In November, the weather in the capital has been a bit cold, especially now that the air humidity in the north has increased, and we are gradually feeling the dampness and coldness in the south, which we have never felt before.
Originally, he had no intention of going out, but news came from Yaoguang Environmental Management Company that after nearly two years of desert land management in the Tarim Basin, initial results have been achieved.
Although there are no plans to start land development yet, it will start in the year after next at the latest. By then, the land in the Tarim Basin will have become very fertile and the foundation for development will be ready.
The news this time is that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company feels that it can start infrastructure construction, including basic road construction and urban construction. These can be carried out first. There is no need to wait until agricultural development is implemented.
What caught his attention was that two super cities would be built in the Tarim Basin. As one of the economic, political and cultural centers of the Tarim Basin, they would bring greater popularity to this land that was originally a desert area.
For example, most of the land in the Tarim Basin will be used for agricultural, animal husbandry and forestry production. With the current high-tech farming methods, it certainly does not require too many people, so even if agricultural development is carried out here, it will still be sparsely populated.
Therefore, if we want to gain popularity, we should build two new metropolises in the Tarim Basin. This will not only attract more inland people to migrate to the northwest region, but also bring a more modern urban economic system to the northwest region.
In addition to the two new metropolises built in the Tarim Basin, Kashgar, located at the western end of the Tarim Basin, will also undergo modern urban construction. However, the specific time for implementation requires further planning.
A large city will also be built in the Lop Nur area at the eastern end of the Tarim Basin, surrounding the Lop Nur waters. The future prosperity of this city should be better than the two large cities in the Tarim Basin.
In addition to these cities, the northwest region, especially the existing cities in Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang, will also undergo modern urban construction and transformation. After these works are completed, the northwest region will become more prosperous and livable in the future.
The current urbanization construction of China Housing Corporation is basically all in the mainland, and there is basically no place to set foot in the northwest region. It is not that there is no corresponding planning, but there are restrictions for many reasons.
For example, transportation in the northwest was not smooth before, and transportation costs were relatively high. Secondly, ethnic issues were relatively troublesome to handle, requiring more work. Finally, there was the issue of funding.
Although Zhao Yi's companies provide a large amount of funds to Chinese housing companies every year, they are still stretched thin and naturally need to have priority options. Obviously, the mainland has an absolute advantage in terms of population density and economic prosperity.
Urbanization is important, but as a private enterprise, China Housing Corporation also needs to consider future earnings. Unless it is funded by the state, these issues must be considered.
Now after two years of rapid construction in the Mainland, especially this year, the availability of construction funds has been further increased, and the scale of credit has been increased, resulting in a further increase in speed.
Now the new city construction plan planned in the mainland has gradually come to an end. In the future, only the old cities need to be renovated to give these cities a completely new look. Each of them will be a highly modernized metropolis.
According to the plan, in the future, half of the people will live in metropolitan areas and half of the people will live in county towns based on county towns. The country's urbanization rate will reach more than 90%.
The most important reason why we should pursue such a high urbanization rate is that urbanization is conducive to more efficient allocation of resources, conducive to saving land resources, and can also make it easier to provide unified social welfare.
At this time point, it is very necessary to start planning and preliminary construction of the new city in the Tarim Basin, because the construction of a city takes a lot of time.
Even if you go all out, it will take at least three years to build a modern city. This is because modern construction machinery is very efficient and has a high degree of mechanization, otherwise it will take even longer.
Therefore, urban construction cannot be carried out until all the industries here are developed. If it were done before, it would still be possible, because the living standard was not high at that time, and making money was the first priority.
Everyone is facing a difficult environment and has to endure it. But things are different now. Our country's per capita income is already very high, and employment is relatively sufficient. There is no need to suffer in these places where nothing was done before.
If these infrastructures are not built well and the town reaches a certain scale, it will be basically impossible to recruit enough people to settle and find employment in the northwest.
Of course, with the large-scale use of robots, agricultural production and industrial production do not require too much manpower. It does not seem to matter much whether there are many people coming to settle in the northwest.
In fact, this idea is wrong. The economy is not only the production side, but also the consumption side. It can bring popularity to a region. Robots cannot do this, and there is less fireworks.
Moreover, the Tarim Basin will be a window directly facing Central Asia and other regions. The economy here will radiate to Central Asia and even further West Asia. If the population is insufficient, it will be difficult to shoulder this important task.
