In the 90’s, Qingdao’s urban construction crews found a damaged part in a sewer repair, and couldn’t find the right one anywhere, so they finally turned to the German company that repaired the sewers in Qingdao more than a hundred years ago, but it’s still in business.
They quickly replied that there was no need to worry, there must be a spare part hidden somewhere within 3 meters of the damaged part.
The engineers did find a tarpaulin bag with a shiny part inside.
We have all seen similar versions of the German oil paper bag myth, right? Back then, after reading the four chicken soup masterpieces of shame, right?
Until 2013, the myth of the German oil paper bag was still circulating in the mouth of a businessman.
I’ll give you two minutes to reflect.
Time’s up. Let’s get down to business.
Although the German doughnut has become the subject of internet banter, who would have thought that the boomerang of the myth of the German doughnut, so carefully concocted by the Reflection Monsters, would ever hit the Germans.
Can you believe it? The huge Munich train station actually more than three months can not repair an elevator.
Last October, with a click, an escalator at Munich’s main train station just stopped working.
This is one of the main escalators leading from the subway to the departure level of the platform, where a large number of travelers are concentrated every day.
The stoppage of the escalator added to the problems of those with mobility problems, pushing strollers or carrying large suitcases.
People have to divert themselves, but it can get very crowded at peak times.
If this were a Chinese train station, the malfunctioning escalator would probably be back in service in less than a week, maybe even the next day.
But the Deutsche Bahn, which is responsible for managing the Munich train station, actually spent more than three months without repairing the elevator.
Saying that they don’t work seriously, their management even held several meetings to discuss the elevator repair plan.
It was not enough for the company to hold meetings, but the manager also had to go to the Munich City Council to be questioned.
In addition to Deutsche Bahn, the president of Munich’s transportation company MVG, Mr. Wortmann, also went to the city council for a presentation on the escalator problem.
At the meeting, everyone spoke their minds and expressed their concerns about the difficulties of Munich’s citizens in getting around.
After three months of meetings, everyone was tired.
But the escalator between the basement level and the departure level is still not working.
German netizens started cursing, is this still Germany? African countries are not so bad.
German media also reported on the matter.
So, all sides came out to spew their mouths again.
Green Party politician Bikel says Deutsche Bahn should do more about accessibility because some train stations are not very friendly to people with mobility problems. Bavaria plans to be barrier-free by 2023, but we are already behind.
SPD politician Flanders says Everything is in chaos, while managers just sit around saying everything is fine and just needs some room for improvement.
Prezl, chairman of the Munich branch of the CSU, says Apart from the topic of escalators, we have never received so many complaints.
Deutsche Bahn’s southern manager, Heckmann, admitted that the availability of the 49 elevators and 83 escalators in his area was only 96 3 , a real drop.
But then he turned the tables and blamed China for the delayed repairs.
Heckman told the media that escalators are damaged because of aging parts, and replacement parts have to be manufactured separately abroad, which takes a long time. Spare parts are manufactured in China and then flown to Germany.
Now the German media have found someone to blame, and they’ve published an article with the headline Munich Railway Station Terminal Escalator Replacement Parts to be Manufactured in China, which is not the best option!
The mayor of Munich, Dieter Wright, has also spoken out, and I don’t think it’s been the best idea to source industrially manufactured spare parts from China for years. The railroads should consider whether it makes more sense to stock such things.
After three months of pulling a faulty escalator in Munich, nothing was solved, and it was actually pulled on China.
Now that they know it’s the elevator spares that are at fault, shouldn’t they have had a full set of parts that might need replacing?
This incident, to put it bluntly, is simply the German Railway in the bad.
German iron if there to the Chinese enterprise order, what the hell parts China in 3 months delivery not shipment?
Not just an escalator, and not the atomic and hydrogen bombs.
3 months, for Chinese companies, as long as the money to give enough, not to mention spare parts, even if it is customized the whole set of elevators can be shipped.
German iron can not get Chinese spare parts in time, there are political issues, to order from China, the need for layers of approval, the process can be stuck German iron.
Moreover, Germany is an industrial powerhouse, it’s only been a few years, they can’t even handle an elevator?
