Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 915 New Town Construction Planning

  Newport is located in the east of the Northern Territory, relatively close to the hinterland of the Northern Territory and close to Queensland. It is a natural deep-water port.

  The reason why the new port was able to be built in just two years is mainly due to the terrain here. The construction of the entire new port requires very little reclamation. Basically, as long as it is built according to the terrain, it will become a perfect and excellent port.

   And most importantly, this is a natural haven, even if a typhoon strikes, it will not be affected by it.

  Newport is much better than Darwin in other aspects except for its strategic location, which is not as good as Darwin Port.

  Newport is not only far from the US and Australian garrison bases, but also very close to Queensland.

  Queensland is one of the six states in Australia, covering an area of ​​about 1.7 million square kilometers, accounting for about 20% of the Australian mainland. It is the second largest state in Australia after Western Australia.

  In addition to being as rich in mineral resources as the Northern Territory, Queensland's agriculture and animal husbandry are much more developed than the Northern Territory. The Darling Prairie in southeastern Queensland is famous for its black land, which is the main production area for wheat and barley.

   Today's major agricultural production areas in Queensland have basically been acquired by Yang Chen. Queensland has a population of nearly 4 million, 30 to 40 times more than the Northern Territory.

  If the Northern Territory wants to develop rapidly in the future, it cannot only rely on the Chinese themselves, but also needs assistance from other places.

  The closest to the Northern Territory are Queensland and Western Australia. Although Western Australia has a vast land, one state occupies one-third of the total area of ​​Australia, which is equivalent to the size of the entire Western Europe.

   But Western Australia, like the Northern Territory, is rich in minerals, but sparsely populated, with a population only half that of Queensland.

   In the future economic development of the Northern Territory, Queensland is obviously able to provide more resources than Western Australia.

The resources here do not only refer to mine resources, but mainly urban resources. Australia is vast and sparsely populated, and most of the urban population is concentrated in coastal areas. The most populous and economically developed cities in Australia, the top three are Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

  The two cities of Sydney and Melbourne have a combined population of more than 40% of the total population of Australia. Both cities have developed economies, but both cities are located on the southeast coast, far from the Northern Territory.

  Sydney and Melbourne cannot be counted on. Brisbane, which ranks third in population, is much closer to the Northern Territory and the new city than the previous two cities.

  The eldest and the second are wealthy and hard to buy, but the third is different. Later generations know a lot about Sydney and Melbourne, but very few know about Brisbane.

  A soldier who doesn’t want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a city that doesn’t want to be the first is not a good city. Sydney and Melbourne have good economic development and there is no shortage of investment, but Brisbane is definitely lacking.

   In this way, Yang Chen wants to use Brisbane to develop a new city, and it is much simpler. With the help of Queensland, the construction of the new city can naturally be accelerated a bit.

   Of course, it is not an easy task to develop a new city into a city capable of accommodating millions of people, and several rigid requirements are very important.

   First, electricity is inseparable from industry.

   Second, water resources are inseparable from human beings.

   Third, traffic.

   First, the electricity required by industry, a modern city is absolutely inseparable from electricity.

   However, electricity is easy to solve. The Northern Territory is rich in oil and natural gas. Electricity does not need to be considered. Building an oil and natural gas pipeline can solve the electricity problem.

   The second freshwater resource, this is more important, it should be said that it is very important. In the future, our country's South-to-North Water Diversion Project, with a population of 10 million in the capital, will not be able to operate in any case without freshwater resources.

  Although Australia's land area is large, nearly 70% of its land is in arid or semi-arid land, and most of the central area is not suitable for human habitation.

  Australia has a total of eleven large deserts, accounting for about 20% of the entire continent.

  The southeastern coastal cities of Australia include Sydney and Melbourne, with a population of several million, while Darwin is close to Asia and has obvious geographical advantages, but the population is only hundreds of thousands. In addition to the harsh climate and environment, there are too few freshwater resources for urban development.

   In most parts of the Northern Territory, the average annual precipitation is only 1,500 to 500 mm. Except for rainfall, the Northern Territory cannot find a large freshwater resource river.

   The reason why Yang Chen chose to build the new city near Queensland is that although this place is located on the coast, due to the terrain, it is not greatly affected by the typhoon, and the rainfall is also more abundant than other places in the Northern Territory.

   The rainfall is sufficient, and it is not important whether there are freshwater rivers. At that time, as long as a few more artificial reservoirs are built, the problem of water shortage can be solved.

   Third, the traffic problem, with Xingang as an outlet to the sea, there seems to be no big problem in terms of traffic.

  New Town Urban Planning Office

   Xue Yufei and the three daughters were curiously looking at the new city plan hanging on the wall. Different from other city plans, the new city construction plan gave the three women a completely different visual sense.

   After studying for a long time, He Chaoqiong, who didn't see the fame, couldn't help but ask, "Achen, will the planning of this new city be too good?"

  Yang Chen turned his head to look at her, and said with a smile, "It's too troublesome, right?"

  He Chaoqiong nodded. She didn't quite understand the planning of the new city. Although the labels were clear, the planning of the new city gave her a feeling of being too formal.

   In addition to the rules, there seems to be some kind of rule, but she couldn't see this rule after looking at it for a long time.

   So, this made her a little curious.

  Yang Chen didn't explain, he looked at Chen Yulian, and seeing that she was thinking, he couldn't help but ask, "Sister Lian, have you noticed something?"

   Chen Yulian heard Yang Chen's words, and said with some uncertainty: "Brother Chen, if I remember correctly, this should be the Taoist I Ching gossip. You built the new city according to the Taoist I Ching gossip, right?"

  Yang Chen nodded with satisfaction, and boasted unabashedly: "It seems that our sister Lian is the most powerful, and even knows the gossip of the Book of Changes."

  Chen Yulian explained: "When I was filming The Legend of Condor Heroes, I spent more than two months in Zhongnan Mountain, a sacred place of Taoist culture in the inland. During this period, I was bored, so I got to know some Taoist nuns."

   Hearing Chen Yulian's explanation, Xue Yufei and He Chaoqiong looked at each other. The two women didn't quite understand why Yang Chen, who never went to Taoist temples on weekdays, would build a new city based on this.

   However, Feng Shui has always been prevalent in Xiangjiang. Although the two women felt strange, they did not go too deep into it.

   The main reason is that the two women don’t know much about the I Ching gossip, and the theory of Feng Shui is inherently mysterious, and it is not something that ordinary people can understand.

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   (end of this chapter)