Chapter 827 The Trend of the Times

The Yellow River is the mother river of China.

In order to protect the Yellow River, improve the ecological environment, reduce natural disasters and maintain living space, the country launched the "Three Norths" shelterbelt project in 1979 and listed this project as an important project of national economic construction.

The "Three Norths" shelterbelt project refers to a large-scale artificial forestry ecological project built in the three northern regions of China (Northwest, North China and Northeast China). The project planning period is 70 years and it is carried out in eight phases.

1979-1999 is the first phase, divided into three phases. 1979-1984 is the first phase, 1985-1994 is the second phase, 1995-1999 is the third phase;

2000-2019 is the second phase, divided into two phases. 2000-2009 is the fourth phase, 2010-2019 is the fifth phase;

2020-2049 is the third phase, divided into three phases. The sixth phase of the project will be from 2020 to 2029, the seventh phase from 2030 to 2039, and the eighth phase from 2040 to 2049.

The entire "Three Norths" shelterbelt system starts from Bin County, Heilongjiang Province in the east, and ends at the Uzebir Pass in Xiyu Province in the west. It reaches the northern border in the north, and the Haihe River, Yongding River, Fen River, Weihe River, the lower reaches of Tao River, and Karakoram Mountains in the south. It includes 550 counties (banners, regions, and cities) in 13 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, including Xiyu Province, QH Province, and Gansu Province, with a total area of ​​4.069 million square kilometers and a planned afforestation of 535 million mu. By 2050, the forest coverage rate in the Three Norths will increase from 5.05% in 1979 to 15.95%.

The Three Norths are home to China's eight deserts, four sandy lands and vast Gobi deserts, with a total area of ​​1.49 million square kilometers, accounting for about 85% of the country's wind-sand land, forming a 10,000-mile wind-sand line from Heilongjiang Province in the east to Xiyu Province in the west. This region suffers from severe wind erosion and sand burial, and frequent sandstorms. In the nearly 20 years from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, 6.69 million hectares of land were desertified, more than 13 million hectares of farmland were harmed by wind and sand, grain production was low and unstable, more than 10 million hectares of grassland were seriously degraded due to sandification and salinization, and hundreds of reservoirs became sand reservoirs.

According to surveys, in the 1950s and 1960s, desertified land in the Three Norths expanded by 1,560 square kilometers per year; in the 1970s and early 1980s, desertified land expanded by 2,100 square kilometers per year.

In most parts of the Three Norths, annual precipitation is less than 400 mm, and natural disasters such as drought are very serious. The area of ​​soil erosion in the Three Norths region has reached 554,000 square kilometers (water erosion area). The soil erosion in the Loess Plateau is particularly serious. Every year, more than 10,000 tons of soil is lost per square kilometer, which is equivalent to scraping off 1 cm of topsoil. The Yellow River flows through Sanmenxia every year. 1.6 billion tons of sediment, making the riverbed of the lower reaches of the Yellow River silted up by an average of 400 million cubic meters of sediment every year. In some sections of the lower reaches, the riverbed is 10 meters above the ground, becoming a "hanging river" on the ground. The mother river has become a thorn in the side of the Chinese nation.

In addition to the "Three Norths" shelterbelt project, which is used to improve the environment and reduce soil erosion, the development and management of the Yellow River has never been interrupted since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

For example, the Sanmenxia Water Conservancy Project, which is located in the lower reaches of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, connects Henan and Shanxi provinces, and controls a basin area of ​​91.5% of the total basin area of ​​the Yellow River, 89% of the water flow, and 98% of the sediment flow. The project started in April 1957 and was completed and put into use in April 1961.

In addition, the Sanshenggong Yellow River Water Conservancy Project, Qingtongxia Water Conservancy Project, Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, Yanguoxia Hydropower Station, Yellow River Tianqiao Hydropower Station, Bapanxia Hydropower Station, Daxia Hydropower Station, and the Longyangxia Hydropower Station, which has just been put into use, have been built.

The Lijiaxia Hydropower Station and Wanjiazhai Hydropower Project are just about to be built, and the Xiaolangdi Hydropower Project of the Yellow River has just been put into construction.

The Gongboxia Hydropower Station and Laxiwa Hydropower Station are also being demonstrated or designed.

Of course, compared with the funds invested by Panshan Group, the funds invested by the state are much less, and the scale and influence are far less than the Three Gorges Project and the four major hydropower stations on the Jinsha River.

Liu Tao took advantage of this time to inspect the reservoirs and hydropower stations that were under construction or had been built. Most of them were fine, but there were still some dangerous ones. Liu Tao repaired these problems calmly.

On this day, Liu Tao met a celebrity in Kun City-Boss Zong.

Liu Tao would not worship Boss Zong, but he had to say that he was a ruthless person.

Through various means, he made all the money into his own pocket. Other governments, foreign capital, shareholding employees, etc. were all chess pieces in the hands of Boss Zong. He used, balanced, attacked, and other means to perfection.

When Liu Tao traveled through time, the Ha Wawa Group had become a family business of the Zong family.

Boss Zong still wanted to get a good reputation after his death.

Liu Tao no longer had the joy he felt when he first met a celebrity, because he was now standing on a high place.

No matter how hard these people worked, they were far inferior to him.

However, by now, China has changed a lot, and a large number of private entrepreneurs have emerged, many of whom have never been heard of or seen.

There are also some trendsetters of the times that Liu Tao knows, but so far they have not been seen or heard of.

In this regard, it can be said that the times create heroes, or heroes create the times.

The two are entangled and constantly evolving.

In this era of turbulent change, anyone who dares to fight, fight and take risks may make a name for himself.

They may not be the trendsetters in his memory, but others.

For example, among the large number of private entrepreneurs that have emerged, at least 70% are not in Liu Tao's memory.

Perhaps they are low-key and unknown, or perhaps they seize the opportunity to stand out in this era.

For example, in the past ten years, Huaxia University has been expanding its enrollment. At least millions of people have gone to college and hundreds of thousands of people have gone abroad to study. It is unknown how many of them have changed their destiny, but it is definitely not less.

The times are changing.

The wheel of history is moving forward, but society is always changing.

What Liu Tao finds interesting is that within one day, he not only met Boss Zong, but also a celebrity, Boss Mou!

This one has also made a name for himself. In the trade with the north, this one is also a part of it, and the trade is not small.

However, compared with Boss Zong, he is a little behind, not in ability, but in character.

Boss Zong is very low-key at present, but Boss Mou is very flamboyant, wishing that the whole country knew that he was rich.

This kind of personality is very easy to suffer a big loss.

If you are not careful, you will fall.

Even if he is arrested again, it is very normal.

In this era, many private entrepreneurs, if you really want to investigate, cannot withstand investigation. Some of them were previously registered under the name of state-owned enterprises, or managed state-owned enterprises and later contracted them, and reformed state-owned enterprises into collectives through means, and then became major shareholders, or used money to register a company in Hong Kong, and acquired state-owned enterprises through this Hong Kong company.

Moreover, many people have a very guaranteed concept of tax, and they don’t need to start from other aspects, just directly from the tax aspect, which basically cannot withstand investigation.