Chapter 1156 Reaction from the other side of the ocean
After the overall plan is finalized, what remains are some technical details.
For example, the ratio of the two raw materials polyacrylamide and carboxymethyl cellulose sodium, the selection of auxiliary salt solution, and the detailed steps of the entire soil fixation process.
In fact, under normal circumstances, such high-level meetings will not discuss overly specific operational issues.
After all, if you are too micromanaging, you will lose the value of the hierarchical leadership system.
But this time, after all, the incident happened suddenly, and many resources were allocated directly by the ministries or the general bureau level.
So it was inevitable that Chang Haonan and Zhuang Bingchang would take a round of checking and filling in the gaps to ensure that the preparations before starting the construction were flawless.
However, the two of them had already reported everything about the situation during their last meeting. Anyone who can hold a high position is a thoughtful person.
No errors were found.
The only pity is that there are currently no high-yielding crops suitable for planting in modified sandy soil. We can only spend a few years cultivating the soil conditions before we can plant the same varieties as those in the black soil of Northeast China.
This is also within the acceptable range of everyone.
After all, it is an unexpected blessing to be able to turn unusable and increasingly degraded sandy land into farmland.
How could there be a more excessive request?
However, just after Zhuang Bingchang finished talking about this matter, a leader from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences suddenly spoke:
"Academician Chang, Professor Zhuang, regarding crop breeding issues , I can help contact the founder of domestic plant molecular biology, Academician Xin Zhiwen. ”
"In 1998, Academician Xin took the initiative to coordinate the cooperation between Yenching University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong to build a joint laboratory for plant genetic engineering, which included functional genome research on rice and soybeans. Later, he and Yuan, who we are all more familiar with, In cooperation with academicians, we have conducted research on lodging-resistant and disease-resistant rice, and the results are quite good..."
After finishing speaking, perhaps because he was worried about being misunderstood, he added a special sentence:
" In the research of Academicians Xin and Yuan, molecular genetic technology is only an auxiliary means, and it is not the same technology as the transgene we usually hear about..."
Chang Haonan knows almost nothing about the field of biotechnology, so He did not express any opinion, but just indicated to Zhuang Bingchang to make his own decision.
And this proposal is equivalent to directly raising the latter's status by several orders of magnitude.
He readily agreed.
"So..."
After confirming that no one had any other questions, the elder sitting at the head closed the notebook in front of him, and his eyes calmly and enthusiastically swept over everyone in front of him. A face:
“For the entire high-standard farmland construction project, the country will set up a special working group, and I will personally be responsible for the pilot phase... If you have any difficulties or needs at work, you can jump over At the intermediate level, please contact me directly to solve the problem."
"Now, let me assign the tasks..."
"..."
...
Under the direct intervention of the highest decision-making level, the entire state machine began to operate efficiently and precisely.
Soybeans are cold-resistant and have a long growth cycle. It is definitely too late to plant them this year.
But September and October happen to be a good time to sow grass seeds. In particular, the selected species such as Elymus elata, naked oat, and Tibetan sandgrass are native to the plateau area and are cold- and drought-resistant. variety.
If you act quickly enough, you can enter the growth stage or even the maturity stage before the cold winter comes.
These weeds are not planted to harvest, but simply to use their roots to strengthen the soil, so it doesn't matter even if it snows in advance.
For a time, the entire area south of the Daxinganling Mountains in central Mongolia Province was filled with bustling and busy scenes.
Trains and trucks collect bags of raw materials from all over the country to the newly built mixing area, and then mix them with ferrous chloride and water into a milky suspension according to the mass ratio of 0.25:0.045:0.03:25 liquid, and then stirred with sand to form solidified sand.
The tractor pulls the rotary tillage and ridging machine to treat the already bare dry sand according to farmland standards, and then fills the deep pits and shallow trenches with solidified sand and additional solidifying liquid. , finally sowing grass seeds...
In short, if it weren’t for the fact that the land under their feet was yellow instead of black, it would have looked like autumn plowing after the harvest...
On a field ridge, two people were wearing coarse cotton clothes. The agricultural technician is holding his arms together and staring at the curing agent being mixed with the sand in front of him.
Perhaps because this job is too monotonous, the two of them still have a lot of free time to chat and joke.
Naturally, they soon talked about the strange-sounding task at hand:
“I said Lao Li, let’s just fill in this... stuff. , can you grow crops in this yellow sandy land during the Chinese New Year? ”
One of them wrinkled his nose and asked with some hesitation in his tone.
As an old technician from the reclamation area in western Mongolia Province, he has been fighting desertification for almost half his life, and he considers himself to be half a veteran in desertification control.
But the commonly used method in the past was to first use grass squares and sand-fixing nets to form a wind-proof wall to prevent sand accumulation, and then gradually plant a small amount of shrubs and grass after the sand in the middle of the squares has effectively crusted. kind.
It is indeed useful, but it generally takes 5-7 years to form soil with average fertility, and the efficiency is relatively average.
It was absolutely unheard of to operate directly on the sand itself like this.
Although the man standing opposite him was called "Old Li", he was actually a bit younger in appearance. He moved the water collecting funnel to the next pit and smacked his lips:
"I guess... since there is such a big battle up there, it must be reasonable..."
