Originally, Liu Xing had intended to arrange for the inspection team to watch the rocket launch at the Guangzhou Satellite Monitoring Center. The data collected here would be more extensive and accurate, and they would be able to fully grasp the overall situation.
But the inspection team insisted on going to the Wenchang Launch Center to watch. To be honest, the first time watching the rocket launch site was very exciting. But after watching it many times, it just felt like a large firework.
After so many years of exploration, Future Space Technology Company has implemented a very comprehensive and in-place safety guarantee for rocket launches, especially in the early stages of rocket launches. It has a strict set of inspection procedures and basically there will be no problems.
But after so many years, Future Space Technology Company is not 100% sure that there will be no problems after launch, so the Guangzhou Satellite Monitoring Center is particularly important.
Fortunately, the comprehensive deployment of the Beidou navigation system can not only position and navigate moving targets on the ground, but also targets in space, so that the target will not be lost after launch.
Although Zhao Yi has little interest in the rocket launch site, since the inspection team is interested, he can only accompany him. After all, the main purpose of his trip is to accompany him, and the guests' requirements will be within the scope of his ability. Just be satisfied.
This time, Zhao Yi was the only one accompanying him to the Wenchang Launch Center, while Liu Xing stayed at the Guangzhou Satellite Monitoring Center, because it was better able to grasp the overall situation and respond quickly to emergencies.
Fortunately, a simple airstrip has been built at the Wenchang Rocket Launch Center. It is of little use in normal times, but in an emergency, it can quickly realize personnel exchanges and be used as a strategic back-up.
Zhao Yi's special plane arrived at the Wenchang Launch Center directly from Guangzhou, so there was no need to make any trouble in the middle.
It was already late in the afternoon when the inspection team arrived. They came directly after the inspection in Guangzhou, so the inspection here needs to wait until tomorrow to continue. Accommodation has been arranged for everyone at the launch center.
Due to the limited conditions here, there are no entertainment facilities. The employees here basically live in houses provided by the company and basically cook and eat at their own homes. It is just a very ordinary village.
If it weren't for the "big fireworks" that are set off here every once in a while, this place would be no different from other villages and towns. The neighbors' interactions are quite harmonious, and children can be seen playing in every corner of the village.
If it hadn't been for the launch center to build a canteen, the inspection team would have had to cook and eat by themselves. There were no hotels or restaurants here, and even the house they lived in at this time was reserved by the company.
The domestic tourism industry has not yet started, and the people have just solved the problem of food and clothing. It has not been long before they have any spare money to buy some belongings. There is no spare money to wander around the country.
And a handful of wealthy people, even if they want to travel, go to famous mountains and rivers that have long been famous. No one likes Wenchang is willing to come and visit.
Since no outsiders come here, there will be no facilities like hotels here. It’s not that the company has no money, but that even if it is built, it will not be able to generate income. As a commercial company, it is impossible to do things without profit.
However, Shangtong Trading Company has begun to get involved in the tourism industry, although its current main business is to help foreign patients come to China for treatment, which is called medical tourism.
But according to Zhao Yi's consistent temperament, once he enters an industry, he cannot do it in a small way, and the presidents below have also perfectly inherited his habits. They all enter an industry with the goal of becoming a leading company.
Therefore, the travel agencies under Shangtong Trading Company have now set their sights on famous mountains and rivers in China. They are negotiating with the local governments of these scenic spots and adopting a contracting and cooperation model to develop these tourism resources.
Nowadays, these domestic tourist attractions are still very primitive. If tourists want to travel, it is difficult to find even a good road. This is not to go out to relax and relax, but to become an adventure traveler.
It’s just that the interests of all parties are still being coordinated. Many famous scenic spots in our country actually contain religious sites. This is another important tourism resource of these scenic spots in addition to the scenery.
Therefore, these scenic spots involve the interests of at least three parties, the first is the local government, the second is the Taoist temple, and the third is the developer. If there are many local residents, the interests of local residents need to be considered.
The more stakeholders there are, the more troublesome it will be to negotiate. All parties want to gain more benefits for themselves, and it is inevitable to argue. This is why after several months, not everything has been negotiated.
However, in some places with fewer stakeholders, it is much simpler. The main thing is the division of interests between the local government and developers. You only need to convince the local government, and there is basically no problem.
