729 Development Expansion

To be honest, having been living in the Carapague Islands lately, they are very happy with the environment.

Some team members are even asking about the conditions for immigrants in the Ithaca area, and if they are suitable, they want to immigrate here and enjoy the slower pace of life once the city is built.

Although it is easier to make money in China, the pressure is too great and the pace is too fast.

Many people become ill in their thirties, and even if they make money, they don't have a chance to spend it, so it's better to enjoy life in this place!

Many members of Liang's team were thinking about this, and Chen Yonglu and Xiao Feng were looking at the map at this time and pondering their development plans.

"The first thing we need to do is island farming, and in recent times, I have recruited a lot of people to survey all those islands. Many of the islands have a very good environment, with dense vegetation and plenty of feed for cattle and sheep. On some small islands, it is not a problem to raise 300 cattle and 200 sheep, and on larger islands, it is no problem to raise tens of thousands of heads... ”

Recently, they are not only concerned about the future development of Meihua Island, but also about island farming.

Although they already plan to invest here, they can't just invest money in it, the most important thing is that they need to form an industrial chain first, turn it up first, and be able to make blood independently.

In this way, the financial pressure of later investment can be reduced and a virtuous circle can be formed.

After Xiao Feng and Chen Yonglu discussed, they both felt that the easiest way to make money at present was island farming.

Because the natural environment here is so superior, on those desert islands, some wasteland has been reclaimed casually, which is a very good pasture, and raising cattle and sheep is not a problem at all.

Although there is no fresh water on some of the islands, there is so much rain that it rains every once in a while, and a few cisterns can be dug into those islands to solve the problem of draft.

There is no need to send too many people on the island, a few cowboys, plus a few sheepdogs, and find more people to take turns on the island to watch the cattle and sheep to avoid the cattle and sheep getting sick or injured.

So the work was the first to be carried out, and the Ithaca area was not confirmed, and when the advertisement for their ranch went out, they quickly gathered more than 3,000 cowboys.

At present, Chen Yonglu has organized these people to go to the island to carry out work.

Although the environment on the islands is very good, some groundwork still needs to be done, such as leveling the land, filling in the ravines, digging cisterns, and building cowsheds to shelter from the wind and rain.

In addition, some vines on the island that are not suitable for cattle and sheep should also be eradicated, after all, some plants are not suitable for cattle and sheep feed.

Some plants can be poisoned by cattle and sheep, so these plants must be eradicated, and by the way, the poisonous snakes and other poisons on the island must be eradicated.

These poisons can be said to be the only natural enemies on those islands that can threaten the lives of cattle and sheep.

Therefore, before the cattle and sheep are in place, these poisons must be eradicated.

So in recent times, the Cala Pag Islands have been very lively.

Every day, barges from the Ithaca area, shiploads of construction machinery, large bulldozers, and excavators are sent to those deserted islands.

And those cowboys, as well as construction workers, also came to Plum Island, and then took turns to work on the desert island.

According to Chen Yonglu's estimates, it will take more than three to five months to complete the construction of land leveling, water reservoirs, houses for people, and cowsheds for cattle and sheep to live on these islands.

Xiao Feng can also understand that this is already a very efficient work speed in South America, and this is still done by these Chinese, if it is those local natives.

Hehe, such more than 100 small desert islands, they can definitely work for you for three or five years.

At the same time, they have a lot to do, such as increasing the construction of power facilities on the islands and electrifying all the islands.

Island power supply has always been the most serious problem plaguing island development, and the most funny power supply mode in the world is naturally the construction of thermal power plants.

But building a thermal power plant in the Kalapag archipelago would require too much investment, all the raw materials would have to be transported from the mainland, and fuel would have to be bought, and it would pollute the environment, so it would not be cost-effective.

In the end, Chen Yonglu, Xiao Feng, and Daliang discussed and decided to use the model of wind power and photovoltaic power to solve the problem of power supply on the island.

This sea area is already windy, and many mountains on desert islands are also equipped with the conditions for building photovoltaic power stations, which can effectively solve the problem of power shortage here.

Besides, the population here is not large, and it is enough to rely on these renewable energy sources to generate electricity.

With this idea, Xiao Feng directly asked Daliang to order a large number of photovoltaic power stations and wind power equipment from China.

In recent years, many domestic photovoltaic companies, but waiting to be fed, a few years ago when there was state support subsidies, they could still mess around.