The two of them kept talking back and forth, but the movements of their hands did not make any difference at all. fall.
After finishing the whole ditch, I straightened up with my sore back and planned to rest for a while.
“But this is really different from our past methods. If we had left it decades ago...”
The technician who spoke first took out a pack of cigarettes and prepared to talk about his early experiences.
But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind them:
"From the accents of the two of them, they should be from the western region, which is an arid area with desertification. You must first use Engineering measures such as grass grids can retain water and increase fertilizer, but the eastern region is a semi-arid and semi-humid desert, so chemical measures and biological measures can be directly used to fix the sand."
"The two raw materials you just filled in can be used at the same time. It has a long hydrophobic main chain and surface-active hydrophilic branch chains, so it can wrap and cross-link with the surface of soil particles, thereby strengthening the soil..."
The two turned around, I found out that it was a young junior who was estimated to be in his thirties.
He was wearing a brown jacket. Although it was stained with mud, judging from his white hands, he didn't look like someone who had been doing rough work for a long time. Behind him was another man who looked quite strong.
After a few seconds, the two of them realized that the sentence they had just spoken was answering the question they had accidentally talked about.
Obviously, the other party has been following us for a while.
There is no doubt that this person is Chang Haonan who came to inspect the project.
According to the previously determined division of labor, he only needs to provide technical support and does not undertake any front-line tasks.
But after all, he is the project leader who has received the funds, so it is impossible for him not to show his face at the beginning of the construction.
It is also a holiday for myself who has been busy for more than half a year.
However, according to Chang Haonan's character, he will definitely not be able to take time off.
So I walked around the neighborhood to see if there were any problems that I hadn't noticed before.
When I explained the principle of chemical sand fixation to those two people before, I didn't really want them to understand. I just used it as an opportunity to catch up on the conversation and get closer.
But before he could ask what happened next, Zhuang Bingchang came running over from a distance.
"Chang——"
I was about to shout out the title, but suddenly I saw there were people waiting nearby, so I quickly stopped and walked closer before lowering my voice:
"Academician Chang, Director Luan of the National Space Administration has brought an inspection team over and said it will be there soon. Look..."
Luan Wenjie's appearance here was indeed beyond Chang Haonan's expectations.
After all, the business in charge of the other party has nothing to do with the earth in front of you.
But after all, they are colleagues in the same system. Now that they have met, they must be received.
“Let’s go, take me there and take a look...”
The two technicians looked at each other’s backs as they suddenly left, but they were still in a state of confusion.
It wasn't until the burning cigarette burned one of the people's fingers that he suddenly retracted his arm and his brain started to work again:
"This person looks young, but he always feels that he has a lot of background..."< br>
"Indeed."
Another one also threw away the cigarette butt with only one butt left:
"I guess, at least he is a farm director!"< br>
...
This wave of land reclamation in eastern Mongolia Province is huge. Tens of thousands of people and thousands of sets of equipment are directly involved. It is impossible to hide from the eyes of other countries.
In other words, I was not prepared to hide it.
On the contrary, there was quite high-profile publicity from the beginning.
“Don’t be afraid of the deserted land and hope to spread, and create another Great Northern Wilderness.”
From the very beginning, Huaxia made it clear that it would build a new reclamation area across Mongolia Province with an output that would match the Beidahuang Group, and planned all the area in the first phase of the pilot to be a soybean planting area.
The purpose is very clear, which is to counter the current rising price trend of futures in the international market.
For the United States, which hopes to control the Chinese market, this is obviously not good news.
Later in the day.
201 SW 14th Street, Washington, DC.
Agriculture Minister Ann Veneman looked at a newspaper from China in front of her with a gloomy expression.
Of course, as an American, she must not be able to understand Chinese.
Therefore, Assistant Minister Sergei Edmund, sitting opposite, was holding a report to introduce the situation:
“According to public reports from China, they plan to build a new building within 10 years. There are at least 7 million acres of high-standard farmland, of which preliminary pilot projects have now begun. According to satellite reconnaissance results, the area involved is no less than 400,000 acres..."
"Strange... China has recently begun Hasn’t the policy of restoring cultivated land into forests, grasslands and lakes been implemented in recent years? ”
Minister Veneman looked like he had seen a ghost:
“Where did they get so much land?”
At the beginning of the 21st century, the total amount of soybeans imported by China each year was about 1,000 More than 10,000 tons.
About 60% of them are from North and South America.
Under such a base, if annual production of millions of tons is suddenly increased in its home country, it will indeed have a significant impact on the market balance.
You know, the futures market is all about emotions.
If the other party is allowed to calm down the panic, then it is really possible to get through this crisis safely.
At that time, the speculators who took advantage of the opportunity to go long will not only lose all their money, but at least lose their pants.
“The report didn’t say that clearly.”
Edmund replied:
"But judging from their propaganda slogans, it seems that they have reclaimed the originally degraded grassland..."
Hearing this, Veneman frowned slightly:
"This matter must be done Investigate clearly..."
"Even if it cannot interfere with their reclamation operation itself, we must find a way to make the market believe that these farmlands will not be able to effectively produce any crops for at least a few years!"
< br>(End of this chapter)