With the continuous development of the domestic economy, especially the growth of urban economic vitality, it has provided great help for the employment of domestic labor force, and the urban economy has become the main driving force of my country's economic development.
The result of this is that the size of the city has expanded many times compared to before. The current urban population, including the population in counties and urban areas, has reached 60% of our country's total population.
Although this number may not seem high, it is actually very high. In the previous life, my country's urban population in 1990 was less than 300 million people, but now the population has increased by 300 million.
This refers to the number of people living and working in cities. The reason why there are still about 400 million people in rural areas is mainly the elderly, children and left-behind women in rural areas.
Young adults and male laborers basically work and live in cities. The reason why these rural elderly, children and left-behind women are not brought to the city is mainly because there is not enough housing in the city.
In the cities currently under construction, the living environment of many migrant workers is not very good. Living alone is not a big problem, but raising a family is more troublesome.
Precisely because our country's urban construction cannot meet the needs of our country's urbanization speed, the annual investment scale of China's housing companies has also hit new highs, because this is an urgent problem that our country needs to solve.
According to the rate at which Chinese housing companies spend money, it is estimated that 10 trillion yuan will be spent this year on urbanization across the country. This is a scale of investment that was previously unimaginable.
You must know that my country's total economic output last year was only about 29 trillion yuan, but investment in urbanization construction reached 10 trillion yuan. With the government's basic investment, this scale is expected to reach 13 trillion yuan.
It can be said that my country's current scale of infrastructure investment has accounted for a considerable proportion of my country's economic growth. It can be regarded as a special economic development structure in a special period, and there is no way around it.
It is precisely because the scale of my country's infrastructure is so large that it has fully absorbed the rural labor force, and the labor force has always been in a relatively tight state.
It is precisely because of the tight labor force that our country's development of low-end industrial products is actually insufficient, and it is far behind the world's factories in previous generations.
If my country's exports were not mainly mid- to high-end industrial products and mainly imported minerals, low-end industrial products and some agricultural products, it would be difficult to meet the rapidly growing consumer demand of our residents.
Of course, there is no serious labor shortage, and it also depends on the extensive application of highly automated equipment in my country's industrial production field, which has reduced the number of manpower requirements in factories by several levels.
This is also the reason why Xuantian Technology Company did not see a particularly serious rebound after it planned to launch robots, because there is no labor surplus in our country, and there is a labor shortage in various industries.
Of course, there are also many people here who don't understand how powerful Xuantian Technology's robots are, and think they are just ordinary robots. Some even don't think they are humanoid robots.
Many people refer to machines or robotic arms with a high degree of automation as robots. In fact, this type of robot is completely different from the robots of Xuantian Technology Company.
The robots of Xuantian Technology Company are able to complete more than 99% of human abilities and are infinitely close to the true abilities of humans. Although low-end robots are not so magical, high-end robots can definitely achieve this level.
Closer to home, the large-scale increase in the urban population has not only brought about cramped living space, but also great traffic pressure, which is also one of the problems that need to be solved.
Although urban residents are buying more and more cars now, due to the large number of cars, traveling by car is not necessarily fast, especially for shorter-distance transportation, the necessity of driving is not high.
However, due to the congestion of public transportation, many people have to endure the current situation of road congestion and drive their cars at a slow speed on the road, which further increases the traffic pressure on urban roads.
This situation has become very obvious since last year, so solving urban traffic problems is a very urgent matter at present, and the solution is to increase the carrying capacity of public transportation.
The current solution is to increase the number and frequency of buses. However, due to the congestion of road traffic, buses actually play a very limited role and can only be regarded as better than nothing.
Therefore, everyone has turned their attention to urban rail transit. Some cities have even applied for the construction of urban rail transit before, but they have not received approval from relevant central ministries and commissions.
Because everyone is waiting for the completion of my country's low-speed maglev urban rail transit system. With so many people looking forward to it, as a company that provides power systems, Star Power Company is facing great pressure.
At the meeting with Star Power Company, Zhao Yi once again asked them about their progress in this regard. They must come up with mature products as soon as possible to solve the current urban public transportation problems in our country.
According to a report by He Hanlin, president of Star Power Company, all research and development work on the low-speed maglev rail transit power system has been completed, and the relevant products have been handed over to CRRC to cooperate with their assembly work.
