Time quietly came to the beginning of June. It had only been a month since Zhao Yi came back from the Northwest. Fortunately, all the work he could do was basically finished. The remaining work could be left to high-end robots. No need. He does it himself.
After a period of simulation experiments, the new type of radiation-absorbing bryophyte has been basically confirmed, and its safety and stability have been clearly verified. The remaining work is to develop this kind of bryophyte in the real world.
Since the acquisition of high-end robots, Zhao Yi's work has become relatively easy. He only needs to be responsible for the key parts, and the rest of the manual labor basically does not require his intervention.
Not long after he was free, the hydrogel factory built by the Fluolight Environmental Management Company had basically been completed, and part of the corresponding transmission pipeline was completed, which was ready for preliminary testing.
In order to observe the actual effect of the hydrogel on site, Zhao Yi planned to go to the site to take a look in person instead of listening to the report of the Fluolight Environmental Management Company, which was less intuitive.
The most important step in the transformation of the Tarim Basin is to borrow water from the sky. If the effect of the hydrogel is not particularly good, it must be adjusted in time, so he attaches great importance to this step.
His special plane flew directly to Urumqi, and then took land transportation across the Tianshan Mountains to Korla City. The journey was very bumpy, and traffic problems have always been a big problem here.
Fortunately, when I came here, I also saw the highway construction site, which was in full swing. In order to complete the basic road construction work here as soon as possible and provide good transportation conditions.
The state-owned road construction company has put a lot of energy here. According to relevant data, the number of road construction workers transferred here has reached 500,000, and as many as 50,000 road construction machinery are used.
Among them, the number of engineers and skilled workers with technical qualifications transferred from the mainland is as much as 100,000. The remaining workers are all found from the surrounding areas, and they basically do manual work without much technical content.
However, in order to give the people here a means of survival, during the road construction process, skilled workers from the mainland also taught them how to operate the machines without hesitation.
Because there will be many projects here in the future, and the scale of labor employment will be even larger than it is now. There is no need to worry about "teaching apprentices to starve masters to death", but only worrying about the insufficient number of skilled workers.
Moreover, when skilled workers from the mainland come to the Northwest, they are still not able to adapt to the climate here. Many people are not used to the climate conditions here, but they just have no choice. However, projects here cannot be started.
Therefore, many of them are willing to teach local workers how to operate machinery. If there are enough skilled workers here to support subsequent project construction, they can be transferred back to the mainland, where the conditions will be much better than here.
Of course, in order to encourage skilled workers to teach local workers skills, road construction companies also provide certain bonuses to provide additional rewards to masters who lead apprentices.
The highway currently under construction is the Tarim Basin Ring Highway, with a total length of about 4,000 kilometers. After the construction of the ring highway is completed, the construction of the highway through the Taklimakan Desert will be carried out.
However, if you want to build the Taklimakan Desert Expressway, you still need to wait until the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has managed the Taklimakan Desert to a certain extent. In this way, the difficulty of construction will be lower, and the cost and construction period can be greatly reduced.
After more than two months of emergency research and development and factory expansion, Tianshu Machinery Company carried out the first batch of production tasks for the construction machinery developed in Northwest China in May.
Although it has only been a month since now, Tianshu Machinery Company has already sent over 50,000 units of various construction machinery and equipment. These construction machinery are mainly used for earthmoving projects in Lop Nur.
It is already June, and this work must be basically completed before the end of this year. Otherwise, when the Lucky Light Environmental Management Company carries out large-scale artificial rainfall, floods may occur in the Tarim Basin.
This seems fine, as so much water just irrigates the Taklimakan Desert. In fact, it is not the case. Frequent floods are not a good thing in a desert area that has been dry for a long time. It is likely to turn the land into a saline-alkali land.
Although Lucky Light Environmental Management Company has special treatment methods for saline-alkali land, it will increase costs after all, and there is absolutely no need for floods to appear in the Taklimakan Desert.
Sitting in the car, Zhao Yi read the relevant report information and found that it would be difficult to complete the reservation target this year with 100,000 construction machinery. Even if it was completed, the work intensity would be very high.
You know, the length of the Tarim River Basin alone is more than 2,000 kilometers long, making it the fourth largest river in the country. Although many river sections have been dry for many years, the workload of dredging has not decreased at all.
In addition to dredging the main river channel, corresponding dredging work is also required for major tributaries. The amount of earthwork may be smaller than that of the main river channel, but the workload is not necessarily lower.
In addition to river dredging, another task is to deepen the dry lakes in the Lop Nur area so that they can accommodate more water and make it easier to carry out ecological management and economic development in the future.
Compared with these two tasks, the highway being built now seems easier, and if you want to support so many machinery and equipment working at the same time, the energy consumption is not small.
Fortunately, it is not that difficult to pull the ultra-high voltage DC transmission line from the Qaidam Desert Photovoltaic Farm. The distance between the two is relatively short, and the State Grid is also intensively carrying out this work.
Zhao Yi sat in his car and sent a document to Tianshu Machinery Company through his smart glasses, asking it to continue increasing the number of construction machinery supporting the northwest region.