Why can't all the people walking in the streets and alleys be robots? Then what's the point of building this city? Without big cities, how can we shoulder the important task of communicating between Central Asia and Western Asia
The reason why we took the lead in taking action in the Tarim Basin was mainly because the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company had full authority to make the decision on this land and it was very simple to deal with it.
In the Lop Nur area, construction is still ongoing. The area and depth of Lop Nur have not yet reached the design requirements, so it has not yet been finalized and it is not appropriate to carry out urban planning prematurely.
Kashgar, located in the west, is more suitable, but there are majority ethnic minorities here. As private companies, they are generally reluctant to get involved in such issues. At least they need more favorable support from the national level.
Moreover, if the two new cities in the Tarim Basin are built, they will become a melting pot of ethnic groups. By then, various ethnic groups in the northwest and the Han people will settle in them, which can further promote the understanding of ethnic cultures.
At this time, the resistance to the urbanization of the original cities will be reduced a lot. Of course, it would be better if the country is willing to do this, which can save Chinese housing companies a lot of money.
Although the Tarim Basin is managed by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, the future use of the land will not be theirs. The agricultural farming area will be handed over to Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, including the water management of Lop Nur.
The urban properties built on it will be handed over to China Housing Corporation for operation. At that time, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company will only be responsible for climate maintenance, forestry resource development and utilization, and land management and maintenance work in the Tarim Basin.
In fact, the management of the Tarim Basin not only covers the Taklimakan Desert, but also includes the Kumtag Desert that is not in the Tarim Basin, but currently their main focus is on the Taklimakan Desert.
Because as the climate of the Tarim Basin undergoes fundamental changes, the Kumtag Desert located downstream of the air flow will naturally receive abundant rainfall, which is of great benefit in reducing the cost of transformation.
Not to mention this desert, but other desertified lands rented to him in Gansu Province are all planned to be treated in this way. After the source problem is solved, these secondary desertification problems will be slowly solved.
However, judging from the rainfall in the past two years, the desertified land in Gansu will be treated next year. Compared with the Taklimakan Desert, the treatment of these deserted lands will be much easier.
It will only take about two years to achieve fundamental governance, but at that time it is estimated that there will be a huge investment. To this situation, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has become numb.
Seeing this, Zhao Yi wanted to go and see for himself the location of the new big city in the Tarim Basin. After all, this is very important to Chinese housing companies, and once the site is selected, it is difficult to change it.
Building a city costs a lot of money. Even if the city construction here is not as huge as in the mainland, it is necessary for a city to accommodate a population of 3 million.
As for if the population increases in the future, it can be expanded. In the early stage, cities will not be built too large. This is a huge waste of funds. It is not sure how many people will settle in these cities in the future.
You can't force people to settle here. You still need to rely on natural attractions. However, this uncertainty is very high. Setting the city size at 3 million people is already a very bold idea.
However, these cities are not only used as population settlements, but also as northwest industrial centers, shouldering the important task of economic exchanges with Central and West Asia, and they must be built.
When he saw Zhao Yi going to the northwest, Zhou Jinyu wanted to follow him to have a look. He had only taken Lin Hexia to inspect there before, and Zhou Jinyu had not taken a closer look at the situation there.
She had been to Xinjiang to collect information, but not to the Tarim Basin. Zhao Yi didn't stay there for a long time this time. After seeing the place, he would have a brief understanding of the situation there and then come back directly.
But no matter how hard she tried, he insisted on going to see it, so he had no choice, so he simply asked Lin Hexia and went together if he had time. Maybe the white snow over there has another charming scene.
The snow in the northwest was a bit thick originally, but now the humidity there is even worse than before, so the snow is thicker than before. If it is not necessary to go there to see, he really doesn't want to go out.
I originally thought that Lin Hexia was unwilling to go because it was too cold there, but I didn't expect that Lin Hexia agreed without hesitation, so this trip was destined to be a trip that combined work and sightseeing.
Also going there this time were Qin Hongqi from China Housing Company, Li Jianguo from Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, and Wei Donglai from Yaoguang Environmental Management Company. After all, this was related to the companies they managed.
Qin Hongqi and a group of technicians took Zhao Yi's private plane to go together, while Li Jianguo was in the south and took a plane there alone.
As for Wei Donglai, he has been busy with projects related to the management of the Yellow River during this period, including the management of the Loess Plateau, so he does not have a fixed office location.
The sowing work of duality plants on the Loess Plateau has been completed, and it has grown and is growing very well. By next year, it will enter the transformation stage and begin to show its secondary sexual characteristics to the world.
At that time, auxin can be used on a large scale to promote the growth of these plants, turning the Loess Plateau into a lush and dense forest in just 3 to 5 years.