According to the latest progress of CRRC Corporation, complete vehicle testing can be carried out in February. However, the relevant maglev track construction technology has been completed within CRRC Corporation and has been fully mature.
This means that cities that want to build urban rail transit do not need to wait until the complete vehicle test is passed before starting construction of rail transit. They can start construction in advance.
CRRC Group is very confident that it will provide sufficient vehicle supply and related auxiliary system supply when they need it, because the vehicle work they are currently carrying out is very smooth, and all data are in line with expectations.
In fact, the first batch of cities undergoing urbanization have already applied for rail transit construction plans and have received approval from relevant ministries and commissions, but construction has not yet started.
However, it is already under preparation and is expected to enter the implementation stage after the beginning of the new year, because the route has been planned for a long time and is completed integrally with the original urbanization plan. China Housing Corporation has reserved space when constructing.
As for the technology for building urban railways, it is not a problem. my country's machinery manufacturing capabilities are now absolutely leading the world. There is absolutely no shortage of mechanical equipment for building urban railways. As for the systems related to urban railways, CRRC Group's technology is fully mature.
The only weak point now is that there are not many technicians and grassroots workers with skilled urban railway construction experience in our country, and it will take a certain amount of time to train them.
Although the construction of Line 1 in the capital was very early, it was originally built with the help of the Soviet Union. It is unknown how much experience has been learned. Even if it has learned experience, it must have been wasted after so many years.
Moreover, there are still big differences between rail-mounted subways and maglev trains. They do not belong to the same technical system, and previous experience may not necessarily apply to the current actual situation.
Although the maglev developed by Star Power Company for urban rail is a low-speed maglev, the speed is not low, and the maximum speed can reach more than 200 kilometers per hour.
The reason why they studied for so long even though Zhao Yi provided the technology was mainly because they wanted to reduce energy consumption and reduce the overall operating cost of the urban railway.
The technology provided by Zhao Yi is a key technology, not a complete set of technologies. Now he rarely provides a complete set of technologies, unless it is a completely new field. If he does not provide a complete set of technologies, he is afraid that the people below will not be able to handle it.
The technology he provided to Huaxia Military Industrial Company was basically a complete set of technologies, because the company itself did not have much accumulation, and the quality and quantity of R&D personnel were insufficient.
If he does not provide a complete set of technologies, it will be very difficult to meet his requirements, and providing a complete set of technologies will also train R&D personnel.
As a company that focuses on power system solutions, Star Power Company’s R&D team has experienced many battles and is extremely experienced after so many years of development.
They involve a wide variety of power systems, advanced technologies, and very strong industrialization capabilities. For such companies, it is enough to provide key technologies, and their R&D personnel must also play a greater role.
The reason why we still need to provide technology is that our country has not had any accumulation in the field of maglev trains before. Although it can eventually be developed without providing technology, it will definitely take a long time.
According to technical requirements, low-speed maglev trains must meet standards in terms of comfort, energy consumption, stability, and ability to respond to emergencies. The most important thing is that they adopt fully autonomous driving technology.
This is a prejudgmental thinking for future urban transportation. Compared with automatic driving of cars, automatic driving of rail transit is relatively simpler. After all, the road environment is much better than the ordinary road environment.
In addition to this, there are also very high requirements for silence. The main purpose of using low-speed maglev instead of ordinary rail trains is still the noise problem.
No matter what technology the rail train adopts, the noise will still be relatively loud. In comparison, maglev's performance in this aspect is much better, which is very important for the living environment of urban residents.
We must know that urban residents like to live around places with abundant transportation facilities for the convenience of travel. If the noise is very loud, it will have a great negative impact on the living environment of surrounding residents.
According to He Hanlin, the low-speed magnetic levitation power system they developed has a noise of only 10 decibels, and almost no sound is felt. Even after the vehicle is completed, the noise will be controlled within 30 decibels.
Within 30 decibels, there is almost no negative impact on the surrounding living environment. Even if you are close to the passing train, you can clearly hear the sound of conversations.
Now that they have completed the research on the low-speed magnetic levitation power system, the next step is to study the high-speed magnetic levitation technology. Although they are both magnetic levitation, the gap between the two is still huge.
