When Xuantian Technology Company really developed artificially cultivated meat technology, many people felt that their perceptions had been completely subverted. Does it really mean that all aspects of agricultural production in the future only need to be completed in the building?
Relying on raising livestock has always been the main source of meat products for humans, and it is also a method that is beneficial to human survival after countless years of domestication.
But now, relying on biological technology, it is possible to grow meat products for human consumption directly from one cell. Moreover, compared with raising livestock that may carry germs, this production method can be safe and controllable.
Even Xuantian Technology Company not only considers the cultivation of meat, but also solves problems such as taste and color that affect human appetite. It can be said to be a milestone in human meat production.
After Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's artificially cultivated meat was launched on the market, many people rushed to try it. It was basically sold out as soon as it was launched. Although the price was more expensive than ordinary meat, it was not outrageously expensive.
Due to the improvement of feeding technology and the relative abundance of feed, the cost of raising common meat products in my country has been reduced, and the price is not expensive, even less expensive than some vegetables and fungi.
Therefore, although the artificially cultivated meat products of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company are much more expensive than ordinary meat products, domestic residents can still afford them as daily products.
Now the condition that drives them to be willing to eat it for a long time is that it tastes good. If the taste is not good, no matter how healthy it is, the market size will not be very large. After all, Chinese people have very high requirements for the taste of food ingredients.
Meat products that are artificially cultivated are also different from the same type of meat. There are meat products that are completely bloodless. During the cultivation, the functions of the blood are completely replaced by other methods.
The color of this kind of meat is slightly different, but it basically doesn't have any fishy smell. Since it is cultivated in a sterile environment, it is extremely safe and can even be eaten raw.
Of course, there are also some that are not bloody, but because the cultivation materials are very pure and have very few impurities, and during harvesting, the remaining blood is basically cleaned up, and there is actually no fishy smell, which is better than that of raised meat. The quality is much higher.
The biggest advantage of artificially cultivated meat products is that they can be cultivated individually for each tissue, which means they can be customized according to the characteristics of meat consumption in our country.
Chinese people not only like to eat ordinary parts of meat, but also like to eat animal viscera and other parts. However, the amount of this kind of meat produced by traditional raising methods is actually very small, which makes the price extremely expensive.
The most important thing is the traditional feeding method. These organs and tissues bear the main metabolic functions of animals, which can easily lead to excessive amounts of various substances and cause certain damage to human health.
Artificially cultivated animal organs will basically not bear such a heavy responsibility. Naturally, there will be no excessive amounts of various harmful substances to the human body, allowing consumers to eat them with confidence.
Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company waited until its first batch of artificially cultivated meat products were launched, and also specially conducted a user experience survey to listen to relevant opinions from consumers.
Then collect these opinions and make improvements according to the reasonable opinions in order to cultivate better quality meat products and make artificially cultivated meat more favored by consumers.
To be honest, artificially cultivated meat eliminates technical problems, and the actual cost is lower than that of raised meat, because this method can achieve high-efficiency use of raw materials, and the time required for cultivation is also much shorter than that of raising meat.
More importantly, the artificial cultivation method occupies a small area and can be produced directly in the city, reducing transportation costs. It can also provide products in a timely manner according to market demand and reduce storage costs.
It can be said that the artificially cultivated meat industry, no matter from which direction, is much more advanced than the breeding method, and the cost is much lower, the premise is that this technology is needed.
This large-scale meat breeding technology belongs to Xuantian Technology Company. Since Xuantian Technology Company now needs a large amount of funds for the production of robots, the technology fees they license to Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company are still relatively high.
Generally speaking, Xuantian Technology Company took away most of the profits, while Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company only took away a small part of the income. But even for this small part, the profit margin is much higher than that of traditional breeding methods.
If Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company had not laid out a large number of pastures in advance, it would be difficult to develop cattle and sheep breeding. After all, it is relatively easy for state-owned enterprises to obtain this kind of land use.
The only grassland that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company owns entirely is the Mu Us grassland, and the rest are grasslands that it cooperates with ordinary herders. It is considered a cooperative relationship and cannot be fully dominated.
On the other hand, they have an absolute leading advantage in the production of pork, chicken, duck, fish and other products, and they also occupy an important position in the main income of meat products.
