Chapter 929 Trillion Yuan Yellow River Dredging Project

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Even Ye Zishu didn't expect that the project of sending water from east to west, together with the western development plan, would cause such a big disturbance that almost all the media in the world are rushing to report it.

Although there are not all good words in it, for example, some people think that changing the climate environment may cause greater climate disasters, and think this approach is stupid.

Some people think that this is a waste of money and people. If the funds are used in other fields, the value created will be much higher than the construction of the east-to-west water transmission project.

Some people also think that this will be the biggest mistake made by Kirin Industrial Group. They are blinded by future interests. The reason is that millions of square kilometers of land are too tempting, which leads to irrational decision-making.

Some people also think that Ye Zishu should come out and take care of it, and don't let the management of the company below mess around. Such a project is obviously a trap, and it is likely to make Kirin Industrial Group fall into a slump.

The media who are not optimistic about these projects include both domestic and foreign media, which basically represent the views of a considerable number of people on this matter.

But generally speaking, there are still quite a few media who have an expectation attitude towards this project, occupying the mainstream public opinion, especially for the media in the western region, they are more supportive of this.

No one wants to make their hometown more beautiful and richer, but it is often difficult to change due to insufficient congenital conditions. Now that some companies finally stand up, they seem to see hope.

People who have never been to the arid regions of the west can't imagine how harsh the living environment there is. Even if many people go to the west, they just walk around in the city and can't see the real situation in other places at all.

In many areas, even the water resources for survival are under great threat, let alone the development of agriculture, breeding and industry. These are extravagant hopes.

Kirin Industrial Group did not make any follow-up response to the public opinion from the outside world. They just followed their own plan and pushed forward nervously, using facts to prove that their decision-making was definitely not "losing their minds".

Ye Zishu only paid a little attention to the public opinion here, mainly to see everyone's reaction to this matter, but he would not stop because the public opinion did not support it.

In his opinion, doing this thing can be described as "a lot of money", no matter from which point of view, it is worth doing.

The first is economic benefits. The value of electric energy generated every year is difficult to estimate. The value of these energy sources alone is as high as nearly one billion yuan, and the cost paid is almost negligible.

The second is that Kirin Industrial Group will obtain vast land resources, and casual development can bring at least trillions of yuan in revenue every year. If it is managed well, it is not difficult to earn as much as several trillion yuan.

the most important is,

These originally unusable lands have become fertile land, and the climate is pleasant, which has won more living space for the people of our country.

Then it is conducive to balancing the economic gap between the east and the west. Although it is difficult to achieve an absolute balance, the eastern region has an absolute advantage regardless of geographical conditions, cultural level, talent scale, and population.

But he hopes to achieve a similar level of per capita income, and such a vast land has injected new impetus into the western economy.

Moreover, this project not only turns the land rented by Ye Zishu into fertile land, but other lands with larger areas can also benefit, and the value generated will also increase.

Moreover, these lands are often populated towns, which have inherent advantages in the development of industry and commerce, and their future value will be much higher than that of the land in the hands of Kirin Industrial Group.

In the end, it is not only the northwest region that is affected by climate change, but even Mongolia and other countries in the north will benefit from this, and they will also receive more rainfall, and the green area of ​​the land will inevitably increase further.

In fact, during this period of time, in addition to the non-stop actions of the Kirin Industrial Group, the country is also actively promoting the Yellow River dredging project, which is equally important.

In addition to the climate change in the northwest region, the rainfall will inevitably increase significantly, which will form a very big test for the current carrying capacity of the Yellow River.

Most of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are plain areas. Once the Yellow River floods, it will cause serious floods, and the submerged land must be countless.

The most important thing is that there are still a large number of people living on both sides of the Yellow River, and many cities are also built along the banks of the Yellow River. The problem of the Yellow River must be solved fundamentally.

The best season for the dredging work of the Yellow River is winter, when the water level is very low and the water flow is very slow, which is more conducive to the smooth development of dredging work.

In order to complete the first phase of the Yellow River dredging work as soon as possible, using up to 100,000 large-scale machinery and equipment, Xuanwu Technology Company and Wancheng Jiye also specially developed high-efficiency engineering machinery and equipment for river dredging.

One of the devices is very worthy of attention, that is, the device commonly known as the Super Octopus, because there are 8 huge sand and soil conveying pipes installed on this device.

The longest conveying distance of the pipeline is 2 kilometers, which can directly accumulate the excavated silt within 2 kilometers on both sides of the bank, and then use the soil compacting equipment to compress the loose silt into a firm earthwork.

It also uses the adhesive developed by Wancheng Jiye, which does not pollute the land, but it can make the loose land stronger and form a whole.

If there is excess sand and soil, other mechanical equipment is needed to extend the sand and sand outward. In fact, the width of the Yellow River itself is not very large, and the depth is not very deep.

According to the goal of the first phase of the project, the depth of the Yellow River bed should be excavated to below 15 meters. This depth is not compared with the embankment, but compared with the height of the surrounding land.

Only such a depth can cope with the carrying capacity of the river surge that may occur in the next one or two years. As for whether to continue to dig deeper in the future, it depends on the actual situation.

