The current space station construction of Future Space Technology Company is entering the normal track. Various technologies have been very mature after several previous launches and dockings, and they only need to be carried out step by step.
As for rocket transportation technology, this is the strength of Future Space Technology Company. It has undergone many manned tests before, and the results have been very good. The maturity of the technology has been effectively verified.
Although the main mission of Future Space Technology Company is still the launch and construction of the space station, its scientific research strength has been significantly transferred to the lunar exploration plan.
According to the predictions of Future Space Technology Company, based on the current progress of lunar exploration technology research and development, the first experimental detection plan will be implemented by the end of this year, using unmanned detection.
Such unmanned detection will be carried out at least twice. As for how many times it will be carried out, it needs to be determined by the actual effect of unmanned detection. If the effect is very good, then manned detection will be carried out starting from the third time.
Three small-scale explorations will be carried out in the early stage of manned exploration. The main purpose is to explore the lunar transportation technology under manned conditions on the one hand, and to make preliminary preparations for large-scale transportation of personnel in the later period.
Unmanned detection will complete the entire plan from the end of this year to next year, and it is not clear whether manned detection will start next year or the year after that. After all, manned detection must ensure that the detection plan is foolproof, at least on a technical level. .
If the manned exploration plan is successfully completed, then there will be a stage of large-scale construction of a lunar base, and preparations will be made to build a permanent lunar scientific research base on the moon.
It sounds very simple, but in order to achieve this goal, there is a lot of technical preparation work behind it, not to mention that all employees of Future Space Technology Company will be fully invested in this plan.
Almost all aerospace engineering engineers from the national team will also join this project team to cooperate with future space technology companies in scientific research projects to jointly help the successful completion of this plan.
Although Yingjiang carried out a lunar exploration program many years ago and successfully sent people to the moon, the political significance of that kind of "one-day trip" lunar exploration is actually far greater than the scientific research significance.
As a private enterprise, while future space technology companies spend high costs on scientific research plans, they must also consider whether they can obtain returns from this scientific research, or at least achieve an internal profit balance.
Therefore, for future space technology companies, building a permanent and sustainable lunar base is not only a need for forward-looking research, but also a need for the company's sustainable development.
At this annual meeting, Liu Xing, president of Future Space Technology Company, mainly wanted Zhao Yi to continue to inject capital into Future Space Technology Company, mainly for the lunar exploration program.
Although Future Space Technology Company has indeed brought a lot of profits to the company with its ultra-high satellite launch technology and satellite research and development technology, it is still very expensive to carry out multiple plans at the same time.
Previously, their profits were mainly used for the construction of the Tiangong Space Station. Although the construction of the Tiangong Space Station is about to be completed, the results are in sight, and they have indeed reached relevant cooperation with many countries and institutions around the world.
However, the profit here cannot be given to the future space technology company in one step. It is a long-term profit project, and the lunar exploration plan is right in front of us.
In addition to the lunar exploration plan, Future Space Technology Company also has a team studying technologies related to Mars exploration, although the official implementation of Mars exploration will need to wait until the lunar exploration plan enters the final stage.
However, a certain amount of money needs to be invested before, and research cannot always be conducted on the ground. When the ground research is almost completed, an experimental Mars probe will also need to be launched in order to obtain more Mars data.
Future Space Technology Company was the only company that asked Zhao Yi for money at this annual meeting. The other companies all handed over their profits, so Liu Xing was a little embarrassed about this.
Zhao Yi had previously invested a large amount of money into Future Space Technology Company, but not only did he not get a penny back from it, but now he had to invest more money in it. No matter how thick-skinned Liu Xing was, he was still a little embarrassed.
Zhao Yi actually doesn't think it's a big deal. The Future Space Technology Company has been able to operate alone for so many years without having to undergo blood transfusions. It has done a very good job, and its commercial operations are already very good.
Space exploration itself is a very expensive job. If you want to make money from it, unless there is a huge breakthrough in technology, profits can be obtained from space tourism, space scientific research cooperation, space mineral mining, space immigration, etc.
In these tasks, it is already very difficult to achieve a goal. As far as space commercial projects that can currently be carried out, cooperation in space tourism and space scientific research is more practical.
