Chapter 553: Rapid Development

It doesn't cost much to buy a desert, but it costs a lot to clean it up.

Li Zetian had too much money on hand, so although it cost a lot of money to control the desert, when he thought of the final benefits, he resolutely decided to develop the desert and turn waste into treasure.

There are many ways to manage the desert, such as setting up grass checkered sand barriers. The so-called grass grid sand barrier, as the name suggests, is to use wheat straw, straw, reeds and other materials to spread on the sand in a bundle of squares, and then roll into the sand with a shovel, leaving 1/3 or half of the natural standing on the four sides, and then the sand in the center of the grid is pushed to the roots of the wheat grass around, so that the wheat grass is firmly established on the sand, forming a windshield wall, in order to weaken the erosion of the wind, and at the same time has the effect of intercepting rainfall, which can improve the water content of the sand layer and is conducive to the growth of psammophytes.

On the north bank of the Yellow River in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, there is a place that was once unknown, but later caused a sensation in the world: Shapotou. A miracle in the history of human sand control was born here, ending the long-standing dilemma of "sand forcing people to retreat". And the creation of this miracle stems from something incredibly simple – the wheat straw square. This simple grass square is famous all over the world, and it can't help but be called "Chinese Rubik's Cube" abroad!

Li Zetian feels that this simple and effective grass grid is worth vigorously promoting, in the past, Chinese to build grass squares by hand, and he can use machinery to quickly lay grass squares in a large area, the effect must be amazing!!

Of course, there are many conventional means, so I won't repeat them one by one.

In addition to these means, Li Zetian's main plan was to transfer seawater to the desert at any cost and build a desalination plant, which would allow for a large amount of fresh water and salt production.

Of course, it is not necessary to desalinate all the seawater, and it is also possible to develop seawater agriculture in the desert.

Seawater is inexhaustible, and using seawater to irrigate crops is a dream of mankind. In the 21st century, through the efforts of countless scientists, this dream is expected to come true. With the continuous development of agricultural science and technology, a new agricultural model has been born in order to effectively solve the problems of freshwater crisis, food crisis, loss of arable land and environmental degradation. At this moment, seawater irrigated agriculture is on the rise all over the world!

In short, without water, desert control is empty talk!

The environment of the desert is very harsh and unbearable for humans, so Li Zetian also plans to use a large number of robots and large machinery. In addition, gene science companies are also actively developing biotechnology to develop drought-tolerant transgenic plants.

At the beginning of the New Year of 2014, the project to transform the desert began, and the project was huge and astounding. Because of the need to start construction in Africa, it is natural that I can't afford to hire local workers, which solves the employment problem of a large number of local people and promotes local economic development, especially those countries that sell the desert to Li Zetian, which benefits a lot.

Africa is a potentially huge market, but unfortunately it is too poor, and if Li Zetian wants to dump his products, they must be able to afford it......

Helping poor African countries develop is actually beneficial to Li Zetian, the United States, and even other countries around the world.

Therefore, from the moment Li Zetian decided to transform the desert, he intended to assist Africa in its rapid development. To run industries, build education, and build railways, Li Zetian plans to invest a huge amount of $500 billion. Li Zetian believes that with him taking the lead, other investors will soon turn their attention to Africa.

In fact, many investors are now paying attention to the economic development of African countries. In addition, they were very interested in the contracted desert project proposed by Li Zetian.

Li Zetian's movement and determination to transform the desert are so great that people can't help but be full of illusions about the future of the desert!

And in the past few decades, Li Zetian has created countless myths. In the eyes of everyone, Li Zetian is synonymous with success, and his influence and appeal are unmatched!

Since January 2014, with the start of the vigorous desert transformation program, more and more people have begun to participate in contracting desert projects.

The area of 700,000 square kilometers is staggering, but by March, nearly half of the desert had been contracted out, and if Li Zetian hadn't kept the remaining half for his own use, I am afraid that some people would still be willing to rush to contract.

Since then, Li Zetian has not only paid for his $500 million purchase of the desert, but also earned $450 million. In other words, as soon as these deserts changed hands, Li Zeping not only got 350,000 square kilometers of desert for nothing, but also earned 450 million US dollars.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree.

Others are really envious!

This is nothing, and what is even more powerful is that in the future, Li Zetian will be able to share 10% to 30% of the profits from the contractors here.

There is a saying that "everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high", with so many people joining, the speed of desert transformation will become fast!

The desert reconstruction program and the African aid program are in full swing, and Li Zetian has not forgotten the development of the ocean.

As we all know, the Earth's surface area is about 510 million square kilometers, of which 29% is land and 71% is ocean.

It can be seen that there are many more marine resources than continental resources!

Marine development is an emerging field compared to land-based economic activities. In addition to the traditional marine fishery, marine transportation and sea salt industry, due to the development of modern science and technology, mankind's ability to understand and exploit the ocean has been continuously improved, the scope of ocean exploitation has expanded, and a series of new marine industries have been formed through economic activities such as marine aquaculture enhancement, marine oil and gas exploitation industry, marine entertainment and tourism. There are also some marine economic development activities in the process of industrialization, such as seawater desalination and comprehensive utilization of seawater, marine energy utilization, marine drug development, new utilization of marine space, deep-sea mining, etc.

Since the beginning of the year, Li Zetian has invested 500 billion US dollars to establish Chronos Marine Group Company, and then frantically acquired enterprises related to marine development, and then formed eight subsidiaries: marine transportation, marine mining, marine fishery, marine salt, marine oil and gas, marine energy, marine pharmaceutical, and marine entertainment.

People can't help but sigh that Li Zetian is really too good, and Chronos Marine Group has become the world's largest marine company since its establishment.

Some people are happy and some are worried, Japan is the world's largest fishery empire, and Japan occupies four of the world's nine major fishery giants.

Li Zetian vigorously developed the marine industry, and the fishing industry in Japan and South Korea was greatly impacted. As for the other four major fishing companies, almost all of them have become subsidiaries of the marine fishing company of the Chronos Marine Group:

One is Thailand's Tai Wan Sheng, which was established in 1977 by the Chinese Chen Hanshi, and is currently the world's largest manufacturer of shelf-stable tuna products;

One is Nutreco in the Netherlands.

One is Marine Harvest in Norway.

One is Cargill Aquatic Products in the United States.

Japan's fishing giants are backed by Japanese foundations, and Japanese companies like to hold together, so Japan's fishing industry is far more developed than other countries.

However, Japan has four major fishery giants, and Li Zetian now also has four major fishery giants!!