Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 185 West Sea Phase III Project
Zhou Hu and Liu Yuzhu kept winking at Zhong Cheng, for fear that Zhong Cheng was confused.

It is to set up a lithium industry company with Northwest Chemical, and some senior executives of the company are not very willing.

Today, Zhong Cheng wants to cooperate with Northwest Chemical on a larger scale. Can the company agree?

Mr. Lin himself was even more surprised, his head was almost muddled, "Zhong Cheng, no, academician Zhong, why do it now?"

Zhong Cheng smiled, "What you originally wanted to do, you think about it in a big way, first investigate, then come up with a plan, I will take it to the state for approval and approval, and then implement it, just do it!"

"Wow!"

The leaders of Northwest Chemical in the meeting room got excited and stood up and applauded vigorously.

With Zhong Cheng's identity in place, it is impossible to make such a joke, it is really possible!
The comprehensive development of mineral resources in the Qaidam Basin will give Northwest Chemical a chance to take off again.

After the meeting, Zhong Cheng asked Mr. Dong and Mr. Lin to board his special plane and took him, Zhou Hu and Liu Yuzhu to the Qaidam Basin for a preliminary investigation.

Bifang No. 2 cruised at twice the speed of sound, took more than 2 hours, and took everyone to inspect the Qaidam Basin.

The Qaidam Basin is a plateau basin surrounded by the Altun Mountains, Qilian Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, with an average elevation of 2600 to 3000 meters.

Due to the deep inland location and the high altitude, the climate in the Qaidam Basin is very arid, the surface is very barren, and the natural environment is very harsh.

But now the road network system in the basin with railways and highways as the core has developed very well and is still being perfected.

If the power problem can be solved, and the water source problem can be solved by the way, the three links will be realized.

Transforming the Qaidam Basin is not a dream.

In Golmud, the largest city in the basin, Zhong Cheng and others got off the plane and joined the local staff of Northwest Chemical.

Golmud was a transit point chosen when the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was built. This city developed from the salt lake chemical industry is also the center of the Northwest transportation hub.

Northwest Chemical has a branch here, with a large number of engineering and technical personnel stationed there.

In Zhong Cheng's Xihai project construction plan, the headquarters of Red Star Lithium will also be in this city.

Golmud has a very developed solar energy industry, but Dong Zong and Lin Zong both said that it is not reliable.

Everyone transferred to three daily Titans off-road vehicles and drove to Chaerhan Salt Lake for field investigation.

Because compared to these staff who have worked and lived in this area for many years, they are all laymen.

The crowd was driving on National Highway 215, and Zhong Cheng found that there was a straight section of road near Golmud City, floating on the Chaerhan Salt Lake like a bridge.

If it weren't for the four characters "Wanzhang Salt Bridge" facing him, Zhong Cheng would have thought it was an ordinary road.

But in fact, this is a 32-kilometer-long salt bridge.

According to the staff, such wonders abound in the Qaidam Basin.

Shell beam, on a Gobi Desert in the Qaidam Basin, there is a small hill about 2 kilometers long, which is called shell beam by local people.

Under the thin saline-alkali soil cover on the surface of the shell beams, there is an accumulation layer of clambranchs and gastropods with a thickness of more than 20 meters.

Reed boats, this area is the lowest point of the Qaidam Basin, and there are dots of lakes and swamps left over from the ocean in ancient times.

Therefore, the rivers here are extremely well-developed, and the large and small lakes exude fragrance in the depths of the Gobi.

The Yardang landform, the salt-alkali beach of the vast sea in the basin, is eroded by strong wind and sand. Over time, the cracks are getting bigger and bigger, and the original flat surface has been weathered into many irregular ridges and grooves.

Extending along the wind direction, the grooves are getting bigger and bigger, the ridges are getting smaller and smaller, and many unconnected mounds appear, forming a unique spectacle on the Gobi Desert.

This is the famous "Yardang Landform"!
Mr. Lin said that the tourism resources in the Qaidam Basin are also extremely rich, but due to the harsh conditions, the development is far from ideal.

If the project to develop the Qaidam Basin can be approved, only the annual income of the tourism industry will be very considerable.

But Zhong Cheng is not interested in this, he is only interested in things that can bring substantial benefits to the country.

After a week of continuous investigation in Qaidam, Zhong Cheng left Liu Yuzhu behind to formulate a new plan with Northwest Chemical, and he and Zhou Hu returned to Beishan.

Zhong Cheng changed the original Xihai project plan into two phases.

The first phase of the project is only to add nine Suihuang nuclear fusion power generating units on the basis of the original plan, and to exploit some scarce minerals.

In this way, the investment has increased to more than 500 billion.

The second phase of the project is to fully develop the Qaidam Basin in accordance with Mr. Lin's suggestion, and the investment is conservatively estimated at more than 5000 billion.

Including a series of mineral mining, chemical plants, and infrastructure construction. At the same time, a large number of people will be introduced, and twelve large cities will be expanded and newly built.

After the completion of the second phase of the project, the permanent population of the Qaidam Basin will reach at least 1000 million.

This will play a great role in solving the upcoming problem of overpopulation in the labor force.

In fact, Zhong Cheng still has the third phase of the Xihai Project in his heart, but he didn't say it out.

The Qaidam Basin is slightly triangular in shape, about 800 kilometers long from east to west, and about 300 kilometers wide from north to south, surrounded by high mountains.

It is a Tarim Basin that has been doubled in size, which is most suitable for the pilot project of "building a pergola project".

Although the area is only doubled, the difficulty is more than ten times smaller.

If the preliminary preparations are started in the first two phases of the Xihai Project, it will not be impossible to implement it by then.

Three of China's four major basins, the Tarim Basin, the Junggar Basin, and the Qaidam Basin, have vast areas, but they all have a large number of desert areas, which are not suitable for human habitation.

In Zhong Cheng's dream, these problems all hope to be resolved as soon as possible.

If the pilot project is successful in the Qaidam Basin, it can be extended to the other two major basins.

This will provide Huaxia with four or five livable lands the size of the North China Plain, which will last forever!

At that time, Chinese people will only sigh that the population is too small.

But with such a big project, and it sounded like a fairy tale, Zhong Cheng didn't plan to say it first.

After some basic preparations are completed, it will not be so obtrusive to make a formal proposal.

There are three basic preparations:
The first is the research and development and production of carbon fiber materials used as "pergola" supports. In fact, Zhongcheng's carbon fiber nanotubes are the best high-strength and light-weight materials, but it is impossible to use this, and the cost is unbearable.

The second is the research and development and production of nano-mirror film materials used as "pergola" tarpaulins. It is best to absorb and transform solar energy, killing two birds with one stone.

The third is the implementation technology of this super-large-scale construction project. At that time, they thought simply, that is, to erect thousands of steel frame pillars on the high mountain, then pull up the supports and put up tarpaulins.

After seriously considering the implementation of the clock, it was discovered that building a "shape tent" in the sky is very complicated due to the meteorological conditions alone.

How can such a huge "shape tent" resist extreme weather such as heavy wind and rain, and the normal rise and fall of the airflow will be a headache.

Therefore, in the preliminary preparations, Zhong Cheng not only asked Liu Yuzhu to be responsible for the research and development of the two main materials, but also specially collected local meteorological data.

Finally, input these meteorological data into the Taixu experimental system to build a simulation model of the Qaidam Basin, and carry out the simulation of the project implementation plan in advance in the model.

These preparations are very complicated, and Zhong Cheng does not put too much pressure on Liu Yuzhu, hoping that he can complete them within five years.

At that time, he will also be able to free up his energy.

(End of this chapter)