Chapter 578 Equipment Worth 2.5 Billion Dollars
Chapter 578 Equipment Worth 2.5 Billion Dollars
Due to the huge differences in economy, culture, and climate between the eastern and western regions, the implementation of the East-West Water Diversion Project also faces risks and challenges in terms of geographical conditions, environmental protection, and social stability.
Therefore, Xinghai Group needs to formulate rigorous planning and management plans, fully consider various factors, and ensure the smooth implementation of the project. At the same time, it also needs to actively cooperate with ZF and all parties in the society to jointly promote the implementation of the project.
Without the support and help of governments around the world, it would be difficult to complete the east-to-west water diversion project.
After the Xinghai Group ended the media press conference, three days later, that is, on March 20, personnel from relevant departments and more than a dozen experts formed a project team of nearly 20 people and came to the Xinghai Group headquarters base.
They are here to promote the implementation of the East-to-West Water Diversion Project, not to discuss whether it can be done.
Zhou Chen received the expert group, and when the meeting was about to proceed, Mu Yang arrived. After shaking hands with everyone, he sat down and expressed his opinion: "Thank you to the leaders of relevant departments and the expert group for coming. The implementation of this project cannot be completed without your support."
With a smile on Mu Yang's face, he took the lead in expressing his welcome to everyone, and then applauded, and the high-level executives and experts of Xinghai Group also applauded.
"Mr. Mu is very polite, when we saw the desalination results of Xinghai Group, it was surprising.
When I saw the East-to-West Water Diversion Project and the million-square-kilometer greening plan, it was even more shocking. I admire Mr. Mu's courage very much. It made me and others ashamed. The leader asked us to quickly organize a team of experts to take the postgraduate entrance examination.
After the on-the-spot research, we analyzed and discussed, and felt that the "Himalayan landscape cycle" mentioned in the Xinghai Group's plan is very feasible. This will be a big project that will benefit all generations. We came to Xinghai Group to help your company see See how to implement the East-to-West Water Diversion Project. "The leader of the other party took the lead in expressing his opinion, praising the contribution of Xinghai Group and expressing his strong support at the same time.
"Yes, this is an eternal project. I also hope to participate in it and make a contribution to the greening of our country." An environmental protection expert said.
After Mu Yang listened, he nodded and said: "Thank you very much, then I will go straight to the topic and talk about the difficulty of this project first.
The first one must be the land issue, I hope to get the support of the local ZF..."
The team leader of the relevant department said: "Mr. Mu, we have discussed that this East-to-West water diversion project is a national project and a public welfare project, and should not be funded by private enterprises of the Xinghai Group.
Of course, the country also has financial difficulties. Starting such a project requires embezzlement of funds from other places, and the construction cycle will be much slower. It will not meet the five years required by Xinghai Group, and it may take more than ten years to complete. This is the first solution.
The second option, as Mr. Mu said, Xinghai Group wholly invested.
We discussed that if the Xinghai Group fully invests, we can compensate Xinghai Group from other places, and this compensation plan can also be proposed by Xinghai Group.
We have a suggestion here, the first is water price income.
How much water is delivered to each place, the local government pays the water fee to the Xinghai Group, and the Xinghai Group does not need to spend time managing these fragmentary things.
As for the water fee, it is unlikely to recover the cost within 20 years. This is destined to be a loss-making business, but it plays a very important role in the water use, flooding and irrigation of the local people, and its value cannot be evaluated only by the water fee.
The second is desert greening. As long as Xinghai Group completes desert greening, except for mineral resources, Xinghai Group has the right to use the area for every amount of desert greening completed. The period is 70 years after the greening is completed, and the rent is a symbolic dollar;
During these 70 years, it can be used to plant commercial crops or other developments are allowed.
In terms of taxation, it is levied at half of the normal tax.
Of course, we cannot destroy land resources or take measures that damage the environment..."
After Mu Yang listened to the other party's words, it is of course no problem for the country to build this project.
However, just like the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the entire construction period is more than ten or twenty years, and it was proposed very early. It is impossible for the state to allocate hundreds of billions of yuan to invest in this large project.
Therefore, if Xinghai Group doesn't invest by itself, Muyang's desert greening project will not be launched on a large scale until 20 years later, so he's still playing a fart, he doesn't have that patience.
The compensation plan proposed by the other party: water fee + renting out the desert area.