Currently, the future space technology company's space station is based on commercial scientific research cooperation to make money, but they are also planning a space tourism project, but they have to wait until there is a vacancy on the space station.
Conducting scientific research on the space station is actually a very expensive project. Except for the world's major powers that can send their own scientific researchers to conduct scientific research in space for a long time, it is difficult for other small countries to send scientific researchers to stay for a long time.
They really can't afford the high cost. It's pretty good to be able to stay on it for a few months every year. By then, there will definitely be vacancies on the space station.
At that time, these vacant positions will be recruited for space tourism, so that rich people who have money and want to see the sky can enjoy the excitement of space tourism, and the price may be higher than renting out positions for scientific researchers.
But these are future benefits after all. It is still unclear how much benefit it can bring to the future space technology company, so it is a bit guilty to ask Zhao Yi for financial support.
When Zhao Yi asked how much money was needed, Liu Xing asked for 10 billion yuan. Although this number was not low, it was actually Liu Xing's conservative estimate. If the research does not go well, this amount of funds may not be enough.
After all, Zhao Yi has participated in the research of space projects. He has a clear idea of how much space costs. The number reported by Liu Xing is definitely very conservative.
Anyway, I would ask for money from him at that time, so I simply agreed to be more generous and directly agreed to inject 50 billion yuan into the Future Space Technology Company so that they could carry out space scientific research projects with peace of mind.
The reason why he is so generous is that he does not want Liu Xing to come to him all the time because of financial problems, and he does not need to rely on this right to show his sense of existence.
On the other hand, the goal of this lunar exploration plan is really very ambitious. It is very important for both our country's international reputation and the reputation of future space technology companies. It must only succeed and not fail.
For this goal, it is necessary to spend more money to perfect all the details. If the final plan fails in order to save money, the previous funds are likely to be in vain, and the international reputation will be greatly damaged.
Instead of doing this, it is better to be more generous and give them enough funds to let them free their hands and conduct more rigorous scientific research certification to improve the success rate of plan implementation.
By then, not to mention other lunar tourism and scientific research, lunar mining will also be possible, and there is a large amount of He3 element on the moon, which can be used for cleaner nuclear fusion raw materials.
The current domestic nuclear fusion research mainly uses hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium as raw materials. These are actually the first generation of nuclear fusion raw materials and are not particularly clean. Nuclear fusion using He3 and lithium is safer and cleaner.
Judging from the current progress of nuclear fusion research, these nuclear fusion materials may not be used in a short time, but it is good to store them. Anyway, lunar mining is a profitable project worth trying.
Finally, Zhao Yi also asked Future Space Technology Company to cooperate with Star Power Company to accelerate the research of Hall thrusters, especially high-power Hall thrusters, which play a decisive role in space development.
If there is no breakthrough in the Hall thruster, with the current thruster technology, large-scale development of space can only be a fantasy. Even if the nuclear fusion reactor is successfully developed, it will be of no avail.
As we all know, there is no air in space. If you want to move forward, you must throw out the working fluid to reverse the progress of the advancing entity. This means that you must carry enough working fluid to travel farther.
Of course, inertial speed can also be used to achieve the goal, but in this way, it can explore a specific target star, and it cannot carry more weight, otherwise it will require more working fluid.
The Hall thruster uses ionization to additionally accelerate the working fluid. When the speed of the working fluid is large enough, it can provide greater reverse work to the advancing entity with less weight of the working fluid.
If a high-power Hall thruster is really realized, then equipped with a nuclear fusion reactor and a small amount of working fluid materials, more materials can be transported into space and longer distances can be achieved.
Therefore, if you want to realize interstellar travel, interstellar immigration, interstellar mining and other activities in the solar system, propulsion technology like the Hall thruster is indispensable. Otherwise, you can only carry out some exploratory missions, and you will not be able to afford the cost if you do more. consumption.
Previously, the research and development work of Hall thrusters was undertaken solely by Star Power Company, and it has indeed achieved many results, which are widely used in satellites as the main power source for satellite orbit changes and orbit self-sustainment.
The Hall thruster or ion thruster developed by Star Dynamics Company has reached the world's leading power and effect, but it is still far behind the target.
This time I heard that the national team has fully joined the Future Space Technology Company to support their lunar exploration plan, which instantly enriched the talent team of the Future Space Technology Company.