In addition, it is necessary to expand the width of the river to more than 1 km. In addition to increasing the water carrying capacity, it is also necessary to make the Yellow River an important water transport channel in the north.

This is only the most basic requirement. In fact, the management of the Yellow River is much more complicated, and the amount of engineering is much higher than this. Some small bends need to be straightened directly, which can increase the efficiency of the entire water transportation of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River itself is a river channel formed according to the terrain, and there are many turning places. Just digging these turning channels straight requires a lot of earthwork.

If you encounter rock formations, the excavation cost will be higher. Fortunately, Wancheng Foundation has prepared special excavation equipment for this purpose, and ordinary rock formations can also be easily excavated.

The entire length of the Yellow River is more than 5,400 kilometers. The entire project was contracted to Wancheng Jiye. The first phase of the project was contracted at a price of 200 million yuan per kilometer, and the total value of the project was more than 1 trillion yuan.

Don't think that the price is very high. In fact, if it is done by other companies, the cost will be at least twice as high as this. The cost of earthwork alone is very high.

It was also after taking over the Yellow River treatment project that Wancheng Foundation developed a lot of special river dredging engineering machinery, and Ye Zishu also provided a lot of technology for this.

The value of the octopus dredging equipment mentioned above is as high as 10 billion yuan, the displacement is as high as 100,000 tons, and the volume of earthwork that can be excavated is 1 million cubic meters per hour.

The total earthwork volume of the first phase of the Yellow River Harness Project is about 40 billion cubic meters, and one piece of such equipment needs to work for 4,000 hours, which takes about 1,667 days, or more than 4 years.

Before that, Wancheng Jiye was given three years to dredge, but according to the current plan, the plan needs to be advanced, and they plan to complete the main dredging work within one year.

Therefore, they produced 5 sets of such equipment and started construction in sections. The value of these 5 sets of equipment alone is as high as 50 billion yuan. If they are rented, it will cost tens of millions of yuan per hour.

In addition to this giant super equipment, there are countless other equipment, large and small, most of which are large equipment, and the value is also high.

Moreover, the management of the Yellow River is not just about digging earth, but also needs to restore the ecology of the riverbed, otherwise it will cause a large number of Yellow River organisms to face crisis.

At the same time, it is also necessary to carry out water and soil conservation operations within 2 kilometers around the banks of the Yellow River, and the effect will be seen in a short period of time. This task alone costs a lot of money.

Fortunately, these devices are not disposable. After they are used up here, they can be used in other places. Otherwise, it is not cost-effective at all. The value of these devices alone is almost 700 billion yuan.

Soil and water conservation and ecological restoration business is subcontracted to Kylin Environmental Industry Group, they are quite good at doing this business, and Kylin Agricultural Development Group provides some technical support.

And this part of the cost is as high as 200 billion yuan, so Wancheng Foundation did not make much money from it. If other companies contract it, they will only lose money to grandma's family.

The main reason is that the cost of water and soil conservation on the Loess Plateau is very high, and the largest source of sediment in the Yellow River is the Loess Plateau. To make the Yellow River clearer and no longer blocked by sediment, it is necessary to properly control the Loess Plateau.

The management of the Loess Plateau is another project. In addition to getting a sum of money from Wancheng Jiye, we can also get additional funds from the government, otherwise the funds may not be enough.

If the first phase of the project is completed on schedule, the annual runoff of the Yellow River will increase from the current 50 billion cubic meters to more than 500 billion cubic meters, and the water carrying capacity will increase by 10 times, reaching more than half of the annual runoff of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, it can realize the navigation of the whole river basin, and the value of water transportation alone is inestimable. The bulk commodities in the northwest region can be transported to all parts of the world in a cheap way.

Most of the river sections can also realize the passage of 10,000-ton ships, which will drive the development of the cities and ports around the Yellow River and promote the prosperity of the cities along the river. This is a real benefit.

However, this is only the treatment of the main stream of the Yellow River. To truly organize the Yellow River, it is necessary to control the various tributaries of the Yellow River to form an overall healthy water system network and completely solve the thousand-year-old problem in the Yellow River Basin.

However, it is still unclear how much runoff each tributary will have next, and it is not easy to evaluate the data for the time being, so there is no relevant dredging plan for the time being.

In addition, Qilin Agricultural Development Group also wants to dig some river systems on the land they leased to connect the places that may form water ponds in the territory.

Otherwise, once large-scale rainfall occurs, it is easy to cause large-scale waterlogging disasters, which is extremely unfavorable to agricultural development. Moreover, if inland lakes do not communicate with external water systems for a long time, it is easy to form saltwater lakes.

However, this will be a long-term plan, so there is no need to worry for now, because it will take at least five years to transform these desert lands, and hydrological observations will also be required during this period.

Ye Zishu is more concerned about Lop Nur, because the water in Lop Nur has no waterways to flow out, and the water evaporates a lot, so it is a proper saltwater lake.

If Lop Nur is a saltwater lake, the benefits will be much worse. Such a lake cannot be irrigated. If it flows in the opposite direction with other rivers, it will pollute other lands and cause more salinized land.

