Wei Donglai from the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company was one of the first people to follow him, and he was also the one with the strongest aura of wind and frost under him. Looking at his face that had been blown by the wind and sand, he was a little moved.
Wei Donglai is not the kind of person who likes to sit in an office and only orders his subordinates to work. Instead, he goes to the front line whenever he has time, and if there is no major thing that needs him to do, he can always stay on the front line.
Yaoguang Environmental Management Company is a very special company under Zhao Yi. If measured by revenue, it is basically no different from a welfare company. So far, not a penny of profit has reached him. Instead, he has received a huge amount of money. funds.
But the importance of this company is unquestionable. In his previous life, Zhao Yi stayed in Kyoto for a long time and could see sandstorms every spring. This was still Kyoto, and the environmental situation in the north, especially in the northwest, would only get worse.
When Zhao Yi was reborn, he did not think about making a lot of money, because that was nothing to him, but he wanted to change the domestic environment as soon as possible so that the north could enjoy the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers like the south. of comfort.
After these years of unremitting struggle, we have finally made some achievements, completely changing the appearance of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in the northwest region. Not only has the environment been fundamentally changed, but it has also created huge economic value for our country.
But such achievements are not enough in Zhao Yi's opinion. What he wants is to systematically transform the northern environment, rather than make minor repairs on the previous basis.
Zhao Yi and Wei Donglai talked about the daily operations of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, such as the completion of agreements with countries in the Middle East, because this project is a very good demonstration project and a very good international advertisement.
“Although the environmental transformation project order with Saudi Arabia is very large, compared with domestic transformation tasks, the workload is much lower, and we provide a steady stream of desalinated seawater for the seawater desalination project they are building.
Our work progressed very quickly. The entire first phase of the plan was actually completed in October last year. The Saudi government is very satisfied with it.
However, this kind of treatment is only preliminary. Although it seems that it has been effectively managed, if you want to fundamentally change the soil structure and turn the desert into fertile land, regular maintenance will be required in the future. "Wei Donglai said.
Zhao Yi knew this very well. Even though the sandy land and desert transformed by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company for his brother companies turned into fertile land in a short period of time, there was still a big difference between the two.
The first one is the difference in using technology and means. The fertilizing grass of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company is also divided into several grades. Of course, the one you use is the best. It has the best carbon sequestration effect and has a good impact on the soil structure. Improvement is also the best.
As for providing customers from other countries with a lower grade, this is not because Fluolight Environmental Management Company must do this, but because the effect is so good, it is afraid that customers will feel that they have spent a huge amount of capital and feel that they have suffered a loss.
Therefore, if you use sub-grade products, you need to use them multiple times, and the workload will increase a lot. Customers will feel that the amount of work is very large, and they will not have much idea about spending high prices.
Moreover, the fertilized soil grass products provided to the outside world have no reproductive ability at all. After the fertilized soil grass dies, it needs to be broadcast again. This will last for 10 years before the effect can be similar to that of domestic products.
This is done firstly for the sake of confidentiality and through special birth control treatment, and secondly so that the relationship with the customer can be maintained for a long time, instead of finishing the work quickly and not having much contact after that.
The second is the difference between soils. For example, Mu Us Pasture was just sandy land before and has not completely turned into a desert. Soil nutrients still remain, but in a real desert, effective nutrients are basically lost.
For example, the transformation of the Tengger Desert is much more difficult than that of the Mu Us Desert. This is based on the fact that the Tengger Desert has relatively abundant water resources.
According to this calculation, in the future, the company will need to arrange personnel to go to Saudi Arabia to perform maintenance operations every year, which will last for 10 years until the desert is completely turned into fertile land.
As for the seawater desalination plant signed with Saudi Arabia, this one is much simpler. In order to speed up the progress and use desalinated seawater to support land transformation, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company recruited a lot of people from China to help.
At present, 80% of all seawater desalination plants have been completed and have stable water supply, and the rest will be completed in the next one or two months.
Once all desalination plants are built, it will mark Saudi Arabia's complete freedom from water restrictions on their development. This significance is far-reaching in the Middle East and has been watched by other countries.
According to Wei Donglai's account, some Middle Eastern countries are now asking them for information about seawater desalination, especially Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, and many other countries, but these two countries have a strong willingness to cooperate.
