Chapter 371 New Lion City Plan
Guangjia Aerospace has an office in the Lion City, which is mainly responsible for business docking related to space tourism.
Guangjia Technology has a branch in Lion City. The research and development of some innovative drug pipelines and the sales of human hibernation equipment to Southeast Asia are all located in Lion City.
So news keeps coming from the Lion City.
Front-line reports from employees of Guangjia companies are different from the reports available on the market, both in terms of detail and perspective.
After watching it, Lin Jia was shocked that the turmoil in the Lion City calmed down so quickly.
At her position, she has been able to get a lot of inside information. If Chen Yuanguang shared the information obtained from the officials with Lin Jia, her richness of information sources would definitely be considered top-notch.
Therefore, Lin Jia knew very well that there was no trace of Chinese involvement in this matter from beginning to end, and Amerikan's silent attitude from beginning to end showed from the side that they were involved in this matter.
Otherwise, with Amerikan's character, he would not remain silent at all. They still have JD in the Lion City.
Lin Jia thought to himself that even if Amerikan's strength declined, he could accomplish such a big thing quietly, which should not be underestimated.
Chen Yuanguang said: "We will talk about this topic after a while. You should be able to see it more clearly after a while."
The Lion City has a representative system, which simply means that members elect the leader.
Therefore, in just one month, the leader of the Lion City was replaced by Wang Yikang.
There have been mixed opinions since he came up, because in the past month, the outflow of capital from the Lion City exceeded 200 billion US dollars, and the number of Chinese wealthy people who returned to Hong Kong from the Lion City exceeded 1,000.
The outside world thinks that the first thing he should do when he comes is to restore the outside world's confidence in the Lion City. He should first break up the telecommunications industry and introduce a third-party supervision agency to supervise the Lion City Telecom to ensure that the incidents exposed in the past will not happen again. Slowly build the reputation of the Lion City and stabilize the financial industry of the Lion City.
The results are somewhat similar to what the outside world predicted, but also somewhat different.
Wang Yikang first delivered a speech to all people in the Lion City. The content of the speech was roughly that the behavior of the Lion City in the past was a serious mistake. Now the Lion City is on the road to correcting the past wrong behavior and will work hard to regain the trust of the international community. .
Is it useful for you to say this? It’s useless. The damage caused to the entire social ecology by decades of continuous monitoring cannot be repaired by speech.
The insecurity caused to international capital cannot be eliminated by this speech.
For the Lion City, Chinese capital is also international capital.
In the past, even for international capital giants such as Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Morgan, everyone only knew that Temasek was very well-informed, but they didn't actually know how the information was obtained.
Now I know, you treat China this way, you treat us this way, even if you drain two hundred billion U.S. dollars a month, it is considered a mercy.
Therefore, speeches alone are of no help. They cannot save the financial industry in the Lion City and cannot help the Lion City continue to attract wealthy immigrants from the Asia-Pacific region.
The core engine of economic growth stalled, which had a negative impact on the Lion City's economy. International rating agencies have significantly lowered their GDP growth forecasts for the Lion City, from the original 2.9% to -2%.
The Lion City is facing a chain-like collapse situation, and the entire city is facing an unprecedented crisis.
After the speech, Wang Yikang rushed to hold a press conference in the name of the Lion City. However, the invitations were not mainly European and American financial giants, but tycoons such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as China.
The title on the invitation letter clearly reads: "Witness the New Lion City"
"Renkang, prepare yourself. You will also go to the press conference held by the new cabinet this time," the leader said.
Wang Renkang was surprised. As a Chinese, he was also a newcomer in Lianhe Zaobao. The last time he got the opportunity to attend Wang Yikang's press conference, it was because the time was relatively sensitive at that time and he had the highest safety factor if he went
This time he had calmed down, and he actually had the opportunity to attend the first press conference of the new cabinet. Newcomers rarely get this treatment.
Like last time, this time he also rushed to the scene very early. After observing, he found something strange. All the giants in the construction field of China were here.
China Construction, China Railway, China Railway Construction, etc., Chinese giants whose names are known in China gathered together.
Wang Renkang was thinking, after the financial industry fails, will the Lion City start large-scale infrastructure construction to stimulate the economy?
Wang Renkang felt that he was unlucky enough and chose to work in the Lion City, but this happened. The limit of the Lion City without the financial industry was directly eliminated, and the limit was locked.
