In fact, compared to the high mountains and hills in the south, the terrain in the north is actually very gentle. If rainfall can be increased, the north will be more suitable for large-scale farming operations than the south.
More importantly, the population density in the north, especially in the northwest and northeast, is much lower than that in the Central Plains and the south, which brings very favorable conditions for large-scale agricultural cultivation.
However, these were Zhao Yi's previous thoughts. He had previously discussed the possibility of building the Hongqi River project with the old man and the chief minister to transfer Tibet's abundant water resources to the northwest.
Looking back now, it seems that the necessity is not that high. With the large-scale construction of offshore farms, the problem of food security will be completely solved.
What Zhao Yi hopes to do now is to use this forest as a starting point and develop the forest edge line step by step north and west, eventually covering the entire northwest region and becoming an important part of my country's green ecological environment.
It's just that this kind of work cannot be achieved in the short term, but needs to be done step by step. When this forest grows up, the climate environment here will be greatly improved, and the rainfall will definitely increase a lot.
After the climate environment here has been greatly improved, it will slowly move toward the northwest and finally complete the goal of large-scale forest construction in northwest my country.
Moreover, with the large-scale afforestation of Lucky Light Environmental Management Company in recent years, a large number of sapling breeding companies have been cultivated in our country, and these companies have provided a huge number of jobs.
If the Lucky Light Environmental Management Company suddenly stops planting trees, these companies may not necessarily go bankrupt in large numbers. After all, the urbanization construction of Chinese housing companies also requires many saplings.
However, a sharp shrinkage in the size of the entire market is inevitable, so the scale of these companies will definitely shrink sharply, and the shrinkage of jobs will also accelerate.
Therefore, after the construction of these forests is completed, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company still needs to continue this project, but which method will be adopted at that time remains to be discussed.
He is not sure whether this model of Zhao Yi contracting the land and then carrying out construction can continue, because today is different from the past, and everyone can see the benefits more clearly.
However, seeing clearly does not mean that just anyone can do it. Especially such a large-scale afforestation project has high requirements for both capital and technology.
Moreover, after planting trees, you will not get immediate returns. Even Zhao Yi does not expect to be able to make a return and make a profit in the short term. Under the best circumstances, he hopes to be able to make a return in 20 to 30 years.
Because even if it grows into a mature forest system, in order to develop it reasonably and sustainably, there must be some restraint in logging, and it is impossible to cut down the whole area.
Moreover, when Lucky Light Environmental Management Company selects tree species, it does not just plant fast-growing tree species, but chooses to plant various tree species, as long as those that adapt to the environmental and climatic conditions here are not left behind.
Not to mention other private capital, it is a big question whether state capital can survive such a long period of losses. This is not like building traffic roads, which can have huge additional effects.
In fact, the marginal effect of afforestation is very low. Apart from having a great effect on the climate environment and absorbing carbon dioxide in the air, it has no other obvious effects.
The main reason why Zhao Yi invested so much money to enter this industry was to provide a barrier for Tengger Ranch and Mu Us Ranch to prevent them from being slowly eroded by the wind and sand coming from the northwest.
This time, when the helicopter landed and overlooked the magnificent scene below, Zhao Yi's mentality underwent some subtle changes. If he continues to invest in this and afforestation the northwest or the entire north, what will it look like by then? Scenes.
Although investing in this field is not cost-effective for Zhao Yi, if he invests these funds casually in other fields, he will gain much more than this.
But when people are alive, they always hope to leave something for future generations, not just for the present. It is precisely because we have such a fine tradition that we can continue to develop to this day without interruption.
And although this project is generally large-scale and expensive, since it lasts for decades, if it is evenly divided, the annual investment is actually not much, and he can definitely afford it.
Although his funds will be stretched in the next few years, it is still possible to squeeze out some funds from his hands to continue investing in this field, and it will not be as fierce as it is now, and the afforestation speed will be much slower than now.
In addition, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has now got rid of the purely cash-burning operating model, its profitability has been greatly enhanced, and its layout in other aspects has also been launched, and its future development is immeasurable.