If you only rely on water charges, it may take more than ten years to receive the investment cost.
In addition, if the rent-free desert area is 70 years old, Mu Yang is pleasantly surprised.
He originally wanted to plant economic crops in the desert. When he completed the greening of 100 square kilometers of desert, the system rewarded him to open the agricultural planting technology, and also rewarded two kinds of desert economic green planting seeds and cultivation technology, that is, fast-growing trees+ Super plants that absorb air pollutants and radiation.
As long as the agricultural planting technology is activated, Mu Yang can become a plant expert and produce more types of plants.
He has now built a planting laboratory in the desert area, and when he is free, he will stay there for a while to "research" new plant varieties.
In terms of rent, it is no small matter.
According to the current rental cost of planting desert land, it is about 50 yuan per mu per year. If 100,000 square kilometers are planted, the annual rent alone will be 8.335 billion yuan.
But Muyang's goal is one million mu or even more, and the annual rent is nearly 100 billion yuan.
Of course, it's hard to say whether he has the ability to grow so many, but if it is leased, the rent is quite a lot, and the pressure on Xinghai Group is not small.
In addition, there are still subsidies for desert greening, but not many.
If only one or two cash crops are planted, of course the supply will exceed demand.
But there are many types of economic crops, such as those used for papermaking, new types of fruits, new energy sources... There are too many varieties, and Mu Yang is not worried that there is no room for development.
"We are more willing to invest by ourselves. Our company has sufficient funds. In this way, the project efficiency will be faster." Mu Yang did not hesitate, and directly chose to invest independently.
"Well, the engineering survey will take a long time, maybe at least half a year, and it may be difficult to start construction in a short period of time according to Mr. Mu's request."
"We have a star network. Surveying is a very simple matter. We can quickly select a suitable development route. What may need to be done is to send relevant experts to the site to survey the geological conditions. After confirmation, the local ZF is required to assist in land acquisition. .
We need a large number of people to carry out on-the-spot survey work, and this part of the work needs your help.
"Mu Yang said with a smile, the star network can find out the optimal route, the altitude of each terrain, and the shape of the landform, and can get very detailed data.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot about Xinghai Group's star network, it's really much more convenient.
In terms of personnel, we will help you solve it. This is not a big problem.
In terms of land acquisition, please rest assured that this is a major project of the century and cannot be interfered or hindered by personal will. The local government will assist in land acquisition for this project. "
Mu Yang nodded: "Well, if there is no problem, we plan to use the Jincheng desalination base as the entrance. We need to determine the location as soon as possible, and then start mass production of equipment and build a desalination base."
"We have inspected it, and there is no problem there. You can start preparing for some work. For specific matters, you need to sign relevant procedures with Jincheng ZF."
"Okay, I have no problem here." After Mu Yang finished speaking, he said to Zhou Chen and the company's experts, "If you have anything to add, you can bring it up."
Zhou Chen said: "We also need to consider energy issues, after all desalination requires a lot of energy.
If the local government can't help us with energy problems, we can only find ways to solve them ourselves. We need to find a reliable energy supply solution, and we also need to consider environmental protection issues.
We have analyzed here and plan to build solar power stations and wind power stations in the desert, and build high-voltage transmission stations along the waterway. "
"Okay, we need to have an in-depth discussion on the energy issue." The leader of the investigation project team replied.
Next, the two sides discussed related matters.
The meeting went on for a period of time, everyone discussed some details, and finally determined the Jincheng desalination base as the entrance, and started the follow-up preparations.
Mu Yang said before the meeting ended: "Thank you very much for your participation and support. This is a very challenging project, but we believe that through the efforts and cooperation of both parties, it will be successfully realized."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and the meeting officially ended.
the next day,
Zhou Chen came to the company and took the lead in assigning a new production task to the production department: remanufacturing 9 sets of magnetic desalination equipment.
After arranging the production tasks, he assigned a task to the center of the rocket base: to assist in the survey of the east-to-west water diversion route.
On the Jincheng base side, Huo He, the person in charge of the desalination base, was asked to contact the local ZF to discuss cooperation matters regarding the expansion of the base. When the matter was almost settled, Zhou Chen would go to Jincheng on behalf of the chairman to sign an investment cooperation agreement with the local ZF.
