Although I could feel the enthusiasm for the development of the Northwest from sporadic reports before, I saw vehicles of engineering equipment and various equipment, and carloads of employees moving along the highway to the Northwest, queuing up in long lines.
But if you want to see the real project site in the northwest, you don’t have many opportunities, because it was just beginning at that time, and there were relatively few news reports. Moreover, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company did not want reporters to come from all over the place to disturb their work.
This large-scale artificial rainfall experiment is a relatively large-scale report in the country, because the artificial rainfall experiment marks the foundation of the climate transformation in the northwest, and it also marks the official start of the climate transformation in the northwest.
As other hydrogel factories are put into operation one after another, there will be more and more artificial rainfall operations in the future. Although it will not be full-scale, it will also bring new vitality to the Tarim Basin.
Now that it has been proven that hydrogel plays an important role in high-altitude water vapor artificial rainfall, the large-scale construction of hydrogel factories is not in vain.
Although according to calculations, only about 1.5 billion tons of hydrogel particles need to be put in every year to meet the needs of artificial rainfall, in fact this is not the case.
Because the high-altitude cloud water vapor drifting over the Tarim Basin is not fixed, some drifts from the north, some drifts from the south across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and a small amount of clouds drift from the northwest.
If you only capture the clouds in one direction, it will be difficult to achieve a large amount of rainfall in a short time, so a large number of hydrogel factories need to be built around the edge of the Tarim Basin.
The current monthly output of a hydrogel factory is about 1 million tons, and the annual output is about 10 million tons. It stands to reason that only 15 hydrogel factories are needed to meet the demand for hydrogel.
In fact, Fluclight Environmental Management Company needs to build 150 hydrogel factories distributed in the north and southwest directions of the Tarim Basin, which is 10 times more than what is actually needed, and the number of hydrogel transmission channels is also more than needed.
The purpose of this is to capture the hard-earned high-altitude water vapor clouds as much as possible and try to keep the water vapor in these clouds in the Tarim Basin. For this goal, even if it costs a little more, it is not hesitant.
In order to predict weather conditions more accurately, the National Weather Service has purchased an intelligent supercomputer from Polaris Company and is preparing to run the weather simulation system developed by Zhao Yi on this intelligent supercomputer.
If more powerful computing power and a more advanced weather simulation system are used, the National Meteorological Administration can very accurately predict weather changes for half a month, and it is also a high reference for weather forecasts within a month.
But now we can only predict meteorological change data for three days, and it is basically unreliable for any longer. This kind of advanced data prediction brings great difficulties to hydrogel artificial rainfall operations.
If the clouds come over, but the hydrogel factory does not have enough hydrogel, it will be a waste of passing clouds. This is simply a loss for the already scarce high-altitude clouds in the Tarim Basin.
Regardless of the previous analysis, 1.5 trillion tons of water vapor passes over Xinjiang every year. That refers to the entire Xinjiang region. Specifically, the number of clouds in the Tarim Basin is not that many.
In addition, there are still some cloud layers that are not suitable for artificial rainfall operations. As a result, the number of cloud layers that can actually implement artificial rainfall operations is not as many as expected. Therefore, every suitable cloud layer passing by is a rare opportunity to modify the climate of the Tarim Basin.
Although this artificial rainfall experiment was very successful, it brought 1 billion tons of rainfall to the Tarim Basin. Compared with the Tarim Basin of more than 400,000 square kilometers, 1 billion tons is not much different from sprinkling water.
Basically, soon after landing on the ground, it was absorbed by the scorching hot land of the Taklimakan Desert. It was impossible to form water flow at all, and it was impossible to gather into a river.
In addition, there are currently no measures to prevent vapor evaporation. Within a few days, these water resources that have penetrated into the land will be evaporated by the high temperature weather, which will not bring big changes to the Tarim Basin.