When he was planning urban construction projects, he did not include the income of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company at all. In other words, this company would not have to hand over its profits for a long time in the future.
The businesses they have laid out in the fields of tap water, sewage treatment and garbage disposal are relatively stable, and there is no need to worry about big changes. In other words, although it is difficult to make huge profits in these businesses, they do not need to cost too much. energy.
Of course, this all needs to be done after these businesses are on the right track. It is currently being laid out and a lot of energy is spent. Once it stabilizes, everything can be done step by step.
Therefore, in the future, in addition to continuing to develop their own money-making business, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company will devote a lot of energy to this cause.
In this case, the conditions for this plan to proceed are actually met, and it can be carried out using the profit capital of the Lucky Light Environmental Management Company itself, without Zhao Yi having to pay for it himself.
Moreover, afforestation is something that will benefit both the present and the future. The government also encourages this and offers great tax incentives.
But at present, Zhao Yi doesn't know if anyone else is interested in this cake. If someone is really interested in it, he has no regrets. Anyway, as long as someone does it, it is a good thing and he can avoid most of the trouble.
And if someone is really willing to invest in the afforestation industry, they will definitely need to use the technology and products of the Lucky Light Environmental Management Company. Maybe the environmental management company can make a lot of small money from this.
After returning from the aerial inspection, Zhao Yi discussed this with Wei Donglai and told Wei Donglai all his ideas, hoping that he could carry out the plan.
However, these are all preset plans. For specific details, relevant materials need to be submitted to relevant government departments and relevant permissions obtained. Otherwise, everything is empty talk.
In the past, Zhao Yi was responsible for the work of dealing with the government, and others were only responsible for the specific implementation. This time, Zhao Yi did not plan to do it himself and let Yaoguang Environmental Management Company deal with the relevant departments.
In order not to dampen Yaoguang Environmental Management Company's enthusiasm for this plan, he did not plan to set up the forestry resource management company that was originally planned to be established separately, and directly asked Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to set up a subsidiary for management.
In this way, the enthusiasm of the Fluolight Environmental Management Company will definitely be higher, instead of feeling that they are taking their own profits and putting in a lot of energy, but the results have nothing to do with them.
Although we all have the same boss, there is no need to make the distinction so clearly, but from the perspective of the employees of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, it has been really hit hard, especially since this plan is a very long-term plan and requires continuous enthusiasm.
Sure enough, Wei Donglai's mood increased a lot when he heard that these forestry resources would not be separated in the future and would be managed by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, and future profits would also belong to the environmental management company.
After seeing Wei Donglai's expression, Zhao Yi felt that his decision just now was very correct. This would allow Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to treat this matter as its own business, rather than simply as a task assigned by superiors.
Zhao Yi just wanted to get the land under the previous conditions, and Zhao Yi had no greater confidence. After all, when he rented these lands, it was relatively easy when the country was short of foreign exchange.
Now our country's export trade is booming and the scale is already very large. There is no shortage of foreign exchange in the government's hands. And more importantly, Zhao Yi already has such a large amount of land in his hands. Is it more difficult to expand it further
These are all uncertain factors, so Zhao Yi told Wei Donglai to write a plan and then submit it to the relevant departments for discussion and see what happens.
However, Zhao Yi feels that the possibility of passing is quite high. After all, this is not a purchase of land, but a lease of land. When these places become forests, the country will ultimately benefit. This is a win-win situation.
After leaving these matters to Wei Donglai, Zhao Yi did not intend to care about them and flew directly back to Kyoto on his own special plane. His trip took too long and he needed to go back to see how other industries were doing.
After he returned to Kyoto, he began to check the report data sent by various companies. As a result, Yadai Company's operating conditions were beyond his expectations, and its sales revenue increased significantly.
Previously, Yadai's estimated annual revenue was around 200 billion yuan. Now, based on recent statistics, they themselves predict that annual revenue may reach around 250 billion yuan.
Although there is still a long way to go before the annual revenue of one trillion yuan that Zhao Yi wants, this result actually makes him happy. You must know that they started sales in June, which is only more than half a year.
