Although the products produced by this system are low-end raw materials, its production capacity and cost do not allow Palmer to think that this is low-end stuff.
It can be seen from the inside that after the large-scale expansion of the desalination industry cluster in the Inland Sea, the prices of some basic industrial salt species have dropped by at least a quarter in the Mainland, and will continue to decrease with further large-scale production.
This quarter made Palmer feel horrified. What is this? This is high technology!
Products that use a lot of new technologies and look sci-fi and are ridiculously expensive can be considered high-tech, and the production process that can further reduce the cost of common industrial raw materials such as industrial salt is also high-tech.
When prices come down, the feedback to the production industry system is that both upstream and downstream have received a large amount of additional funds, so they can continue to carry out process research and development or expand production, and carry out technology iterative upgrades step by step.
In particular, sodium chloride is a basic chemical raw material that cannot be more basic. It is needed for hydrochloric acid and ammonia and alkali production. The industrial chain extended by sodium chloride almost includes steel, metallurgy, glass, food, medical care, etc. The foundation of the industry.
If the price of sodium chloride is reduced, these industries in the mainland will receive great positive feedback and can squeeze out more funds for industrial upgrading, not to mention other industrial salt products purified from seawater.
This seawater desalination recycling industry chain represents by no means simple industrial salt output, but also represents the overall progress of the entire Chinese industrial system. It is definitely not something that can be achieved by adding one or several new technologies, materials or processes. Rather, this kind of overall progress can only be achieved through breakthroughs in countless places throughout the industrial system.
Regarding this kind of progress that he has always regarded as an imaginary enemy, Palmer felt helpless in his heart. The scale of trade between the United States and the mainland now seems to be increasing year by year. It looks like two brothers are doing well, but some high-end raw materials and The embargo on parts and components has never stopped, and other covert suppressions have also always existed.
But now it is because of Ou Meng's problem that the suppression of the mainland has been relaxed, but the west is pressing down and the east is emerging again, which makes Palmer begin to wonder if the offshore balancing strategy is correct?
Especially the war between the Middle East and Afghanistan is still in full swing. This war has indeed intimidated some small countries, but more importantly, it has made more small players vigilant. He is now like a firefighter who is exhausted everywhere. .
Maozi showed signs of rebounding after the Chechen War's huge comeback. Recently, he spoke much louder at the speaker's conference. Palmer could only make some concessions to reduce the intensity of the suppression of Maozi. He could not put Maozi down. Pushing it to Ou Meng's side, it was the criticism he suffered on this point and the backstabbing from Silicon Valley giants that made him hopeless for re-election in the next term.
However, when he thought that he would definitely not be re-elected in the next term, Palmer relaxed again. Since this was the case, let the next term have a headache. He really did not have the energy to fight on multiple fronts. I will open the mainland route again. Anyway, I will only stay in this position for a few more months. Why do I worry so much?
"The Mainland's straight-to-Nine-Level Reform poses no threat to us at all, and now we are in an open trade war with Ou Meng. Do you really want to push the Mainland towards Ou Meng?"
As soon as these words came out, those who were planning to make a fuss about the three places - Bay Island, Xijiang and Qinghai-Tibet - stopped.
Although Palmer's situation is over, he is still the commander-in-chief now. It is better to be in charge than to be in charge now. If the other party breaks the pot and goes to extremes with a group of people like himself, it is really not worth it!
So everyone decided to put the mainland issues aside and deal with Ou Meng first.
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Xijiang, where the whole thing originated, is still as usual at this time. In addition to building railways, roads, schools, reservoirs, power plants, wires, and farms, they have recently begun drilling holes.
The entire Western Xinjiang has become a large construction site, which is very strange in the eyes of outsiders.
Basically every other section you can see a hole extending underground.
Boom boom boom——
The sound of the shield machine colliding with the rocks continued to come from the entrance of the cave, and muck trucks lined up in and out of the cave entrance.
Western Xinjiang is no better than the Kubol Gold Mine and the Caucasus. Whatever you want to do in those places has to be done secretly.
Since the founding of the Western Construction Alliance, the entire western region has been mobilized. Factories and roads have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in the past few years.
Nowadays, joint construction of multiple underground sections is being carried out in an exaggerated manner. The underground city system is not in a hurry. We will first connect Xijiang, Sichuan, Sichuan and mountain cities with underground passages.
Now the Western Construction Union needs convenient transportation for large-scale exchanges of personnel and materials. Although the direct-to-nine railway reform can share part of the transportation work, the share of fresh water transportation cannot be reduced, so we still have to work hard on land transportation. Now this The underground transportation artery is half complete, and some sections can even be opened to traffic.
Rumble——
In the underground tunnel, a freight train departing from the mountain city whined and made rapid progress, carrying materials that had just been loaded from the port. Each carriage was filled with newly manufactured fiberglass bars and other carbon-based materials. The boards and other general engineering building materials made from these materials will be sent directly across the mountains to the Shu capital, and then transferred from the Shu capital to various construction sites in Sichuan and Shu.
On the upper level of the train tunnel, a truck loaded with a group of construction workers was transporting the building materials simultaneously with the train. Their destination was the same as these building materials.
Because the scale of XJianlian this time is very large, it has also stimulated the industrial development of China, especially the organic polymer materials industry.
However, due to the surge in demand for building materials, the prices of steel plants across the country have increased, and the supply of organic polymer building materials has not been in demand. Therefore, some low-end metal materials still have a certain market and have not been eliminated immediately. This is to give those state-owned enterprises some buffer time.
But now western construction is uniformly using new organic polymer materials to replace steel bars, plates and other building materials whose working temperature does not exceed 200 degrees.
A large amount of glass is drawn into a mesh, and then evenly immersed in various organic solvents. Finally, after the air bubbles are shaken off in a large centrifuge, various fiberglass materials are formed. One of the most productive types of epoxy fiberglass is fiberglass. The raw material of ribs.
In the past three quarters, the output of glass fiber bars has exceeded 30 million tons, which has accounted for one-seventh of traditional steel bars, and the density of glass fiber bars is only one-fourth that of steel bars, that is to say In the Mainland, four-sevenths of steel bars have been replaced by fiberglass bars.
The raw material production capacity of glass fiber bars is expanding much faster. The large amount of glass and epoxy resin means that the production area no longer has to relocate to the production area of iron ore. Many places can use local materials to build factories.
All steel companies in the mainland are urgently aware of the need to transform. Failure to transform is a dead end. Western Construction Alliance's super project has forced all kinds of low-end metal materials to have no way of survival. Low-end metal materials will not be further processed and transformed. For high-end materials, it is a pile of scrap metal.
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