In fact, Cornerstone Materials Company occupies a leading position in many domestic material fields, but its share in the international market is not as outstanding as coatings.
This is not because Cornerstone Materials' materials are uncompetitive in the international market, but because there are many reasons that have limited their ability to develop international markets.
First of all, the advanced material products of Cornerstone Materials are prohibited from export. Cornerstone Materials has a wide range of leading material products, and these materials can only be sold in the domestic market.
Secondly, the domestic economic development has been very fast in recent years. The demand for materials in the industrial field is huge in terms of quantity and type. The rapid expansion of these markets requires Cornerstone Materials Company to give priority to satisfying the domestic market.
The field of material manufacturing belongs to the field of heavy industry. Compared with light industry, expanding production is much more troublesome. It is not possible to buy a few machines and start production immediately.
Moreover, even if all conditions in heavy industry are met, the production cycle is much longer than that of light industry, and the investment scale is much larger than that of light industry.
Cornerstone Materials Company has been able to meet the domestic industrial needs when the domestic industry is developing at such a rapid pace, and it has performed very well without losing its chain due to this.
To give a very simple example, the steel used in my country's advanced ships has been secondary processed by Cornerstone Materials Company. In terms of various performance indicators, it performs much better than the steel used in international ships.
In recent years, my country's shipbuilding tonnage has increased very rapidly, basically doubling or even doubling every year. However, Cornerstone Materials Company has not lost its supply chain in this regard, which is already remarkable. achievements.
There are many examples like this. For example, the aircraft production of Star Express Company has experienced explosive growth in the past two years. The high-performance materials behind this are basically provided by Cornerstone Materials Company.
Like ordinary companies, they generally do not have much foresight in the face of sudden increases in demand, and Cornerstone Materials generally does not wait until there is real market demand before considering expansion of production.
Generally, after a cornerstone material company has clarified the use and market prospects of a certain material, it will formulate a relatively stable and advanced production increase plan after communicating with relevant companies based on the current market size and future market prospects.
Although there are occasional situations where the plan cannot keep up with market changes, in most cases, such a plan is very reasonable and does not cause too much loss. On the contrary, it can help them occupy the relevant market faster.
If it is a small materials company, such a relatively blind expansion of production, once problems arise, is likely to put the company into an irreversible situation, without any possibility of turning around.
However, when the size reaches the level of Cornerstone Materials Company, the revenue and investment proportion of any material are insignificant in the face of the total volume. Individual prediction errors will not cause catastrophic consequences.
It is precisely because of its stronger ability to resist risks that Cornerstone Materials can be relatively aggressive in formulating plans to ensure the demand for materials in the process of my country's industrial development.
Moreover, this kind of advanced construction generally leaves no opportunity for competitors. It is almost difficult to see the existence of a blank market, which is almost fully occupied by Cornerstone Materials Company.
Of course, the outstanding performance of Cornerstone Materials cannot be separated from the support of a large number of more basic raw material suppliers. Without these basic material suppliers, even if Cornerstone Materials is powerful, it will be powerless.
For example, their metal materials field cannot be separated from the support of major domestic metal smelting companies. Without these smelting companies providing primary metal materials, it is basically impossible for Cornerstone Materials to expand production.
In addition, in the fields of polymer materials, non-metallic materials and composite materials, we have to rely on the support of more basic chemical companies, such as Pusi Chemical, Huaxia International Petrochemical Company and other state-owned chemical companies.
Although these chemical companies also provide many chemical products and materials for consumers, most of them are raw material products for the industrial field.
A considerable part of their industrial raw material products are digested by Cornerstone Materials Company. Of course, the polymer materials, non-metallic materials and composite materials produced by Cornerstone Materials Company are not capable of being produced by chemical companies themselves.
The high-end robot developed by Zhao Yi this time requires many higher-end materials, which has greatly strengthened the strength of Cornerstone Materials in bionic materials. This is an area that Cornerstone Materials has never set foot in before.
Moreover, the more advanced material science knowledge derived from high-end bionic materials has also benefited Cornerstone Materials Co., Ltd. in other material fields.