Therefore, if we want to complete the land transformation of the Tarim Basin as soon as possible, it is very important to make good use of every drop of water resources, and we cannot let the hard-won water resources evaporate for no reason.
At least this is the case in the early stage. When the climate of the Tarim Basin changes fundamentally, there will be no need to prevent large-scale evaporation.
Zhao Yi has actually considered this situation for a long time, and has also developed a method specifically to deal with the evaporation problem of desert land, which is super moss, which can survive in high-temperature and hot climate environments.
It also retains the properties of moss in preventing water vapor from evaporating. It has strong vitality and has a very good effect on transforming the land. Although it is not as good as loam grass, it is not too different.
Although loam grass is good, in the extreme climate environment like the Taklimakan Desert, it will not germinate at all, let alone grow, so the loam grass will not be of great use in the early stage.
According to the news from his private laboratory, the super moss used for land transformation and moisturizing in the Tarim Basin has been cultivated and has been handed over to the Qingnong Biological Laboratory for them to cultivate more spores.
Moss reproduction does not rely on seeds, but on spores, and the number of spores is much greater than that of seed plants. Even if you use a seed replicator, the production efficiency is much higher than that of seeds.
This is very important to meet the sowing needs of more than 400,000 square kilometers of land in a short period of time. Currently, the Qingnong Biological Laboratory is intensively conducting spore production of super moss.
After this super moss covers the entire Tarim Basin, the natural sterilization time is 5 years. As they grow, they can continue to transform the soil structure.
The only disadvantage or advantage of this kind of super moss is that the species is not very competitive. They can survive very well when there are no other plants competing with them.
But once other plants compete with it for resources, they will wither and die in a short period of time. This is a characteristic specially arranged by Zhao Yi for super moss.
When the time comes to spread loam grass on the land paved with super moss, there will be no need to manage these moss. As the loam grass grows, these super moss will die naturally due to their weak competitiveness, without the need for artificial intervention.
As for areas where loam grass is not sown, super moss can continue to survive for five years, continuously transforming land that loam grass cannot touch, and will naturally become extinct after five years.
After this process is completed, the land in the Tarim Basin will no longer be basically in a gravel state as it is now, but will have basic soil characteristics that can provide a good growing environment for loam grass.
The growth cycle of loam grass is about half a year. After the loam grass withers and rots, it will bring more nutrients to the land and deepen the soil phenomenon of desertified land.
However, depending on the land conditions in the Tarim Basin, especially the Taklimakan Desert, one application of loam grass may not be enough to completely change the land structure here, and it needs to be sown at least twice.
In order to save costs, he changed the original annual loam grass with no reproductive capacity into an annual loam grass with limited reproductive capacity. This was basically not difficult for him.
The characteristics of the fertile soil grass have been changed, but other functions are basically retained, but the reproductive ability is limited to three generations. Grass seeds after three generations will no longer have the ability to reproduce.
At the same time, it also greatly increases the climate adaptability of loam grass. It can not only grow in spring and summer, but can still grow very well even in severe cold winters.
This is done to shorten the time for the loam grass to change the soil structure, so that the loam grass, which originally had a half-year growth cycle, can grow twice a year.
In this way, the fertile soil and grass can dry up three times in a year and a half. After three times, the land structure of the Tarim Basin is basically suitable for agricultural and animal husbandry production.
According to the construction status of hydrogel production plants here, 150 hydrogel production plants will be completed and put into operation in the next month.
In other words, around July, conditions for comprehensive artificial rainfall can basically be achieved. Although it will not really rain at all, it is likely to turn the desert into a swamp, which will be detrimental to subsequent work.
However, it is very necessary to carry out necessary artificial rainfall and area coverage operations, because in order for super moss to survive, there must be a certain amount of water resources.
If the plan goes well, super moss will need to be sown into the Tarim Basin starting in July, so that the super moss can properly transform the desert land in advance to facilitate the growth of loam grass in the coming year.
