The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

According to the 20-year short-term plan and the 50-year long-term plan.

The short-term plan is that Hong Kong has a population of 6.8 million, which requires 48 billion kWh of electricity and 1.5 billion m3 of water.

The long-term plan is that Hong Kong has a population of 7.5 million, which requires 53 billion kWh of electricity and 1.8 billion m3 of water.

Such a huge amount of electricity and water consumption cannot be solved by Hong Kong alone.

The best option is to transfer water and electricity from Guangdong Province.

If it were Hong Kong's power companies and water supply companies in the past, they would not consider such a long-term view at all, and would only do it according to the highest profit.

But it is different now. Now the original two power companies in Hong Kong have been integrated into a China Power Group, and the water supply company has been integrated into a Hong Kong Water Group.

If you want to do it, you naturally have to do it with long-term planning, rather than building again and again, causing great waste.

There are now five large reservoirs in Hong Kong, namely Tai Lam Chung Reservoir (built in 1957), Shek Pik Reservoir (built in 1963), Lower Shing Mun Reservoir (built in 1965), Plover Cove Freshwater Lake (built in 1968) and High Island Reservoir (built in 1978). The storage capacity of the "reservoirs in the sea" - Plover Cove Freshwater Lake and High Island Reservoir are both above 200 million m3. At present, the total storage capacity of Hong Kong is 586 million cubic meters, but the rainfall runoff in the catchment area is 170 million m3. Even if all the runoff is collected in the water storage reservoir, it cannot fill the reservoir, and even the 170 million cubic meters is not enough.

The current Dongshen Water Supply Project still has a far from sufficient annual water supply.

The first report was on the water supply project.

At this time, a large topographic map with pipelines of different colors was hung in the conference room.

"This project is divided into two parts, one is Xiangjiang and the other is Guangdong Province." The chief designer said in Mandarin with a strong Cantonese accent: "Through the submarine water pipeline, the raw water systems of the New Territories, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong Island, etc. are connected to achieve unified water supply throughout Hong Kong. While building new roads, water supply pipelines are built to connect to newly built residential areas, commercial areas, and factories, and step by step to old residential areas, commercial areas and factories."

Introducing the Xiangjiang part, there are two kinds of pipelines on it, one is the blue pipeline, which can be rebuilt, and the other is the red pipeline, which is the existing water supply pipeline and is not easy to rebuild immediately.

Xiangjiang is different from the mainland. You can't just repair the pipeline if you want to. There are a lot of things. These places need to be advanced slowly.

"The Guangdong part is mainly the water diversion of Dongjiang. Dongjiang is one of the three major sources of the Pearl River in Guangdong Province. It is 523km long and has an annual runoff of nearly 30 billion m. The Dongshen Water Supply Project will introduce Dongjiang water from Pengcheng to Xiangjiang through an 83-kilometer canal." The chief designer pointed to the map of the Xiangjiang part.

The entire water supply project is planned and designed according to the long-term annual water supply of 1.1 billion m3.

This requires that the infrastructure must be achieved, and only the water supply flow needs to be adjusted later, without the need for repeated construction.

For example, the original construction is not enough.

Each reservoir is used as a first-level water source protection area, with a protection range delineated and protection measures taken to avoid polluting the water source.

For example, in the Guangdong Province, it is not only considered to supply water to Xiangjiang, but also to Pengcheng and Dongguancheng.

After all, it is impossible to use other people's water, take other people's land, and organize construction. It is impossible to give no benefits at all.

Therefore, in this part, the annual water supply to Xiangjiang is planned to be 1.5 billion m3 in the near term, and the long-term water supply to Xiangjiang is planned to be 1.8 billion m3, ensuring that even if there is no water in the local water storage reservoir in Xiangjiang, the water demand of the entire Xiangjiang can be met by diverting water from Guangdong Province.

For the entire project, the design water supply guarantee rate is 99%, the design annual water supply capacity is 6 billion cubic meters, and there are 35 large and medium-sized reservoirs.

Some of these large and medium-sized reservoirs are newly built, while others are being expanded.

After the project is completed, the Xiangjiang section will cost about HK$4 per ton of water, and the annual water fee income will be about HK$4 billion.

The entire project is expected to have a cost recovery period of 10 years.

As for Pengcheng and Guancheng, they hold 25% of the shares and adopt the form of dividends, and the water price adopts the form of a guide price.

The representatives of various parties in Guangdong Province who attended the meeting were all stunned by this huge project.

Because last year, the fiscal revenue of the entire Guangdong Province was about 4.5 billion yuan.

But the Xiangjiang Water Group actually invested 20 billion Hong Kong dollars in one go to build this super project.

Is this too much money to handle?

Before, they knew that Xiangjiang was making this plan, but they were not clear about the specific situation. They were responsible for providing help, assisting in investigating the situation and providing information.

Now when they heard it, they were all shocked.

20 billion Hong Kong dollars, this is simply an astronomical figure.

In the past, they only knew that Hong Kong was rich, but they didn't really feel it. Now they really feel how rich Hong Kong is.

A company can actually take out 20 billion Hong Kong dollars to build a water diversion project.

"I have a question, does our Pengcheng need so much water?" The person in charge of Pengcheng frowned slightly: "Now our annual water demand in Pengcheng is less than 10 million tons."

"It's the same for us!" The person in charge of Wancheng also smiled bitterly: "How can we use up so much water? If we are given an annual water supply of 2 billion cubic meters, we can't use it in a hundred years."

Liu Tao laughed in his heart. They absolutely couldn't imagine how fast Pengcheng and Wancheng would develop in the future. In less than 40 years, the annual water supply of these two cities will exceed 2 billion cubic meters.

"Comrades, as the saying goes, if you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries. We should look at the future from a long-term perspective. We must consider the future development. We should plan and design first and build it now, so as not to pay a higher price when we need it in the future." Liu Tao said: "This project is led by Xiangjiang Water Group. The loss is also the business of Xiangjiang Water Group. You don't need to bear the loss. You just need to cooperate with the construction."

Liu Tao set this planning goal based on historical development.

If the water consumption of Pengcheng and Guancheng refers to the Xiangjiang standard, then the annual water demand of Pengcheng and Guancheng in the long term will reach almost 7 billion cubic meters.

With so much water, it is not enough to rely on the surrounding cities alone, and cross-regional water transfer must be carried out.

It is obvious that Pengcheng and Guancheng obviously do not have the vision for development in this regard.

Now Pengcheng is developing very fast, but a few years ago Pengcheng was still Bao'an County, with a low starting point and weak foundation. A large number of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese came to Pengcheng to build factories and take Pengcheng to Pengfei.

In terms of infrastructure, Pengcheng is obviously not prepared for this.

Liu Tao didn't need to think too much. According to the current situation, it would take less than two or three years for Pengcheng to have a large-scale water and power outage.

The same situation will occur in the entire Yangtze River Delta.

Because the economic development is so rapid, so rapid that it is beyond imagination. Even the most optimistic people did not expect the economic development to be so fast.

A large number of factories were built and a large number of people came, causing the demand for water and electricity to surge.

The growth of power generation and water supply cannot keep up with the development needs.