It is foreseeable that starting next year, Cornerstone Materials Company may introduce a series of high-end materials to the industrial field, allowing our country's industry to achieve a new round of industrial upgrading.
Every industrial revolution is either caused by changes in energy or breakthroughs in the field of materials, and our country is currently fully prepared in both aspects.
In terms of energy, although electric energy is no longer a new type of energy, the use of electric energy has not yet reached its peak, and there is no breakthrough technology in the field of power generation.
Starting from this year, our country will basically be able to fully shift power generation to the field of photovoltaic green energy. If it were not necessary to adjust the difference in photovoltaic power generation between day and night, even thermal power plants could be suspended.
However, as photovoltaic power generation continues to increase and power storage equipment continues to expand, Xinhui Energy's thermal power plants will gradually reduce production in the future.
At that time, some thermal power plants will be retained as backup means, and other thermal power plants will be dismantled and then sold to other countries.
Although the technology of thermal power plants does not look very good, it is not the case. At least the thermal power plants of Xinhui Energy Company are the most advanced in the world. Even second-hand thermal power plants can be sold as well as new equipment from other countries. s price.
Photovoltaic power generation is not only green, but more importantly, it is cheap and has high efficiency of light energy conversion rate, which is an important reason why photovoltaic power generation comprehensively defeats the traditional power generation field.
Enterprises such as Star Power, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, Polaris Company and Xinhui Energy Company will have greater achievements in the fields of electric power, electrification of industrial equipment, and electronicization of daily life.
Their main task is to realize the comprehensive replacement of traditional fossil energy systems with electric energy in my country and increase the proportion of electric energy in my country's social energy consumption structure to more than 90%. The ultimate goal is to reach close to 100%.
By then, our country's industry will not only achieve the goal of cleaner production, but the cost of industrial production will also be greatly reduced, and our country's dependence on the world's energy system will also be reduced.
In the future, when my country imports oil, the main application field will no longer be in the energy field, but in the chemical industry, and the consumption of oil in the chemical industry is far less than the consumption of oil in the energy field.
In the future, even if our country does not import petroleum products from abroad, our country's own oil reserves will be able to meet the development of our country's chemical industry and achieve zero dependence on foreign oil.
Of course, this situation is the worst case scenario. Under normal circumstances, our country's chemical field still needs to import a large amount of petroleum products from various countries around the world. It is most cost-effective to use other people's basic raw materials to develop our industry.
And it has always been in line with the international trade balance emphasized by Zhao Yi. While we can rely on our industrialization capabilities to earn higher profits, we must also share part of the profits with other countries in the world.
Although photovoltaic power generation is not a major revolution in energy types, the effects they bring are enough to be called a small energy revolution, and it is definitely not overly praised.
Although there is no environmental protection concept of "carbon neutrality" yet, in fact, Zhao Yi's layout has been moving in this direction. According to Zhao Yi's personal philosophy, whether you care or not, as long as he gets it right, he will Keep doing it until you reach your goal.
In recent years, my country's economic development has been very rapid, the scale of industrial industries has become larger and larger, and the scale of greenhouse gas emissions has also increased rapidly. This is an indisputable fact.
Although Fluclight Environmental Management Company has excellent environmental protection equipment, the environmental protection equipment generally does not recycle greenhouse gases. Instead, it removes harmful gases and discharges them directly into the atmosphere.
If it is a small-scale greenhouse gas emission, it will not have a big impact on changes in our country's environment, but in the case of large-scale emissions, the situation is not so optimistic.
You must know that our country's current industrial output value ranks first in the world. Although the relevant data has not been released to the outside world, you must be aware of it and make effective responses to the negative situations brought about by large-scale industrial development.
Large-scale emissions of greenhouse gases will, in the short term, have an impact on the local climate where the emissions occur, and in the long term, will also cause serious changes to the global climate.
When he was a child, Zhao Yi's hometown would experience heavy snowfall in winter, which is not unusual in the north, but his hometown is in Jiangxi, south of the Yangtze River, further south than the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River.
