The rise of nanometers

Things on the moon seem to be calm, but in fact there are undercurrents.

And Blue Star is also changing little by little.

Across Lingnan, the end of October is still a bit hot.

To the north of the Qinhuai Line, since the beginning of autumn, the temperature has dropped earlier than in previous years. At the end of October, the autumn wind blew, and the forests in Beiping were dyed red, and the mountains were red.

Under the ongoing Three-North transformation plan, large areas of desert, Gobi Desert, saline-alkali land, and abandoned mines in the Three-North region have been artificially transformed into farms, pastures, forest farms, lakes, and nature reserves.

Now there are no sandy land and saline-alkali land in the northeastern region, while in the central and northern region there are only four large-scale protected areas left: the East Gobi Desert Reserve, the Altai Gobi Desert Reserve, the Tengger Reserve, and the Yellow River Rim Reserve. areas have been transformed into agricultural, forestry and pastoral areas.

In the northwest region, only the Taklimakan Desert Reserve is left. This only remaining desert has an area of ​​only about 220,000 square kilometers.

Due to the continuous advancement of the east-to-west water transfer project, precipitation in the entire Tarim Basin has increased year by year. This year's precipitation in the western part of the Tarim Basin has increased by about 237% compared with 2008.

This change is huge. The reason why a desert is a desert is mainly because of the lack of local water resources. When the water resources are restored, the self-healing ability of the ecological environment will be restored beyond imagination.

Even the Sitaklimakan Desert, which is listed as a nature reserve, is not completely a desert now.

In the satellite images, it can be found that in the Sitaklimakan Desert at this time, the edge area turned into half desert and half grassland, and there were scattered small oases and small lakes in the interior.

As for the Hami and Junggar regions, the desert has completely disappeared.

This is an artificial miracle in the history of mankind.

The autumn wind rustled, and the grassland in Monan ushered in the first frost since autumn, and the grass and trees began to gradually wither and turn yellow.

But at this time, in the Alxa League area, although the open-air grasslands began to wither and turn yellow, the booming indoor agriculture effectively supported the agricultural development here.

The local feed processing industry chain established by the Grain Alliance basically covers the entire Alxa League. The various feeds in the reserve warehouse are enough to supply local farms for 18 to 20 months.

Alxa League's New Mucheng, a new city established last year, is close to the Altai Gobi Desert Reserve in the north and is only about 173 kilometers away from the Altai Nuclear Power Plant (Tanggu Base).

Electric energy from the Altai Nuclear Power Plant is continuously supplied to New Mucheng.

Hashimoto Kinzawa, who has been working here for more than a year, has also adapted to the autumn and winter in Saibei. In fact, his hometown is in Hokkaido.

Foreign employees like Hashimoto Kinzawa have been recruited by Fengmin Agriculture. For example, in this indoor agricultural factory area, in addition to Japanese and Koreans, there are also Australians and New Zealanders.

Although the country is frantically training farmers and herdsmen, it has not been able to cover everything for a while, and agricultural talents in these old and developed areas have become the targets of the Food Alliance.

Of course, recruiting these foreigners also has other purposes, such as weakening their local population and achieving the purpose of adding sand.

Hashimoto Kinzawa’s family moved to Shinmachi this year.

This indoor agricultural area covers an area of ​​56,000 acres and is made of 10 layers of super materials, with a total area of ​​560,000 acres.

It is highly mechanized and intelligent internally, with only 2,573 employees in the entire agricultural factory.

Hashimoto Kinzawa originally thought that life would be like that, working as a researcher at the Hokkaido Agricultural Research Institute all his life, but he never expected that life would be so wonderful.

After putting on his work clothes, he and his co-workers Jiang Gu and Du Runhua (Australians) inspected the vegetable growing area.

Their vegetable planting area covers a total area of ​​40,000 acres and mainly grows eight main types of vegetables, namely butter cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, pagoda cauliflower, sweet lettuce, carrots, and celery.

In addition to supplying local products, we also supply the surrounding areas of Chita in Mobei and Lucia.

The light provided by artificial fluorescent lamps allows vegetables to be produced here all year round, and the output is not affected by the weather.

Everyone carefully checked the situation of the carrot fields, communicated from time to time, and then entered the data into the work tablet.

As Japan, where indoor agriculture is relatively developed, Hashimoto Kinze has a better understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of this agricultural model.

But he has always had a doubt and worry. The fruits and vegetables produced here currently rely on cheap electricity subsidies. After a series of subsidies, the production cost has reached the "low" level it is today.

For example, the production cost of the carrots they are inspecting is about 0.27 yuan per kilogram. Adding cold chain logistics and labor, when it reaches consumers, the comprehensive cost is 0.8 yuan per kilogram, and the retail price is about 1.1 to 1.2 yuan. Yuan per kilogram.

It took a lot of subsidies to reach today's ultra-low price.

But whether this ultra-low price can be maintained has become a question that Hashimoto Kinzawa has been thinking about.

He had seen some of the shortcomings of the Japanese Farmers' Association, but at this time, there was always something strangely wrong with the agricultural model in Greater China.

In fact, there were not many mistakes in his feeling. The only factor that he did not expect was the huge impact that cheap energy would have on this system.

You must know that the foundation of modern agricultural production is, in the final analysis, energy.

Fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural machinery, agricultural materials, lighting, and water resources all require more and more energy to support. When the costs of these related industries in modern agriculture become lower and lower, the cost of agricultural production will naturally increase. The lower.

The three electricity costs of 0.8 yuan per kilowatt hour, 0.3 yuan per kilowatt hour, and 0.1 yuan per kilowatt hour are enough to make a huge difference.

The current electricity cost of Xinmucheng agricultural factory is the so-called subsidized electricity price of 0.1 yuan per kilowatt hour.

Not knowing the underlying reasons behind it makes Hashimoto Kinze worried. He is worried that this model will cause a huge financial burden and ultimately affect the overall finance.

Concerns like this are not uncommon at home and abroad.

Because the agricultural subsidies in Greater China are so huge at this time, it seems that power companies such as State Grid do not need to make money and continue to use them to fill this bottomless pit.

In fact, we will indeed lose money in the early stage, and we will lose trillions of dollars, but this loss is a strategic loss.

As long as the proportion of controllable nuclear fusion power plants gradually increases, the cost of power generation will decrease year by year.

It seems to be subsidizing agriculture, but given the mature controllable nuclear fusion technology, it is equivalent to using future cheap electricity in advance.

Major power grids will not lose money. As long as time is extended, future profits can be used to make up for current losses.

This model also realizes a comprehensive internal circulation of China, which can do this kind of thing.

There are many things that the outside world and ordinary people cannot see clearly.

Now is not the time to expose controllable nuclear fusion technology, we can only pretend to be dead and not see it.

Hashimoto Kinze and Etani walked around the carrot area and then went to the Saiqin area to check. Their work was so boring.

It's not even five o'clock in the afternoon and the sun is going down.

Except for those on duty, all other employees are off duty.

Walking in the urban area of ​​​​Xinmu City, this place is not at all like the bitter and cold place in the north of Saibei. On the contrary, it is more modern than the cities he has seen in Japan.

Technology, civilization and nature are integrated here.

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