If calculated based on the whole year, it can reach about 500 billion yuan, which is already an amazing figure. If it were not for their unique product advantages, they would not be able to achieve such results.
In the future, as the popularity of Yade Company becomes higher and higher, more and more consumers recognize Yade Company, and the process of globalization accelerates, it is not impossible to double in the future.
According to the forecast of Yadai Company, in the next one to two years, the number of consumers of the Age Anonymous series alone may reach more than 100 million. If the prediction comes true, this series alone will generate an annual revenue of more than 600 billion yuan. .
Although the other series are not as shocking as the Age Invisible series, nor are they as necessary as the Age Invisible series, their combined operating income is still comparable to the Age Invisible series.
Especially in the future, global aging will accelerate, the proportion of the elderly will gradually increase, and the retirement age will be extended, so these people need the age concealer series of products.
No matter what their real age is, everyone hopes to appear the most handsome and youthful. This is a rigid need of human beings, and the Age Invisible Series products can well meet their demands.
According to long-term data, excluding the population with insufficient spending power, the annual global sales of the Age Anonymous series alone may eventually reach more than 500 million people.
This is such a huge consumer group, but the current price of the age-invisible product series is too high, and only people above the middle class can afford it.
However, if the price of the product does not increase, as the income of people around the world increases, more and more people will be able to afford it, and the data they predict is not impossible to achieve.
In addition to Yade Company, China Housing Corporation has also started a comprehensive bidding operation, which shows that they have reached all relevant agreements with the governments of the first batch of development cities, otherwise it would not be possible to reach this point.
According to their reports, the bidding work went very smoothly. Major state-owned construction companies in the country have been gearing up for a long time. Even the construction tasks they had previously accepted have been accelerated, just to spare energy and manpower.
According to the schedule, all their bidding work will be completed by early August. If there were not too many construction units this time and the bidding task was very heavy, it would not have taken so long.
After the bidding is completed, these construction companies will use the existing human resources and equipment to start part of the construction. If they want to fully start, they need to recruit enough manpower.
Companies that have received construction contracts have begun to arrange manpower to recruit workers in major rural areas in the country. Now the only remaining human resources are in rural areas, and the employment in cities is already very sufficient.
According to domestic customs, people from the entire village are generally recruited, and even people from nearby areas will follow. After all, the outside world is unfamiliar to most of them, so it is normal to sign up for a group to keep warm.
Therefore, major construction companies will not gather in one place to recruit, but prepare to disperse to all parts of the country, so that they can recruit enough manpower without competition.
Interestingly, at this juncture, the government introduced a minimum wage standard, which Zhao Yi did not expect. Now the average wage nationwide has reached about 300 yuan, and the minimum wage set by the government is 200 yuan.
The main purpose of the government's introduction of the minimum wage at this time is to safeguard the interests of these rural laborers. After all, even a monthly salary of 100 yuan is much higher than their previous income.
In this case, in order to save their own costs, the construction companies will definitely pay a monthly salary of 100 yuan. In this way, the rural labor force will be satisfied, and these construction companies will be even more satisfied.
However, this situation is contrary to the expansion of domestic demand. The purpose of the government and Zhao Yi to launch large-scale infrastructure construction is, on the one hand, to solve the problem of rural labor employment, and on the other hand, to expand domestic demand.
Only by bulging people's pockets will domestic market demand expand rapidly, and the products produced by domestic companies will not be overly dependent on foreign markets.
Moreover, setting a minimum wage standard can also narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and create favorable conditions for my country's social stability. Zhao Yi is supportive of this.
In fact, these construction companies don't care about the salary of their employees. After all, these costs will eventually be borne by Party A. As for Zhao Yi, these costs need to be borne by the Chinese Housing Company.
Zhao Yi does not think this is a bad thing, but rather thinks it is a good thing. In this case, the large amount of funds he holds can be reasonably distributed to the people at the bottom, and his gain is a large number of fixed assets.
As the same saying goes, money is just a pile of waste paper if it is not spent. Only when money is converted into assets can it continue to create value and bring prosperity and stability to this society.