The first place their plane landed was Lop Nur. Although there was no urbanization here, many towns still appeared because there were too many workers gathered here, and they were still very prosperous.
Even though it is winter now, there is still a lively scene here, and the work has not been stopped due to bad weather. Because the workload is too much, and if we don't buy time, we don't know how long it will take to finish the earthwork in Lop Nur.
Where earthworks have been completed in Lop Nur, due to the injection of water from two major rivers, the area is now covered with blue waves and looks like the sea.
At present, this water cannot be said to be salt water, because the accumulation time is still very short. If it wants to become a salt water lake like Qinghai Lake, it will take at least ten years of continuous evaporation.
This is why he is not so eager to come up with plants to transform the saltwater lake, because there is no need to do so under the current situation, it is a proper freshwater lake.
Looking at the huge lake in front of him, coupled with the surrounding snow-capped world, there was something that made him feel like he was on the shores of Lake Baikal, but the surrounding houses still looked dilapidated.
After all, these buildings are temporary buildings. As long as they can ensure habitation, no one cares about the appearance. In the future, these temporary buildings will be demolished and rebuilt.
"When do you expect all the work here to be completed?" Zhao Yi asked Wei Donglai.
"If we look at the current progress of the project, it will take another three years, but it is impossible to maintain such a high intensity because as the Yellow River control project further deepens, there will be a lot of machinery here that will be transferred to the Yellow River control project. in.
Therefore, we plan to spend 7 years to complete the earthworks in Lop Nur. By then, this area will become the veritable heart of the northwest climate. "Wei Donglai said.
According to Wei Donglai, it will take about 5 years for Lop Nur to achieve the predetermined goal, which in Zhao Yi's opinion is still acceptable.
As for why we don’t continue to purchase machinery and equipment in large quantities, the main reason is that it costs too much and the return on investment is too low. We would rather extend the timeline to save costs.
"Will that affect the development and construction of cities around Lop Nur?" Zhao Yi asked.
Hearing his words, Qin Hongqi next to him said: "No, the place we are developing first is where we are now, and the project here has basically been completed.
According to our calculations, even if the water volume in Lop Nur increases in the future, the water level will basically remain at the current level and will not have an impact on surrounding cities. "
It is not easy to surround Lop Nur with a city. After all, Lop Nur is too large, with a total planned area of about 20,000 square kilometers.
Therefore, the current plan is to choose a place with very good terrain around Lop Nur to build the city. When the population slowly develops in the future and continues to extend to both sides, there is no need to build too big at once.
As for the water level in Lop Nur, it can actually be adjusted manually. The artificial rainfall is controlled based on the total natural rainfall to achieve a relative balance in the total rainfall.
This is the current method adopted. Since Lop Nur is still under construction, precise control is essential to prevent excessive rainfall from causing the water volume in Lop Nur to exceed the bearing pressure.
In fact, the government is also currently studying the use of advanced artificial rainfall technology to solve flood problems in some areas of the country, and has already begun relevant experiments.
To this end, Fluclight Environmental Management Company has also built some hydrogel factories in the south, hoping to use hydrogels to properly regulate rainfall in the south, increase rainfall in summer, reduce rainfall in spring, and even out the total rainfall slightly.
"If the urban construction of Lop Nur is carried out together with the construction of the other two cities, will the funds be affordable?" Zhao Yi asked Qin Hongqi.
Since Lop Nur already has the foundation for urban construction, there is no need to wait until the construction is completed. He sees the current prosperity here and hopes it can be maintained.
Because it is not easy to gather popularity in the Northwest, if the city here is built, then these people working here are most likely to become settlers in the city, because they are already accustomed to the climate and environment here.
The most important thing is that if a person has put a lot of effort into the construction of a place, they must have feelings for the place. When all conditions meet their expectations, they will naturally be willing to stay.
"Our current capital and credit scale is a bit high and has reached the warning level. If it were not for the completion of construction of new cities one after another, we would not be able to start urbanization here.
In addition, there are currently not enough workers in the country, especially experienced workers. This is not only a problem faced by our company, but also a problem faced by other infrastructure construction. " Qin Hongqi said.
Many employees of Hualong Clothing Company and Huansha Textile Company have applied for layoffs, but most of these employees are female employees and it is difficult to adapt to the intensity of work in the construction industry.
Even male employees may not be able to endure this kind of hardship because they have been engaged in the garment industry for a long time. In addition, coupled with the time spent on training, etc., they still have great difficulties.