Although it only takes a few days for the snow to melt away after it falls, the thickness of the snow can reach at least above the ankles, and even as thick as a child's knees, and the length of ice under the eaves can reach more than one meter.
But this situation basically disappeared after he grew up, and there were even times when it didn't snow for several consecutive years. He clearly remembered that when he was in his first year of high school, it suddenly snowed. A school carnival.
This is the consequence of changes in the atmospheric structure, so while Zhao Yi is working hard to promote the development of my country's industry, he has the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company working hard on greening, and even eliminated several deserts as a result.
In our country's industrialization process over the years, although it has not yet reached the point of "carbon neutrality", it has greatly alleviated climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
When the trees on several deserts transformed by Lucky Light Environmental Management Company grow into forests and the green transformation project on the Loess Plateau is completed, "carbon neutrality" will basically be achieved even without photovoltaic power generation.
Of course, this is based on the current standards of my country's industrial greenhouse gas emissions, because at this time, my country's fastest growing industrial industry is, and although people's lives have improved, they are far from reaching high-energy-consuming living standards.
However, a high standard of life is destined to increase per capita energy consumption. This is an irreversible process. Therefore, for future considerations, it is increasingly inadequate to face the problem of "carbon neutrality" in the future by simply increasing the green area. .
Therefore, at this juncture, it is time to vigorously develop the photovoltaic power generation industry and implement the national electric energy replacement plan, because the current stage is a stage in which the quality of life of our people has been greatly improved.
If preparations are not made at this stage, it will be much more difficult and take longer to implement the relevant plans later.
To give a very simple example, if everyone buys a fuel car and it has not yet reached the end of its service life, even if the electric car is cheaper to use and more environmentally friendly, others will not replace it at will.
In the future, the scale of my country's travel carbon emissions will be very large. After all, the size of my country's population is here. Although the per capita energy consumption is much lower than that of developed countries, the total amount has still increased.
Only when our people have not yet purchased private cars on a large scale will we implement a comprehensive shift to electric power. In this case, the people will benefit, the country will benefit, and even the whole world will benefit.
This combination has not only enabled our country to achieve the goal of "carbon neutrality", but has even exceeded this goal and achieved the goal of negative carbon emissions.
This seems to be a disadvantage for us. In the eyes of some people, why should we worry about the greenhouse gases emitted by others? As long as our country achieves "carbon neutrality", that's it.
This kind of thinking is narrow. From a personal emotional point of view, naturally we can only take into account the national level. No matter how large the level is, individuals have neither the ability nor the obligation to worry too much.
But if you think about this issue from the perspective of a community with a shared future for mankind, you will come to a completely different conclusion. No matter what grudges and interests are between countries and nations, it cannot change the fact that we live together on the same earth. .
In the face of natural disasters, human power is actually very small. Only facing them together and preventing them in advance is the best and lowest-cost solution.
So regarding the changes in energy, what our country is currently doing will have a huge impact on our country's economy and environment in the future, but it has just begun and we cannot feel it personally.
As for the industrial revolution brought about by changes in the material field, it is much slower than changes in the energy field, and it is impossible for an industrial revolution to occur because of one material.
So this is a process that lasts for a long time and is also a process of slow change. If we set the time span to 10 years or even decades later, we can look back and find that it was because of breakthroughs in materials that society has undergone such a transformation. Lots of changes.
To give a very simple example, the wires used in high-voltage power transmission were steel-core aluminum wires, which can be considered a very good solution in terms of cost and conductivity.
However, the photovoltaic power plant built by Xinhui Energy Company this time has a very large power generation capacity and is relatively concentrated geographically. More importantly, the power generation time is also relatively concentrated. The effective power generation time is about 10 hours a day.
If you want to transport such a huge amount of electric energy to all parts of the country in a relatively concentrated period of time, it is not enough to just build one or two transmission lines. Especially in the origin section of the power plant, the transmission pressure is even greater.
In order to solve this problem, either use a higher transmission voltage, but this is very difficult and dangerous, or start directly from the transmission materials.