The current situation is that the local governments are extremely poor. Even if they have some money, they still need to spend it on building roads and bridges. How can they have spare money to develop local tourism resources, especially scenic spots that are not well-known in the first place? So true.
Even if the local government has some spare money and is willing to invest in local tourism development, they do not have many resources. Now counting on domestic people to travel and consume is not very effective. They can only hope that foreign tourists will foot the bill.
Nowadays, among the people coming to China from abroad, except for foreigners engaged in business activities, most of the rest are people who come for medical treatment, and these people are basically in the hands of travel agencies under the Shangtong Trading Company.
There are at least tens of millions of people every year. This is not a small number. As more and more types of drugs are developed by Chinese pharmaceutical companies, and more and more types of diseases can be cured by Chinese medical companies, this number will show an obvious upward trend. .
This is because the travel agency under Shangtong Trading Company has just begun to be established. It is still in the initial stage. It can only take care of the medical tourism project and cannot take care of others for the time being.
After the medical tourism projects of travel agencies have stabilized, it will be time for them to develop new businesses. The second stage is to develop domestic tourism resources and build various infrastructure and commercial facilities in tourist spots.
After these are completed, the travel agency will publish tourism promotion advertisements in the countries where their branches are located to promote domestic tourism resources. In terms of publicity, they not only have financial strength, but also many other resources to promote it.
Not to mention other things, ATV, a subsidiary of Umbrella Holdings, is now a global media giant with considerable influence in various countries. Their promotional resources are enough to make travel agencies' publicity and promotion more effective.
In addition to media resources, Shangtong Trading Company has subsidiaries all over the world, and there are so many companies that have invested in it. These resources provide very good support for ground promotion.
These are things that the domestic government and business groups are currently unable to do. Even if they have the money to develop domestic tourist attractions, no one knows what they are like when they go abroad.
After the development of domestic tourist attractions is almost complete, the domestic people have gradually become richer. Not only can they have spare money to travel to major domestic attractions, but also a considerable number of people have spare money to travel abroad.
This trend is basically inevitable with the development of the domestic economy. Just like in later generations, the number of people traveling abroad hits new highs every year, and more and more tourists prefer to travel abroad.
Therefore, when the time comes, travel agencies will also carry out targeted development of foreign tourism resources, cooperate with local governments to develop tourist attractions, or build artificial leisure resorts.
In Zhao Yi's view, tourism is a necessity for economic development to a certain extent, and my country itself is a country with a large population, and the potential tourism market is very huge.
In the previous life, there were more than 6 billion domestic tourists each year, hundreds of millions of outbound tourists, and the market size reached trillions of yuan. This is calculated based on the exchange rate in this life.
With such a huge market, it would be fine if you have not been involved in it. Now that you are involved, it would be a sin to turn a blind eye to it.
With its strong capital strength and pioneering layout, Shangtong Trading Company will be able to occupy at least 50% of the overall market share in the future. Coupled with the income from foreign tourism resources, the future is quite bright.
The food in the canteen is a standard three dishes and one soup, two meat and one vegetarian. Compared with the canteen of Hualong Clothing Company, although the number of dishes is the same, they have one meat and two vegetarian, which is a little worse than that of Future Space Technology Company.
Zhao Yi didn't have any objections to this. This was not done according to the talent high ground, but each company had its own policies. Although Zhao Yi asked them not to be stingy on basic benefits, he did not interfere in specific matters.
Although one meat and two vegetables is worse than this, it is quite good outside. Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has just started regular agricultural cooperation, and the scale is currently being gradually expanded. It will not have any impact on the domestic meat market for the time being. big.
In other words, there is still a big shortage in the supply of meat, and it has not yet reached the level where everyone can eat meat every day. To achieve this, it will take two or three years to expand production capacity.
Hualong Clothing Company has too many employees. If the meat consumption is too large, the price of meat on the market will soar. Although Hualong Clothing Company can still afford the money, there is no need to do so.
Compared with those large enterprises, the number of employees of Future Space Technology Company is much smaller. It only has 3,000 employees now, and a considerable number of them are members of the national team. It is difficult to expand this scale in the short term. .
Compared with other large companies such as Hualong Apparel Company, Future Space Technology Company is quite small. Even if meat consumption is sufficient, the scale will not be large and it will not have a big impact on the meat market.
Although many tickets have been canceled at present, it does not mean that all materials are sufficient. In many aspects, materials are just enough, especially in terms of food, which has not yet reached the prosperity of later generations.
