(PS: The previous chapter has been locked in a dark room. I will find a way to get the editor to help release it as soon as possible. I’d better release the next few chapters earlier)
At seven o'clock in the morning the next day, the Petrochemical Zone of Karamay Petrochemical Industrial Park.
In a barracks dormitory, Chen Yi rubbed his eyes, lifted the quilt on himself and stretched out. Then he took the tablet on the bedside table in front of him and glanced at it.
"Tsk, tsk, I really don't know how those terrorists' heads look like. Are they really not afraid of death?"
Chen Yi was getting dressed while complaining. To be honest, he didn't understand what was going on with the terrorists next door who were making big news. Did he think it was easy to talk here?
Nearly a thousand people have died in the past few months, but they are still heading towards death. Haven't they realized that times have changed?
After a while, Chen Yi got dressed, washed up and left the dormitory, preparing to go to the cafeteria to pay homage to his five internal organs temple.
Karamay Petrochemical Industrial Park is a national key petroleum industrial production base created by Karamay and the rich oil and gas resources in Central Asia. The Qinglong Study Group and partners such as Hu Group, M Group, Chip Alliance, and Nanwa are also here Many chemical plants and research centers have been opened here by spending money freely.
However, everyone's focus is not the same. New World Group focuses on various lubricants and additives, Majia Company focuses on carbon fiber, MH Group focuses on polylactide (polylactic acid), Edge Consortium focuses on resin, and Hu Group focuses on For polycarbonate, Chip Alliance focuses on silicone materials, and Nanwa focuses on polyethylene materials.
Recently, the Shinra Group is also preparing to plant its flag here, using the reserve technology of the Brindisi petrochemical plant to focus on petroleum refining and polypropylene materials.
Of course, the focus here does not mean only researching one type of material, but everyone has agreed to draw a focus on research and development. In this way, the petrochemical industry chain is covered, and everyone is still in Xijiang Province. It is not only the petrochemical industry that is blooming, but also other industries, especially agriculture.
The Karamay Industrial Park is inflating like a balloon. Last year, the industrial output value of Karamayi City was 50 billion RMB, which was almost the figure in 2017 in the previous life. However, it has also reached a bottleneck for the time being.
The reason is simple: Western Xinjiang is short of water.
Water is the source of life. People can go without eating for three days, but they cannot go without drinking water for three days.
Western Xinjiang occupies almost one-sixth of the country's area, but only accounts for 3% of the country's water resources. There are 570 large and small rivers, the annual surface water runoff is 88.4 billion cubic meters, and the per capita water resources are 5,500 cubic meters, ranking last in the country. 3. The exploitable amount of groundwater is 25.2 billion cubic meters.
The main water source is the melting of icebergs. The iceberg area here is about 24,000 square kilometers. However, because it is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, the climate is arid, precipitation is scarce and evaporation is strong, and the water resources are very unevenly distributed.
Western Xinjiang has a large rural population, and agricultural water accounts for about 80 to 90 percent. It was already very tense, but with Chen Yi and his group carrying out large-scale construction here, a large amount of industrial water has been added. If it weren't for Chen Yi I felt something was wrong and hurriedly stopped everyone's expansion. It is estimated that in a few years there will be big news here that will shock the country for many years.
Some of the bad things that happened in Western Xinjiang are just that in Chen Yi's opinion. In his previous life, many so-called bricklayers and opinion leaders analyzed the reasons for this or that. They were all bullshit. The most fundamental thing here is The problem is one word - water.
Water resources limit the development of industry. Although the entire agricultural water use in Western Xinjiang last year was 54.743 billion cubic meters and the industrial water use was 1.208 billion cubic meters. It seems that it is okay to use more water in industry, but this is already the limit. If we continue to upgrade and expand the industrial chain If this happens, it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and completely collapse residents' domestic and agricultural water supplies.
This is not a question of more or less, but a question of whether a large number of local residents have access to water. If the industrial water supply is changed to two decimal places, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people will be without water!
As long as the water problem is solved, the industry here will continue to develop rapidly and in turn feed back agricultural production, which will drive economic growth here and allow local residents to have money. Local people will live a better life with money in their hands. Other issues None of it is a problem.
Now Chen Yi has some ideas, but the last problem is difficult for him. In the end, he can only adopt a multi-pronged approach to improve the local geological environment and change the climate in the long term. In the short term, he uses a very stupid and very expensive method. .
After Chen Yi had breakfast, he came to a scientific research institution called "Sandy Soil Improvement Research Center".
As soon as you enter the hall, fresh air hits your face. The layout of the hall makes people feel like it is the inside of a plastic greenhouse.
Neatly divided square glass petri dishes are planted with various drought-tolerant plants. However, through the transparent glass, you can see that a small half of the soil structure at the bottom of the vessel is sand, but the upper layer has completely turned into yellow-brown soil. This It is the effect of sand and soil adhesive.
Sand adhesive - a kind of adhesive for improving desert soil invented by a team led by Professor Yi from Shancheng Jiaotong University in Chen Yi's previous life in 18 years. It is a certain plant fiber extracted from several herbal plants.
Soil particles have forces acting on each other and can form a whole, while sand particles are loose and do not have such forces.
Under the guidance of Chen Yi, Professor Yi invented this adhesive in the first half of last year, which gives the sand particles the power to bind the sand together and transform it into soil, ensuring that "sand-to-soil" has the ability to Properties of storing moisture, nutrients and air, and can breed microorganisms.
The whole process only takes two minutes, and then various drought-tolerant crops are planted to continuously improve and fertilize the soil.
At this time, Professor Yi was wearing a white coat in the hall and he and several young researchers also wearing white coats were recording something in front of a black locust tree. It was not until Chen Yi walked up to them that they noticed that there was an extra person here.
"Mr. Chen, you are here."
"Okay, Professor Yi, you're welcome, how's the experiment going?
What are the results of the soil quality test?
What is the approximate cost? "
Chen Yi went straight up to Sanlian without any unnecessary nonsense, and Professor Yi also immediately told Chen Yi the relevant situation without any unnecessary nonsense. He said with excitement: "The sand adhesive is indeed a success. We are in Kela In the one hundred acres of experimental land in the Mayi Desert, more than 70 different plants from other regions have been planted in the past six months, including wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables, and they are growing very vigorously.
A few days ago, we tested the "sand-to-soil" soil in the experimental field. The test results showed that there were no microorganisms in the soil before, but now there are microorganisms in the soil, as well as trace elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. A total of 11 substances have all met the standards!
If applied on a large scale, the cost of transformation per mu of land would be approximately 2,700 yuan. "
After hearing this, Chen Yi's face darkened, and in less than three seconds a number popped out of his mouth: "Fourty-one hundred and five billion US dollars!"
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Professor Yi and a group of researchers had a question mark on their heads, wondering what Chen Yi meant.
Chen Yi said with a depressed expression: "This is the cost I just calculated based on the costs required to transform the 713,000 square kilometers of Gobi and desert in Western Xinjiang!"
Professor Yi and a group of researchers were also stunned. They were obviously frightened by this number, but Chen Yi did not stop and continued to talk.
“Even excluding the area occupied by possible oil and gas fields and minerals, optimistic estimates suggest that it will cost at least US$300 billion, which is a cost of 211 billion yuan, but this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause.
Even if the soil can fix water for a period of time, until the arid climate here is completely changed, there will be no new water added from the outside to keep the soil in a state of sufficient moisture.
After a period of time, the soil loses water and will disperse into sand again. I believe that you will continue to add fresh water to the one hundred acres of experimental fields to keep the soil moist, but what Xijiang lacks is water! "
