Vietnam's 42 billion high-speed rail project was not given to China, but was given to Japan. How is the construction going now?

Vietnam is our old neighbor in China, and many people have traveled to Vietnam in recent years. But today, the headmaster wants to tell you a cold knowledge, that is, Vietnam is actually the first country in Southeast Asia to propose the construction of high-speed rail, but they have not been completed yet, and their high-speed rail project has not yet been completed. In fact, for Vietnam, the economic development between the south and the north is very uneven. In order to make the north and the south develop better, Vietnam has decided to put out 6 billion US dollars (42 billion RMB) for global bidding. So what happened to this 42 billion project? Let's take a look at it together.

We all know that the cost of building high-speed rail is very high, and the cost per kilometer can reach hundreds of millions of RMB. When Vietnam launched a global tender, both China and Japan participated, but the best high-speed rail line in the world at that time was the Shinkansen in Japan, so even though our price was much more favorable than that in Japan, Japan won the bid. At that time, Japan claimed that its high-speed rail technology was the most advanced. It is estimated that it will take 27 years to complete the construction and start construction in 214 at the latest.

time flies, but the high-speed rail project has been delayed, and the reason for not starting is simple, that is, the cost is too high. The actual cost of starting construction given by Japan is even higher than the original plan of 6 billion US dollars, which makes the Vietnamese government feel very embarrassed, because the price negotiated before is 6 billion US dollars, but now it is necessary to temporarily increase the price. In addition, the Vietnamese government's fiscal revenue is not much, and the construction of high-speed rail has already cost a lot of money. It is unacceptable to increase the price again. The Japanese side has not made concessions to this, so the two sides have been unable to talk about it because of the problem of funds, and finally the project has been unable to start. Until now, the project has only stayed in a written agreement.

In contrast to our China high-speed rail, in recent years, more and more Southeast Asian countries have asked us to help build high-speed rail, such as the Jakarta-Bandung High-speed Railway we built for Indonesia and the Sino-Thai high-speed rail that will be started soon. Many countries have chosen our China high-speed rail because we have the strongest cost performance. China's high-speed rail technology is world-class, and we have rich experience in high-speed rail construction. There are high-speed rails distributed from the south to the north of China and the Gobi to the mountains. Now the total mileage of high-speed rail in China has exceeded 3, kilometers, ranking first in the world. In addition, the construction cost of high-speed rail in China is also the lowest. We have a complete construction system and supporting facilities, which can reduce the construction cost much lower than that of high-speed rail in other countries, which is also one of our very important advantages.

Generally speaking, at that time, Vietnamese thought Japanese high-speed rail was the best, but they ignored China high-speed rail, which was more cost-effective. I think they must be very regretful now when they saw the achievements of China high-speed rail. If they had known that they had chosen China high-speed rail, there would not have been so many problems. Perhaps the construction progress is now halfway, but there is no regret medicine in the world, and the times are progressing, and so is China high-speed rail!