Chapter 208 Change
New Year's Day, 2027 is coming.
There are still 37 days until the Spring Festival.
Within Hailufeng Company, many employees are at ease at work or preparing for the Spring Festival because of Jiang Miao's motivational video.
As for the domestic economic situation in 2026, overall, it is basically stable and improving.
Stimulated by the Egyptian pond lice fish meal at the beginning of the year and the fairy bean soybeans in September, the development of the domestic breeding industry has changed from the decline of previous years.
Although the overall retail price of meat consumer goods fell by 10∽20%, production companies and farmers did not suffer losses as a result, but instead made a lot of money.
The core factor is that feed costs have fallen, and the initiative in raw material supply has been taken by the country, and it is no longer controlled by others. This has greatly stimulated the confidence of practitioners in the breeding industry.
The decline in meat prices is reflected in people's livelihood. Although the wages of most people have not increased, and wages in some industries have even dropped, residents' food consumption has increased.
At the same level of Engel's coefficient, if you pay the same money, you can buy more meat products.
Especially as the New Year approaches, with strong consumer sentiment, meat sales across the country have soared.
In order to develop desert areas, this year Hailufeng Company, COFCO, Beidahuang Group, United Mining, Monan State-owned Assets Operation Company and other companies, plus more than a dozen engineering construction companies, have set up branches and industrial bases on the edges of deserts in various places. .
This has greatly alleviated the situation of construction workers losing their jobs due to the slowdown in infrastructure construction.
For example, the China Railway Sixth Bureau has established an industrial base in the Ulan Buh Desert and will recruit an additional 2,400 people before the end of this year. All of these people are in the Ulan Buh Desert transformation base.
According to the plans of these state-owned enterprises, after these construction workers complete the desert transformation work, they will be further resettled on site and transformed into large-scale farm workers and agricultural industry support workers.
Jiang Miao can obtain a lot of information through United Mining. He knows that in the last three months of this year alone, 27 transformation bases have been established in the desert edge areas of the entire northwest region.
These transformation bases have as few as two or three thousand people and as many as seven or eight thousand people.
Together with Hailufeng Company, it will directly create 147,000 jobs.
This agricultural revolution has also brought huge opportunities to domestic agricultural machinery. Zoomlion, Sany Heavy Industry, Xugong Group, Shantuo Group, Liugong Group, Yituo Group, Weichai Power, Wode Electromechanical, Chang A series of enterprises such as Fa Industrial have received a large number of orders for agricultural machinery.
In order to ensure that they can win orders, various agricultural machinery manufacturers have invested heavily in the research and development of larger and more advanced agricultural machinery.
If we don’t invest heavily in research and development now, we will definitely be replaced by other competitors.
In the past, the area of the country's great plains was not large, and the core Huanghuaihai Plain was densely populated and had a low degree of mechanization. In particular, there was very little large-scale mechanization. Only the Northeast Plain, eastern Monan, and the Western Regions had large-scale mechanized production.
Under this circumstance, and because foreign large-scale agricultural equipment is better, naturally not many machinery manufacturers are willing to develop larger equipment.
But things are different now.
Times have changed suddenly.
There are hundreds of millions of acres more "potential farmland" suitable for large-scale mechanized production in the country, and agricultural enterprises with official support have received relevant notices. The proportion of domestic agricultural machinery in these newly built large-scale farms is required to be no less than 80%. %.
For example, the main suppliers of engineering equipment and agricultural machinery equipment of Hailufeng Company and United Mining are Sany Heavy Industry and Zoomlion Heavy Industry. In order to ensure orders, these two companies have stationed professional maintenance teams and R&D teams, stationed in the Monan region.
Domestic feed companies, dairy farming companies, and pig raising companies have also shown their talents recently and have subcontracted large areas of desert land three times from major state-owned enterprises.
As for those breeding companies and feed companies, why don't they open up other deserts?
The reason is naturally that the thieves' joint mining company has circled all the desert sands in the country that are easy to develop from the beginning. The remaining small desert sands will not be so easily advantaged by local companies, and the deserts in the Western Regions are far away from the inland areas. Too far.
Moreover, in areas such as the Taklimakan Desert and the Junggar Basin, the Western Region Corps is also encircling land and will not give many opportunities to private enterprises at all.
For Hailufeng Company to get 30 million acres of land, other companies can only look at it with envy in their hearts, but they also know clearly that this land belongs to Hailufeng Company. To be precise, Jiang Miao deserves it. Others People and companies have no way to get involved.
Hailufeng Company also subcontracted a large piece of land to COFCO in the Tengger Desert, and temporarily reached a cooperation intention. The area is 2 million acres, and the specific location is in the surrounding area at the end of the Shiyang River.
At present, Hailufeng Company entrusts COFCO Group to manage and grow fairy bean soybeans. In the future, when the development of silk soybeans is successful, it will directly use this land as a production base.
In fact, the research and development of silk soybeans has gone very smoothly. Jiang Miao has used gene editing technology to cultivate 20 types of silk soybeans based on fairy bean soybeans, and is currently in the internal experimental planting stage.
And of these 20 types of silk soybeans, to be precise, only 10 have gene sequences extracted from silkworms; for the remaining 10, the gene sequences used in editing are from various spiders.
Spider silk has excellent strength and toughness. Its strength is very high, 5-6 times that of steel wire of the same thickness. Its toughness is also excellent, and it can be stretched to 20-30% of its original length and return to its original shape without breaking. This makes textiles made from spider silk very strong and durable.
