Chapter 1018 - Railway Project (3)
In fact, the main purpose of the company arranging such a program is to invest some insignificant resources, in order to stabilize the mood of foreign workers, and by the way, mobilize their enthusiasm.
Unexpectedly, to the company's surprise, since the implementation of this policy in railways, mines and other construction sites, the production efficiency of each construction site has skyrocketed a lot. The motivation of foreign workers is also at an all-time high.
In particular, the role of Japanese foreign workers is the most obvious, and they work hard every day as if they were beaten with chicken blood. These little devils are thinking about these things in their heads, and they are all very addicted.
The company has hundreds of thousands of foreign workers in Liaodong and Northeast China. Every day at the Far Eastern Company's mines, forestry farms, railways, highways, ports, docks, farms and other construction sites, I get up early and stay busy at night.
As the development of the Far East enters the fast lane, more and more foreign workers will be "mobilized" from their hometowns to Liaodong and the Outer Northeast to join the construction army of the Far East and contribute to the development of the Far East.
Especially at railway construction sites in the Far East, there are a large number of foreign workers who are working day and night. Nearly half of the foreign workers in the Far East are on railway construction sites everywhere.
The conditions of the railway construction site are the worst, and most of the construction sites are constantly changing with the extension of the railway line, and they are basically barren mountains and mountains, and there are almost no people around.
In the construction of mountainous sections, it is necessary to use explosives to dig holes in the mountains, and the working environment is very dangerous. During the construction of the railway line in the river bridge, due to the lack of sufficient machinery, most of the construction sites used the most primitive manpower and animal power construction methods, and the danger was also very high.
However, in order to speed up the progress of the project, the workload of the company's railway department has risen again and again, and it has almost reached the limit of the capacity of many foreign workers. Every year, nearly 30% of foreign workers at railway construction sites die on the construction sites due to various reasons.
It is precisely because of the hard work of countless foreign workers who get up early and work late that the construction speed of the Northeast railway network has been maintained at a very high speed. Because there are too many railway construction sites all over the Far East. The vast majority of construction sites do not have construction machinery, and there are countless foreign workers who carry out the work on their shoulders.
The Northeast Railway Network previously planned by the Far Eastern Railway Department was based on the main artery of the Northeast Railway from Shenyang to Vladivostok, and then with Shenyang, Harbin, and Vladivostok as hubs, to build a number of branch railways, and finally to build a complete Northeast Railway network.
Branch railways include Shenyang-Lushun, Shenyang-Chifeng, Shenyang-Dandong, Shenyang-Tongliao, Harbin Town-Qiqihar, Vladivostok-Boli Town, Mudanjiang Town-Hegang Town, etc. Construction is being stepped up.
Among them, two railways from Harbin Town to Qiqihar Town have been completed and opened to traffic, three railways including Shenyang-Lushun, Shenyang-Chifeng, and Shenyang-Tongliao will be completed and opened to traffic by the end of next year, and several other railways will also be completed and opened to traffic within two to three years.
In addition to the trunk and branch railway networks of the Northeast Railway Network, the company's railway department has also built a large number of 762 mm narrow-gauge railway lines in various large mines and forest farms in the Northeast and Outer Northeast.
In the future, the company will develop various resources in the Outer Northeast on a large scale, where the environment is harsh, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the Outer Northeast is full of mountainous terrain, so the laying cost is small and the radius of curvature is small. The weight of the carriages is light, the traction of the locomotive does not need to be too large, and the 762 mm narrow-gauge railway, which can be used for large route gradients, has become the first choice for the company's railway department.
Because of the conditions of this era, many remote areas choose low-cost narrow-gauge railways, which are enough to meet the transportation needs, and the Far Eastern Company railways will be in a long period of time in the future, and will be based on meter-gauge railways and supplemented by 762 mm narrow-gauge railways as the main development direction.
With the future large-scale popularization of vehicles and construction machinery by the Far Eastern Corporation, the departments of the Railway Department have formulated ambitious railway plans. Exploration teams have already been dispatched. Exploration in the direction of the Loop and Lake Baikal.
It is expected that in a few years, the company's railway department will start construction of two main railway lines in the Chifeng-Hetao region and the naturalization-Baikal region. Lay a solid foundation for the future Northern Railway network.
With the continuous implementation of the company's westward expansion plan, the Northwest Railway plan is also on the agenda. With the support of a large number of vehicles and construction machinery, the company can build and open the main railway line to Xinjiang within a few years, and strive to turn Xinjiang into a base for the westward expansion of the Central Military Commission in the shortest possible time.
The Northern Railway Network and the Northwest Railway Network are planned to connect several trunk railways with the Northeast Railway Network. It can also allow the Far East Company to better control the northern grasslands, which is of great strategic significance.
With the support of these trunk railways. Whether the Far East continues to move westward or northward in the future, it can get strong support from the company. Moreover, in the future, the Far East railway can continue to extend to the west and north, so that the Far East company can completely control the Kazakh steppe and the Siberian region.
The latest railway plan of the company's railway department, the southern regions such as South Seas, Indochina, India and Luzon are not planned. This is mainly due to the fact that the Far East has strong maritime and inland waterway transport capabilities, and the southern region is not affected by the winter months of the northern region. Therefore, for a long time in the future, the southern region will still rely on sea transportation and inland water transportation.
In fact, the company's railway department also finally formulated this ambitious railway plan after some rigorous investigation and evidence collection. The total mileage of several trunk railways of the Northern Railway and the Northwest Railway will reach more than 5,000 kilometers, which seems to be an impossible task, but a careful analysis shows that the Far Eastern Company already has such conditions.
First of all, the Far Eastern Company will promote and popularize vehicles and construction machinery and equipment based on steam power and supplemented by internal combustion engine power on a large scale within a few years. At that time, the construction speed of the company's railway departments in various railway sites will increase significantly.
Once the new railway plan is approved by the board of directors of the company, the company is bound to increase the recruitment of foreign workers from various countries, and more foreign workers will join this ambitious railway plan, providing a strong guarantee for the smooth implementation of the railway plan.
After years of construction, the Bac Ninh Iron and Steel Complex has been expanded several times and has formed a considerable scale. In particular, the Maoshan Iron Mine and several large iron mines along the Amur River and Heilongjiang River have been developed one after another, and the annual output of crude steel and pig iron of the Bac Ninh Iron and Steel Complex has reached more than 1 million tons. Such a large output not only strongly supports all aspects of the work of the Far East Company, but also provides a strong guarantee for the construction of the Far East Railway. (To be continued.) )
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