The talents conducting space research are all high-IQ and high-quality talents. Even Star Power Company is not as good as these talents, so he wants to cooperate in carrying out research in this area and make full use of these talent resources.
Star Power Company is indeed at the forefront of power research in the country and the world, but to say that the quality of their talent team is also the best in the world is not necessarily true. The main reason for such rapid development is the technical support provided by Zhao Yi.
Regarding the research on Hall thrusters, Zhao Yi still hopes that his subsidiaries can independently develop high-power Hall thrusters without relying on his technical data, thereby realizing the ability to develop space within the galaxy.
As for realizing inter-galactic space planning and development, although the Hall thruster can also be used, it takes a lot of time and energy. It only has the basics, but he does not advocate it.
If you want to achieve large-scale and fast interstellar operations, it is best to develop a warp engine to achieve space jumping capabilities. Otherwise, if you want to go to a nearby star system, someone will die on the spacecraft.
But this matter is not particularly urgent now. With the current space technology, it is difficult to realize development in the solar system. Just take your time.
In the meeting with Tianxing Mining Company, the main focus was on their seabed iron ore mining situation. According to Li Xin's report, they currently have a mining capacity of 300 million tons of iron ore per year.
This kind of annual mining capacity is actually very terrifying. The 3 billion-ton seabed iron mine he gave will only take about 10 years to be mined.
However, based on the current scale of infrastructure and urban construction in my country, regardless of the export of finished steel products and just for self-use, the amount of iron ore consumed every year is as much as 700 million tons, and there is a trend of further increase.
According to Zhao Yi's previous plan, in our iron ore demand, the self-sufficiency rate must be guaranteed to be above 50%, so as not to be manipulated by other mining giants, and to ensure the stability of our country's iron ore supply.
Therefore, Li Xin also asked at the meeting whether it was necessary to continue to increase iron ore mining capacity. Zhao Yi thought for a moment and asked Tianxing Mining Company to expand the annual iron ore production to 500 million tons.
On the one hand, it is to prepare for my country’s future iron ore consumption, and on the other hand, it is necessary to reserve some high-grade iron ore to avoid short-term iron ore price fluctuations and leave enough time for Tianxing Mining Company to expand production capacity. .
It takes about three months for Tianxing Mining Company to build an offshore mining platform, so it must reserve more than three months of national iron ore consumption, which is about 300 million tons.
Because my country's iron ore demand may expand to more than 800 million tons next year, and may expand to 1 billion tons within two or three years. This is still digested internally. If exported steel products are included, the demand will be even greater.
Therefore, Zhao Yi believes that maintaining the annual mining level of 500 million tons is a more appropriate amount. Any more is not necessary. After all, part of our country's foreign exchange must be used, otherwise it will be a burden.
Based on my country's current industrial and agricultural strength, resource-based product imports will be the most important imported products, while my country's exports are basically industrial products, supplemented by agricultural products.
This is why Zhao saw so many mineral deposits on the seabed at first glance and was not very keen on developing them. If it were not to prevent ore suppliers from uniting to threaten our country, he would not even develop seabed mineral deposits.
Compared with my country's huge annual international export business, the price of iron ore is currently around US$50 per ton. Even if it imports 500 million tons, it is only US$25 billion. The proportion of foreign exchange consumed by our country is actually very small.
Coupled with the implementation of our country's ongoing strategy of replacing fossil energy with new energy, our country's dependence on petroleum resources will further decline, and our demand for bulk commodities will become less and less.
Of course, the calculation here is relatively simple. In fact, in addition to these bulk commodities, our country is also increasing the import of other products, especially products that are not produced in our country. The import intensity is very large.
Anyway, according to his idea, there is no need for our country to maintain huge foreign exchange, because now our country's industrial strength is very strong, we can produce high-precision products by ourselves, and there are not many places where foreign exchange is needed.
Even some imported products can actually be produced in our country, but if all the goods are self-produced, then what is the use of our foreign exchange? It will not be used. This is not a way to maintain a healthy international trade.
In addition, my country's labor costs have also increased significantly. It is becoming more and more difficult to manufacture cheap products. It is better to directly import these low-end and cheap products from other countries, so that other countries can also take the opportunity to develop their own industrial strength.
