The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The entire China-Laos-Cambodia railway is relatively easy to say in China. It starts from Kunming, passes through Yuxi, Pu'er and then to the border. The total length is about 420 kilometers. It is nothing more than digging tunnels and building bridges. The construction is difficult and expensive, but there is no need to worry about safety.

In the Laos-Cambodia section, it is from the border to Sihanoukville, with a total length of 1,650 kilometers. This section needs to pass through many mountains and rivers. The construction is difficult and expensive. The most important thing is that it faces security threats.

This kind of strip-shaped terrain is easily cut off in the middle, and the entire railway is interrupted.

Therefore, it is necessary to have security companies to provide security, and it is also necessary to enhance the military strength of Laos and Cambodia, at least to protect themselves.

Laos has rich forest resources and can provide at least 500,000 cubic meters to 1 million cubic meters of wood every year. Reservoirs and hydropower stations can be built in the mountains. For example, hydropower stations can be built on the Mekong River, which can easily meet the electricity needs of the entire Laos, and can even supply electricity to the border, and can also be exported to Thailand.

Most of Laos' mineral resources are undeveloped. It belongs to the extension of the Sanjiang mineralization belt in China. There are more than 20 kinds of minerals, including gold, copper, tin, lead, iron, gypsum, coal, tobacco, etc., especially tin reserves of 65,000 to 80,000 tons.

And this is the result of exploration, and it is estimated that there are more that have not been explored.

And these can be mined and transported to Yunnan Province for refining into finished products.

In terms of agriculture, Laos' arable area can reach about 20 million mu, which can be used to grow rice, corn, coffee, mango, grapefruit, papaya, sandalwood, etc. It can be said that there are still many resources to be developed.

Cambodia's mineral deposits are richer, including gold, phosphate, gemstones and oil. Forestry, fishery and fruit wood resources are rich. It is rich in precious teak, ironwood, rosewood, ebony, white Mao and other tropical forests, and there are many kinds of bamboo. The timber reserves exceed 1.1 billion cubic meters. Tonle Sap Lake is the largest natural freshwater fishery in Southeast Asia, known as the "Fish Lake". The southwest coast is also an important fishery.

Cambodia's arable area is also very large, with almost 51 million mu of arable land, all of which can be used to grow rice, which can become a large granary.

You should know that there is not so much arable land in the entire Great Northern Wilderness.

As for the lack of population, it is not a problem.

People from the mainland can go to farm, and Chinese who were persecuted in Annan can also be attracted to farm and develop.

As for the problem of grain output and sales, it is not a problem.

Not to mention the grain produced by 51 million mu of arable land, even if it is the grain produced by 100 million mu of arable land, China can digest this production capacity.

The battle on the front line needs to be fought, and soldiers need to be trained.

However, the resources that should be built and developed must also be developed, which is for domestic development.

The efforts in the past few years have achieved very obvious results. The most obvious improvement is the improvement of the security environment of most borders and the development of border trade.

Now, part of the rice exported by Thailand is transported north through Myanmar to Yunnan Province, so that Yunnan Province has sufficient food, and even the entire four southwestern provinces have sufficient food, and the whole society is stable and developing rapidly.

The next day, Liu Tao went to the 3rd Division of the First Army. The 3rd Division was previously the 7th Division of the First Army. When the army was re-numbered in 1969, it was renamed the 3rd Division.

The 3rd Division was previously stationed in JH City, Zhejiang Province. It is currently undergoing re-equipment training at the Malong Training Base. Next, it will go to the front line to replace the 2nd Division.

After walking around, Liu Tao returned to Panshan Machinery Factory.

With Liu Tao, there were also heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles. These will be maintained and repaired at Panshan Machinery Factory and then sent back to the Huben Camp.

And maintenance and repair are not that troublesome. Without enough manpower, Liu Tao directly opened the gold finger to solve the problems with the equipment.

After completing the maintenance and repair, and testing the weapons and equipment, Liu Tao convened a meeting of the Party Group of Panshan Group.

There are five things to do at this party group meeting. The first thing is to summarize the work of the past year, which work has been completed, which work has been completed in excess, which work has not been completed, and the correction and resolution of the problems exposed.

The second thing is to make comprehensive arrangements for the work in the new year, that is, 1984.

The third thing is about the implementation of allowances in the new year, and the implementation of home leave for some entire groups.

The fourth thing is that Panshan Group participates in the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" project, accounting for 70% and is responsible for solving technical problems.

The fifth thing is about the arrangements for the 35th anniversary of the National Day this year.

1984 is a critical year for Panshan Group. There are newly built factories in operation, the Shenhai Expressway project has entered the peak construction period, and the factories in Xiangjiang are also entering the mass production stage.

The most important thing for Panshan Group is to move to the headquarters in batches this year.

Panshan Group Corporation, Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation, Southwest Industrial Group Corporation and various research institutes will be concentrated in the headquarters.

In the future, their offices will all be at the headquarters.

Panshan Machinery Factory, like other factories, will no longer be the core of the entire system as before.

The entire relocation is planned to last a whole year.

All these tasks must be arranged in advance.

As for allowances and family leave, this is a major innovation for the entire Panshan Group.

Allowances can increase the income of employees, and many employees left when they were young and have not returned home for more than ten years.

Even among them, many are anonymous and have never written to their parents, brothers and sisters.

Although not every employee has a fifteen-day home leave every year, it is undoubtedly a very important step.

Even for some non-confidential positions, certain controls will be relaxed to allow more people to return home and reunite with their families every year.

For the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway", Panshan Group will invest 50 billion yuan. Although it is not taken out all at once, but divided into seven years, it still exceeds 7 billion yuan per year.

In addition to the century project of "Shenhai Expressway", it also means that Panshan Group leads two Chinese century projects. These two century projects are currently unique in the whole of China.

This kind of century project has a long capital recovery cycle, which is different from Panshan Group's investment in building a factory in Hong Kong.

Although the investment in building a factory in Hong Kong is also large, the capital recovery cycle is very short.

The ‘Shenyang-Haikou Expressway’ project and the ‘Beijing-Kowloon Railway’ project are both projects that may not be able to recover their costs in the next 30 years.

Even if the current latest exchange rate is 1 US dollar to 2.2043 RMB, Panshan Group can exchange 1 US dollar for 2.5 RMB, and 50 billion RMB will be 20 billion US dollars.

The Southwest Ordnance Industry Group cannot reach this number of weapons and equipment exported in a whole year.

Liu Tao is very calm. The investment in the ‘Shenyang-Haikou Expressway’ project and the ‘Beijing-Kowloon Railway’ project seems to be very large, like an astronomical figure.

But who would have thought that the exchange rate in 1979 was 1 US dollar to 1.55 RMB, and now only a few years later, 1 US dollar can be exchanged for 2.2043 RMB?

For Panshan Group, which mainly engages in export and foreign trade, it can be said that the change in exchange rate is very advantageous.

When the exchange rate becomes 1 US dollar to 4 US dollars, it now seems that it will take 20 billion US dollars to build, but by then it will only take 12.5 billion US dollars.