After listening to Yang Jie's words, Song Xinyang said: "These projects will not produce any benefits for a while, and even lose money, are you willing to do it?"

Yang Jie smiled: "I am investing in the future of the company, ten or twenty years will not produce any benefits will not have much impact on the business of Huaxing Group itself, we have also cultivated a large number of technical teams in this area through these projects, and can also get a lot of technical patents, and so on until the technology is mature, the cost of these projects will be reduced to a reasonable level, and then expand production capacity, our investment will be all recovered, and it is likely to get more than we invested before." ”

Song Xinyang nodded: "Your Huaxing Group Company can first make more technology research and development reserves in these aspects, and the central government still supports this." ”

He paused and said: "Our country's only project in geothermal power generation is only Yangbajing geothermal power station, which has been stagnant in this regard over the years, and I also hope that your Huaxing Group can carry out various technological innovations in this regard, and try to provide more technical support for the country's energy strategy." ”

After Yangbajing was completed and put into trial operation in the 70s, the economy of the geothermal power station was not ideal, and the central government had no policy support, and Huaxia fell into a frozen period of more than 20 years in the field of geothermal power generation technology.

Now Yang Jie himself wants to enter this field of technology, Song Xinyang also supports this, and Huaxing Group has never reached out to the central government to ask for any funds and subsidies, and he has found a way to support the development of Huaxing Group itself through financial means, but has made Huaxia Guo in semiconductors, information and communication, automobile and aviation industries and new energy in more than eight years has made a huge leap, and the company that can do this in China is such a company.

Huaxing Group can be regarded as the most valuable company among domestic enterprises, just like the national treasure panda, such a company is naturally fully supported.

Yang Jie is actively making technical arrangements for these new energy sources, and he also knows that getting more energy in this way is only one aspect, and how to use these energy sources efficiently is also a very difficult course, and it is also a road with no end.

However, since Huaxing Group has been involved in this aspect, Yang Jie will naturally not give up halfway, there is a large domestic market, there is a technical foundation in this area, and there is no shortage of engineers and technicians in this area, and now Huaxing Group has allocated tens of billions of funds to support thousands of technical engineers to carry out research and development in this area for more than ten years, which is not a difficult thing at all, and it will definitely make money, but it is just a matter of time.

Yang Jie himself is a technology freak, he is really not interested in gold and silver wealth, most of the money he has earned over the years has been used for technology research and development, most of his subsidiaries can now rely on their own business to promote their own development, even the acquired Fokker company has begun to generate profits, no longer need to invest as much as before, so he is not short of money at all.

Now the company's internal management model is quite mature, and Yang Jie no longer needs to worry about specific details, so he also invests in some long-term projects.

In Yanjing in the past few days, I also inspected and learned about the laboratory of Huaxia Satellite Communications Co., Ltd., and also saw the Iridium satellite platform provided by Motorola for the company, compared with the satellite platform developed by the laboratory itself, Motorola's plasma engine, active liquid circuit thermal control, heat pipe heat dissipation system, fiber optical gyroscope, satellite tracker and lightweight materials on the satellite platform are indeed much better than those in China.

Huaxing Group is strong in solar panels, new lithium electronic batteries, antenna technology, signal processors and coding technology, and modulation and modem baseband chips, which are the most good parts of Huaxing Group.

At this time, the technical engineers of the laboratory also carried many modular satellite components on the Iridium satellite platform and began to do various experimental tests.

Yang Jie saw that the progress of these works was in accordance with the predetermined goals, and learned that these satellites could be loaded into rockets and launched at the beginning of next year, and he also praised the company's team.

In fact, the funds invested by Huaxing Group Company in this project are not very much so far, the most important thing is a variety of test platforms and equipment, and the proportion of personnel expenses is not high.

Because the instrument and equipment company under Huaxing Group has been able to provide a variety of high-end instruments and equipment, so far the investment in this project is less than one billion.

However, the cost of rocket launch accounts for a large part of this project, even if the domestic rocket launch center will give Huaxia Satellite Communications Co., Ltd. a reasonable price, but almost every launch will cost more than 60 million US dollars, this project will be launched at least ten times, and the launch fee alone will need more than 600 million US dollars, which is still the initial goal.

Yang Jie's medium-term goal is to reach 100 satellites, the rocket launch cost will be at least 1.5 billion US dollars, plus the construction of ground receiving stations and various gates will also cost more than 1 billion US dollars, plus the annual maintenance and operation will cost at least tens of millions of US dollars, that is, he will have to invest at least 3 billion US dollars before achieving profitability.

However, once completed, Yang Jie is still very confident in achieving profitability.

In the previous life, the life of the satellite where Motorola's Iridium program took place was 5 years, but in fact the service life reached 15 years, and it was profitable to rely on the data transmission rate of 128k, earning nearly 400 million US dollars per year and a net profit of 40 million US dollars, which can be said to be very profitable.

Yang Jie's Starlink plan uses high-speed communication satellites, and the communication transmission rate is comparable to that of an optical fiber communication network, which can naturally give birth to more services, and he is not worried that this Starlink plan will not make money.

There is no way to maintain the satellite after it is launched, and basically only the construction of the ground gate and the cost of personnel operation remain.

The reason why Yang Jie set up a ground receiving station in Hong Kong is that he hopes to connect the satellite network and the Internet through the receiving station, so that foreign customers can connect with the Internet through receiving equipment, which is also his initial goal.

As for the seamless integration with the mobile Internet, it is necessary to build a gate in each country to do it, but this is a medium-term goal, and Yang Jie is not in a hurry to implement it.

Starlink plans to be launched early next year, and it will take more than a year to carry out various tests and verifications after liftoff, and if it can pass, it will speed up the pace of launch, and the launch of at least 60 satellites will be completed within two years, basically completing global coverage.

He is targeting the aviation industry and on-the-go ship and vehicle data communication services, which until now have not been able to achieve the level of high-speed communication broadband that competitors have not been able to achieve, so it is not a problem to make money.

Of course, the aircraft produced by Fokker Company, a subsidiary of Huaxing Group, will be the first to achieve this goal, and the automobile platform of Zhongyuan Automobile Company and domestic trains will be equipped with these receiving equipment, which can also greatly enhance the competitiveness of Huaxing Group's products.

Huaxing Group has a very complete set of plans for this Starlink plan, and the construction of satellite communication networks, the equipment and control systems of ground control stations, port equipment, and terminal equipment have been in full swing.

The headquarters of Huaxing Group Company has also set up a special working group, the company's senior management is a member of this group, Yang Jie is also the leader of this group, the number of engineers involved exceeds tens of thousands, and many R&D departments have undertaken different R&D tasks, which is also the most significant scientific research project of Huaxing Group so far.

Even after the acquisition of Fokker before, so many engineers were not mobilized, and many projects were carried out in-house by each subsidiary to complete most of the R&D tasks, with other subsidiaries assisting.

However, like the Starlink plan, Huaxing Group moved the transmitting base station to the air and rebuilt an Internet, and Huaxing Group also did it for the first time, and it had no experience, so it could only mobilize so many engineers to overcome a large number of hardware and software technical problems one by one, develop many programs and software, and conduct various tests non-stop.