Chapter 562: The Three Gorges Project of the Century!

Chapter 562 The Project of the Century—Three Gorges!

Huang Wanli was also stunned.

Among the opposition, Li Rui and Huang Wanli are typical representatives.

Huang Wanli is the son of Huang Yanpei, a Chinese educator, industrialist, politician and one of the main founders of the China Democratic Alliance. He has an extraordinary background. Huang Wanli went to the United States to study in 1934, received a master's degree from Cornell University in 1935, and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1937. He was the first Chinese to receive a doctorate in American factories.

In 1945, Huang Wanli served as an inspection engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of China. From 1947 to April 1949, he served as director and chief engineer of the Long Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau and a member of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission. In 1949, he served as a consultant to the Northeast Water Conservancy Administration. After the founding of the Republic, he taught at Tangshan Jiaotong University. In 1953, he was transferred to Tsinghua University to teach. In the following years, he wrote important academic monographs "Flood Estimation" and "Engineering Hydrology". In 1974, he completed "On Strategies for the Management of the Yellow River".

Now he not only teaches at Tsinghua University, but also serves as the director of the Department of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering at Southwest Associated University.

He opposed the construction of the Three Gorges Dam for many reasons, one of which was financial resources.

Our country's financial resources are not strong now. It has been less than ten years since the reform and opening up. Although the country has developed very rapidly, its foundation is still too weak. The first reason why he opposed the construction of the Three Gorges Dam was because he believed that the construction of the Three Gorges Dam Dams are a huge expense for China. It is recommended to build the Tiger Leaping Gorge Hydropower Station first, and then talk about the Three Gorges Dam.

Now that Liu Tao has raised the issue of money, there is no need to discuss many objections.

"If this is the case, then the Three Gorges Project will start!"

After that, the meeting was not about the pros and cons of the construction of the Three Gorges Project, or whether to build it or not, but how to build it, how to organize immigrants, how to protect cultural relics, etc.

The total investment in the project has also continued to rise, reaching a full 250 billion yuan!

There is no doubt that the Three Gorges Project has become the project of the century.

Not long after, the state established the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, which consisted of three agencies: the office, the Immigration and Development Bureau, and the China Three Gorges Project Development Corporation.

It will be submitted to the National People's Congress for deliberation next year.

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"Can you afford such a large investment? Don't forget, you have launched four major hydropower station projects on the Jinsha River at the same time, and the investment is also very large. Don't be so overjoyed that your capital chain will be broken."

Although the four major hydropower projects on the Jinsha River are not as eye-catching as the Three Gorges Project, they are still huge projects and the project of the century.

Will Panshan Group suffer a financial breakdown and go bankrupt?

They saw Liu Tao's vision. From the beginning, Liu Tao built reservoirs and hydropower stations in Yun Province, thus meeting the irrigation needs, water needs and power supply needs of Yun Province. Later, reservoirs and hydropower stations were built throughout the southwest. As a result, while the southwest has developed rapidly in recent years, there has been no power shortage, and now there is more power to transmit electricity to the outside world.

Although the price of electricity transmitted from the Southwest Power Grid is not cheap, it is undoubtedly a life-saving straw for provinces like Guangdong, which urgently need electricity for industry.

But just this year, while the Panshan Group launched the four major hydropower stations on the Jinsha River, it once again had to support the construction costs of the Three Gorges Project. Even though the Panshan Group has a big business, it is doubtful whether it can sustain it.

If the Panshan Group's capital chain is broken, the losses outweigh the gains.

"Leader, we still have the money." Liu Tao smiled, "Last year, our profits from the major banks in Hong Kong exceeded 100 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the profits from the Hong Kong industry, which were attributed to the parent company, exceeded 100 billion yuan."

Liu Tao said: "Furthermore, during the financial crisis that just occurred, we made a lot of gains, and the profit is enough to support these major projects, which is more than enough."

"Oh? Didn't you suffer heavy losses? Why did you gain so much?"

Liu Tao explained: "We made a total of 150 billion U.S. dollars from short selling."

"What? Fifty billion dollars!?"

According to data released by China, China's total GDP last year was 1.0376 billion yuan. According to the exchange rate, 1 US dollar = 3.7211 yuan, which is almost 278.8 billion US dollars.

150 billion US dollars, already more than half of the GDP announced last year.

"You are robbing the whole world!"

Liu Tao smiled: "Now that oil prices are soaring, the manufacturing industry in Europe and the United States is growing extremely slowly, and is even retreating. However, their stock markets are making great progress, and have at least doubled in just a few years. Everyone in the United States knows that the United States is not living well." It’s easy, but the U.S. stock market has nearly tripled in just a few years. This is a big bubble.”

"All kinds of hot money continue to flow into the United States, enter the U.S. stock market, and increase the market value of the U.S. stock market. Anyone who is rational can know that there is a problem." Liu Tao said with certainty: "Of course, I won the bet this time. , If you lose the bet, the loss will be huge.”

If you win the bet, you will naturally gain a lot of profits.

If you lose the bet, you will naturally suffer heavy losses.

All the capital will be lost directly, and at least it will take a few years of hard work.

"Do you think the current situation makes it possible for the S3 season to start?"

The start of the S3 season has become a hot topic during this period.

Because of Super Black Monday, people can’t help but think of Super Black Monday in 1929.

The super Black Monday in the United States in 1929 triggered a global financial crisis, which spread and led to the outbreak of World War II.

And you have to know that it took only ten years from the economic crisis in 1929 to the outbreak of World War II.

This has to make people worry.

"It is unlikely. The Americans are facing various troubles now. If they trigger the S3 season, they may lose miserably to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is now in a fierce power struggle among the upper echelons and has no intention of looking out. The Soviet Union did not choose Europe as a breakthrough point, but Afghanistan as a breakthrough point, which shows that the Soviet Union did not want to trigger the arrival of the S3 season. It was impossible back then, and it is even more impossible now!" Liu Tao analyzed.

Liu Tao said: "Of course, if the S3 season breaks out, our situation will be much better than before 1979. Even if we refer to the outbreak time of World War II, if we are given ten years, we will be much stronger than now, and there is a possibility of competing with each other at that time."

Nodding slightly.

Now both the Soviet Union and the United States are more restrained, and their strategic determination is much stronger than ever before. It is not clear that the two countries want to trigger the S3 season.

As long as the Soviet Union and the United States don't want to, then wars in other places will at most be local wars, and they can't be called S3 season at all.

And he also agreed with what Liu Tao said, China is very fast in equipment updates, and the current loss is only in the inventory.

And in just ten years, by then, the weapons and equipment of the Chinese army will be much better than the current situation, at least there will be thousands of new tanks and armored vehicles.