At the same time, spider silk is soft and comfortable. This is mainly because spider silk is very thin. The diameter of a single spider silk is about 5 to 10 microns, so the fabric made of it is soft, comfortable to wear next to the body, and has good flexibility. It also gives textiles a nice drape.
Other advantages are similar to silk.
However, the production of natural spider silk is very difficult. The main reason is that spiders are not as easy to breed as silkworms, which is a big trouble in management. Moreover, most spiders are carnivores, which are more difficult to maintain than silkworms that eat leaves. In addition, spiders produce The amount of silk is much less than that of silkworms. Although scientists have long known that spider silk has excellent properties and can be called natural carbon nanotubes, not many companies are willing to invest in research and development.
The fundamental reason is that there is no way to mass-produce this thing.
Those studios that obtain spider silk by breeding spiders can only produce various spider silk products through various gimmicks to attract the curiosity of the rich. Ordinary people cannot afford such products.
Jiang Miao had thought of spider silk when he was doing gene editing to transform fairy beans into soybeans.
Since soy protein can be turned into silk protein, why can’t soy protein be turned into spider silk protein?
Anyway, the technical difficulty of both is the same.
Therefore, Jiang Miao easily made 10 varieties of spider silk soybeans.
The current experimental planting is mainly to see if there are secondary mutations and trait failures, and to see if the protein nanostructure of these silk soybeans and spider silk soybeans can be similar to natural silk and natural spider silk after they are actually planted. That kind of effect.
The result will be known when these soybeans mature in April this year.
Biotechnology has endless possibilities.
And for macromolecular organic compounds with more complex structures, the production cost of biotechnology will exceed the traditional chemical synthesis technology of mankind.
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For example, artificial silk, synthetic rubber, etc., why they are not as good as natural ones is because macromolecular organic matter is too complex, and humans cannot imitate them at low cost.
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New Year's Day is just one day away.
Nanjing Electric Group, which had visited the biofuel base in Pinghe Town before, came to visit again.
Jiang Miao, who was rarely free, met with Jiang Haibo and Zhang Haitao with the team leader of Nandian Group.
In addition to Wang Shanhe, general manager of the Lingnan branch who came last time, there is also Zhou Yadong, deputy general manager of the Nandian Group headquarters who has a higher level.
In the conference room.
After a few words of greeting, Zhou Yadong got straight to the point: "Mr. Jiang, our group has some questions about your company's technology. I hope Mr. Jiang can help us clear up our doubts."
"President Zhou said it's okay." Jiang Miao understood the other party's thinking. Many times when state-owned enterprises want to do something, they must have a more formal name, otherwise it will be difficult to get it passed.
"The first question is that our group has studied Professor Lin's paper and your company's patent. The raw materials for the battery fluid of this technology are animal excrement and plant straw. So if it is a complex organic solution, can it still be efficient? Generate electricity? ”
Jiang Miao replied very definitely: "No problem. Our laboratory has done relevant experiments. Even organic matter in domestic waste and even plastic particles can be efficiently utilized by power-generating bacteria."
Zhou Yadong listened and took notes.
Then he asked: "The second question is, if we want to peak power generation, what impact will it have on the service life and overall power generation of the battery?"
"The overall impact is not big, and the service life is not much different. If it is adjusted frequently, the power generation may be reduced by 5∽10%. After all, the power-generating bacteria also need to consume a certain amount of organic matter in a semi-dormant state to maintain their own life needs. ”
"I see, is 5∽10% power loss? This is acceptable." Zhou Yadong nodded, and after writing down these contents, he continued to ask:
"The third question is, how should the battery fluid be disposed of after power generation? Are there high-risk pollutants?"
Jiang Miao directly answered the other party's question: "If it is animal excrement, plant straw, etc., after being decomposed by power-generating bacteria, it will turn into an organic matter solution with high sugar, high fat, and high aromatic hydrocarbons, as well as some residual cellulose and lignin." , hemicellulose, these solutions and residues can be used as raw materials for biogas fermentation to produce a large amount of biogas. After biogas fermentation treatment, these residues can be used as organic fertilizers. ”
“What if it’s municipal solid waste?”
"If it is municipal waste, my suggestion is to sort it first. Organic waste, plastics, etc. can be crushed into raw materials for battery fluid; things containing heavy metals must be picked out, such as dry batteries, circuit boards, etc., and they must not be mixed in. , otherwise it will contaminate the final organic fertilizer and make the organic fertilizer lose its value.”
"Is that so?"
Jiang Miao saw the other party's doubts, then smiled and shook his head: "Actually, there is no need for Mr. Zhou to think about municipal solid waste."
"Why?"
“Currently, domestic waste incineration power plants have a daily processing capacity of almost 1.07 million tons, and the domestic annual municipal waste volume is about 400 million tons. Now many waste incineration power plants cannot operate at full capacity because there is not enough waste to burn. ”
"Huh?" Zhou Yadong also remembered this situation, and then he frowned: "Mr. Jiang, in this case, your microbial fuel cell technology can only use waste from farms and rural areas? This has great limitations Yeah! ”
Jiang Miao also answered him straightforwardly: "There is no way, this is the original characteristic of microbial fuel cell technology."
Zhou Yadong and others, who originally planned to use microbial fuel cell technology to build a peaking power station, were also disappointed at this time.
(End of chapter)