Whether this level of economic development can be maintained in the future has become unknown.
He could only be thankful that he had not immigrated and still had room for maneuver.
The financial industry is gone, and the economy relies on infrastructure construction. Seeing that Europe is looking for Chinese companies to build infrastructure, it is not surprising that the Lion City made a similar choice.
After all, there is nothing else in the Lion City. It still has abundant funds. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The end of the Lion City's financial industry is in the progressive tense, not the past perfect tense.
What surprised him even more was that in addition to Wang Yikang, there was also the Alpha Technology brand on the main table of the press conference.
Alpha Technology's LOGO is very famous. After the Lion City incident broke out this time, the original Lion City hoped that Alpha Technology's Hornbill would block relevant content, but Alpha Technology did not accept it.
For a time, Hornbill was unavailable in the Lion City.
Alpha Technology appeared on the main table, even on the left side of Wang Yikang, which made Wang Renkang have a lot of guesses.
As the leading technology giant in Southeast Asia, if Alpha comes out to support the Lion City, it will at least rebuild confidence at the manufacturing level.
The vitality that Alpha brings to the entire Johor Bahru can be seen by anyone who cares.
The South China Morning Post has frequently reported on the rapid development of Johor Bahru. Alpha Technology’s B-side artificial intelligence applications have attracted worldwide attention.
If a factory is built in the Lion City and Alpha Technology can empower it, the economy of the Lion City will not decline rapidly.
Thinking from this perspective, it makes perfect sense for Alpha Technology to be invited as a guest.
Guests arrived one after another, and the entire venue was filled with people, which was in sharp contrast to the sparseness of the last press conference. "Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon everyone.
The last time I held a press conference was a month ago. I am delighted to be here again, this time in a different capacity, as Head of Cabinet. In just one month, we have completed a leadership transition, reassigned public service leaders, and built a core team that has not been abused.
We have to eliminate the bad influence of the past, which is a long and difficult task. It is even more difficult to rebuild the confidence of all sectors of society in the cabinet.
At this point in time, we are faced with an unprecedented problem, which is how to lead the Lion City to move forward.
The Lion City has come a long way. Over the past sixty years, we have made steady progress. The economy is completely transformed. The Lion City is an important regional hub and global node.
But with everything that happens in this month, Lion City will lose its status as a financial hub for a long time, which means that we cannot guarantee the increase in income and the quality of life of people in Lion City - better education, better Health care, better housing and better jobs are all likely to be affected.
The Cabinet has been doing wrong things in the past, and we have corrected past mistakes. We are also facing severe tests. If wrong actions have brought material prosperity to the people of the Lion City, and our efforts to correct the wrong actions will lead to people's lives becoming more difficult, this is unacceptable to this cabinet.
Although this is a price that must be paid for justice and a kind of repayment for the wrong history, as this cabinet, we need to minimize such impact as much as possible, and we need to overcome the possible severe economic recession and regional instability. .
The fundamental question behind this is what we are going to do now, how we are going to do it, and who we are going to work with.
Today I am here to introduce to you the infrastructure stimulus plan of this cabinet: the New Lion City Plan.
We plan to comprehensively expand the area of the Lion City. In the past, the Lion City has been reclaiming land from the sea. When we first gained independence in 1965, the entire Lion City area was only 581.5 square kilometers. In the past sixty years, we have expanded the entire area. It has been expanded to 728.6 square kilometers through land reclamation, and 23% of the current land is obtained from land reclamation.
We plan to invest US$30 billion in the next five years to complete 300 square kilometers of land reclamation and expand the entire Lion City to more than 1,000 square kilometers.
In the past, due to the reclamation of the Lion City, our neighbors Indonesia, Cambodia and Indonesia stopped exporting sand, granite and sea sand, the basic raw materials for the reclamation, to the Lion City.
Because they are worried that the land in the Lion City is growing too fast and will affect the regional balance.
Today I am honored to tell you that we will cooperate with Alpha Technology to use desert sand to build land reclamation factories. ”
The most excited people in the audience were the representatives of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Sand and sand are different. Not all sand can be used as building materials, and not all sand can be used for land reclamation.
Because desert sand is too fine and too smooth, concrete cannot be kneaded and formed with it. Another point is that desert sand has a high alkali content. Salt and alkali are corrosive to the steel bars of buildings and will affect the quality of buildings. stability.