According to the new plan, Tianshu Machinery Company must produce 1 million units of various construction machinery before the end of this year, and according to Zhao Yi, of course, the sooner it is completed, the better.
Although Tianshu Machinery Company's own expanded production scale has been reserved, it is still far from his requirements. Tianshu Machinery Company originally reserved a monthly production volume of 100,000 units.
Now to meet Zhao Yi's requirements, the monthly production quantity must reach at least 200,000 units, which will directly double the production task. This is a very big challenge for Tianshu Machinery Company.
In the short term, Tianshu Machinery Company can change the original production line of construction machinery to the production of earthmoving engineering machinery, which can provide larger output in the short term.
While solving the urgent needs of the Great Northwest Project, Tianshu Machinery Company can also expand its production scale. By optimizing production through the system, it can barely meet Zhao Yi's new requirements.
Compared with Tianshu Machinery Company, Shenlong Automobile Company is much more relaxed. They are already the largest manufacturer of transportation vehicles in the country. They have a lot of room for expansion this time.
Because this is different from construction machinery, as my country's economic development improves, the demand for transportation vehicles will only increase. They have increased their production capacity a lot in advance, and there will be basically no loss for them.
Therefore, after receiving Zhao Yi's new request, they immediately accelerated the production speed and gradually activated production lines that were not originally planned to be activated, just to meet Zhao Yi's needs.
Compared with the number of construction machinery and equipment, the demand for transportation vehicles and other related vehicles is almost the same. In order to speed up the efficiency of earthmoving transportation, the quantity is configured according to 1:1.5.
According to this configuration ratio, Shenlong Automobile Company needs to provide 1.5 million transport vehicles by the end of this year, and the quantity requirement is very large.
If Shenlong Automobile Company had not acquired many domestic automobile manufacturers, even if the production lines were easy to build, it would be difficult to find so many workers. This was considered unintentional.
Previously, the scale of the domestic car market was almost non-existent, and domestic automobile manufacturers still mainly produced trucks. Therefore, after these manufacturers were acquired, they directly added a large number of relevant employees to Shenlong Automobile Company.
Therefore, in the face of Zhao Yi's production requirement of 1.5 million vehicles, although it was not easy for Shenlong Automobile Company to complete it, the various production bases worked overtime and could still barely complete it.
To be honest, just these mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles require a huge amount of money. Even Zhao Yi can't feel relaxed. The market price has reached nearly 1 trillion yuan.
Because operations in the northwest desert area have higher requirements for mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles, the price is naturally much more expensive. Moreover, the river dredging equipment is super equipment, and the price is even more expensive.
For example, a high-efficiency river dredging vehicle costs up to several million yuan, and the efficiency is of course very high. Otherwise, it would be impossible to dredge two to three thousand kilometers of rivers in just a few months.
Moreover, if you want to dig deep into the original water area of Lop Nur, ordinary equipment is too inefficient to operate. It also requires specially designed mechanical equipment, and the price is not cheap.
In short, Zhao Yi cannot afford these mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles alone with his own funds. Although Xuantian Technology Company has also made some money, it is still very far away from this.
Xuantian Technology Company's current holographic projection business only earns about 100 billion yuan per year at most. Although the smart glasses business has not yet been launched on the market, it is expected to bring in 200 billion yuan in revenue every year.
As for the revenue of global satellite communication systems, it is difficult to say at present. This depends on my country's demand for the development of the Internet of Things. If the demand is strong, the revenue will be very considerable.
But even so, the annual revenue of global satellite communication systems will not exceed 300 billion yuan. Because the price is too high, it will seriously inhibit the development of my country's Internet of Things, and the price will naturally not be set too high.
In the field of individual consumers, it is estimated that there are up to 100 million individual consumers in the world. At an average monthly price of US$50, Xuantian Technology can bring up to about 120 billion yuan in revenue each year.
In the field of the Internet of Things, equipment is no longer calculated based on quantity, but based on usage traffic and access fees. At the current level of the Internet of Things, total revenue will not exceed 150 billion yuan.
However, with the increasing number of applications in the field of Internet of Things in my country, the demand for global satellite communication systems will become increasingly strong, which is likely to bring 300 billion yuan in revenue to Xuantian Technology in the future.
What's left are inconspicuous robots. There is not much hope for this business. It is precisely because of this business that the revenue of Xuantian Technology Company has dropped significantly than expected.
The income of Xuantian Technology Company is not enough to support the Northwest Development Plan. Most of the funds still need to be borrowed from banks or funds from other affiliated companies.
In order to cope with the shortage of funds, he also took the income from the Shuangshencao business of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company to pay for these mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles with a very huge total price.
After the mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles are available, a large number of equipment operators need to be recruited. Over the years, the Fluolight Environmental Management Company has also trained a large number of mechanical equipment users.
The total number of employees of Fluolight Environmental Management Company has expanded to more than 800,000, and the number of employees who are skilled in using various types of machinery and equipment is as high as 600,000.