In fact, the Iran-Iraq War has not yet officially ended, and Wei Donglai is not very optimistic about the large-scale construction of desalination plants in Iraq, especially since Yaoguang Environmental Company is expected to build and operate it alone.
Although this may not seem like much, considering that they are still in the middle of a war, if they build and operate it alone, will they be bombed and cause huge losses to the company
Due to such concerns, the negotiations between the two parties have not been completed. According to Yaoguang Environment Company, of course, the local government will bear all the costs, and the company only needs to use technology to obtain half of the equity.
In this case, even if there is a huge loss in the future, it will not matter much to Yaoguang Environmental Management Company. Anyway, it has not paid a penny, and there will not be much loss if it is scrapped. It will just lose part of the subsequent income.
As for cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, it is much simpler. The political situation there is relatively stable. According to the preliminary agreement reached by the two parties, the same plan as Saudi Arabia is adopted. This is the most suitable plan for Yaoguang Environmental Management Company.
When operating overseas, the first thing to consider is whether you can retreat smoothly, and the second is whether you can make a lot of money. The cooperation plan with Saudi Arabia is the best plan to advance, attack, retreat, and defend, and the trouble you will encounter in the future will be the least. of.
As for cooperation in Iraq, Zhao Yi is inclined to cooperate. Although he needs to invest a sum of money himself, it is a good opportunity for future consideration.
"In Iraq, you can invest your own money, but you don't need to start construction so quickly. You can take your time and build gradually. It is estimated that it will take several years to complete the provisions of the contract." Zhao Yi said.
Now that Zhao Yi has made this decision, Wei Donglai certainly has no objection. Although he invested by himself, the amount of investment is not actually very large. It is just out of consideration for the safety of his own assets that he does not want to fund the construction himself.
Zhao Yi, on the other hand, hopes to use this as an opportunity to establish contact with government officials there to facilitate future actions of China Military Industrial Company. Moreover, since they have seen our military industry strength, even if they have any ideas, they will probably give them up.
In addition to foreign projects, most of the projects of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company are still in China. One is to cooperate with the government to control the land desertification problem in Inner Mongolia. This cooperation is advancing steadily and is currently in accordance with the plan.
Second, the relevant environmental transformation ideas of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company have received support from relevant government departments. They are currently planning to improve the environment of the Loess Plateau and are communicating with various departments.
As for the previous transformation projects such as the Badain Jaran Desert and the Ulan Buh Desert, they are gradually coming to an end. After so many years of unremitting efforts and huge investment of manpower and material resources, the tree planting work has basically been completed.
In the later stage, only regular maintenance and observation of these trees will be enough, and the number of employees required will be greatly reduced. However, it will take several years to grow a forest, and you cannot keep so many people in vain.
Therefore, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company urgently needs to start a new large-scale environmental management project, and the environmental transformation of the Loess Plateau has been included in their projects, and they are preparing to build that area into a lush forest.
However, although the environment of the Loess Plateau is not as harsh as that of the desert, the topography is much more complex. If artificial trees are planted one by one, the progress will be very slow and the investment of manpower and material resources will be even greater.
Because mechanized operations are not available in many places there, how to carry out tree planting work more efficiently is a problem that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has to face.
Moreover, there are a lot of residents living on the Loess Plateau, and land issues are not so easy to solve. In order to avoid related disputes, innovative cooperation models are needed.
Regarding Wei Donglai's first problem, Zhao Yi wanted to solve it through technology, but it was very difficult based on the current research strength of several companies under his umbrella, but to him, it was nothing.
Due to the complex topography of the Loess Plateau, Zhao Yi decided to develop a duality plant himself. In other words, this plant has the same initial characteristics as herbaceous plants and has strong vitality.
But after growing for a year, this plant begins to slowly transform into tree characteristics. At the same time, plants at a disadvantage in resource competition will slowly wither and rot, and eventually become nutrients for other winning plants.
The reason why such a plant is needed is that seeds can be spread by airplane in the early stage, which will greatly improve the operation efficiency and ignore the complex topography over there.
When the plants that win the competition grow up, the inferior plants will wither and rot and turn into nutrients, so that the originally dense herbaceous plants can be turned into well-spaced trees.
In this way, the soil structure of the Loess Plateau can be changed, and there is no need to worry about the trees being too dense, causing the trees to grow up to be malnourished and unable to become useful.
