bullyxtreme Chapter 312: Second Generation Nuclear Power Construction, Railway Speed-Up Plan
Chapter 312: Second Generation Nuclear Power Construction, Railway Speed-Up Plan
The intercontinental missile test and mushroom egg test explosion by the ancient country's Strategic Rocket Force were very low-key.
Apart from some accidents that caused some minor friction with the US Pacific Fleet, there was no other commotion.
However, it caused a huge stir among the top military officials of the ancient country.
After all, not everyone knows about the existence of the super weapon Mushroom Egg.
Those who know about it are either the core members of the four major military branches or the generals who directly control this weapon.
Therefore, the emergence of this super weapon is like a stabilizing force for them.
Let them all understand that as long as the ancient country masters this weapon, it will be equivalent to having an invincible golden body.
To put it bluntly, it gives them an absolute sense of security, so that they have enough confidence when facing any strong enemy.
However, this information is only circulated within the military and the core government circles, and the confidentiality level is still the highest level.
Soon the new year is here.
A large amount of data collected over the past 36 years by the National Bureau of Statistics has also been summarized by Jiang Hua.
The data for 36 years is still very encouraging.
Compared with 35 years, there has been a substantial increase, and it was also a year of explosive growth in the ancient country's industry and agriculture.
In the most important agricultural sector, the cultivated land area increased by 1700 million mu last year to 18.7 billion mu, and the effective irrigation area also increased by more than 5000 million mu to 8.4 million mu.
Thanks to the existence of the super weapon, the weather controller, 36 was still a year of good weather and a good harvest.
Total grain output increased by 220 billion kilograms compared with last year, reaching 3620 billion kilograms, or 3.6 million tons.
The population also grew by about 1000 million, reaching 4.8 million.
The average per capita consumption reached 754 kilograms, while last year it was 723 kilograms, an increase of 31 kilograms per capita.
It is still far above the per capita grain red line of 270 kilograms.
At this time, Jiang Hua felt that the problem of food and clothing for the ancient country's 4.8 million people had been solved.
With the current food supply, at least there is no need to worry about people starving to death.
After solving the problem of food and clothing, the next thing to do is to solve the problem of the poverty line.
However, solving poverty is not so easy.
First of all, we need to solve the two major problems of local transportation and electricity.
Especially transportation. If this problem is not solved, wanting to get rid of poverty is just empty talk.
In this regard, the modern University of Tokyo has done very well.
Jiang Hua also develops with the goal of becoming a modern University of Tokyo.
But the time for the ancient country to develop is still too short.
Although a lot of money is invested in infrastructure development every year.
But time is of the essence, and building a road cannot be completed overnight.
So far, the ancient country has only barely managed to build a road transportation network between provinces and cities.
Except for the western provinces, the provincial roads in each province in the eastern and central regions connect all prefecture-level cities.
Moreover, this provincial highway is paved strictly in accordance with the two-way four-lane, cement or asphalt road.
Jiang Hua doesn't dare to say that there is no cutting corners or corruption in all places, but he can guarantee that this situation will not occur in most areas.
Every Red Alert member is his "eyes", and they also help Jiang Hua monitor everyone.
It is precisely with the help of these Red Alerts that Jiang Hua's control over the ancient country is unprecedented, and it can even be said that he is a dictator.
The next direction of infrastructure construction is to build cement or asphalt roads in every county.
After completing the county-to-county connection, the next step will be to connect every village and every road, which is also a long-term strategy.
The Executive Yuan has already made a complete plan.
They plan to solve the problem of connecting all counties with roads within a certain period of time, the problem of connecting all villages in the country within 20 to 30 years, and the problem of connecting all roads within 50 years.
In Jiang Hua's view, this long-term strategy is relatively conservative and practical.
In order to achieve road connectivity, the national highway mileage must be at least 400 million kilometers.
Currently, the total highway mileage in the country is only 23 kilometers.
Compared with 18 kilometers last year, it has increased by 5 kilometers within this year.
