Penglai City Central Building, with a height of 432 meters, stands as the tallest building in Penglai City in the center of the island, like an obelisk in a steel forest. The surface of the building is completely covered with graphene material, and the steel frame is made of graphene tubes, which ensures the strength of the building. At the same time, the openings on the building surface rotate from the bottom to the top. This design can effectively slow down the lateral force of airflow on the building from all directions.
After all, the wind on the sea is very strong, and these have been carefully considered by the designers.
This building will be used as a comprehensive super high-rise building, mainly for municipal offices, but also with various services such as conference and exhibition, hotel, sightseeing and entertainment, commerce, and catering. The room at the top of the building, as the tallest building on the entire Pacific Ocean, can easily overlook the entire Penglai city.
Of course, as Jiang Chen's private property, ordinary people cannot enter this room.
With Ayesha, Xia Shiyu, and Natasha, Jiang Chen took the sightseeing elevator directly to the highest floor—Jiang Chen's private room.
Surrounded by transparent graphene floor-to-ceiling windows, from the inside it looks as if the windows don’t exist. Looking inside from the outside, all you can see is the dark glass window.
After walking out of the elevator, Xia Shiyu walked carefully to the edge, reached out and touched the cold graphene floor-to-ceiling window, tapped it gently, and sighed sincerely.
"It's really surprising. Although I don't know the criteria for rating World Wonders, this city... can definitely be nominated as the ninth wonder of the world."
After hearing Xia Shiyu's words, Jiang Chen smiled and said nothing.
The mere city of Penglai can be called the ninth wonder. So if he builds the space elevator - "the first true Babel Tower in human history", will this group of future people still not be able to go to heaven
"Only miracles that have passed through history can be nominated. And as far as I know, six of the eight wonders of the world have been destroyed." Natasha teased.
Aisha had been standing next to Jiang Chen without speaking, but from those blue pupils, Jiang Chen could see the reflection of the entire city, as well as the shocking colors.
After taking photos, Jiang Chen uploaded the photos to his personal account and Twitter. He took the three girls around for a while in the central building, and then took a helicopter to leave the artificial island and return to Koro Island.
The entire island is still in the cleaning stage, and there are even sea urchins and algae growing in the parts below the sea level. Wait until a month later, this shining pearl on the Pacific Ocean will show her true appearance to the world.
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At the same time that Jiang Chen landed on the island, at least five spy satellites around the world focused their cameras on this island in the Western Pacific, and together with him, they took a peek at the whole picture of this "artificial island".
As early as the first day of Penglai City's completion, countries around the world set their sights on this giant maritime city.
What does it mean to be able to build cities on the ocean
This means that the crowded living space on land will be completely released to the ocean. Countries with extensive territorial waters but short of land resources are expected to gain opportunities to develop maritime survival resources through orders from Future Heavy Industries.
At present, 27 countries have listed the maritime city plan as a national key scientific research project. 97 of the 150 coastal countries have begun to strengthen diplomacy with the new country and have extended an olive branch to the Future Man Group.
Although Future People Heavy Industries has not yet announced plans to sell Maritime City to external parties, since there is the first one, there must be a second one. Just because we don’t have this plan now, doesn’t mean we won’t have it in the future. All in all, it’s absolutely right to build a good relationship first!
Affected by the expected rise in maritime cities, the share price of Gaoxin Freshwater rose again. As a supporting facility for maritime cities, seawater desalination platforms play an irreplaceable role. If Penglai City kicks off the development of marine resources, the seawater desalination market will more than double.
There is no doubt that the maritime cities built by heavy industries in the future will be equipped with their own seawater desalination devices.
On the other hand, as the photos taken by Jiang Chen on the top floor of the Central Building were uploaded to the hood and Twitter, the fans who were following him instantly went into an orgasm. They retweeted his hood and Twitter like crazy, and began to send messages to Other online platforms proliferate.
"It's so cool! I have decided that when Penglai City opens, I must go to this city to see it! I have bought all the air tickets!"
"Shet! The tickets to Koro Island in March have been sold out! Fortunately, there are still a few ferry tickets..."
"A floating city, it must feel great to live on it! Oh, damn, why didn't I buy an apartment there? It was obviously not very expensive at the beginning..."
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While those photos continued to circulate on the Internet, major media outlets also reprinted the photos, with various eye-catching titles and extended coverage. Exclusive news, inside information, and all kinds of gossip were leaked out.
According to data from Google Search Trends, in just 12 hours, the number of global searches for the word Penglai City exploded 17.5 times! Ranked first on the hot search list.
From this point of view alone, we can see people’s enthusiasm for Penglai City.
From a business point of view, this is undoubtedly a successful marketing. Even people who have little interest in whether the city is on the sea or on land will be happy to take out the money in their pockets and buy a ticket to Coro Island for this city that has suddenly become the focus of the world...
If there are any tickets left.
Of course, some experts and scholars have expressed concerns about the establishment of Penglai City.
"I admit that the establishment of Penglai City will have a disruptive impact on a series of fields such as construction, shipping, and shipping, but I also have to point out that its impact on the Pacific ecological environment will also be disruptive. Then As we occupy the living space of marine life, one day we will drive these friends of mankind to a dead end. On behalf of Greenpeace, I question whether the Future Man Group's behavior of exploring marine resources is reasonable... "
"The completion of Penglai City will undoubtedly intensify maritime territorial disputes, especially in the South China Sea..."
"Tsunami, typhoon, submarine volcanic eruption... For a maritime city, these disasters are absolutely fatal. Until Penglai City proves that it has sufficient crisis response capabilities, I doubt the safety of living in this maritime city."
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However, these opposing voices were eventually drowned in the overwhelming public opinion. The data released by the New Zealand Tourism Bureau and Future Travel are enough to support this. Many hotel rooms in New Zealand have been booked until March. Even some youth hostels with relatively simple conditions are in short supply.
To this end, many international hotel group companies, such as InterContinental, Hilton, etc., have announced plans to add hotels in New Zealand in the next quarter to cope with the shortage of rooms.
How long can this tourism extravaganza last
At least until the official opening of Penglai City in March, the rush of tourists to the Pannu Islands will not subside.
However, Jiang Chen might not be able to be there to witness the grand opening on the first day. The NAC expeditionary force on Yizhou Island encountered a little trouble, and for the space elevator base parts that were about to be delivered, he had to go there in person. Trip… (.)