But in recent years, after the state has gradually reduced subsidies, these photovoltaic power generation companies have been exposed, and they used to patronize the concept of speculation and make quick money, and they did not pay attention to investment in research and development, resulting in a serious lack of their technical capabilities.

At this time, the shortcomings will be completely exposed, once there is no state subsidy, these photovoltaic companies have a loss, and none of them can make money.

At the end of the day, there is no core technology!

On the one hand, the photoelectric conversion rate is too low, and on the other hand, the core control chip technology of photoelectric conversion is all in the hands of Japanese and German companies, so they can't make money at all.

This time, Xiao Feng sent them the order through the beam, it can be said that several domestic photovoltaic manufacturers are breaking the head, although the enterprise has to bear the freight, and is responsible for installation and maintenance, but it can still make some money, it is better than not making a penny, sitting at home and staring!

Like them, there are also those wind power companies!

Receiving orders from copper countries can be said to be overjoyed, overseas orders, say more and more face?

The most important thing is to make money! Most of the domestic wind power companies are half-dead, and they are dying of starvation.

Speaking of wind power, in fact, those who know know that this is a more reliable clean energy than photovoltaics, and even more reliable than photovoltaics.

For example, in the world, one-third of the power supply in California is solved by wind power, and more than half of the power supply in Spain is based on wind power.

In Sweden, Denmark and Norway in Northern Europe, the technology of large windmills is even more leveraged.

There are also many big windmills in China, why are wind power companies not easy to mix?

It's really because there are too many thermal power plants in China!

Now what about the domestic economy, many thermal power plants cannot operate at full capacity, how dare the power grid let a large number of wind power grids!

After all, thermal power enterprises feed a whole industrial chain, from the research and development and manufacturing of thermal power equipment, to coal mining, coal sales, and transportation, there are tens of millions of people in this industrial chain.

And for wind power, if you set up a windmill, it is enough for a few people to maintain it!

Therefore, in terms of economic benefits, windmill power generation is indeed a very clean and efficient energy, but in terms of social benefits, it is not worth promoting in a large area, at least at present.

But in the Carapague Islands, there is no such problem at all, and what is needed here is cost-effective and environmentally friendly, so wind power and photovoltaic power generation are suitable for use here.

Several domestic companies that received orders sent a pioneer team to visit the local area in less than three days.

These people are like beating the blood of chickens, and they are trying to give them a plan within half a month, and all the power plants and substations will be built within three months, so as to completely solve the problem of power supply in the region.

This is Huaguo speed!

Xiao Feng didn't think there was anything, but Chen Yonglu and the others were excited and tearful, if they found a local enterprise in the copper country to do it, they could be inspected for three or five months just by various inspections.

Then demonstrate, and finally procure, and wait until the power station is built to take at least one year, and it will take three or five years to complete, and then the daylily will be cold.

At the same time, Xiao Feng is also conducting a thorough investigation of the animal husbandry industry in Tongguo!

In the past, Xiao Feng knew that Tongguo was one of the earliest approved beef importers in China, and he was originally a major producer of beef, but he only knew after investigation.

It turns out that the most exported from the copper country to China is not beef, but pork and chicken.

Copper is not a big beef exporter, but it is precisely because he is the first country in South America to formally sign a free trade agreement with China, and enjoys zero tariff treatment in meat exports, so in recent years, copper country has begun to breed a large number of beef cattle and export them to China.

But the scale of their beef exports is not comparable to the scale of pork and chicken exports!

As of last year, the total price of meat exported from copper to China was almost 500 million US dollars, of which pork accounted for more than half, chicken accounted for about 200 million, and the rest was beef exported to China, which was at the level of tens of millions of US dollars.

This is a big surprise to Xiao Feng!

But now that he is here, there will be another company that exports a large amount of beef to China.

While inspecting the aquaculture market in Tongguo, Xiao Feng also did another thing, which is to buy a large number of islands suitable for island farming.

There are many such islands in the Copper Country.

The Cala Pago Islands do not count, there are countless small islands in the coastal area of the Copper Country.

These islands are very close to the mainland of the copper country, and there are not many people living on the islands, most of them are deserted islands.

And there are predators like the Western Pacific Investment Group who are willing to buy these islands and engage in island farming, whether it is the copper government or the local government, it is all welcomed with both hands and feet.

In this way, the development and expansion of the copper country by Westpac Investment Group has gradually been carried out in such a subtle and silent way.