After seeing the situation here, Zhao Yi should go back, but before going back, he still emphasized to Wei Donglai that he hoped Yaoguang Environmental Management Company would start dredging the Tarim River as soon as possible.
He also understands the difficulties faced by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company. There are too many projects on hand and the number of employees is limited. It is difficult to cover everything.
He said this mainly for the purpose of supervision, hoping that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company could further expand its staff size, improve internal efficiency, and carry out reasonable selection and management of projects.
He even said that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company should expand the number of employees here to 1 million this year, and send all the employees recruited here to carry out operations.
Currently, there are less than 120,000 employees working in the Tarim Basin, and the remaining 100,000 or so are actually temporary workers. How can such a small number of people meet such a large-scale transformation plan.
Even if these 100,000 temporary workers pass the skills assessment, the total number of employees here will only be about 220,000. According to his estimation, if you want to carry out the project in an orderly manner and ensure a reasonable progress, the number of employees here will be at least 220,000. 1000000.
Since ethnic minorities make up the majority in southern Xinjiang, language communication is difficult, and the necessary knowledge reserves to operate machinery are lacking. These are all problems that limit the expansion of the number of employees of Lucky Light Environmental Management Company here.
As for transferring more employees from the mainland, it is not impossible, but construction is going on everywhere in the mainland, and basically all the labor that can be absorbed has been absorbed.
Unless Fluolight Environmental Management Company can offer more salaries, most people will not be willing to go to the Tarim Basin thousands of miles away. Whether it is climate, eating habits, etc., there is a huge gap.
In addition, China Housing Corporation is a brother company of its own. If it recruits too many personnel from the mainland, it will inevitably affect the plans of China Housing Corporation and slow down the development of China Housing Corporation.
More importantly, in order to maintain stability and unity here, it is necessary to provide numerous jobs for local residents so that they can take advantage of the Tarim Basin transformation plan and achieve the goal of alleviating poverty.
So in the final analysis, if Yaoguang Environmental Management Company wants to expand the number of employees here, it still needs to recruit enough employees from here to join. This is their only way at present.
By 2020, the population of southern Xinjiang will only be about 11 million. It is now 1988, the population here is smaller, and the number of strong laborers who can meet the requirements is even smaller.
If Yaoguang Environmental Management Company recruits 1 million employees here, it means that every household here has strong labor force to join Yaoguang Environmental Management Company.
This means that every household here has to rely on the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company for life. This is not only stressful for the company, but also an opportunity to achieve harmony among the local ethnic groups.
Moreover, such large-scale recruitment can also help the local area get rid of the current living standards and directly integrate with the mainland, which plays a very important role in developing the economy here.
Although the number of employees directly recruited by Fluolight Environmental Management Company here is only about 1 million, so many people here, coupled with massive capital investment, will inevitably promote the development of the tertiary industry here.
The service industry can accommodate much more jobs than industry and agriculture, and can indirectly create more than 3 million jobs. The rest are the elderly and children, directly achieving full employment here.
After the project is completed, there is no need to worry about having too many employees to support it, because at that time, there will be thousands of hectares of fertile fields and fertile fields, and these employees can be fully accommodated in the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
By then, with the land area here, let alone a few million people, even if the population increases by millions or tens of millions, it can still be accommodated here.
When cities are built one after another, industries facing Central Asia will also develop, and the number of people they accommodate will definitely not be comparable to what they are now.
Therefore, his subtext, Wei Donglai also understood, was that he wanted Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to recruit people here desperately, and this could be achieved with hard work.
There is no one who can't get along with money. As long as the existing ethnic minority employees are sent to various surrounding population centers to recruit people, they will basically be recruited. This is just like what mainland construction companies do, and the entire village's population will follow them to work.
It’s just easy to recruit people, and there are ways to place these employees after the project is completed, but the problems mentioned above still exist. If these problems are not solved, the more people are recruited, the more chaotic the management will be.