In this way, the problem of large-scale operations on the Loess Plateau with thousands of ravines was solved in one fell swoop, the efficiency was increased by more than a hundred times, and the cost was also significantly reduced.
It's just that what Zhao Yi is thinking about is how to increase economic benefits. Although Yaoguang Environmental Management Company aims to improve the local environment, it cannot ignore its own interests, otherwise it will not be able to operate at all.
And this is not the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company's own interests. There are a very large population living on the Loess Plateau. When the environment is transformed, a way out must be found for them.
As for leaving land for them to grow food, it is actually very uneconomical. It is very difficult to get rid of poverty and become rich, because with offshore farms, the price of food crops is destined to not be very high.
Coupled with the high-tech planting methods of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, the prices of other agricultural products will not maintain high prices for a long time. Unless planting is carried out on a large scale, it is basically impossible for small farmers to get rich.
If you want to get benefits, you have to get benefits from the trees themselves, which means selling the wood. However, it is difficult to plant trees on the Loess Plateau, and the operation is also very difficult. This will not be the mainstream method of making profits.
The second is to make profits from their fruits or other products, but in this case, it cannot be a variety, otherwise no matter how good the product is, once the quantity is large, it will not be able to sell at a high price, and the value created will be lower than the cost. Invest.
The second problem is that Zhao Yi feels that it is more appropriate to adopt a future leasing model, that is, if the land of existing residents is used by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, then rent compensation will be provided.
This is just a plan. When it is actually implemented, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company may bypass residential areas and farming areas and transform the barren mountains. This will cause much less trouble. The details will depend on the negotiations with the locals. .
After all the trees have become useful or mature, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company can hire local people to work and give them relevant compensation, so that they can obtain good economic income and the contradiction will not be great.
After discussing these, Zhao Yi gave Yaoguang Environmental Management Company a task, which is to build a large number of desalination plants in major coastal cities, especially in the northern region.
No matter how well the environment is improved in the north, as the population increases, per capita water shortage will still exist. In order to meet the daily needs of residents and economic development in the north, large-scale construction of seawater desalination plants is necessary.
Although the desalination plant does not consume much electricity during the desalination process, if you want to transport fresh water to the northern inland areas, it consumes a lot of electricity.
Precisely because of cost issues, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company only built a demonstration plant in Tianjin and did not launch large-scale construction of seawater desalination plants.
Now Xinhui Energy Company is preparing to build large-scale photovoltaic power plants in desert areas. With the high conversion rate of photovoltaic coatings and the low prices of related equipment, the cost of electricity is not only very low, but also the volume is very large.
Against this background, it is possible to desalinate seawater through large-scale seawater desalination plants along the coast and then transport it to inland areas through pipelines, and the cost is within the acceptable range of residents.
Of course, such a project can also consume the electricity generated by Xinhui Energy Company on a large scale. Without application scenarios, it will be useless no matter how many power plants Xinhui Energy Company builds.
To support the desalination plant, a large number of water transmission pipelines need to be built. Because the volume is very large, the cross-sectional area of the pipeline must be very large, and it is not a water pipeline.
Therefore, the project volume is not low. We cannot wait until Xinhui Energy Company's large-scale photovoltaic power plant is completed before starting construction. All links must be constructed before then.
After chatting with Wei Donglai about Yaoguang Environmental Management Company's plans, Wei Donglai was asked to wait here because the next meeting was with China Military Industrial Company.
After Yao Ziliang came in and sat down, Zhao Yi said: "I just talked with Wei Donglai. They are currently negotiating with Iraq for a desalination plant project, and there is a high probability that it will be successful.
After the project negotiations are completed, your company will arrange some staff who are good at sales to join the project team, go there to carry out the project, and build a good relationship with their government.
Wei Donglai is here now. After the meeting, you can discuss these arrangements. "
After Zhao Yi finished speaking, he exchanged each other's business cards with Wei Donglai. In fact, they had limited acquaintance before. As a military equipment R&D and manufacturing enterprise, Huaxia Military Industrial Company has very high confidentiality requirements.
Except for the contact information with a few company leaders who have close cooperation, the other company leaders have not exchanged contact information with each other. This time, they are making up for it to facilitate direct discussions in the future.