"Let's do this. You start planning the city in Lop Nur. There will always be a way to solve the funding problem. There is no need to build too much in the initial stage to accommodate the existing workers.
The same is true for the other two cities. The overall plan should be done first. During construction, development can be carried out in batches. After all, it is impossible for the population here to gather so many people in a short period of time.
As for the labor problem, Xuantian Technology Company's robot production will further increase next year, and robots can be used as replacements to solve the problem of labor shortage. " Zhao Yi said.
Qin Hongqi heard what he said and said he had no objection. He had seen the robot in person and it performed very well. It was very suitable for such heavy physical labor.
Even when he saw the robot labor scene of Hualong Clothing Company, he felt that using robots in this field was a bit wasteful. After all, the clothing industry cannot be said to be high-intensity labor, at least in Hualong Clothing Company.
Zhao Yi paused and suddenly asked: "What are the future plans of the construction companies you are cooperating with, and how are they going to deal with the rural labor force they have recruited?"
He asked this question because if robots are used on a large scale, the construction industry will definitely have a different organizational form in the future. What will happen to these workers then requires a charter.
Anyway, we definitely can’t just let them go back to their hometown in the countryside and rely on one-third of an acre of land to support their family. And now that a lot of land has been contracted by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, they can’t just go sightseeing at home.
Hearing Zhao Yi's question, Qin Hongqi was stunned for a moment. He really had not thought about this problem. After all, these workers were recruited by construction companies and had nothing to do with the China Housing Company itself.
Therefore, the solution to this problem should be a matter for these construction companies and has little to do with China Housing Corporation, so we did not think deeply about this problem.
Seeing Qin Hongqi's expression, he knew what was going on, but he didn't blame him. This kind of problem should not be considered by him. His responsibility only needs to run the China Housing Company well.
"The implementation of the robot replacement plan is a strategic plan that has just begun. It is to accumulate experience in building social systems in the era of comprehensive robots.
The reason why we are so determined to implement the robot replacement plan is a key step for our country to realize a communist society, completely getting rid of the situation of human exploitation of human beings, and it is also the basis for achieving common prosperity.
However, in the process of implementing this plan, various contradictions will definitely arise. This is an issue that we need to focus on and solve in the short term in the future.
For example, in the question just now, the construction company is not our own company. Whether they are willing to share most of their profits with these workers is probably a question.
This situation does not only exist for these construction companies, but also for domestic operating companies and remaining foreign companies. "He said this not only to Qin Hongqi, but also to the heads of several other companies.
The main thing is to tell him that the robot replacement plan is unstoppable and is a necessary condition for the realization of communism in our country. No one should try to stop it. This is a development trend and will not be stopped just because of the obstruction of some people.
After saying this, we have to return to the original problem, which is how to solve the problem for these workers. They cannot be fired. Neither he nor the country will allow this to happen.
"In this way, when you go back, you can test the thoughts of various construction companies on this issue. If they just think that dismissal is enough, then you need to think differently." Zhao Yi said.
Others felt strange when they heard what he said. They didn't understand what he meant. They couldn't figure out how to think about it.
Fortunately, Zhao Yi did not intend to let them guess, but said directly: "If they are unwilling to take on greater responsibilities, they are still willing to operate in the original mode.
Don't be polite, gradually reduce the amount of their projects, and set up a construction company yourself, recruit these workers, then go through the off-duty procedures, and use robots to carry out construction business. "
Hearing his words, Qin Hongqi was shocked, because doing so was against the operating model of China Housing Corporation. The reason why they were unwilling to get involved in the construction business was because there were many troubles in this field and required a lot of energy.
And if they do this, other construction companies will probably not be able to survive in the country, because there will be no one to work for them, and since no one will work, there will be no conditions for survival.
At that time, either the company will go bankrupt, or it will go directly to overseas business. Anyway, they cannot gain a foothold in China, and workers are not fools. If they can leave their jobs and stay at home comfortably, there is no need to work hard.
In fact, this also reflects Zhao Yiyi's idea of implementing the robot replacement plan, that is, for companies that are unwilling to assume social responsibilities, he will slowly make them unable to operate through means, and directly control the market in his own hands.
He did this mainly because he felt that people's hearts are greedy. If they were forced to fulfill their social responsibilities, they would not necessarily be willing to do so. Moreover, there were many waffling matters, so he could just kill them directly.
In his opinion, if the problem can be solved in a simple and crude way, there is no need to negotiate. That kind of method is a compromise method that cannot be used to kill the other party cleanly. (End of chapter)