Zhao Yi did not find it strange that domestic state-owned enterprises participated in the bidding of China Housing Corporation. After all, they are now the main force in the domestic construction industry. Without them, China Housing Corporation's plan would not be implemented at all.
Unless China Housing Corporation goes into battle and personally enters the construction industry, in that case, the future scale of China Housing Corporation will be a bit too big, which will cause a lot of trouble in management.
What surprised Zhao Yi was that the construction companies in Hong Kong were also on the bidding list. It seemed that they had already sensed the clues when they were building the new city of the Hong Kong Housing Company.
This time, the China Housing Company's bidding activity was only promoted in the mainland and did not go to other regions. In this case, I don't know how they got the news.
But now that they are involved, the China Housing Corporation has no intention of turning them away. After all, they have a pleasant cooperation with the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, and they have a certain effect on the stability of Hong Kong.
However, although they participated, the share they received was generally not high. First, their capital was not strong. According to regulations, construction contractors need to bear the costs for three months.
The reason for this stipulation is mainly to distinguish the strength of construction contractors. If they do not bear any costs, there will definitely be a lot of pocket companies among the companies that come to participate in the bidding.
This is not done by China Housing Corporation to save costs. If it really wants to do this, it can extend this period to one year.
From this perspective, it fully reflects the difference in strength between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises. State-owned enterprises are backed by the government and banks, and they do not worry that Chinese housing companies cannot afford to pay.
Therefore, in this matter, the support received by state-owned enterprises is unprecedented, while the private capital from Hong Kong is much worse. They have no one to back them up and can only rely on their own capital and limited bank loans.
Second, China Housing Corporation is building many new cities this time, which include both residential buildings that do not require very high construction requirements and skyscrapers that require very high construction requirements.
Even though the city of Hong Kong is crowded with high-rise buildings, in terms of overall technical strength, they are not necessarily better than state-owned enterprises. Especially the headquarters built by large enterprises under Zhao Yi have very high standards, and these are all built by state-owned enterprises.
This is a big difference between this life and the previous one. State-owned enterprises have very rich experience in high-rise buildings and special buildings. In addition, the country as a whole also has many talents in this field, and its strength is already very strong.
Otherwise, it is basically difficult for Chinese housing companies to build new cities on such a large scale. It will inevitably be necessary to invite foreign companies to participate, which Zhao Yi does not want to see.
And because this urbanization construction will use many new technologies and new materials, which everyone has no experience in before, they are basically newcomers in front of these new technologies and new materials.
In order to cooperate with the use of these new technologies and new materials, the buildings designed by construction companies will definitely be very different from current buildings, and the internal structures will also be very different.
To give a very simple example, since most of these properties of China Housing Corporation are self-sustained, in order to save energy and improve energy efficiency, the entire building uses central air conditioning. Not every household uses its own independent air conditioner. .
Moreover, in order to adapt to the future changes in the information society, all buildings need to set up special weak current line layouts. In order to cooperate with future urban lighting projects, special materials need to be used on the outer surfaces of the buildings.
There is also the use of photovoltaic coatings that Zhao Yi participated in the research and development before. These things have never appeared before and are things that need to be relearned for any construction company.
In fact, the majority of the cost of these construction companies is not the labor cost, but the cost of purchasing machinery and equipment. Since the construction period required by Chinese housing companies is relatively short, and many constructions are also very difficult, machinery must be used on a large scale to complete.
This situation was also reflected in the report of Tianshu Machinery Company. Since this situation was expected to happen before, Tianshu Machinery Company has been producing continuously during this period and is also actively expanding its production capacity.
As a result, according to their reports, all the construction machinery and equipment that had been continuously produced before were purchased by major domestic construction companies, and the operating income in this area alone reached 100 billion yuan.
According to Tianshu Machinery Company's forecast, this year, they are expected to achieve operating income of 200 billion yuan in construction machinery and equipment.
In the future, the annual operating income from construction machinery and equipment will not only not decrease, but may also increase, and will eventually stabilize at around 500 billion yuan. (End of chapter)