So even though Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both located in desert areas, their buildings have to import river sand from overseas.
As for river sand, the price in China is about more than 100 RMB, but in the Lion City, which has always been imported from Malaysia, the price in the 1990s was US$200 per square meter.
Even at a high price of US$200, Malaysia did not want to sell it to the Lion City. Later, the Lion City had to find other countries to import, including Indonesia and Cambodia. However, the demand in the Lion City was too high, resulting in a shortage of river sand in these two countries. , will also gradually stop supply around 2024.
The lack of river sand will cause a series of environmental problems, and the resulting soil erosion is irreversible in a sense.
The global annual river sand consumption ranges from 32 billion tons to 50 billion tons, while the global annual natural recovery of river sand is only 12 billion tons, which means that 20 billion tons to 38 billion tons of river sand are permanently consumed by humans every year. Sexually consumed.
What does it mean if desert sand can be used? It means that no other objective factors can hinder the process of land reclamation in Lion City.
For desert countries, a major obstacle to building cities has also disappeared.
In the past, river sand had to be imported from overseas as building materials, and the cost of building buildings in the desert was very high. Now, all raw materials can be produced locally.
This is a technology comparable to seawater desalination. The large-scale utilization of desert sand can also help desert countries indirectly control deserts.
Wang Renkang finally understood. This was to bring together technology providers, potential investors, the biggest beneficiaries and the construction team.
The rich people in the desert have the will and funds to support the maturity of this technology. China can provide rapid infrastructure capabilities to help the Lion City complete the grand plan of reclamation of 300 square kilometers in five years, and Alpha Technology’s technology is what makes all this happen. cornerstone.
Come to Huaguo, Huaguo is the best at doing this.
In the past, Wenzhou's Oufei Project hollowed out two mountains for land reclamation. It was divided into three phases and expanded by 200,000 acres, which is roughly equivalent to 150 square kilometers. In the first phase alone, it expanded by 100 square kilometers, which is only It took five years.
Considering that the Oufei Project was launched in 2011, with the advancement of technology and the willingness of the Lion City to provide money, it is not impossible to complete 300 square kilometers of land reclamation in five years.
Although the Lion City cannot expand indefinitely to maintain the existence of the Strait of Malacca, at least this means that the Lion City can transform a country as big as a booger into a country as big as a palm.
In the past 55 years, 143 square kilometers of land were reclaimed from the sea, and Wang Yikang started with a massive project of about 300 square kilometers.
The people present in the Lion City suddenly felt confident again.
Wang Yikang continued:
"For a long time in the past, every take-off of the Lion City has been closely linked to land reclamation. The land reclamation in the 19th century made the City's urban functions richer and its city status more prominent. We have developed from a small fishing village to an English Channel The administrative seat of the colony, transformed from a trading port into a full-fledged colonial city
The reclamation project carried out in Jurong on the west coast of the Lion City in the 1960s made it possible for the Lion City to develop the electronics industry.
With the rapid advancement of reclamation projects, Jurong Industrial Zone had 153 factories in 1968, and the electronics industry has become one of our pillar industries.
In the 1990s, in order to develop the huge crude oil processing industry, we began to merge the seven small islands south of Jurong into one large island - Jurong Island through land reclamation. The completion of Jurong Island helped the Lion City's crude oil processing industry take off rapidly over the next two decades. By 2008, the Lion City was already one of the three largest oil trading and refining centers in the world.
In addition to these projects, Changi Airport and the Marina Bay area are both products of land reclamation. The development of the Lion City is inseparable from land reclamation.
Today, with the increasing development of artificial intelligence, the land we have added after reclamation will not only continue to benefit the general public and build new HDB flats, we will also fully develop the artificial intelligence industry and invest in new generation nuclear power plants to help the Lion City in the future. The future era of artificial intelligence will become one of the industrial centers.
Alpha Technologies will also invest more than US$20 billion to build their global data center in the Lion City. ”
Now the loop is closed. Alpha Technology relies on technology to obtain funds from the Lion City, and then invests these funds in the Lion City to build a data center. It is a pure and profitable business.
Neither Wang Yikang nor the guests here know that the Lion City is destined to become an artificial intelligence center.
(End of chapter)