Of course, the best power transmission material is a superconductor, but currently it is difficult to achieve this under outdoor conditions. Even if it is achieved, the cost is uncontrollable.
If the cost cannot be controlled, it is better to invest more in building a large number of transmission lines to increase the number enough to relieve the transmission pressure. In that case, at least the cost will not increase too much.
Therefore, after receiving the task, Cornerstone Materials Company set its sights on new materials that can significantly reduce resistance, and they had previously accumulated strong technological accumulation in carbon nanomaterials.
Zhao Yi helped them develop super carbon nanobatteries before. Although this kind of battery was not used later, the related large-scale carbon nanopreparation technology did remain.
Cornerstone Materials hopes to achieve a breakthrough in carbon nanotube materials and reduce the resistance to nearly zero. In this way, the power transmission power will be greatly improved while the voltage remains unchanged.
The results are naturally gratifying. Their first-generation transmission line material made of carbon nanotubes can increase transmission power by 100 times, while the cost only increases by less than 5 times.
This not only reduces the construction cost of my country's transmission network, but also reduces the power loss of the transmission network, and the price of electricity for residents is expected to be further reduced.
This price is similar to that of copper wire, so it can be used not only in the field of high-voltage power transmission, but also in home circuit construction.
More importantly, the service life of this kind of carbon nanomaterial is quite long. The normal service life can reach hundreds of years. There is no need to worry about the corrosion problem of metal materials at all.
Currently, Cornerstone Materials Company is undergoing a large-scale expansion of production and is preparing to apply this material in transmission line construction projects of photovoltaic power plants.
Moreover, China Housing Corporation has also begun to prepare to use a large amount of this conductor material in its urbanization projects, and has also required Cornerstone Materials to develop insulation materials that last longer.
If the battery core material is used for a long time and the outer insulation material is used for a short time, this will be of low practicality for Chinese housing companies. The reason why they want to use this material is to reduce subsequent circuit maintenance.
Everyone knows that the buildings of China Housing Corporation are mainly used for rental. If there is a problem with the line every three days, the subsequent repair and replacement costs will be too high.
So they are very interested in this kind of circuit material that can be used normally for hundreds of years. Because of the use of new building materials and construction methods, these buildings can also be used normally for hundreds of years.
The service life of the building and the service life of the line materials are almost the same. If they are maintained during use, they will basically not need to invest a lot of money in replacement in the future, saving them a lot of costs.
There are many similar situations, such as urban pipe networks, which also require related materials with excellent performance, and these tasks are basically handed over to Cornerstone Materials Company to be responsible for research and development.
This time, Cornerstone Materials Company assisted Zhao Yi in developing the materials needed for high-end robots, allowing them to achieve huge technological improvements in the field of polymer materials.
Now they have begun to tentatively apply these technologies in the research and development of new materials. As a result, they have come up with a polymer material in a short period of time, which is very suitable for the pipe network materials required by Chinese housing companies.
Previous building materials were made of metal, and the price was higher than the cost of polymer materials developed by Cornerstone Materials Company, which can further reduce costs in this area for Chinese housing companies.
Not to mention other things, the urban construction goal around low maintenance requirements requires many new materials to support it, which is enough to see the responsibility of Cornerstone Materials Company.
At the same time, in this process, the impact of materials on our country is also subtle, slowly changing the economic production structure.
Of course, from the perspective of economic development, this approach is actually not advisable. As mentioned before, if a product is too durable, demand in this area will be reduced, production will not be sustainable, and jobs will be lost. decreased.
But these are just special cases. After all, urban pipe networks and circuits are very troublesome to replace. In other places that are not too troublesome, there is no need to use such durable materials.
To sum up, materials play a very important role in industrial development, and as a giant in the field of domestic materials, Cornerstone Materials Company bears the main responsibility.
As for Zhao Yi, he is the person in charge of the overall situation. Unless it is a key area, he will personally participate. Under normal circumstances, it all depends on his own interests and hobbies. (End of chapter)