Rebirth of a technological power

In the past two years, there have been many big moves along the eastern coast.

Coastal cities that are short of water will directly build desalination plants with a capacity of 1 to 2 million tons per day; cities with less urgent needs will build desalination plants with a capacity of 100,000 to 500,000 tons per day.

The largest ones are undoubtedly the core areas of the Yangtze River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta.

The Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan are the three largest urban agglomerations in China. They play a vital role in China's economy and industry. All four first-tier cities are located in these three urban agglomerations.

In the Pearl River Delta, several large-scale desalination plants have been established, with a total capacity of 10 million tons per day, supplying various cities in the entire Pearl River Delta as well as Hong Kong and Macau.

In the Yangtze River Delta, a super-large seawater desalination plant has been built in Hangzhou Bay, with a total capacity of 10 million tons per day, supplying several core cities such as Shanghai.

Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan have built several large-scale seawater desalination plants with a total capacity of 30 million tons per day to solve the drinking water dilemma in North China.

Now the first phase of these desalination plants has basically been completed, directly allowing China to rank first in the world in terms of seawater desalination capacity.

With the completion of desalination plants one after another, it will mean that coastal areas will get rid of the bottleneck of water resources.

The world has only seen that China's economy has made world-renowned achievements since the reform and opening up, which can be called an economic miracle, but it has not seen the price China has paid for this.

A group of people get old before they get rich. When they were young, they used their own blood and sweat to support China's industrialization. Before they had time to enjoy it, they were already old and died.

There is also environmental damage, serious soil erosion, serious air pollution, and shocking water pollution.

Although huge human, material and financial resources have been invested in governance over the years, governance cannot be eliminated overnight.

For example, when it comes to water pollution, surface water has become cleaner, but groundwater pollution cannot be solved in a short time. Many cities have abundant groundwater, but this groundwater cannot be used as drinking water.

The large-scale construction of seawater desalination plants is the most powerful weapon to solve the shortage of water resources.

When the leader heard this, he also showed a bright smile.

"You are right, everything is getting better for us and everything will come true." The leader looked into the distance and said with confidence.

Over the years, he has been conducting inspections across the country to understand the real situation. Naturally, he has also visited desalination plants.

He saw that a steady stream of seawater was filtered and turned into fresh water, which reached first-class drinking water standards and was connected to the tap water system.

And because of seawater desalination plants, many places are carrying out cross-regional water transfer.

In the past, a province focused on developing one or two cities, which not only favored funds and policies, but also favored resources. Water is a type of resource, and naturally it is no exception.

Other places can cut off water and power, but this cannot be done in cities that focus on development. We must do everything possible to ensure water and electricity in key development cities.

But now that there are desalination plants, there is no need to transfer so much water across regions, and more water can be allocated to other places.

"I believe that in a few years, earth-shaking changes will take place here, and it will no longer be a vast desert!" the leader thought.

The continuous water does not directly enter the tank area for irrigation.

Because they are all deserts, no tank areas have yet been formed.

This water enters a basin, which forms a natural reservoir, and is first stored here.

When the basin is full, it will continue to flow downstream through spillways and water conveyance culverts, forming a reservoir at the next location.

Stepped reservoirs have been continuously formed. The total storage capacity of these 10 large reservoirs exceeds 5 billion cubic meters of water.

Eventually the water poured into the Tarim Basin, forming a huge Tarim Lake.

The Tarim Basin is also an important node in this desert transformation.

It would be many years before the Tarim Basin formed Tarim Lake.

The climate change of the entire region is formed through Tarim Lake and then gradually spreads.

"Yes, in just a few years, this place will become Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall." Cai Jin said solemnly.

This century project requires a huge amount of financial resources, as well as a huge amount of manpower.

The thought of a construction team of millions of people is terrifying.

In the world, only China has such organizational and mobilization capabilities.

Millions of construction workers and tens of thousands of engineering vehicles are running across the vast land.

A huge project involving all aspects.