Once management becomes chaotic, it will not only fail to improve work efficiency, but will slow down the progress of the current project. Not only will it cost money, but it will also be counterproductive.
It was precisely in consideration of these circumstances that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company had to complete the relevant recruitment work step by step, recruit a group, train a group, and so on, so as not to cause chaos and ensure the orderly progress of the project.
In addition, the supply of machinery and equipment cannot keep up. Even if Tianshu Machinery Company and other companies work hard to produce, they will not be able to provide such a large-scale demand for machinery and equipment in a short period of time.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with following the steps of the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company. They have considered more than Zhao Yi, and all factors have contributed to the current situation.
Obviously he is quite anxious. Just a few days ago, he asked Tianshu Machinery Company and Shenlong Automobile Company to speed up the supply of mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles, expand or rationally arrange production capacity.
If the task is completed strictly in accordance with his new requirements, the shortage of mechanical equipment and transportation vehicles will no longer be a big problem. The final thing that needs to be solved is how to reasonably manage these new employees after large-scale recruitment.
In response to these problems, Zhao Yi and Wei Donglai made a detailed analysis. The first is the need to solve the problem of language communication. If this is not solved, it will bring great challenges to management.
The solution is to set up short-term language training courses in surrounding population centers, which will take about one month to teach these new employees common Chinese and how to recognize simple Chinese characters.
In fact, the China Education Company is already doing this work, but the China Education Company is following its own plan, and the literacy class curriculum is gradual.
Therefore, not all the people recruited are completely illiterate. Many of them already have a certain basic ability in Chinese. They only need to be taught professional Chinese terminology for work, so that they can master the basic abilities related to engineering development as soon as possible.
Then it will take about another month to simply explain the principles and characteristics of construction machinery to new employees. In order to avoid confusion in their thinking, their work content will be arranged in advance and they will be specifically taught the knowledge about the mechanical equipment they need to use.
After two months of simple training, they will be assigned to senior employees, who will follow them in actual operations to strengthen their hands-on ability. This adaptation period will take about one month.
Although this process will definitely bring a huge waste of funds to Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, he feels that this is a necessary process, and if it is allowed to happen naturally, it will take too long.
As for the funding issue, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company doesn't think much about it. Anyway, no matter in the past or now, if they are short of money, they only need to ask him for it. They have never been short of money.
Although Zhao Yi clearly felt the pressure caused by the shortage of funds during this period, he was still able to get through it through gritted teeth. Every time he thought of the renovated scene here, this pressure suddenly disappeared.
He has asked his secretariat to contact major domestic banks to discuss fund lending, and even invited the central bank to provide guarantees to ensure that he can successfully borrow funds.
It stands to reason that there is definitely no shortage of guaranteed assets for his industries, but he does not want to complicate the problem and avoid unexpected impacts on other industries.
So he planned to use the gold in his hand as collateral, but he had a large amount of gold in his hand and it was inconvenient to disclose it, so he could only draw the central bank over as a guarantor.
The central bank is very clear about how much gold it has in its hands. With the trillions of yuan in gold loans it has, there is really no big problem, so the central bank is very willing to provide this guarantee.
Although everyone knows that the amount of gold has increased significantly, the value of gold will definitely be difficult to maintain, but as long as no one knows the amount of gold in his hands, the current gold price will naturally be maintained.
Nowadays, the massive amounts of gold shipped every month are all handed over and delivered by fixed staff. These people have also undergone strict confidentiality education and related confidentiality measures to ensure that this news will not be leaked.
With the central bank as a guarantee, and with Zhao Yi's strength, there will basically be no problems with the loan. The major banks have given a total of 1 trillion yuan in loan quotas, and as long as they are within this quota, they can be withdrawn at any time.
In addition, Xuantian Technology Company has begun to make profits, and he can still cope with the current surge in capital demand. As long as he survives this period, things will be much simpler later on, at least for him. (End of chapter)