Our country already has a mature rail-mounted high-speed railway system, which has actually met most of the needs. You must know that the average aircraft speed is only more than 800 kilometers per hour, and 500 kilometers per hour is almost the limit of the rail-mounted high-speed railway system.
If the high-speed maglev transportation system wants to stand out, it cannot just be slightly higher than 500 kilometers. According to his idea, it must reach at least 800 kilometers per hour. If it can reach 1,000 kilometers per hour, that would be even better.
It is not easy to achieve such high parameter standards, and Zhao Yi has no intention of continuing to provide technology for them to develop on their own.
Because our country's demand for high-speed maglev transportation systems is not that urgent, the reason why we still need to study it is not because of how big the market is, but mainly because of the need for technical reserves.
And if your own country does not need it, it does not mean that other countries do not need it. If other countries are willing to pay high construction costs, they can export it, and he will not ban it.
At present, my country's high-speed rail system is the most cost-effective solution in his opinion. The ultra-high-speed maglev is fast, but the cost is definitely much higher than the existing high-speed rail.
In fact, for many people, a little more time is not a problem, but they are unwilling to bear higher fares. As for whether this will be the case abroad, he doesn't know.
However, in his opinion, the demand abroad is actually not high. Most of the so-called developed countries actually have very small land areas. They do not need ultra-high-speed maglev or high-speed rail.
As for countries with large land areas, they are basically vast and sparsely populated. Building ultra-high-speed maglev trains will definitely result in losses. There is a high probability that no one will do this business.
So after all the calculations, this technology may still be used in our country in the future, but when it will be applied is not yet certain, because it is difficult to fully integrate maglev with the existing high-speed rail system.
At this stage, our country will still focus on building high-speed rail to form a transportation artery throughout the country. As for high-speed maglev, it will depend on the situation later.
This depends mainly on two aspects. The first is whether the national income can match the high fares. If the fares are not easily affordable by ordinary people, the market size will definitely be small and the probability of losing money will be very high. big.
The second is whether the necessity of construction is very high. If there is not much necessity, and it is felt that it would be a waste to build, it will naturally not be built. Even if it is built, it will only build one or two lines of strategic significance.
After the robot replacement plan is implemented in the future, Chinese residents should have more free time and are not very sensitive to time. From the perspective of people's needs, the necessity is not high.
Although the probability of future construction is relatively low, as a company focusing on the field of power systems, technical reserves are essential, especially since they are not short of money and are willing to invest in research.
In current business operations, not all technologies are currently in use, especially for large companies. Regardless of whether they are used or not, it is also very important to establish their own patent pool and block the way for future generations.
Even if you don't deliberately block other people's work, charging patent fees from other companies is still a good deal, because a large-scale research project involves a lot of patents.
Many projects that are not closely related to this project will use patented technologies related to this project. Patented technology licensing fees are also an important part of the revenue of many companies.
However, he is more concerned about aerospace power. After all, the construction of the lunar base is about to begin, and aerospace power is more urgent.
He chatted with He Hanlin in detail about this aspect and asked about the difficulties they were currently facing. If help could be provided on site, he would directly point out feasible solutions.
As for things that couldn't be explained clearly in a few words, he prepared for the meeting and sorted out the relevant technologies and provided them to Star Power Company to prevent him from being unable to complete the relevant tasks by then.
In addition to the conventional power system, he also asked He Hanlin to increase research on ion thrusters and strive to produce products with higher standards within one or two years to prepare for lunar resource mining.
In the early stage, the requirements for this are not high. It is just the construction of the lunar base. Most of the materials are transported from the earth to the moon, and the power requirements for the return are not very high.
But when the lunar base enters the formal operation stage, it will begin to moderately exploit lunar resources. If these resources are transferred to the earth, the power system required will be relatively high.
We can't just fall directly from space like the common return to Earth mode. That is prone to problems, and if the tonnage is very high, it will be very destructive to the ground, so it is not a feasible solution.
Therefore, in order to achieve a soft landing on the earth, a strong return power system is necessary, and ordinary power is not enough to carry out such high-intensity space resource mining operations.
