Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 325 Space Lifting
Red Star University of Technology is becoming more and more important to Red Star Company. Zhong Cheng does not allow what happened in history to happen again, and prevents Red Star University of Technology from becoming the "Whampoa Military Academy" of Red Star Company.

As for Zhao Wei's lack of sophistication, Jiang Yan helped him make up for it, and Zhong Cheng didn't want the principal of Red Star University of Technology to be too sophisticated.

Since Red Star Company will no longer engage in weapons manufacturing and production, and the Kunlun Research Institute, which is integrated into one, will also give up weapons research, Jiang Yan will be "unemployed" as a senior weapons expert.

Zhong Cheng arranged for her to go to Red Star University of Technology in advance, as a precautionary measure, and Jiang Yan became the vice principal, so the arrangement of her team was left to her own consideration.

Zhao Wei and Jiang Yan took over the Red Star University of Technology, which will further strengthen project cooperation and personnel exchanges with the Kunlun Research Institute, which will be very helpful to the development of both.

The upcoming space development plan of Red Star Company requires technical support and personnel transportation from Kunlun Research Institute and Red Star University of Technology.

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9 month 18 day.

As soon as he got to work in the afternoon, the senior management of Red Star Company came to Zhong Cheng's office by coincidence.

Because today is the day for the Asian Federation to vote on lifting the ban on space.

Except for Zhou Hu and Jiang Shaohua who attended the meeting in Haicheng on behalf of Red Star Company, other high-level executives of the company came, even the retired Li Changfeng also appeared.

Chen Peng was teasing Li Changfeng for being restless, Lin Hansheng and Zheng Yilun had just returned from overseas and were chatting about their experiences, Fu Huaquan and Chen Qiang were just drinking tea in silence and listening to other people chatting.

Chen Qiang is also a technical leader. He was transferred from the power battery company to the group last year to be in charge of technical quality. He is very low-key.

Zhong Cheng finished his work, went to the living room, and asked Li Changfeng about the physical condition of several old leaders.

After Li Changfeng retired, he often walked around with Mr. Deng, Mr. Qian and others. He said helplessly that the old leaders are all in their 80s, and Mr. Deng will be 90 next year. He can no longer stand up and has to use a wheelchair when going out.

Zhong Cheng looked at the company executives in front of him. Except for him in his 40s and Chen Qiang in his early fifties, everyone else was in their 60s.

They have been in charge of Red Star Company for 12 years, but they failed to make Red Star Company more brilliant. Instead, they made Red Star Company a company mainly engaged in agricultural production. They owe the great trust of the old leaders!

Zhong Cheng sighed and said that he would visit them after get off work today and tell them the good news by the way.

Li Changfeng asked: "Are you sure it's good news?"

When everyone heard the words, they all turned their attention to Zhong Cheng. It was Zhong Cheng, Zhou Hu and others who were in charge of fighting for the lifting of the space ban, and they didn't know it too well.

Zhong Cheng said with a smile: "Red Star Company has already given them what they want, and now Red Star Company is left to expand the territory for the Federation. Do you think there will be problems?"

Everyone knows the red star company's concessions and promises to the Federation, but it's just that words like "all birds are gone..." can't be said clearly.

In fact, Zhong Cheng is quite open about this matter. If everyone changes positions, he might do the same.

It's just that some people make this a little "wretched", which makes people very uncomfortable.

Moreover, Zhong Cheng was also a little worried. It was easy to abolish martial arts, but if something happened, it would not be easy to pick it up again.

These people are fine. If in 40 to [-] years, there is not even a weapon designer left, and everything has to be started from scratch, the enemy will not wait for you.

After hearing Zhong Cheng's words, everyone stopped talking and fell silent, thinking about their own thoughts.

3:15pm.

Zhong Cheng's cell phone rang, and Zhou Hu asked for a call, and everyone regained their spirits.

Zhong Cheng answered the phone calmly, turned on the speakerphone, and Zhou Hu's excited voice came from the phone:

"Boss, it's done. The proposal to lift the ban on space was passed by a vote of 53 to 27 at the meeting just now!"

Although it was expected, the company executives in the office applauded excitedly. Although it was ten years late, this day finally came.

The last rope that binds Red Star Company to the starry sky has been broken, and the giant dragon that has been sleeping for many years will soar into the sky.

Zhou Hu then gave a general briefing on the relevant provisions regarding the lifting of the ban on space:

"As long as they pass the relevant capability review, all companies registered in the Asian Federation can establish human settlements, build scientific research and production bases, mine minerals, collect resources, etc. .”

"All federal corporations will pay taxes in accordance with the Outer Space Tax Regulations that will be issued later on their profits from outer space."

"All the land, mines, and resources occupied by federal companies in outer space are owned by the federation. The first company to occupy them can enjoy 10 years of free use rights, and after 10 years, they need to pay use tax."

"Federal laws and regulations are valid on all outer space or celestial bodies belonging to the Federation!"

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Zhou Hu finally added, "It will take effect on January 1 next year!"

Li Changfeng said with a smile: "The outer space regulations are almost copied from the European and American Federation, and there is nothing new about it."

Fu Huaquan said: "I think it's okay, it's not too harsh!"

Chen Peng sneered, "It's not aimed at our company, they want to mess around, and most of them are people who make trouble for them!"

Zhong Cheng was relieved, and he said: "Okay, everyone is not in the mood for work today, so let's all go to Mr. Deng's house and tell them the good news. Zhou Hu and the others will come back tomorrow, and we will have a meeting to discuss the matter of entering space."

Early the next morning, in the small conference room on the 30th floor of the headquarters building, the senior leaders of Red Star Company gathered together, and several vice presidents of the Kunlun Research Institute were also invited to attend the meeting.

Zhong Cheng presided over the meeting himself. Everyone already knew about the lifting of the ban on space, so he didn't say much and went straight to the point.

Today's meeting is to discuss how Red Star Company turned its bow to start a space development project.

Zhong Cheng called out his plan for entering space in 2022, and everyone looked at this long-lost plan with embarrassment.

Zhong Cheng first emphasized that this plan must be outdated after many years, and it is only presented today to provide a basis for discussion.

He briefly explained that the first step and the second step in the plan are the focus of discussion, as for the third step of getting out of the solar system, we will not discuss it for the time being.

The first step is to go out of the earth, and the manufacturing of aerospace aircraft has been completed. Over the years, Red Star has provided more than 30 Luanniao aerospace aircraft to the Federal Space Affairs Administration, and the technology is very mature.

Whether the subsequent construction of the "space elevator" project should be carried out now needs to be discussed.

The second step is to establish settlements and industrial bases on various planets in the solar system. The current goal is already clear, either on the moon or on Mars.

As for Ceres, which is newly occupied by the Federation, forget it, it is too small, and the conditions of Venus and Mercury are far worse than Mars, so we will not consider it for now.

After Zhong Cheng finished speaking, everyone expressed their opinions excitedly, but the differences were very big.

The construction of a space elevator is a huge project. Even with the current strength of Red Star Company, it will take about two years of construction time to complete the first step of erecting the elevator. It will take more than five years to build a large space station relying on the space elevator.

Even without considering the financial, material and human resources invested, the problem of time is very troublesome.

With this time, it is enough to build a few cities on the moon, and maybe the first base on Mars.

As for the simultaneous implementation proposed by someone, it is not impossible, but it is a huge challenge to Red Star's financial, material and human resources.

(End of this chapter)