For example, the Tarim Basin produces natural gas, but for the sake of the entire project, natural gas extraction here is making corresponding changes.

If this century project fails, then even with China's current size, it will have to regain its strength.

It can be said that this century project must not fail and cannot afford to fail.

Back at Future Technology Group, standing on the roof of the headquarters building, Cai Jin looked at the entire new city.

Unlike high-rise buildings in other places, there are no buildings with hundreds of floors in the entire coastal new city. Buildings with 50 floors are considered high-rise buildings.

Relying on the Future Technology Group, the entire coastal new city can almost change with each passing day and continue to extend outwards.

Last year, the revenue of Future Technology Group alone exceeded 2 trillion yuan.

Just here in Haibin New City, Future Technology Group has more than 70,000 employees.

Based on the calculation of a family of three, that means 210,000 people are involved!

The Chengdu production base and the Northeast production base have also reached their design peaks.

Nowadays, there are many new energy vehicles running on the road.

By this year, China's annual production of new energy vehicles will exceed 10 million.

The number of new energy vehicles sold domestically has exceeded 5 million, and the number of new energy vehicles exported has also exceeded 5 million.

The production capacity of new energy vehicles is climbing very fast, much faster than previous research and survey predictions.

Future Technology Group puts more than 1.5 million entry-level and above intelligent mechanical dogs on the market every year.

Just this year, Cai Jin put a bionic robot on the market.

This robot is divided into several sections, such as a medical section and a chef section. The medical section can see and take care of people, while the chef section can cook and cook.

As for industrial-grade robots, Cai Jin has not launched them.

Otherwise, once it is launched, it is estimated that a large number of people around the world will be replaced by robots.

But even so, the investment in new bionic robots has still begun to make many people unemployed.

Some people even predict that industries such as nannies, tutors, and education and training will soon be eliminated.

Since Cai Jin launched the bionic robot, the first majors to be eliminated were translation and foreign language majors, and even such teachers were eliminated in just a few years.

After all, with bionic robots, except for a few very professional translation vocabulary, other bionic robots can play a very good role.

Cai Jin stood on the top of the building and looked around. What he saw was bright lights. In fact, it was no different from the city.

It’s just that this city is more rationally planned.

Spacious roads, ample green belts, a large number of mountain forest protection areas, and a large number of lakes exist in this city.

But what used to be villages is now residential areas or shopping malls.

Cai Jin's eyes seemed to have traveled through time and space and saw the future.

arrive home.

Nie Xiaoyu was sitting cross-legged on the sofa watching TV.

"Is your son sleeping?" Cai Jin changed his shoes.

"The little guy, go to sleep when you are tired from playing." Nie Xiaoyu said.

Cai Jin went to take a shower, changed into home clothes, went downstairs in slippers, and sat down next to Nie Xiaoyu.

Nie Xiaoyu's long legs were on Cai Jin's thighs.

"Why are you back so soon?" Nie Xiaoyu asked.

She originally thought that Cai Jin would come back in a few days.

Nie Xiaoyu saw Cai Jin on the seven o'clock news these days.

In the past few years, as his knowledge has improved, Nie Xiaoyu has gradually developed the habit of watching CCTV's seven o'clock news.

To ordinary people, these seven news reports either report on national peace and prosperity, or report on conflicts and riots occurring abroad. They are boring.

But for many people, they will insist on watching the seven o'clock news, because in this era of information overflow, false things far outweigh the real information. Many self-media information sources are messy, and the clickbait parties are becoming more and more upright. ', and the Seven O'clock News is real news and is subject to strict review.

It is no exaggeration to say that Seven O'Clock News is the most objective and authentic news platform in the world.

Many major policies will appear on the seven o'clock news.

"The main thing has been done, so I will come back naturally." Cai Jin said.

"There have been a lot of reports about this century project in the past few days. CCTV has directly released a series of documentaries and special reports to track it. No one expected that one-third of the project has been completed in just two years." Nie Xiaoyupo In amazement.

