In mid-September this year, a disaster movie worth watching was released in mainland China - " Peak Blast ". The starring Zhu Yilong was the first to be released. The box office reached a record of over 100 million yuan in just three days. It won 5 stars on Douban scores and also scored 9.4 points on Taopiaopiao .
This movie is rewritten from the reality. In order to strive for the authenticity of the movie, the actors climbed with bare hands and hung on the cliff in the rain for more than a month, and this is just one of the scenes of the entire movie. The protagonist of "Peak Blast" is not a single entity, but the railway workers who sacrificed for national construction from the War of Resistance Against Japan to the present peaceful era. Without them being at the forefront of national development, there would be no China's current economic development. Their efforts have made China's infrastructure another business card seen by the world.
The entire China has a vast territory, with a land spanning over 9.6 million square kilometers in East Asia. Without the support of infrastructure, it may be difficult to effectively allocate resources at all levels, and China will find it difficult to reach the world's second largest economy today. There is a famous saying here: If you want to be rich, build a road first. There is indeed a reason.
According to United Nations 's definition of super cities, just imagine, which country's cities that meet this condition do not have world-class transportation construction today? London, New York, or Tokyo, Japan? But I know that in China, in ancient times, Emperor Yang of Sui dug , the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, transporting materials from the north and south to each other; now there is a railway transportation network that shuttles between provinces and cities, making it much easier to travel across the region, which originally required a lot of effort. Chinese people have done a lot of things like opening roads across mountains and building bridges across water.
In order to achieve the goal and vision of allowing people to enter a moderately prosperous society, the Chinese government has established Lianwai roads, wall-mounted tunnels and large bridges in many remote villages. As of the end of 2019, the operating mileage of railways in the country has reached 139,000 kilometers and the mileage of highways has reached 5.013 million kilometers. The cumulative construction mileage of both is the world's first. In the provinces such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Tibet, there are many world-class infrastructure projects that have been used by foreigners as examples of learning. Saudi Arabia , Laos , Vietnam, Pakistan and Africa also hope that China's Railway Construction Bureau will build a railway network system for it. It can be seen that China's infrastructure business card is very loud. However, while enjoying the convenience brought by these infrastructures, we should also thank those who silently shed every drop of sweat - the railway workers, who are also the most important protagonists of the movie "Peak Blast".
In order to make children in the mountains more convenient to go to and from school and to make people commute more quickly when commuting to and from work, the Guizhou government plans to open a railway tunnel that runs through the entire mountain in the southwest of the mountains. However, just as this tunneling project that has been built for ten years is about to be completed, the Indian Ocean plate suddenly began to move extremely actively. The collision between the Eurasian continental plate and the Indian Ocean plate led to the release of huge energy. The local area is a typical karst terrain with a large number of caves and caves. Once an earthquake occurs, the chance of strata sinking and secondary landslides is very high. The unknowing people and railway workers have been working hard...
In an instant, the earth was shaken, the mountains collapsed and cracked. The roads on many mountains were ripped out by the energy released by the earth. Objects such as buses, excavators, trains and houses seemed particularly small before the earthquake. They were swallowed into the abyss by a black hole growing on the ground. In less than a few seconds, the entire county town was filled with people's cry for help. The rescue team was urgently dispatched to the disaster site. Everyone was going to rescue the trapped people in Golden 72 hours .
But the weather is not good. A geological detective's computer calculated that in the near future, a large-scale mudslide on the top of the mountain would fall down, and then the 160,000 people below may face a crisis of being buried. Faced with such a critical moment, even if there are thousands of unwillingness in my heart, especially the efforts of all railway workers to work hard to build, the local government decided to blast the other side of the mountain, that is, the side where the railway project is located, to let a large amount of mudslide flow to the other side, and avoid the destruction of the entire county town. All the railway workers came to the completely uncontrollable tunnel with explosive packs and various equipment. Some people accidentally fell into the depths of the cave lake due to aftershocks in the process of laying out explosives, and some people were injured by the falling gravel. However, in order to protect these 160,000 innocent lives, they had no complaints and it was their duty to complete the mission.
was about to blast the tunnel, and the exploration machine sent back a few photos that made people excited. Everyone found an unknown hill not far away. There was an invisible pit in the middle of the mountain. As long as it could blast there, it would form a barrier at the forefront of the county town, as a buffer for the pouring of soil and rocks, helping people gain time to retreat, and also maintain the railway construction on the side of the mountain, but the plan would never keep up with the changes. The hill has not been developed, and the breaking was in a highly vertical wall and reverse triangle pattern. It was difficult for railway workers to hike into the entrance of the cave, and helicopters could not get close to the mountain. The situation was critical, and a father and son railway worker decided to climb with his bare hands, but this also meant that there was a mission of going but not returning. The mountain was shaken violently, and the father and son had almost no place to settle down. In order to complete the task, the father voluntarily became the child's foot pad. In the end, the child successfully entered the cave to lay mines, but the father fell into the cliff due to lack of physical strength...
Perhaps, this is just a movie, but in real life, many similar cases have occurred. Since its establishment in 1948, this team of railway workers has experienced large and small battles such as civil war, Korean war, Vietnam war and counterattack against India, and has been engaged in Tangshan earthquake , Sichuan earthquake, flood control and rescue, as well as rescue of the new crown epidemic, Chengdu-Kunming Railway, Guangzhou-Guizhou Railway, and Qinghai-Tibet Railway, all of which were made with one nail and a nut. At that time, in China where science and technology was underdeveloped, the construction of Sichuan-Tibet Highway was even more difficult. According to statistical data, on average, there was a railway worker's sacrifice every few hundred meters. It can be said that in this peaceful era, the most sacrificed job was the railway worker under the Railway Construction Bureau today.
Note Brother thinks that no matter who we enjoy the high convenience brought by our current infrastructure, we should also thank those who have made silent contributions behind us, those who have made continuous contributions for China's progress, and pay tribute to every great railway workers.