He needs to find a way to reduce the salt content of the relatively closed waters of Lop Nur, and to form new economic crops to generate more value.

During this time, he also spent some time researching this issue, and produced a lot of salt-absorbing plants, not only able to absorb the highest content of sodium and chlorine, but also other elements.

And these aquatic plants can be salvaged for special processing and made into carbon industrial raw materials and other industrial raw materials. This can not only keep the water in Lop Nur fresh, but also generate considerable economic benefits.

Moreover, these aquatic plants live in Lop Nur and can also purify the water quality, allowing more aquatic animals to obtain a better living environment. The fish and shrimp products that eat these aquatic plants have a very unique taste.

It is even possible to breed some special fish and shrimp products, which are between marine fish and freshwater fish, and can obtain good economic value of fish by virtue of their unique taste.

Leaf Book has also put a lot of effort into this aspect, and has come up with hundreds of improved and creative special aquatic plant species, with the purpose of making the water ecosystem more complete and complex.

In addition, he also deliberately developed many improved fish species and creatively developed new fish species, corresponding to these aquatic plants, and their food is these aquatic plants.

In fact, some of these aquatic plants can be used for food, they taste very good, and can also obtain good economic income.

At present, these technologies have been handed over to Qilin Agricultural Development Group. They are responsible for turning these things into reality. After the east water is sent to the waters along the way for replenishment, they can be implemented immediately.

There are mainly a few places along the way that need a lot of water replenishment. The first one is Lop Nur. If you want to restore the area of ​​Dayu's water control, the total amount of water injection needs to be as high as 400 billion cubic meters.

In the later stage, it is only necessary to inject a certain amount of water every year to replenish the evaporated water. Of course, now that conditions permit, the water area can be appropriately expanded, which is more beneficial to the ecology of the entire Tarim Basin.

The second is Aydin Lake. Aydin Lake is very deep, with the lowest point below 100 meters above sea level. If the injected water is at the same height as the sea level, the water area will reach 3,400 square kilometers.

If you want to achieve the ideal state, you only need to replenish 300 billion cubic meters at most, and then you only need to replenish the evaporated water, and you only need to replenish 3 billion cubic meters per year to maintain it.

The third is the Hami Basin, with an estimated water area of ​​about 2,000 square kilometers. To achieve the ideal water area, less than 400 billion cubic meters of water needs to be injected.

In order to replenish the amount of water evaporated every year, about 4 billion cubic meters of fresh water needs to be injected every year, which is obviously not a problem either.

The fourth place is Yezhuze between Jilin Badan and Tengger Desert. The total amount of water replenishment here is much smaller, but it can affect the climate and environment of the deserts on both sides, which is particularly important.

The above are just a few relatively large places. There are many other places that need to be replenished. The entire western part should be turned into a land of thousands of lakes and a water system network covering the entire region should be formed.

Once such a network is formed, the climate of the entire Northwest will be completely changed, the air will become more and more humid, and the annual rainfall will gradually increase.

If the rainfall technology is combined with a reasonable allocation of rainfall, the entire western region will become a smooth and rainy south of the Yangtze River. It is exciting to think about it.

If necessary, it can continue to extend to the Qaidam Basin to the south to solve the water shortage problem in the Qaidam Desert, and even turn some low-lying areas of the Qaidam Basin into plateau water towers.

Going west, you can follow the east-west corridor of the Tarim Basin to replenish clean water resources for the settlements and cities along the route, and finally reach Ks, and then let the water flow along the Tarim River to Lop Nur.

Crossing the Tianshan Mountains to the north and entering the northern Xinjiang region, it can not only replenish fresh water resources for the cities in northern Xinjiang, but also provide ecological water replenishment for the Zhungeer Basin, turning the Gurbantunggut Desert into an oasis and fertile land.

Since northern Xinjiang has a lot of high-altitude water vapor from the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, if artificial rainfall operations are carried out here, the effect will be better.

It can be said that the east-to-west water transmission project carried out by Kirin Industrial Group is the lifeline of water resources in the entire northwest region, and its ecological influence on the northwest is definitely far beyond what the author said.

Moreover, in addition to being evaporated to form rainfall, a large amount of water will converge to the Yellow River along the natural channel, increasing the annual runoff of the Yellow River and making the Yellow River the lifeline of transportation for navigation throughout the basin.

Thinking about these great prospects, I feel that it is worthwhile to spend such a large amount of money and energy. This is also a landmark project for humans to truly participate in transforming nature.

It shows that we humans are no longer just passively adapting to the natural environment, but can also transform and influence nature to some extent, and turn the original barren land into a place suitable for survival.

Isn't this what the development of human science and technology is for? If technology cannot improve human survivability, technology will lose its due role.

Seeing that the subordinate companies are carrying out all the tasks in an orderly manner, Ye Zishu is mostly relieved. He only needs to come up with ideas and provide technical support, and let him worry as little as possible about other aspects. This is his satisfied state.

The new annual report of the subsidiary company will be released soon, and some matters on hand must be settled, otherwise they will be left until the next year, so there is still a lot of work to be done.