Zhao Yi doesn't need to say more about the following things. Yao Ziliang will definitely arrange the specific implementation details better than him, and there is no need to rush this matter. It will take a year or two to be effective.
After Wei Donglai left, Yao Ziliang began to introduce the current operating situation of Huaxia Military Industry Company to Zhao Yi. In this regard, he mainly picked up things that Zhao Yi might not understand, so the time was not long.
After Yao Ziliang's report was completed, Zhao Yi said: "Just now, Jia Siqi from Shangtong Trading Company developed a drone delivery system in order to solve the last-mile distribution problem of e-commerce.
I think that although this system is for civilian use, the technology is very advanced and has already met the technical standards of some military drones. This makes me think that China Military Industrial Company needs to speed up the development of unmanned military aircraft.
Because when the advanced civilian drones of Shangtong Trading Company are put into use on the market, other countries will definitely think of military uses and start research work.
Although we already have a very good technical foundation, we still need to work hard to develop the next generation of military unmanned equipment. "
After listening to Zhao Yi's words, Yao Ziliang expressed surprise at the innovation ability of Shangtong Trading Company. You must know that their company would not necessarily turn its attention to the research and development of unmanned military equipment if the boss had not pointed out the direction.
Regarding Zhao Yi's request, Yao Ziliang said that he would speed up the progress, because according to Zhao Yi's request, even with the technical reserves possessed by China Military Industrial Company, it would take a lot of hard work.
Because the unmanned equipment proposed by Zhao Yi is not as simple as the unmanned equipment in the previous life, but its overall performance is higher than that of manned equipment, especially military unmanned aircraft.
Since there is no need for human driving, it is freed from the limitations of the human body, and various parameters can be greatly improved. However, in this case, it is not possible to simply use manual connection at the remote end, and the level of intelligence is very high.
Of course, this is the requirement for the most high-end military drones. If it has not been developed by then, you can still follow the steps of the previous life. Anyway, it will be much more advanced than the relevant foreign equipment by then.
In addition to urging them to speed up the research and development of military unmanned equipment, it also requires them to speed up the research and development of the next generation of military equipment, especially air force equipment, and preferably complete the first flight before 1990.
The reason why he is so anxious is that he will not be overly involved in the next generation of military equipment. Naturally, the overall progress of research and development will not be as fast as the progress of this generation of equipment.
Second, we need to come up with advanced weapons and equipment that are enough to shock the world before the big changes, so that everyone will not be too impulsive and use their limited funds to catch up with advanced weapons and equipment to avoid troubles.
Moreover, at this time, our country's existing military equipment also has sufficient combat power to allow countries with ulterior motives to put aside their small moves.
In fact, in the final analysis, it is about deterrence. Although the current weapons and equipment can compete, they cannot yet achieve the role of deterrence. Only the next generation of advanced weapons and equipment can be unveiled in advance to have sufficient deterrence capabilities.
And according to the normal process, the time from the first flight to the official service will take at least five years, or even as long as more than 10 years. It is not like now, where the process is so short.
The main reason why it is so short now is that the military equipment developed by China Military Industrial Company is much more advanced than the existing military equipment in every aspect.
More importantly, Zhao Yi was very involved in this batch of military equipment, and many problems were solved from the beginning. Naturally, the finished product performed very well in all aspects.
In addition, Zhao Yi told Yao Ziliang the research and development ideas for the next generation of military equipment, mainly in terms of air force military equipment.
According to Zhao Yi's idea, the next generation of air force equipment will be developed around aerospace aircraft carriers. In Zhao Yi's view, aerospace aircraft carriers are large saucer-shaped aircraft, also commonly known as flying saucers.
Not only does it have a huge space to park a large number of drones and manned aircraft, but it can also provide all the auxiliary functions of the aerial battlefield.
And Zhao Yi also hopes to achieve full mimicry, full silence, full invisibility and other functions, but this goal is too high, and the goal of the first-generation product will not be set so high.
However, Zhao Yi hopes that the first-generation product will need to be able to fly in outer space, and other functional aircraft will also need to achieve this capability, with all-weather global combat capabilities and monitoring capabilities.
No matter how dumbfounded Yao Ziliang was, the target was given to them and they were asked to do some pre-research work. As for the technical ideas, Zhao Yi would not talk about it for the time being. Let them study and try it out by themselves first. It may not necessarily be better than their own ideas. (End of chapter)