CHINESE ARE LEAVING US IN THE DUST

 THE  CHINESE ARE LEAVING US IN THE DUST ! 

AN INTERNET  SURVEY  OF RECENT CHINESE ACHEIVEMENTS . 

BY JIM GORDON.

RECENT CHINESE ACHEIVEMENTS IN 

1. RAILROADS

2. DAMS

3. PORTS

4. BRIDGES

5. ROADS

6. AIRPORTS

7. AIRCRAFT

8. SPACE

9. MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS  

1. RAILWAYS

HIGH SPEED TRAINS IN THE LAST TWO DECADES CHINA HAS ADDED MORE HIGH SPEED TRAIN TRACK THAN ALL THE REST OF THE WORLD REACHING 25,000KM IN 2017. 

China high speed trains, also known as bullet or fast trains, can reach a top speed of 350 km/h (217 mph). Over 2,800 pairs of bullet trains run daily connecting over 550 cities in China and covering 33 of the country's 34 provinces. 

CHINESE SHANGHAI MAGLEV TRAIN CONNECTING AIRPORT TO CITY. MAX SPEED –431 KPH. 

RAILWAY STATIONS AND BULLET TRAINS.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION MACHINE : The SLJ900/32, made by the Beijing Wowjoint Machinery Company, is a 580 ton, 300 foot long and 24 foot wide mega machine that looks more like a train than a crane. Instead of using a stationary or crawler crane to lift the girder of a bridge from the ground and drop it into its place, the SLJ900/32 drives the girder on to the previously placed girder, slowly extends its arms to the next support platform, pushes the girder towards the front of the machine and then lowers it into place. 

AND WHAT OF THE FUTURE? 

MAP SHOWING CONSTRUCTION PLAN TO LINK CHINA WITH EUROPE ! 

Highest railway in the world. 

The Qinghai high-– Tibet railway, elevation railway connects that is a Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous of China. The Region length of the railway is 1,956 km. 815 Construction km section between of the Xining and Golmud was completed by 1984. Cars are pressurised. 

2. HYDROPOWER 

CHINA HAS THE THREE HIGHEST DAMS IN THE WORLD.

The tallest dam in the world is the Jinping-I Dam, also known as the Laxiwa Dam,   and Xiaowan Dam is an arch dam in China at 305 m ( 1,001 ft ) high.

 Construction on the dam was started  in  January of 2002. This hydroelectric arch dam, on  the River Lancany in  South  West China. Each power generating unit will  have a 700  MW  capacity. 

A watt is the basic unit of power. It is a measure of how much electrical energy there is in a circuit and how much electrical work can be done by that circuit. A kilowatt is simply 1000 watts. A megawatt, as the name suggests is simply 1,000,000 or 1 million watts of power. A gigawatt is 1,000,0000,000 or 1 billion watts of power. 

An average U.S. household uses about 10,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity each year. A watt is a unit of power, or energy per unit time, so it's the rate at which energy is being used. A kilowatt-hour (or 1000 watt-hours) is a unit of energy, so 10,000 kWh is how much total energy each household uses over the course of a year.

This means that each household, on average, uses energy at a rate of about 1 kilowatt (1000 watts, which equal to ten 100-watt light bulbs).

One megawatt is equal to one million watts, so for one instant, one megawatt can power 1000 homes.

A better question to ask is how many homes can a megawatt-hour (MWh) provide with energy for one hour? If one home needs 1 kWh of energy for one hour, then 1 MWh of energy can sustain 1000 homes for one hour.

700 MW of energy can power 700 x 1000 = 700 000 homes for one hour. 

BAIHETAN DAM HEIGHT 289.0m.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

 COMPLETION 2021. 

16 turbines Total capacity 16,000 MW. 

The Xiluodu Dam is the third highest dam in the world. It is an arch dam on the Jinsha River, i.e. the upper course of the Yangtze in China. It is located near the town of Xiluodu in Yongshan County of Yunnan Province but the dam straddles into  Leibo County of Sichuan Province on the opposite side of the river.

Height : 286 m. 

Opened : July 2013. 

CHINA HAS THE LARGEST POWERPLANT IN THE WORLD. 

THREE GORGES AT 22,500 MW. 

China Institute for Water Resources and Hydropower Research ( IWHR) 

Over  the  years,  IWHR  has organized  a  large  number  of national  key  scientific and  technological  projects  and  undertaken  research  works  on key technological  topics  of almost  all  major water  resources  and  hydropower projects  in China.  IWHR  has also  carried  out a  wide  range  of professional services  at  home and  abroad  including  technical  consultancy,  evaluation  and technical  services.

