Chapter 739 Central Building
Penglai City Central Building, with a height of 432 meters, stands in the center of the island as the tallest building in Penglai City, like an obelisk in a steel forest. The surface of the building is fully covered with graphene materials, and the steel skeleton is made of graphene tubes, which ensures the strength of the building. At the same time, the openings on the building surface rotate from the bottom to the top. This design can effectively slow down the lateral force of the airflow on the building from all directions.
After all, the wind on the sea is very strong, and these have been carefully considered by the designer.
This building will be a comprehensive super high-rise building, mainly for municipal offices, and at the same time, it will also provide various services such as exhibitions, hotels, sightseeing and entertainment, commerce, and catering. The room at the top of the building, as the tallest building on the entire Pacific Ocean, can easily overlook the whole city of Penglai.
Of course, as Jiang Chen's private property, ordinary people cannot enter this room.
With Aisha, Xia Shiyu, and Natasha, Jiang Chen took the sightseeing elevator to the highest floor - Jiang Chen's private room.
Surrounded by transparent graphene floor-to-ceiling windows, it is as transparent as if the windows do not exist from the inside. But looking inside from the outside, only the black glass windows can be seen.
Stepping out of the elevator, Xia Shiyu walked carefully to the side, reached out and touched the cold graphene floor-to-ceiling windows, tapped lightly on it, and sighed sincerely.
"It's really amazing. Although I don't know the evaluation criteria for the wonders of the world, this city... can definitely be nominated for the ninth wonder of the world."
After hearing Xia Shiyu's words, Jiang Chen chuckled and did not speak.
A mere Penglai City can be called the ninth wonder, so if he makes the space elevator—"the first real Babel Tower in the history of mankind", this future group of people will not be able to go to the sky?
"Only miracles that have undergone historical precipitation can be nominated. And as far as I know, six of the eight wonders of the world have been destroyed." Natasha teased.
Aisha has been standing beside Jiang Chen without saying a word, but from those blue pupils, Jiang Chen can see the reflection of the whole city and the color called shock.
After taking pictures to cherish, Jiang Chen uploaded the photos on his personal scarf and Twitter. He took the three girls to walk around in the central building, and then took a helicopter to leave the artificial island and return to Koro Island.
At present, the entire island is still in the cleaning stage, and the part below sea level even has sea urchins and algae. After one month, this bright pearl on the Pacific Ocean will show her true face to the world.
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Just as Jiang Chen landed on the island,
At least 5 spy satellites around the world have pointed their cameras at this island in the western Pacific Ocean, and together with him they have spied on the whole picture of this "artificial island".
As early as the first day of the completion of Penglai City, countries all over the world set their sights on this giant city on the sea.
What does it mean to be able to build cities on oceans?
This means that the crowded living space on land will be completely released to the sea, and those countries with extensive territorial waters but short of land resources will be expected to gain the opportunity to develop sea survival resources through the order of future human heavy industry.
At present, 27 countries have listed the Maritime City Plan as a national key scientific research project, and 97 of the 150 coastal countries have begun to strengthen diplomacy with Singapore, and have extended an olive branch to the Future Group.
Although Future Heavy Industry has not announced plans to sell the sea city to the outside world, since there is the first one, there must be a second one. Not having this plan now doesn't mean there won't be any in the future. All in all, it's absolutely right to establish a good relationship first!
Affected by the expected warming of offshore cities, the stock price of Gaoxin Danshui rose again. Seawater desalination platforms play an irreplaceable role as a supporting facility for offshore cities. If Penglai City kicks off the development of marine resources, the seawater desalination market will more than double.
There is no doubt that the sea city built by Renhe will naturally be equipped with its own seawater desalination device in the future.
On the other hand, as the photos Jiang Chen took on the top floor of the Central Building were uploaded to the scarf and Twitter, the fans who followed him had an instant climax, frantically retweeting the scarf and tweets he sent, and began to tweet Other online platforms proliferate.
"It's so cool! I've already decided that after the opening of Penglai City, I must visit this city! I've bought all the air tickets!"
"Shet! The air tickets to Koro Island in March are sold out! Fortunately, there are still a few boat tickets..."
"It must be a great feeling to live in a floating city! Oh, damn it, why didn't I buy a suite on it? It wasn't very expensive at first..."
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While those photos continued to ferment on the Internet, major media also reposted this group of photos, with various eye-catching titles, and carried out extended reports that caught wind and shadows. Exclusive news, inside information, and all kinds of gossip have leaked out.
According to the data of Google search trends (google-trends), in just 12 hours, the number of hot searches for the word Penglai City exploded 17.5 times worldwide! Topped the hot search list.
Just from this point of view, we can get a glimpse of people's enthusiasm for Penglai City.
From a commercial point of view, this is undoubtedly a successful marketing. Even people who are not interested in whether the city is on the sea or on land will be happy to spend the right money in their pockets and buy a ticket to Koro Island for this city that has suddenly become the focus of the world...
If there are tickets left.
Of course, some experts and scholars expressed concern about the establishment of Penglai City.
"I admit that the establishment of Penglai City will have a subversive impact on a series of fields such as buildings, ships, etc., but I also have to point out that the impact on the ecological environment of the Pacific Ocean will also be subversive. Then With our occupation of the living space of marine life, one day we will drive these friends of mankind to a dead end. I, on behalf of Greenpeace, question whether the future human group's behavior of exploiting marine resources is reasonable..."
"The completion of Penglai City will undoubtedly intensify maritime territorial disputes, especially in the South China Sea..."
"Tsunami, typhoon, submarine volcanic eruption... For a sea city, these disasters are absolutely fatal. Before Penglai proves that it has sufficient crisis response capabilities, I have doubts about the safety of living in this sea city. "
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However, these voices of opposition were ultimately drowned out in the one-sided public opinion. The data released by the Singapore National Tourism Administration and Future Travel are sufficient to prove this point. Many hotel rooms in Singapore are booked until March, and even some youth hostels with relatively simple conditions are in short supply.
For this reason, many international hotel group companies such as InterContinental, China, Hilton, etc. have announced plans to add hotels in Singapore in the next quarter to cope with the current situation that the supply of rooms is in short supply.
How long will this tourism feast last?
At least until the official opening of the city of Penglai in March, the frenzy of Panu's surge in tourists will not abate.
However, Jiang Chen probably won't be able to be there to witness the grand occasion of the first day of opening. NAC's expeditionary force on Yizhou Island has encountered a little trouble, and he has to go there in person for the parts of the space elevator base to be delivered. Trip... (to be continued.)