This kind of maintenance work, still need to discuss the General Assembly and small meetings?
Germany so many senior mechanical technicians can not even do a spare part now? Waiting for China to do.
Did ThyssenKrupp go out of business? Or Siemens went bankrupt?
Not them, and they stopped doing it a long time ago because it cost too much.
People can still squeeze up and down another escalator when the train station escalator breaks down, but what about the home elevator?
It’s the same damn thing in Germany.
In September last year, a German student complained on Weibo that the elevator in his rented apartment was broken, and he had to climb nine floors to get home every day. But the elevator maintenance said it would take three months, and the landlord said he had to give him a rent reduction.
As you can imagine, people who live on higher floors work out more intensely every day.
The apartment elevator was out of order for three months for the same reason, the spare parts were not ready.
Also, the elevator at the Nuremberg train station has been out of order for more than two months, and the elevator at the Berlin main train station, on platforms 15 and 16 to the U5 subway station, has been out of order for four years, and the toilets at the Düsseldorf main train station have been out of order for three months.
These are all problems with Chinese spare parts not arriving?
What this reflects is the rapid decline of Germany’s industrial manufacturing capacity.
You know, the world’s first power-driven elevator after the vertical transportation machinery called elevator was born in Germany in 1880.
The German spirit of rigor, seriousness and responsibility, as well as strong industrial manufacturing capacity, is our inherent impression of it.
However, Germany itself is now indifferent to the industrial manufacturing industry.
They’re proud of their LGBT, open drug laws, women’s restrooms, and the fact that they’re giving money to Zelensky.
German business newspaper, January 20, headline, “Belbeck calls for tougher stance on Beijing.
She says a united Europe Europe United is needed to counter an increasingly aggressive China and Trump’s America First policy.
After three years of tearing Russia apart, she wants to challenge China and the United States.
That’s the kind of person who can be Germany’s foreign minister and lead German foreign policy. So is it any wonder that Germany can’t solve its elevator spare parts problem?
Apart from Germany, this is also the case in faraway New Zealand. In October last year, the only elevator in an apartment building in downtown Auckland broke down and the residents had to climb the elevator.
Some residents lived on the 15th floor and suffered terribly. The director of the property company said that repair parts had been ordered from overseas! When it arrives depends on the speed of Chinese companies.
As you can see, China’s industrial manufacturing capacity can already hold up half the globe. – Lower your voice.
Many people always like to talk about the highly sophisticated manufacturing industry in China and foreign comparisons, but the production capacity of these basic industries is the key issue concerning hundreds of millions of ordinary people.
And get rid of dependence on China, stop being naive about China , but some German politicians on stage often hang on the mouth of the political terminology.
Then Germany’s own production, right? Businesses will certainly not do it, spare parts would rather order from China.
If the Chinese spare parts are not supplied to them, the Germans will have to spend years and tens of millions of euros to manufacture a small part.
Then how much does it cost for Deutsche Bahn to purchase a set of spare parts from a German company, is that realistic?
But German politicians have put Germany into a dilemma
Can’t rely on China
Cannot produce at home.
Then, the German people will have to bear the brunt of such sins as chronic elevator failures, and the politicians will only care about values.
In fact, the solution to the problem is not without a solution, I can tell the Germans some secrets.
The manager of the Deutsche Bahn dug a hole right below the elevator, then turned right and stopped at 2 8 m.
Shine a flashlight into the ground about 0 3 meters high, there are small compartments inside, push them open.
Reach in and feel for the hidden compartment, which contains a key.
Backtrack and there is a hidden compartment in the left corner, open it with the key and there is a greaseproof paper bag inside.
Open the paper bag and you will find the shiny elevator spare parts in front of you.
If not, go back and dig down another 2.5 meters.
I’m sure we’ll find an old robin’s body, soak it in water and pour a bowl of chicken soup made from the Four Great Books. Then give him a lost-and-found notice for a tarpaulin bag in Chinese, he doesn’t speak German, and he’ll find the bag for you in no time.
It’s better to ask for help than to ask for it! That’s all I can do!
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