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   Spending time in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good bookshop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I 1h       you?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. You may try to find out 2w         the book you want is. If you fail(没有找到), the assistant will lead you there and 3t        he will go away. It seems that he is not 4i       in selling any books at all. There is a story about a good bookshop. A medical student 5f        a very useful book in the bookshop, but it was too 6e         for him to buy. He couldn’t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to 7r        a little. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its 8u           place. He was leaving when he saw the assistant signing to 9h          . He was surprised that the assistant 10p           to the book in the corner. “I put it there so that people wouldn’t see it and buy it,” said the assistant. Then he left the student by himself to go on with his reading.

    A Chinese consortium（联盟）led by China Railway Corp will participate in bidding for a high-speed railroad linking Singapore and Malaysia in 2018, marking another step in China's ambitious strategy to export its high-speed railway technologies to Southeast Asia.

    The consortium, consisting of eight companies including CRRC, China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd, China Railway Signal and Communication Co and Export-Import Bank of China, covers the design, construction, telecommunication, financing, operating and maintenance（维护）sectors for the high-speed rail network.

    A joint tender（招标）for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail project was issued by the Malaysian and Singaporean government-owned utilities（公用事业）—MyHSR Corp and SG HSR，on Dec 20.According to a joint statement released by the two companies, the potential bidder would be responsible for the design, construction, financing, operating and maintenance of rolling stock and railway systems for the double-track line with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

    The tender is open to all companies, regardless of their location. A tender briefing will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 23, and proposals need to be submitted by June 29. Submissions will be evaluated based on technical merit（优点）, commercial robustness, financial sustainability and price. The preferred bidder will be selected by the end of next year. The governments of both countries signed a bilateral（双边的）agreement late in 2016 to begin the project. According to the agreement, the high-speed rail link is expected to become operational by Dec 31, 2026, and will cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to just 90 minutes.

    “The move indicates that China's State-owned enterprises have stopped cruel competition to hurt each other,” said Du Chunbu, a professor of rail transportation at Beijing Jiaotong University. “Instead, they have started to form a consortium to better compete with companies from Japan, South Korea, Germany and Canada by bringing their specialties into play.”