Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 307

Zhong Cheng formulated the plan and goals of the third phase of the Xihai Project, which greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the participants.

Although everyone knows that the next ten years will be extremely difficult, but as long as we remember the original intention of setting up the project, these hardships are really nothing.

Although China has a vast land area of ​​more than 960 million square kilometers, the cultivated land area is only more than 143 million square kilometers, accounting for only 12.68% of the country's land area.

The per capita arable land in China is only 1.4 mu, which is only one-third of the world average.

Since the beginning of the new century, with the annual increase in the consumption of meat, eggs and milk in China, the import volume of soybeans has also jumped from less than 9000 million tons per year at the beginning to about [-] million tons at present.

China has become the world's largest food importer due to soybean imports driving food imports.

At present, about 1.3 million tons of grain are imported each year, accounting for about 7.70% of the total grain supply of 16.8 million tons. The problem of food security has become one of the problems that China needs to solve urgently.

If the third phase of the Xihai project achieves its scheduled goals, it will provide Huaxia with at least 300 million square kilometers of arable land.

At that time, China will become the country with the largest arable land area in the world. Not only will it be self-sufficient in food supply, but it will also have a large surplus to provide food to the world, and it is expected to become the world's largest food exporter.

This is just one of them, and there are many other benefits, which are equally exciting.

Such a huge area of ​​desertified land will disappear due to thorough governance, and the improvement that China will bring to the entire earth's environment is incalculable.

Huaxia's population will realize a large migration from the eastern region to the northwest region, completely relieving the population pressure on the large eastern cities.

The great development of industry in Northwest China will also drive the rapid development of China's economy and change the imbalance in economic development between the east and west of China.

All in all, this is a project that will last forever.

Everyone is really proud to be involved in the construction of this project.

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12 month 10 day.

Zhong Cheng, Yang Xi and other main personnel in charge of the Xihai Project flew to Golmud City, the central city of Qaidam, on the Bifang [-].

Today's Golmud City is nicknamed "Little Beishan" and has developed very prosperously.

A small half of the more than 100 million people are employees of Red Star Company, and almost all of the other half have various relationships with Red Star Company.

The headquarters of Hongxing Mining Company and Hongxing Chemical Company are located here, and stretches of chemical product production plants occupy more than half of the urban area.

Both Hongxing Biotechnology Company and Hongxing Nano Building Materials Company have huge production plants here, and the production scale even exceeds that of Beishan headquarters.

The Hongxing Heavy Machinery Manufacturing Company will also move its headquarters to Golmud, and providing large construction machinery, engineering vehicles and large agricultural machinery for the Xihai Project has become the main production task of the Hongxing Heavy Machinery Manufacturing Company.

The development projects of the Qaidam Desert and the Qaidam Basin have been basically completed. The purpose of Zhong Cheng and his party's visit to Qaidam is to visit the wood grain plantations that have spread all over the Qaidam Basin.

In Golmud City, the wood grain plantation "surrounds" the city.

Lin Hansheng and Ye Wenhao led the way, and Zhong Cheng and his party came to a large wood grain plantation on the edge of the city.

It's completely different from what I imagined. It's the harvest season of wood and grass, but there is no such scene of rolling wheat waves in the plantation.

I saw trees with a height of more than ten meters sparsely distributed in the huge plantation field, and these trees had huge umbrella-shaped canopies.

Although each tree is more than ten meters apart, the dense canopy completely blocks the sky, and only the sparse sunlight shines into the woods.

Under Ye Wenhao's guidance, everyone saw huge wood grains hanging between the crowns of the trees, and each wood grain tree bore five to ten fruits.

Zhong Cheng did some calculations and found that the average weight of a sycamore is about 5 jins, and a sycamore tree can produce 25 to 50 jins of saplings once a year.

There are only 8 woodgrass trees planted in one mu of land, and that one mu of land can produce up to 400 catties of wood grains a year, with an average of less than 300 catties, which is far less than Ye Wenhao's previous estimate.

Ye Wenhao explained that the planting in the experimental field is different from the large-scale planting. Muhe is very sensitive to the soil environment, and the harsher the environment, the better it will grow.

The soil conditions around Golmud City are relatively good, so the growth is not ideal.

The aggressiveness and exclusivity of Muhe are very strong, and other plants can't survive around the place where Muhe grows. Even if the same Muhe is too close to each other, only one can survive.

Therefore, the planting quantity per mu of land is very limited, which also limits the output of wood grain.

Although Muhe is a perennial tree, studies have found that Muhe may only survive for more than ten years.

Because Muhe absorbs a large amount of minerals from the soil, but cannot discharge all of them, these substances accumulate in the trunk, branches and rhizomes, and finally completely "petrified" and wither.

But this point is very useful for the transformation of desertified land. According to calculations, the land where wood grains have been grown for more than ten years can already be used for relatively dry crops such as wheat, potatoes, peas, and radishes.

Zhong Cheng nodded, very satisfied with this. Muhe is a kind of agricultural product against the sky. He doesn't expect it to be as high-yielding as wheat and rice and can be planted for a long time.

On the contrary, after the growth of wood grains, it is of far-reaching significance that desertified land can be transformed into arable land.

At this time, a group of people greeted them from the gate of the plantation.

The local person in charge of Red Star Biotechnology Company said that this is the head of Golmud No. [-] Farm and his farm workers.

Farm No. [-] is the earliest wood grain plantation farm, which has a history of three years, but this group of people took over the farm from the R&D Institute after being "assigned" from Red Star Company to Qaidam last year.

Farm No. 25 has nearly [-] mu of land, but there are only [-] official staff including the farm manager, and their family members are not included in the official staff.

There are more than 1000 such farms in Qaidam, and all tens of thousands of farm workers are directly managed by the Land Reclamation Department of Red Star Biotechnology Company.

A group of people from the farm manager walked up to Zhong Cheng and the others, all very embarrassed, lowering their heads and waiting for the leaders to ask questions.

Zhong Cheng found that there were more than 60 people in this group, including men and women, old and young, and the youngest should be less than 20 years old.

The face of the local person in charge of the Ministry of Land and Reclamation turned gloomy, obviously unhappy that the director of the farm had brought his family with him.

After a few glances, Zhong Cheng understood everything. The farm manager used to be more or less an official at the Beishan headquarters.

He was silently expressing his dissatisfaction with the local administrators.

But Zhong Cheng didn't want to delve into this point. He walked up to the teenager and asked in a harmonious voice, "Young man, what's your name and how old are you?"

The young man gave the manager a timid look, and the manager hurriedly said: "This is Chairman Zhong, you can answer whatever you ask!"

The young man looked up at Zhong Cheng in horror, then lowered his head, and whispered, "My name is Zhang Xi, and I will be 16 in two months."

Zhong Cheng frowned and asked, "The school is not on holiday yet, why don't you go to school?"

Zhang Xi whispered, "I stopped going to school when I arrived in Qaidam last year, and now I'm helping out on the farm!"

The local person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation heard the news and quickly explained: "There is a high school in Golmud, and they are the ones who don't go to school by themselves. We mobilized it at the time, but it didn't work."

"why?"

Zhong Cheng asked in a deep voice, in this era, there are still people who are unwilling to let their children receive education, and it is rare in mountainous areas.

But this kind of thing happened under his rule.

(End of this chapter)