.

Entering the third carriage, inside is the kitchen.

"Uncle Zhang, twice-cooked pork, braised pork ribs, hand-shredded cabbage and tomato scrambled eggs."

The fat middle-aged chef put the dish on a stainless steel plate and handed it to Lin Jiandong.

Lin Jiandong took the plate, took a dragon fruit from the basket on the side, and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of freshly squeezed bayberry juice.

Exiting the side door of the carriage, there was a makeshift restaurant where a group of workers were eating and drinking, telling dirty jokes and the like, causing laughter from time to time.

A young man who had just been assigned sat next to Lin Jiandong, took a sip of the cool bayberry juice, and asked curiously: "Brother Dong, if this highway bridge is to be built to Fenghuang, will our company not stop it?" Are you going to continue building it?”

Lin Jiandong picked up a piece of twice-cooked pork and said, "Who did you listen to?"

"Uh! It was said on the Internet. Someone on the New Blue Blog said that our company's investment in highway bridges has duplicate functions with high-speed rails and may not be able to recover the cost." Xiaoyoun said worriedly.

Although the country has developed rapidly in recent years, the gap between the rich and the poor remains high. Suiren jobs are very popular, and the young man obviously does not want to lose this job.

"It's a joke, just listen to what the trash can says." Although Lin Jiandong has not read any books, he still understands some things as he often reads Suiren's internal magazines.

Thanks to the support from various places, the highway bridge built above the highway does not require land acquisition costs, and local governments will subsidize part of the funds.

The average cost per kilometer of a 4+1 level highway bridge is about 23.5 million yuan. Including the sharing of supporting facilities, the average cost per kilometer is about 24 million yuan.

This price is much cheaper than ordinary expressways. If it is built in mountainous areas, the cost may increase to about 35 million per kilometer.

After the construction of these highway bridges, Feipeng Group has a 20-year franchise.

After expiration, localities can choose to redeem it at 30% of the construction cost, or they can choose to continue to hand it over to Feipeng Group for operation. After another 20 years of operation, they can redeem it unconditionally.

It seems that if Feipeng Group builds such a large-scale suspended light rail, even with local subsidies, tax breaks, and 20 to 40 years of franchise, it will still be difficult to recover the cost.

In large cities in the eastern region, the cost of suspended light rail can indeed be recovered, but how can the cost of light rail in the central and western regions and third- and fourth-tier cities be recovered?

This is the reason why many New Blue Blog influencers collectively denounce the suspended light rail.

But they ignored another situation, which is the explosive growth in transportation demand after the great development of the central and western regions.

Feipeng Group and the Suiren Department themselves actually have an increasing demand for transportation.

Expressways require tolls, but Feipeng uses its own suspended light rail transportation without paying expressway tolls.

For Suiren, which owns express delivery, takeout, agriculture, minerals and industrial products, this transportation system with independent right of way can save huge costs.

No need to pay highway tolls, no need to wait for traffic lights, no need to worry about traffic jams.

Although the light rail has a maximum design speed of only 210 kilometers, the real advantage is that it can deploy its own transportation.

No matter how fast the plane is, it will eventually need to be supplemented by road transportation. If it encounters an area without an airport, it will not go anywhere fast.

The suspended light rail network planned by Feipeng Group will be developed along national highways in various places and can basically cover the county level.

In the future, in cooperation with the super highway in the southwest, it can basically communicate with all parts of the country and achieve rapid distribution of materials from east to west, north and south. Under special circumstances, these suspended light rails can also be used as bunkers and special roads.

On the surface, this investment was a loss, but in fact the Suiren system did not suffer a loss, and it even further completed its own industrial chain layout.

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