However, among these more than 50,000 kilometers, more than half are gravel roads and are not paved with cement.
Otherwise the speed wouldn't be so fast.
But this growth rate is already very encouraging.
Moreover, this growth rate is not fixed.
As more and more advanced engineering equipment comes into use, more and more skilled workers join the construction army.
The growth in road and railway mileage will continue to accelerate.
Take the railways for example. Last year, the total mileage of trunk lines, branch lines and double-track railways increased by more than 6000 kilometers to 3.8 kilometers.
Compared with the expected 5000 kilometers, it exceeded by more than kilometers.
This is because more advanced railway construction vehicles and technologies have been put into use.
Now that the technological lifespan has been unlocked to 75 years, an increase in speed is inevitable.
The construction of railways is only one aspect. This year, the railway department also proposed a plan to greatly increase the speed of railways.
The railway department plans to replace all existing steam locomotives with fuel locomotives.
The speed of trains across the country will increase from an average of 30 kilometers per hour to 60 kilometers per hour, and the speed of some trunk railways will even be increased to a maximum of 120 kilometers per hour.
For train speeds of this era, the train running at 120 kilometers per hour on the entire line is considered very fast.
This speed-up is expected to be completed in about three years.
In terms of air transportation, 36 can be said to be the first year of ancient Chinese civil aviation transportation.
In this year, not only was the General Administration of Civil Aviation established, but the airports in all first-tier cities were also fully launched.
Currently, there are more than 200 passenger and cargo aircraft operating domestic routes.
These aircraft are also all produced by the ancient country's COMAC.
There are both A-909 four-engine long-range passenger aircraft and ARJ-10 Mengzhou short-haul passenger aircraft.
COMAC has been overwhelmed with orders this year, and the last batch of orders has even been scheduled for 8 years later.
A total of more than 3000 passenger aircraft of various types will be produced.
This also forced COMAC to accelerate the construction of aircraft manufacturing bases and the expansion of production lines.
The ancient country's shipbuilding industry also faced the same problem.
Some orders have even begun to be transferred to civilian shipbuilding companies.
Because the orders for Bincheng Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard are already completely saturated.
This also led to more funds flowing into civilian shipyards.
This includes the well-funded Nanhua Group.
Now most people in the ancient country know that the Nanhua Group is the property of the Huang family of the South China Republic.
And what kind of existence is the Huang family?
The old man of the Huang family was the first president of the Nanyang Republic, and the next presidential successor has also been determined. He is the eldest son of the Huang family, Huang Shuye.
At the same time, Mr. Huang’s daughter Huang Jiahui is the fiancée of the ancient country’s president Jiang Hua.
Therefore, Nanhua Group has a strong background, which is rare in the country.
After entering the shipbuilding field, Nanhua Group also took an unconventional path.
It is not intended to produce ordinary civilian merchant ships, but to produce luxury cruise ships and yachts.
This is also the path taken by South China Airlines.
South China Airlines has currently received orders for more than 100 private jets and has established a firm foothold in this field.
In the fields of transportation such as roads, railways, aviation, and shipping, the ancient country is also in a stage of full-scale explosion.
If the ancient country is given ten years of development, the country's transportation will definitely be transformed.
Transportation is one aspect, and electricity is another.
Electricity is related to various fields including agriculture, industry, and people's livelihood, and is also the prerequisite for the industrial revolution.
At present, thermal power generation accounts for more than 95% of the country's power generation, and the rest is hydropower.
Among thermal power generation, coal-fired power accounts for more than 70 percent.
The country's total power generation increased by 120 billion kWh compared with last year to 620 billion kWh.
In terms of power generation alone, the ancient country has surpassed the Hans country's 540 billion kilowatt-hours and is second only to the United States' 2000 billion kilowatt-hours of annual power generation.
Starting this year, the ancient country will prepare to make efforts in the two fields of hydropower and nuclear power.
At the same time, research work is being carried out in other power generation fields such as photovoltaic power generation and wind power generation.