Because in the process of land management for so many years, it is difficult to move without mechanical equipment. Compared with other jobs, operating mechanical equipment is much easier and the salary is much higher.
Therefore, most employees are very willing to learn the operation of various mechanical equipment, which is why there are so many employees who can operate mechanical equipment.
But even so, the number of skilled workers that can be sent to the Tarim area is only 200,000, and the remaining people still need to be used for loess plateau control and seawater desalination plant construction.
As for the construction of water pipelines, it is contracted to other professional pipeline construction companies, which can save a lot of human resources for Yaoguang Environmental Management Company.
With 200,000 skilled employees, it is impossible to meet the operating needs of more than 2 million mechanical equipment. Therefore, it is also necessary to provide guidance to ordinary employees recruited locally, hoping to cultivate useful talents as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the northwest is vast and there are enough places to train employees. No matter how you drive, you don't need to worry about hitting things that shouldn't be hit. It can help novices get familiar with the operation of these machines as soon as possible.
These 200,000 skilled employees can be used on machinery and equipment that require higher operating requirements, such as river dredging engineering equipment, which is definitely much more difficult to operate than transport truck driving and ordinary excavator driving.
The current construction machinery has basically been dropped to Lop Nur, because according to requirements, the average water depth in Lop Nur must be more than 20 meters, and the deepest point in Lop Nur is only about 10 meters.
Due to the expected large amount of water, the water area needs to be expanded to 26,000 square kilometers, with an average digging depth of about 15 meters and an earthwork volume of more than 390 billion cubic meters.
Although it is impossible to complete everything in the initial stage, 50 billion cubic meters of earth excavation work still needs to be completed. The workload is still very huge, and priority must be given to ensuring the tasks here.
In order to ensure that the project is completed smoothly on schedule, it is difficult to achieve this by relying on traditional excavation and earth transportation methods. This has to be said about the super excavator developed by Tianshu Machinery Company for this purpose.
The core equipment of this super excavator is a huge spiral soil reaming machine. Whether it is cutting soil or rocks, it can cut iron like mud and is very sharp.
Matched with the earthmoving equipment is the super conveyor equipment. For sites with uncomplicated terrain, the earthmoving machine places the excavated earth directly on the conveyor belt and transports the earthwork to the predetermined target.
A machine like this, coupled with conveyor equipment, can excavate 10,000 cubic meters of earth every hour. If it works 24 hours a day, a piece of equipment like this can excavate 240,000 cubic meters of earth every day.
The Fluolight Environmental Management Company has ordered 1,000 units of this equipment alone. With the cooperation of other excavation equipment, the efficiency is much higher than relying solely on transportation vehicles.
The reason why such a monster was created is because Tianshu Machinery Company has reserves in this area. They used many related technologies when they developed equipment for developing seabed mineral deposits.
You must know that a seabed mining platform can mine up to 100,000 tons in a day, and the seabed situation is much more complicated than that on land. In comparison, such earthmoving equipment is much simpler.
According to the excavation speed of this equipment, it is basically not difficult to complete the excavation of 50 billion cubic meters of earth before the end of the year. In places with complex terrain, traditional excavation equipment and transportation equipment are used.
In order to handle the huge workload of river dredging, Tianshu Machinery Company has also developed specialized river dredging equipment. The main excavation equipment is similar to this earthmoving machine. Although the shape may be different, the technology is basically the same.
The only difference is the way of transporting the earthwork. The earthwork for river dredging basically does not need to be transported over long distances. Most of it is placed on both sides of the river and can be bulldozed by bulldozers.
Therefore, air cannons are used for transportation. After the excavated earth is crushed, it is directly pressurized by air, and the earth is sprayed to both sides of the bank through the air cannon.
According to relevant data, this kind of air cannon can push earthwork to a distance of up to 1 kilometer. There is not much difference in the construction of this artillery launcher.
Although the description is very simple, the technical content is indeed very high. It is currently a technology unique to Tianshu Machinery Company and the only one in the world.
In order to dredge the Tarim River, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company ordered 2,000 such equipment, basically one such equipment every kilometer.
Without such efficient earth excavation and transportation equipment, it would be impossible to complete such a large amount of work in a short period of time.
Leaving aside everything else, the Northwest Climate and Land Transformation Plan ranks first in the world in terms of earth excavation and transportation volume, and it will be difficult for any project to surpass them in the future.
Originally, there was no need for such a large amount of earthworks. The reason why Zhao Yi had such high requirements was mainly because he wanted to build these places into a real Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall, which required no extensive management.
Moreover, after artificial high-altitude rainfall, the amount of rainfall here will reach an unprecedented level. If these works are not done in advance, the Tarim Basin will become a swamp instead of Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall, which is full of farmland.
This is why the government is willing to lease this land to him free of charge for 200 years, because such benefits are enough for him to work hard and make this area the best it can be, instead of just half-heartedly doing it.
Otherwise, just by carrying out appropriate artificial rainfall, this desert area can be gradually greened. It just takes a long time. It will never be like this. All aspects need to be carefully considered to reduce the difficulty of later development. (End of chapter)