Although Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has begun to get involved in this industry, the grain output of offshore farms is very large, but due to its limited scale, compared with the domestic population of more than 1 billion, it seems to be a drop in the bucket.
However, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is working hard to expand the scale of offshore farms. This year's planting area is expected to exceed 1,000 square kilometers, 10 times larger than the experimental planting area. By then, the domestic food problem will be completely solved.
Modern agriculture in cooperation with farmers is also gradually progressing. Since vegetables themselves have a large output and do not require special supplies, they only need to have enough nutrient solution to produce continuously.
Nowadays, the domestic vegetable supply is much better than before, especially in the northern region. You can eat various vegetable varieties all year round. There is no need to eat Chinese cabbage in winter as before.
But meat is different. Raising livestock requires the consumption of food. Before their offshore farms are expanded, even if they intend to expand the scale of livestock raising, it is impossible. The limited domestic food needs to be provided to people first.
Domestic grain production is now mainly divided into two major parts:
One area is grain production on land. The acquisition and operation are all handled by China Grain Reserves. Companies under Zhao Yi are not qualified to intervene.
Terrestrial grain production is mainly based on conventional grains. Sinograin has begun to cooperate with the Qingnong Biological Laboratory to optimize the research and development of conventional grain crops in order to increase grain yields and improve the taste and nutritional content of grains.
Since Zhao Yi had no involvement in this, and the technology used was not the hybridization technology of the previous life, but genetic technology, it would take a very long time to form stable plants.
It may take more than ten years before it can be actually applied in the fields. Fortunately, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company’s offshore farms can provide a large amount of food supply for the country, and the food crisis will not hang over our country.
In fact, in addition to genetically modified food crops, my country has also begun research on hybrid rice. Since hybrid rice is not a cross-species genetic improvement, it is relatively safe and can be quickly promoted as long as there are stable plants.
This is different from genetic technological transformation. Before the genetic food crops produced by the Qingnong Biological Laboratory are promoted to the fields, hybrid rice technology will be the main means to improve my country's terrestrial food production.
The other area is the offshore farm of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company. They have complete autonomy in the production and operation of grain in this area, but domestic sales need to be supervised by relevant government departments.
This is to prevent offshore farms from dumping grain into the domestic market when their output expands to a certain level. Necessary supervision is also necessary to prevent low grain prices from hurting farmers and disrupting the order of land grain production.
Since the pomegranate rice produced on offshore farms has good taste and nutrition, the main ration of our people will gradually shift to pomegranate rice in the future. The grain produced on land is mainly used for livestock feeding and industrial production raw materials, and the excess will be used. Come to export.
As for the food reserves, they will gradually shift from traditional food crops to mainly pomegranate and rice. Although some traditional food crops will be stored, they will not be the main force.
Don't look at the two together. If the grain production is too large, there will be food surplus. This kind of worry is completely unnecessary. There are still more than one billion people in the world who are hungry, and the world is not saturated with food.
At that time, our excess food can be used for export. Even if some countries have no money to purchase, we can also provide assistance or use resources to exchange for food. These are of great benefit to us.
Even if the world is saturated with food, food crops can still be used in many industrial production fields. The liquor industry is a very traditional food-consuming industry. Not to mention other things, using alcohol as energy is also a very good choice.
However, there is no need to think about using ethanol as energy now. Petroleum resources have not yet been exhausted, and the price of oil is relatively low. There is no need to use ethanol as energy, and the cost will be higher.
Back to business.
Since the rocket launch mission will only begin tomorrow, at this time, the staff at the launch base are following their normal work schedule, which means that they have basically gone home to eat. Not many people came to the canteen to eat today.
Although eating in the canteen is free, if they eat less in the canteen, they can get more food subsidies, so almost all employees would rather go home to cook and eat, so that they can get more income.
The company is not trying to earn employees' food expenses. Since employees want to get more money, the company can save itself the trouble. The canteen is usually empty, and people only come to eat when they work overtime.
However, tomorrow is the day of the rocket launch. On such a major day, employees participating in the mission must eat in the cafeteria and are not allowed to go home and cook for themselves. This can ensure that there will be no launch accidents due to employee problems.
"It was quite rare to pay with a card just now." The minister sitting opposite Zhao Yi said while eating.
Hearing what the minister said, Zhao Yi also smiled and said: "Actually, the technical content is just that, but the creativity is pretty good. If government agencies want to introduce it, they can contact Polaris Company.