As for the beef and mutton produced by their Mu Us Ranch, they were mainly exported before, because they could bring huge economic benefits to Zhao Yi at that time.
However, as various countries later imposed some restrictions on the import of such products, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company gradually reduced the export of such products. This year, due to the global financial crisis, exports shrank further.
Now Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is gradually converting this type of high-quality meat products to domestic sales. Although the price cannot be compared with the export price, with moderate price reduction, there is still a large domestic consumer market.
Now that the emergence of artificially cultivated meat technology has led them to consider whether the price of artificially cultivated beef and mutton can be further reduced so that ordinary people in the country can afford it.
As for the export price, it will not change. Anyway, this kind of top-quality meat product is the only one in the world and it earns high profits. They have no intention of benefiting the whole world.
At present, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has just established the artificially cultivated meat industry, so it can only focus on the production of mass meat products. After all, this type of meat products has the largest market size.
After Volkswagen meat products are gradually improved and supply and demand are met this year, they will start producing other meat products to meet the differentiated needs of consumers.
The consumer market for special meat products is actually difficult to grasp, because there is basically no previous consumption, and even if there is, it cannot reflect the real demand of the market.
Therefore, their grasp of the market for this type of product is definitely insufficient. However, due to the flexibility of cultured meat, they can gradually test it and will not supply it in large quantities all at once, resulting in overcapacity.
Only after domestic consumers' demand for artificially cultivated meat is met, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company will consider exporting this type of meat, but it will also be exported as high-end meat products.
His industries don't seem to be particularly interested in cheap, low-profit industries. Even if they know that there is a high global demand for low-profit products, they have only established industrial chains in Southeast Asian countries.
Due to the rapid increase in labor costs in China, it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain low-profit industries. Only a small part of the products are retained, and the remaining products are imported.
However, when robot production capacity becomes overcapacity, such low-profit industries may be picked up again, not seeking exports, but only seeking to meet domestic demand and minimize external dependence.
His consideration was based on the previous life of Eagle Sauce. Since a large number of manufacturing industries are deployed overseas, once problems arise domestically, it will lead to a serious imbalance between supply and demand.
Therefore, he feels that it is also necessary to retain low-profit industrial chains that can meet domestic demand in the country. Although this is not conducive to the development of global trade, he feels that there is no big problem in doing so.
If there were no robots, this idea would not comply with the laws of economics. But with robots, things become very simple. Our country's economic development has little to do with labor costs.
The food safety detector he supplied to Xuantian Technology Company has also been successfully mass-produced. It uses micro-electronic scanning technology and can analyze and count the photographed material components based on the intelligent sub-system.
This concept is actually very simple. Electron microscopes are widely used in the field of scientific research, but being able to condense the huge equipment used in scientific research into small probes requires very high manufacturing requirements.
It can even be said that except for Xuantian Technology Company, no other company can produce it. The principle is simple, but the manufacturing technology is extremely difficult.
In order to adapt to different application scenarios, the price of detectors with scientific research testing standards is as high as 100,000 yuan. Although they are only small detectors, the price is very high.
This type of product can detect a wide variety of samples and the data is more accurate. It is mainly used in the field of scientific research and related law enforcement departments, and the price is naturally much more expensive.
For the detection needs of ordinary people, the price is much lower, but for ordinary people, it is not cheap, and the price of each unit is still as high as 2,000 yuan.
In fact, the cost gap between these two products is not that big, but there is still a big gap in technical content. This is mainly done to differentiate demand and increase the overall profit margin of the product.
Because the profit margin of the ordinary version is too low, and because the price is too high, the market size will be smaller. Even if it is 2,000 yuan per unit, he feels the price is a bit high.
As for mosquito repellent products, he originally wanted to use physical mosquito repellent, but after experiments, sound wave and other mosquito repellent methods were not very effective, so he simply changed to chemical mosquito repellent methods.
He came up with a colorless, odorless and harmless mosquito repellent chemical product that can effectively repel mosquitoes. However, he has no intention of producing such products. After all, Xuantian Technology Company does not have any chemical industry.
So he directly handed it over to Procter & Gamble Daily Chemical Company and asked them to produce this chemical themselves. As for how to make mosquito repellent products, he was not going to interfere.