When they have money, they will naturally be able to purchase a large number of high-tech products from our country, thereby realizing continuous international business and trade, and also giving our country greater influence in the world.
Every year, Zhao Yi's companies generate a large amount of foreign exchange income. In addition to most of it being handed over to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a small part is retained in HSBC Bank in Hong Kong.
This is not to say that he is unwilling to hand over so much foreign exchange to the country. The main reason is that the country does not use that much foreign exchange at all. It is better to keep the foreign exchange in his own hands and use it for foreign investment and value-added.
In terms of international investment, Southeast Asian countries are Zhao Yi's key investment areas, followed by developed countries in Europe and the United States. Therefore, in recent years, Southeast Asia's economic development has been very fast.
The main purpose of doing this is to maintain the stability of our country's surrounding areas. Although he is not sure whether our country will have conflicts or fierce competition with Western countries in the future, preparations must still be made.
With our country's current strength and development potential, any national leader with a right mind will not directly come forward to force the country, so future competition will definitely adopt a roundabout strategy.
Therefore, it is extremely important to maintain the stability of my country's neighboring countries, mainly Southeast Asian countries. Therefore, investing in Southeast Asian countries can improve the economic strength of Southeast Asian countries and get rid of financial and technological dependence on Western countries.
More importantly, in the process of investment, it can also expand its influence in the economic fields of these countries, allowing these countries to get closer to our country. After all, normal people will not be in trouble with their own interests, and it is another matter for a few countries. .
Moreover, the more foreign exchange the country controls, the better. If Zhao Yi's foreign exchange is handed over to relevant state agencies, it needs to be converted into equivalent domestic currency.
If the domestic currency in hand cannot be effectively used, it is actually equivalent to "invalid currency." If you spend it recklessly and without planning, it may cause domestic asset prices to rise sharply.
The rise in domestic asset prices is not a good situation for stabilizing domestic economic development and maintaining our country's economic development results.
Therefore, in order to solve this contradiction, Zhao Yi must find projects that can accept large amounts of investment over the years, even at the expense of losses. The main purpose is actually to effectively spend the national currency in his hands.
For example, the previous large-scale construction of highways, the construction of large-scale industrial clusters, the implementation of a high welfare system, and the current urbanization construction, etc., are all high-cost projects.
To be honest, if the domestic high-speed rail project did not allow him to invest, he would actually be very willing to invest. It doesn't matter whether he makes money or not, as long as he can recoup his capital from future profits.
Fortunately, urbanization construction is a bottomless pit project. From now on, Zhao Yi's remaining funds can be absorbed completely every year. At the same time, it can also effectively deliver a large amount of funds to society and increase the income of domestic people.
From this point of view, it is not surprising that the per capita salary increased so much last year. It is just a pain for companies that are not fully prepared. As a result, before they can react, labor costs have already put a lot of pressure on them. .
Therefore, in order to give these companies that previously relied on labor cost advantages to make profits a moment of buffering, Zhao Yicai proposed to take a prudent approach to economic construction this year when the old man asked.
However, according to the situation at this annual meeting, the total profit scale of his companies has increased to a certain extent, and most of these funds are bound to be invested in Chinese housing companies to achieve domestic circulation.
At that time, there will inevitably be an increase in labor costs, but it will not be as exaggerated as before. However, according to Zhao Yi's estimate, it is a high probability that the per capita monthly salary will rise to 1,500 yuan.
Our country currently has a labor force of approximately 600 million yuan. If the per capita monthly salary is 1,500 yuan, then the salary component accounts for 10.8 trillion yuan. If the per capita salary accounts for 50% of GDP, our country's total GDP needs to be approximately more than 20 trillion yuan.
Last year, my country's GDP totaled more than 13 trillion yuan, which is still far from 20 trillion yuan. Optimistic estimates suggest that next year's GDP will increase to about 16 trillion yuan, and wages account for about 67.5% of GDP. Still a bit on the high side.
This means that enterprises cannot allocate more funds to invest in expanding reproduction. If they cannot invest in expanding reproduction, they will not be able to continue to increase the country's economic aggregate.
Among them, Zhao Yi's industry has the largest scale and the largest profit margin, which means that the residual value earned by other enterprises is lower, and it is very good to be able to barely maintain it. There is not much spare energy to invest in expanding reproduction. (End of chapter)