This kind of magnetic card can not only be used as employee ID card, but can also be used in many places. Government departments must also have many confidential places. This kind of ID card can be used with related equipment systems to create a strict access control authority system.
In other words, this kind of magnetic card can be used as a sign of identity recognition in many daily tasks. Among them, access control is a relatively common application scenario. Of course, punching in to eat is also the most commonly used scenario. "
After hearing Zhao Yi's words, the minister also became interested and said: "Identity recognition is a good direction. The government also has many scenarios where this technology needs to be used. I will send someone to contact Polaris Company later to take a look."
Zhao Yi didn't expect that he would get an order from Polaris Company by just saying it casually. As long as the Ministry of Science and Development applies this system, other government departments will definitely introduce it one after another. This is foreseeable.
Although the price of a single system is not high, it cannot support the large number. There are at least hundreds of thousands of units across the country that need to use this system. Even if each company charges an average of 100,000 yuan, it is still a scale of tens of billions of yuan, which is not small. .
However, when Zhao heard that the minister was very interested, he added: "Using this kind of technology for security is actually the most rudimentary, and it falls short of the capabilities of important security units.
Polaris Company actually has a very strict security system, involving intelligent camera technology, iris identification technology, sound wave collection technology, infrared detection technology, data link intelligent monitoring technology, intelligent early warning technology, etc.
My R&D units and departments all use this security system. If the government needs it, it might as well go to Polaris Company to have a look. It will play a major role in confidentiality work. "
This is not Zhao Yi's boast. The system developed by Polaris Company is indeed very good, and all of his important security units use this security system. So far, no regrettable incident has been found.
Although this is directly related to the fact that the current domestic environment is generally good and commercial espionage is not yet popular, he does not deny the role of this security system, so he has no pressure to promote this security system.
The minister originally thought that using magnetic cards was a better confidentiality measure, but when Zhao Yiyi told him, it turned out that Polaris Company had a more professional security system, which was much more advanced than the half-baked technology of magnetic cards.
He has long heard that many of the systems used internally by Zhao Yi's companies use artificial intelligence technology, and the level of advancement is unmatched by outsiders.
Now after listening to Zhao Yi's words, I am even more interested in the intelligent security system of Polaris Company, especially since they are also the Ministry of Science and Development, and there are many situations that require high confidentiality.
"Okay, I'll go to Polaris Company in person later. Since I took office, I haven't visited many domestic high-tech companies. This time I went to discuss business cooperation and inspect it," the minister said with a smile.
"Then I would like to thank the minister on behalf of Polaris Company. This may bring them a lot of business." Zhao Yi responded with a smile.
"What's there to thank you for? As the Minister of Science and Technology Development, we need to provide more support to domestic high-tech enterprises. This is not just about policy. We should also support areas where we can cooperate." The minister said.
After listening to what he said, Zhao Yi didn't say anything else except thanking him. The previous government actually used this method to support domestic technological development.
The most typical example is the development of my country's photovoltaic industry. After the financial crisis in 2008, demand for photovoltaic products in Europe and the United States dropped rapidly, and at that time, my country's photovoltaic industry expanded significantly.
The superposition of these two unfavorable factors has resulted in severe oversupply in my country's photovoltaic industry, with supply exceeding demand. The prices of polysilicon and photovoltaic modules have fallen sharply, leading to the bankruptcy of upstream companies.
Later, countries such as Europe and the United States conducted anti-dumping investigations into my country's photovoltaic industry, which made the international trade environment of my country's photovoltaic industry even worse. If the government does not actively intervene, it will have a serious adverse impact on the development of my country's photovoltaic industry.
So the government combined my country's photovoltaic industry with poverty alleviation policies, allowing poor families across the country to install photovoltaic power generation equipment, and the government provided subsidies.
A set of photovoltaic power generation equipment can continue to operate for 30 years, which can bring continuous income to poor families. At the same time, my country's photovoltaic industry has also gained a breathing space.
This is an important reason why the scale of photovoltaic power generation in my country has increased rapidly after 2011. Although my country's photovoltaic industry is still affected a lot, the fundamentals have remained basically stable.
Therefore, Zhao Yi did not feel any surprise about the minister's words. If it was really operated in accordance with marketization and the government did not care at all, how could it be possible to preserve complete industrial categories. (End of chapter)