Photovoltaic and wind power are still a long way off, and the main areas are hydropower and nuclear power.
Among them, seven hydropower station projects have been approved. Taking advantage of the high altitude and abundant water resources in the western region, hydropower will be vigorously developed in the western region.
These hydropower will also solve the problem of power supply difficulties in the western region.
However, the construction difficulty and cycle of a hydropower station are much longer than those of a thermal power plant, so the results are not so quick.
But the situation is different in the field of nuclear power.
Because mature second-generation nuclear power plants have been unlocked.
Nuclear power units such as pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors, and heavy water reactors with a capacity of more than 30 kWh have already appeared.
All obstacles to large-scale construction of nuclear power plants have been removed.
The Executive Yuan plans to build one nuclear power plant every two years.
The completion of a single nuclear power plant can increase annual power generation by at least 30 billion kilowatt-hours on average, and the installed capacity can be increased by at least 800 megawatts.
Therefore, nuclear power will occupy an important position in the future electric energy field.
However, the safety risks of nuclear power are ultimately a big problem.
So there is no way it can become mainstream power generation.
It still relies mainly on highly polluting thermal power generation.
However, if we want to develop industry, environmental pollution is inevitable. If you want to gain something, you must pay a price. The law of conservation of energy also applies here.
Therefore, we can only develop first and then govern.
The problem of electric power energy has been solved, and the speed of industrial development is no longer constrained.
Last year alone, more than 50,000 machine tools were produced.
These machine tools have all been consumed within the ancient country and have not been exported.
This is not because machine tool manufacturers do not want to export, but because they are too busy with domestic orders to have time to take care of foreign trade.
A large number of machine tools are used in the industrial field.
The ancient country's automobiles, aviation, aerospace, ships, power generation equipment, heavy machinery, precision instruments, plastics, electronic products, etc. also experienced a full-scale explosion.
Although the ancient country's industry cannot be said to have completed all categories of infrastructure construction.
But this goal can definitely be achieved within five years.
In less than ten years, we have covered the distance that took the United States two hundred years to complete.
What is a "hack"? This is it.
The explosive growth in the industrial sector is also inseparable from the ancient country’s high investment in education in recent years.
After all, it is people who operate the machines. Without talents, no matter how many machines there are, they will not be used, let alone developed.
The various technical schools, night schools and literacy classes that sprang up all over the ancient country were the main reasons for the explosive growth in the size of the ancient country's workforce.
In addition to technical schools, primary schools, middle schools and various colleges and universities have also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in their construction, and compulsory education has also begun to be fully implemented.
According to statistics from the Education Commission, among the ancient country's 4.8 million people, there are more than 5200 million students at all levels and types, accounting for 10.8% of the total population.
This is excluding the literacy students.
If we count the number of students who have completed literacy programs, the number has exceeded 100 million.
In Jiang Hua's opinion, this number is not enough. It must reach at least 15% to be qualified, and 20% to be considered the first stage of successful education.
But you have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time.
This speed is already quite fast.
You should know that a few years ago, the total number of students of all types and levels in the country did not even reach 700 million, and at its peak it was only more than million.
从31年的700万到36年的5200万，平均每年增长900万学生，这个增长速度也是有目共睹的。
However, a slowdown in this growth rate is inevitable.
Because the ancient country now not only needs a large number of students, but also a large number of grassroots workers with certain basic knowledge.
The total population base is here, and it is impossible to grow indefinitely at this rate.
As long as we can reach the passing line of 15% in the next few years, it will be considered very good.
"The population growth is still too slow."
Thinking of this, Jiang Hua couldn't help but sigh.
However, now that people have basically solved the problem of food and clothing, the era of population explosion is about to come.
In the future, the number of newborns will be able to grow by at least 1000 million every year.
The 1000 million is still a minimum. In Jiang Hua's opinion, it may not be too difficult to reach 1500 million.
If we can maintain this growth rate and conquer a large amount of territory in the future, we can also accelerate immigration and keep the domestic population balanced.