They can add this substance to daily chemical products, or launch special mosquito repellent products. This depends on which method is more acceptable to the market. Xuantian Technology Company only needs to charge patent fees.
In October, Future Space Technology launched a rocket system using metallic nitrogen as a booster. The test results were perfect, but this news was not seen in the media.
In November, the construction of a permanent base on the moon that Future Space Technology Company had been preparing for a long time was finally launched, and large-scale launches of materials began to be sent to the moon.
The emergence of this news is explosive. Previously, Future Space Technology Company announced plans to build a permanent base on the moon starting this year.
This became a hot news at the time, but as time went by, everyone forgot about this matter. After all, there are so many hot news every year, and the space field and ordinary people seem to be far away.
It was not until Future Space Technology Company launched supplies to the moon that everyone woke up. It turned out that this was not a matter of hype, but a matter of seriousness.
Different from the domestic joy, foreign media generally hold a pessimistic attitude, and this pessimistic attitude is not directed at our country's permanent lunar base construction plan, but is disappointed with their own country's space program.
Originally, they were gradually lagging behind our country in the space field, and their own economy was facing difficulties. They had previously invested heavily in the space field. However, with the financial crisis and the disintegration of the country, they gradually reduced their investment and even abandoned it.
Things like Yingjiang are better, at least they can maintain their scientific research team, but the number of projects they carry out has been greatly reduced, and employee salaries can still be paid.
Because Polar Bear is facing the risk of disintegration and the economy is not doing well, both ordinary people and senior intellectuals are gradually losing hope in the future of the country.
Coupled with the fact that it was in chaos, most of the scientific research talents were poached by Shangtong Trading Company, and they were usually arranged to work in colleges and universities, but they were not directly sent to Future Space Technology Company.
Because the space technology of Future Space Technology Company is too advanced and requires high confidentiality, it usually trains its own talents and will not accept other talents halfway.
Therefore, arranging these talents in schools and cultivating a large number of scientific research talents for our country is the best destination for them. Of course, we will also come up with some peripheral research projects every year to cooperate with major universities to try our best to enable the school to keep up with the current space field. the pace of development.
In addition to poaching talents in such advanced and sophisticated fields, Shangtong Trading Company has also not let go of other talents, especially talents in basic disciplines. As long as their abilities are recognized, they will be poached.
In the past, the two super camps have gradually reduced their investment in basic scientific research due to poor economic conditions, and the projects and funds received by talents have become increasingly low.
It was under this circumstance that Shangtong Trading Company was responsible for poaching talents from the polar bears. It was very smooth. Basically, it only took a few contacts to get results.
Because in the current environment, these talents are not valued at all. Many of them cannot even get paid, and their lives are in trouble. Their families have neither enough food nor clothing, so how can they think of contributing to the country.
More importantly, many of them have lost their faith in the past when they saw the country in such chaos. At present, the only place where they can continue their faith is China.
Therefore, since their largest franchise country declared independence, Shangtong Trading Company has poached a large number of scientists every time to enrich our country's universities.
The major universities in our country are also desperately competing for these talents. Although the leading universities grab more, other universities have also gained a lot, which is a huge supplement to our country's university scientific research system.
This is still the beginning. In the next few years, Shangtong Trading Company will still not stop this kind of poaching work, which can effectively make up for the shortage of teachers in our country's universities.
Bole Human Resources Company is responsible for poaching high-level talents from other countries. Taking advantage of the global financial crisis, they have also gained a lot.
Closer to home, Future Space Technology Company launched a plan to build a permanent base on the moon and began transporting supplies to the moon, which caused a huge sensation.
In the past, talents in this field were only poached from polar bears. Now many Western experts and scholars in the space field have begun to come to our country voluntarily. They do not want to miss this scene.
At present, the only country that can continue to carry out space exploration is our country. The other two forces have no time to take care of projects in this area due to domestic problems.
In fact, the implementation of the plan to build a permanent lunar base will affect not only the flow of talents in the space field to our country, but also the slow flow of scientific research talents in other fields to our country.
The emergence of this situation is actually very reasonable. First, our country's economic size is much higher than that of other countries, and it has enough strength to support the space exploration plan.