Zhou Chen had been busy all day, and on the third day, he was free to report to Mu Yang about the export of magnetic desalination equipment during this period.
"Chairman, many Middle East countries have asked our company whether to export magnetic desalination equipment and whether they are allowed to visit the operation of the equipment. If they can export and the price is reasonable, they intend to buy our equipment." Zhou Chen asked, "I think this kind of Advanced equipment is advanced, but it is not without substitution.
Even if we don't sell them, they can still use other technical solutions for desalination.
Or, if we sell expensive, they may not choose our equipment. "
Hearing this, Mu Yang nodded in agreement: "Yes, you are right.
If they do not have desalination technology, they may pay an unacceptable price.
However, I am not happy to sell equipment. I hope to sell water to obtain other resources, such as oil or rare mineral resources, or other cooperation, not just money.
If we only sell equipment, it is a one-time sale, and our prices for equipment will be very high, even if they have money, they will not accept it easily. "
One piece of equipment can handle a maximum of 1.576 billion tons of fresh water a year, which is worth about US$1 billion according to the local fresh water value.
The design life of a piece of equipment is 10 years, which can create 10 billion US dollars.
Excluding labor, energy and other costs, the value of a piece of equipment is about 7 billion U.S. dollars, and if it is sold at a price, it is about 2 billion to 3 billion U.S. dollars.
Mu Yang felt that it was meaningless to take money, and it was better to exchange it for scarce resources.
After listening to the chairman's words, Zhou Chen also felt that it would be better to exchange resources.
However, he reminded: "Chairman, if we operate locally, one thing must be considered, that is, security issues, which must be protected by the local government.
Even, I am worried that they will tear down the bridge to cross the river and seize the equipment after investing. "
"Our equipment is an automated equipment, I will set up a protection program and a self-destruct program, and must obtain a password every once in a while to continue to operate, otherwise it is a bunch of bad equipment.
If the equipment is really robbed and cannot be taken back, we can remotely control the self-destruct core programs and systems, and our things are not so easy to take away.
So, you don't have to worry about that.
You should first ask the relevant department whether our equipment can be exported, I think it is not that simple. Mu Yang replied, "As for the security issue, it really needs the support and protection of the local government, and this must be written in the agreement."
If it is a chaotic area, then there is no cooperation. I don't want our overseas employees to live in fear every day.
If we really cooperate, we must consider the safety of employees. We need to take into account the local cultural background and habits, and provide employees with necessary safety measures and training to avoid accidents due to cultural differences. "
"Okay, it's okay."
Zhou Chen nodded. After the agreement was completed, he began to prepare for related matters, and also hoped to add a new business to the company.
If the equipment can really be exported, this is a huge market, with a global market of about 20 billion US dollars per year.
a few days later,
Zhou Chen reported to Muyang that relevant departments agreed to export magnetic desalination equipment, but hoped that Xinghai Group would do a good job in preventing theft of equipment technology.
"Since it is agreed, we can reply that customers can visit the desalination production. In terms of price, we will exchange resources at 2.5 billion U.S. dollars." Mu Yang said that the cost of the equipment is at most one billion yuan. If those rich countries are willing to trade, this equipment Profits are indeed high.
This price is not much different from the cost of building the same seawater desalination plant, but they require a lot of energy and cause serious pollution.
Zhou Chen said respectfully: "Okay, I plan to go to Jincheng tomorrow to sign an investment cooperation agreement with the local government."
"Well, go, I will leave the matter over there to you."
Mu Yang saw that after Zhou Chen left the office, he continued to devote himself to scientific research.
In a few days, the company's large rocket Xingkong-2 will be tested for launch.
Xingkong-2 uses five Xingkong-1 rocket engines, one in the center, and the other four are arranged around, which have already been installed on Xingkong-2 rocket.
Xingkong-2 has a maximum diameter of 11 meters and a height of 110 meters, which is slightly larger than Saturn 5. It can be said to be the largest launch vehicle in human history.
Its maximum total thrust reaches 5,000 tons, and LEO's carrying capacity reaches a terrifying 1,000 tons. The final carrying space created is 8.2 times the size of Starry Sky 1, which is specially used to carry space stations and materials.
This big guy is already standing in the rocket workshop, undergoing the final test.
If the Xingkong-2 rocket test is successful, the next step is to launch the launch test space station.
The most anticipated moment is not far away.