Unconsciously, two years have passed, but it seems that earth-shaking changes have taken place.

The country was preoccupied with economic development, but relied on large-scale investment to take the lead in getting out of the quagmire and led to the economic revitalization of many countries.

Many overseas countries have been having a hard time in the past few years. The country has gone bankrupt and the currency has devalued thousands of times and tens of thousands of times. There have even been turbulences in some countries. Government armed forces and rebels have been fighting fiercely. So far, no one has emerged victorious. burden.

The United States has shrunk its strategy and abandoned military bases one after another. However, even so, Mexico has not yet seen a trend of calming down.

All kinds of refugees continue to pour into the long border.

As for South America, things are not too calm either.

Fortunately, there has been no turmoil yet and the situation is still under control.

"When this project is completed in the future, I will take you to see it in person. Only when you see it in person will you be truly shocked." Cai Jin smiled: "This project is groundbreaking."

"Then you can go traveling. If you don't go and see it, maybe there will be no desert in the future. If you want to see it, you have to go abroad." Nie Xiaoyu nodded repeatedly.

"That's not the case. The desert will definitely not be completely eliminated within 20 years. It is estimated that it will take forty to fifty years until the desert is completely eliminated." Cai Jin shook his head. The self-media is very exaggerated now, as if desertification can be eliminated in the next second.

In fact, it is not that fast.

Even climate change happens step by step and happens slowly.

The two of them chatted and watched variety shows.

The variety show Nie Xiaoyu watched was a variety show about emotions. They were all famous stars in the past but are no longer famous. They are also the so-called 'has-been stars'. These have-been stars talk about the stories that happened to them. Sing and dance.

By now, live streaming has basically finished.

Because Douyin’s beauty features are ineffective in front of the intelligent mechanical dog, many people discovered that the originally beautiful female Internet celebrity was actually a man disguised as a woman, or just an aunt. This simply subverted people’s three views and felt nausea.

There are also many live broadcasts selling goods, which are full of fakes and false propaganda, and they have all been spotted one by one.

What is popular now is the Metaverse, which can be entered through mobile phones, smart mechanical dogs and other devices, and then there are artificial intelligence NPCs to introduce the products, so that people can have a clearer understanding of all aspects of the products.

However, Douyin is still very much alive and well. It is truly spread all over the world, and the quality of its content has improved much higher than before.

For example, many people can learn about the food, scenery, religion, etc. of people from different countries through Douyin.

In terms of film and television, many changes have also taken place.

For example, 360-degree photography without blind spots, holographic projection, etc.

In cinemas, a small number of VR movie halls have begun to appear, where you can watch VR movies.

Of course, as long as you have VR equipment, you can watch VR movies at home.

For example, in this variety show, there is a duet with a deceased star.

Stars who died one after another seemed to be resurrected directly.

This is the application of technology.

Technology has made breakthroughs in leaps and bounds over the past few years.

Artificial intelligence, quantum computers, quantum communications, new materials, new energy

More and more people recognize that we are now in the fourth industrial revolution.

The disruptive improvements brought about by the fourth industrial revolution will exceed the first industrial revolution, the second industrial revolution, and the third industrial revolution combined.

Of course, some people do not agree that we are in the fourth industrial revolution, because there are no obvious changes in energy, and petrochemical energy is still in the dominant position. For those who hold this view, unless humans achieve controllable nuclear fusion technology , otherwise it would not be considered entering the fourth industrial revolution.

Controlled nuclear fusion technology has been hailed as forever for fifty years.

As for when a breakthrough will be achieved, no one knows.

Cai Jin and Nie Xiaoyu watched the variety show and chatted casually. Unknowingly, it was already 12 o'clock in the evening.

Cai Jin directly picked up Nie Xiaoyu and headed upstairs to the master bedroom.

With their son now ready for kindergarten, they can start planning for a second child.

At this point, it is natural to have a good child.

Anyway, given their conditions, they can afford to raise more children.