Second, our country has made great achievements in the space field over the years, and now it has surpassed other countries. This is a fatal attraction for scientists who are interested in research in the space field.
Although they still do not have access to core technologies, they can participate in the development of the space industry. Especially for those who conduct basic space research, our country is better equipped for scientific research.
The most typical one is Tianwen University. In the past few years, they have launched many heavyweight scientific research and observation equipment into space. In the fields of space observation and space physics, they are already the undisputed number one in the global university rankings. .
These advanced space observation equipment are very attractive to scholars studying the space field, because they are the basic conditions to support the continuation of their scientific research.
Today's scientific research has moved away from the stage where scientific research can be carried out with simple equipment. Every major technological and theoretical breakthrough is inseparable from the support of high-precision experimental equipment and observation equipment.
However, various universities in our country have relatively good conditions in this regard. Many high-end experimental instruments are not sold abroad, but Tiangong Precision Instrument Company sells them to domestic universities at a discount.
Such a huge economic volume in our country was not obtained out of thin air. It is supported by science and technology. Scientists, as senior intellectuals, understand this very well.
Although in some fields of scientific research, our country's international performance does not seem to be that outstanding, in fact, its strength has far exceeded that of other countries, because we will not make a fuss over a small achievement.
Therefore, it is certain that in the future, our country will become more and more attractive to scientists around the world, and its status will even be higher than that of Yingjiang before. After all, the difference in strength between the two is even more obvious.
Since robots will be widely used in our country, it will be difficult for ordinary foreigners to survive in our country in the future, because we do not need ordinary labor at all.
Therefore, if you want to come to work in our country and earn a stable income in the future, you must be a senior scientific research talent, or even an ordinary scientific research talent. Our country does not need this. Robots can complete this job very well.
The first batch of materials delivered to the moon by Future Space Technology Company are mainly engineering machinery and necessary base construction materials, as well as some robots.
These robots are specially produced by Xuantian Technology Company for their space program. They can adapt to the space environment and are made of special materials.
The second batch of materials will transport photovoltaic power generation equipment. The electric energy of the first batch of materials cannot support robots for engineering construction for a long time.
According to the plan of Future Space Technology Company, the first phase of construction of the permanent lunar base needs to be completed in about the next year. In order to meet the material needs, 50 rockets need to be launched.
By then, the permanent base on the moon will not only be able to carry out simple scientific experiments, but will also have the conditions for scientific researchers to stay on the moon for a long time. As for mining and other work, the first stage will not be involved.
The base is on the side facing the earth. This is done to reduce the impact of space meteorites. The base is in an underground mode, also to reduce the danger caused by meteorites.
Of course, these are small meteorites. If a large meteorite is detected, the base can only be temporarily abandoned and the staff can temporarily board the lunar orbiting spacecraft to survive the dangerous period.
Although the moon is the closest celestial body to the earth and the least difficult space exploration activity, it has a pivotal and iconic significance for human space development.
In the past, our space activities basically stayed at the exploration stage. Even if humans landed on the moon, they only briefly stopped. Apart from having a certain symbolic significance, they did not have much substantive significance.
This time, Future Space Technology Company established a permanent experimental base directly on the moon, which means that humans can finally survive on other celestial bodies for a long time. This marks that humans finally have the ability to extend their survival range to other celestial bodies.
Since the birth of human beings, they have been trapped on a small earth, and all the joys, sorrows, and joys can only be performed in this small world.
When our footsteps can expand into space, it means that we can make full use of space resources in the future. Human development will break through the limitations of the earth and will show explosive growth.
By then, the number of humans will no longer be in danger just because of the billions. Insufficient resources will lead to wars. In the future, the number of humans will be tens of billions or hundreds of billions.
However, these are long-term and beautiful goals. At present, human space exploration has just begun, and it has only taken half a step. It is still far from such long-term goals.
But this is always a good start. He hopes that within 50 to 100 years, humans can move to Mars to relieve the pressure on the earth due to population expansion.
Although Mars is much smaller than the Earth, if it can be transformed into a planet suitable for human habitation, it will not be a big problem to host billions of people.
Because at that time, human survival resources are no longer limited to the planet they live in. Many resources can be obtained from space, and the upper limit of the population that the planet can carry will be further increased. (End of chapter)