They have translated all  western specifications,  textbooks and major papers on hydro. They  have developed  computer programs for  the detailed design of all major structures  required in a hydro  development. Total  number of engineers  and scientists over  10,000. 

FULL FACE TUNNEL BORING MACHINE DEVELOPED IN CHINA.

DIAMETER = 8.03M. 

3. MARINE PORTS

SHIPPING PORTS

 CHINA IS PURCHASING A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN FOREIGH PORTS INCLUDING EUROPE AND THE UNITES STATES.

CHINA IS BUILDING SUPERPORTS IN MANY THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES.

THREE ARE FULLY OWNED, CONSTRUCTED WITH CHINESE LABOR AND OPERATED BY CHINA. 

GWADAR, PAKISTAN; HAMBANTOTA, SRI LANKA AND PIRAEUS, GREECE.  

String of Chinese pearl ( ports) and shipping routes: 

• Ports and terminals with a disclosed mainland Chinese stake: Seattle (USA), Los Angeles (USA), Lomé (Togo), Tin Can (Nigeria), PIRAEUS (GREECE), Antwerp / Zeebrugge (Belgium), Suez, Djibouti, Gwadar (Pakistan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Singapore.

Other ports where China has a significant influence: Karachi, Hambatota, Kyaukoyu, Chittagong, Hong Kong/ Shenzhen, Shanghai. 

GWADAR PORT PAKISTAN BUILT WITH CHINESE LABOR. OPERATED BY CHINA. 

HAMBANTOTA PORT, SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka formally handed over commercial activities in its main southern port to a Chinese company on and received US$292 million out of a US$1.12 billion deal. 

PIRAEUS, GREECE. The Chinese company Cosco in the decade since it took over the port has remade it into the second largest port in Mediterranean with ambitious plans to do more , as China seeks to increase more investments in the country. 

CHINA FINANCIAL  INTERESTS  IN  WORLD  PORTS. 

EUROPE – Cosco & China Merchants  Port Holdings have stakes  of 25% to 100% in terminals &  ports  in  Rotterdam,  Antwerp, Zeebrugge, Dunkirk, Le  Havre, Nantes, Genoa,  Malta,  Piraeus &  Istanbul.

 USA – Chinese government-owned  companies  control  terminals in the Port of  Los Angeles and other West Coast ports, as well as both ends of the  Panama Canal. Terminal  Link deal in  2013  gave China Merchants  Holdings  International  ownership  of terminals in more than 10 US ports , including Houston and Miami. 

AFRICA - The network  of Chinese-built ports  and infrastructure  along Africa’s east, west,  and  southern coasts has positioned China to become a major player in Africa’s maritime  space. Djibouti’s Doraleh Multipurpose  Port — built by the state-backed China Merchants  Group  to handle  bulk cargo,  containers,  and  oil shipments. 

4. BRIDGES

CHINESE BRIDGES.

•The Xihoumen Bridge in Zhejiang province, the second-longest suspension bridge span. Click here for details. 

•The Sutong Bridge in Jiangsu province, the second-longest cable-stayed span. Click here for details. 

•The Sidu River Bridge, the highest bridge in the world. Click here for more details. 

•Chaotianmen Bridge, thelongest arch bridge span. Click here for more details. 

•Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge, the world's longest sea crossing. Click here for more details. 

Sutong Bridge span 1,088m.  Built  2008.

Xihoumen Bridge 1,650m. Built  2009.

Sidu bridge . Span 1,530m, Height above canyon floor 496m. Built 2009.

Chaotianmen bridge. Span 522m. Built 2009.

Hong Kong-Zuhai bridge. Length 55km. Built 2018. 

5. ROADS

ROADS INTERCHANGES. 

HIGHWAYS 

Vehicles are seen stuck in a traffic jam near a toll station as people return home at the end of a week long national day holiday, in Beijing, China, October 6, 2015. 42 LANES! 

Do not ever complain about being stuck on a Canadian Highway! 

CHINA’S  MOST DANGEROUS  ROADS 

HIGHWAYS

China has 130,000 km of highways, the most in the world. China now has over 130,000 kilometers of highways nationwide, according to an official census on the country's expressways. That's enough to go around the globe more than three times. Every year since 2011, another 10,000 kilometers has been added to the network. 

CHINA NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM 

6. AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFTS

AIRPORTS EXISTING AND  UNDER CONSTRUCTION 

A construction crew works on the main terminal for the Beijing International Daxing Airport, which is expected to be one  of  the busiest airports in  the world. Open September, 2019.

 DAXING AIRPORT  UNDER  CONSTRUCTION . 

HONG KONG AIRPORT.

Number of passengers in 2015: 68 million. 

Year-on-year Increase: 8.1 percent.