Chapter 185: Forty-three hours of renovation! Is this China's infrastructure?
At Harvard University, Professor Bruce pressed the timer and the time stopped at forty-three hours.

The students looked at each other, stunned, with surprise on their faces.

Oh my god, the renovation of Sanyuan Bridge was completed in forty-three hours!

This speed is simply too fast!

It was originally thought that there was no way they could complete it within seven days.

I didn’t expect that it wouldn’t even take seven days, and the time was shortened to less than two days.

No country in the world except China can achieve this speed!

They couldn't think of any other adjectives except amazing.

"Professor, is China's infrastructure level leading the world now?" a student asked.

Bruce rolled his glasses and said, "Good question! Words alone are not enough. I have some information here. Please read it before making a conclusion."

He dragged the mouse and several pictures were neatly arranged on the screen.

"These are some data from Wikipedia. I think their authenticity is beyond doubt."

Several pictures are made into a table, and the comparison between different countries is clear at a glance.

Of the top ten highest bridges in the world, eight are from China.

And among the top 100, 81 are from China!
In the ranking of total bridge length among countries around the world, China ranks first, nearly ten times ahead of the second-placed Sakura!
China ranks first in the world in terms of total high-speed rail mileage, six or seven times ahead of the second-ranked country!
In addition, there are several other tables, and China is at the top of all of them without exception.

[Oh my god, is this ranking true or false? Is China Infrastructure so powerful? ]

[Ward sent! China ranks first in every category, leaving other countries far behind. It can even be said that all other countries combined are not as good as China! ]

[This is data from Wikipedia. If this is false, then other data is even less reliable.]

[But this data is really outrageous. A few decades ago, Chinese people couldn’t even get enough food! ]

[That's right, in just a few decades, why has China been able to develop so rapidly? And has it done what these developed countries have only taken hundreds of years to accomplish?]

Looking at the shocked expressions of the students, Bruce was very satisfied.

He just wanted to use this class to wake up the students.

Don’t indulge in the fantasy that the Eagle Sauce is very powerful. The Eagle Sauce now is nothing but a toothless paper tiger!

Strong on the outside but weak on the inside, just an empty shell.

If someone gives it a hard push one day, the whole building will collapse!

And the person who pushed this was most likely the powerful ancient Eastern country!
If the younger generation could wake up sooner and realize how powerful China is, then maybe there would still be a chance to save themselves!
Bruce pushed his glasses and said, "You're right. If we go back a few decades, China was indeed very backward. It was a luxury for the people to have a full meal. And it was only a few decades ago that China really started infrastructure construction."

In just thirty years, China's road mileage has increased fivefold, building the world's largest highway network!
The mileage of high-speed railways has reached 3.5 kilometers, accounting for more than 60% of the world's total high-speed railway mileage.

There are more than 20,000 tunnels, over one million bridges, more than 200 airports, and seven of the top ten ports in the world are in China!

The infrastructure maniac is not bragging!
The reason why China has become an infrastructure maniac is that in addition to investing great efforts in researching various high-tech technologies, the contributions of generations of construction workers are also worthy of admiration.

"This information was found for me by an old friend in China." If I hadn't persuaded him for a long time, he might not have agreed.

Photos were brought up one by one, and Bruce began to explain the stories behind these photos.

When China was first established, there was a lot of work to be done.

Having just experienced the Anti-Japanese War, they were extremely poor and had almost nothing.

Everything has to start from scratch, building up from scratch bit by bit.

It was the first batch of workers who laid the foundation for China's infrastructure. They are the great unsung heroes.

At that time, there was no heavy machinery at all, and almost all construction work was done by carrying things on shoulders or by hand, laying a solid foundation for the infrastructure.

The representative project is the Sichuan-Tibet Highway.

In order to achieve the great cause of liberation, China urgently needs to open up a road to the snowy plateau.

Under the order to march and build roads at the same time, 1.1 million brave men devoted themselves to this arduous construction campaign day and night.

This is a road known as the most dangerous in the world, with an average altitude of 3,000 meters. Building materials are scarce, mechanical equipment is lacking, and advanced technology is even more of a luxury.

But in this high and cold land, there is full of enthusiasm and infinite loyalty to the country.

The construction workers smiled and said, "We live 5,000 meters above the clouds and sleep on a sloping hillside. The thermometer needle often stays at the freezing point of minus 30 degrees. Boiling water is only 70 degrees. But our hearts as road builders are hotter than boiling water, a full 100 degrees!"

Faced with a thousand-foot cliff, they worked suspended in the air with only a hemp rope around their waists, flying between the cliffs like swallows.

When night falls, without the convenience of modern lighting, they tie cotton balls to the top of the steel drill or directly light torches to illuminate the rocks and continue to sweat profusely under the starlight and firelight.

The workers used raging fire to melt the ice, and with the symphony of steel drills and hammers, they hammered the stubborn rocks into the cornerstones for the road.

【Oh my god, that sounds terrible! 】

[I can’t even imagine building a road in a place with a temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius! ]

[Look at their faces in the photo, they are all so black that you can’t tell what they look like! ]

[If it were a construction worker in our country, they would never have to endure this hardship! ]

Behind the successful construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway are countless demonstrations and the sweat and hard work of the workers.

On this winding Sichuan-Tibet Highway that stretches over 2,000 kilometers, almost every inch of land is soaked in sweat and blood, and more than 3,000 brave soldiers and workers remained there forever.

Especially in the extremely steep Erlang Mountain section, for every kilometer forward, seven heroes engraved their lives forever on this land.

This road was paved with their youth and passion!
They were in their youth, in their early twenties, which should have been the brightest season of their lives, but they rest forever among these mountains, without the chance to witness the miracle that their own sweat had built.

More than ten years later, when the Southern Xinjiang Railway was being built, the Xinguang No. 3 Tunnel was famous for its steep construction difficulty. With a total length of only 3783 meters, it allowed 25 railway soldiers to rest forever on this land.

This means that on average, a life is lost for every 151 meters of excavation!

[Professor, isn't it just building a railway or highway? Why did so many people die? ]

(End of this chapter)