Ion thrusters were the obvious choice at that time. Although controllable nuclear fusion was not achieved to provide a steady stream of power energy, the high-density batteries developed by Xinhui Energy Company could also play a big role.
At present, Xinhui Energy Company has produced the highest-level battery products, which are military-grade and are sufficient to meet the current power needs of military equipment. However, this is not the highest-level battery product.
There are also aerospace-grade battery products later, which have higher energy density, higher stability, and can adapt to the space environment. However, they are also the most expensive and have not been produced yet.
Using this level of battery, the energy provided by the battery alone is enough to support the transportation system to and from the earth and the moon. If the load capacity is not large, it can also travel to and from the earth and Mars.
The energy density stored in a battery like this is very terrifying. A battery the size of a basketball can store millions of kilowatt-hours of electrical energy. Only batteries of this level can play a huge role in space.
Energy supply is not a problem now. The problem is that the ion thruster cannot meet the requirements. It is still some time before the demand is reached. He just urges Star Power Company to increase investment.
If they really haven't come up with a usable product by then, he will probably have to provide relevant technical information to help them break through the technical bottleneck. After all, they can't keep putting it off forever.
There are definitely a lot of resources in the universe, but not all resources are plentiful. For scarce resources, of course, whoever gets it first belongs to whom, and there are huge benefits in this.
The moon is better. After all, it is relatively close to the earth. Especially after the permanent base on the moon is established, resource detection can be carried out very conveniently.
But in deep space, resource detection will take a long time. Ten years may be a long time for us, but for space exploration, it is not a long unit of time.
Our Mars exploration is so laborious. There will be other planets that need to be detected later. If possible, we also need to establish a base to conduct detailed detection of the planets that can be detected.
These all take a very long time, so time is actually not that abundant, and the breakthrough of the ion thruster has become more urgent.
However, from He Hanlin's description, in fact, the ion thruster they are providing for the Mars returner is their most advanced thruster at present, and the breakthroughs achieved later are not big.
Although this electric ion thruster is an absolutely leading technology in the world, it is still far from what he expected. If it is to be used as a round-trip power in the earth-moon system, it is still slightly insufficient.
Regardless of the fact that it can bring soil back from Mars, the soil it brings back is not much. It is precisely because it does not carry much weight that it can do these tasks.
In the future, the power system for traveling to and from the Earth-Moon system will need to carry at least 10 tons of payload, so that it can basically meet the requirements. As for the highest standard, of course, the bigger the better.
If the load capacity is very low, even if it is transported back, it will feel like the gain outweighs the loss. And no one can say how many such precious mineral resources there are in the universe.
Being able to find a large number of medium-rare minerals is already considered good. This is still a long-term goal. It is only a mid-term goal. With the current level of the power system, it is not enough.
His plan is to initially establish a permanent base on the moon, carry out extensive exploration and research on the moon, and at the same time do some astronomical research on the moon. After all, the moon has no atmosphere and is a good observation point.
In the mid-term, a complete set of mineral refining industries will be established on the moon. The minerals mined on the moon will be refined as necessary and then transported back to the earth. This can save transportation costs.
In addition to the refining of minerals on the moon itself, minerals mined from other places will also undergo necessary refining on the moon before being transported to the earth.
This means that the moon will become an important space transfer station and primary mineral processing center in the future, which means that the scale of construction will be very large, and the scale of materials that need to be transported from the earth will also be very large.
Once this system is established in advance, it will be an advantage unique to our country, and other countries can only watch us develop the space economy.
Because it is not an easy task to successfully develop controllable nuclear fusion, it is even more difficult than ion thrusters. However, our country has an advantage because it has mastered high-density batteries.
This window period is very important. As for banning other countries from entering space based on our country's strength, he has no idea, but everything is possible, and he can't guarantee it now.
Any competition for survival is based on strength. If there is a serious imbalance in strength, the dominant side will naturally have absolute control over resources. This principle has been followed before.
The reason why there are still so-called international rules is just because this disparity in power has not yet become huge. If it becomes huge, the so-called international rules will be nothing more than a joke.
He will not become a Holy Mother just because of his own moral values. When the time comes, he will adopt whatever method maximizes his interests. All tolerance and goodwill are the result of weighing interests and have nothing to do with morality. (End of chapter)