Chapter 201 calculates the cost of the renovation
Transporting muddy water from Poyang Lake for the last trip to northern Xinjiang. Throw the water into a lake in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. The center of the Tarim Basin in the north of the Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in the Dragon Kingdom, the tenth largest desert in the world, and the second largest mobile desert in the world. The entire desert is about 1,000 kilometers long from east to west and 400 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of 330,000 square kilometers. The average annual precipitation does not exceed 100 mm, the lowest is only four or five mm, and the average evaporation is as high as 2500~3400 mm. Here, pyramid-shaped sand dunes rise 300 meters above the plain. Strong winds can blow up walls of sand up to 3 times as high. The desert is full of sand dunes that move frequently due to the wind. There are also a small number of plants in the desert, whose root system is unusually developed, dozens or even hundreds of times larger than the aboveground part, in order to absorb the water from the ground, and the animals there have the phenomenon of summer hibernation.
Xiang Ming's goal is this difficult desert. As long as this desert is transformed, then there will be no difficulty in other small deserts, deserts.
It will take several years to transform this desert, of course, the part that Xiang Ming is responsible for is the most important, but it does not take too much time. The part of afforestation is a long process, and it takes time for the saplings to grow, doesn't it? Planting trees requires a large number of migrant workers to carry out it, doesn't it? This great process has to be discussed with the above. It is true that Xiang Ming is not short of money, but it is not like this to send it out. There's at least some money to be made from above, isn't it? At least there's an explanation, isn't it?
In the communication with Xiaolan, a solution was obtained.
The transformation plan does not need to be considered for the time being, let's talk about other things first.
This area is 330,000 square kilometers, and even more will be added in the future. Attribution issues. Xiang Ming didn't want to spend a lot of money on the transformation, so it was none of his business. Otherwise, it is a market economy, with money from above and Xiang Ming contributing, and transforming 300,000 square kilometers according to the US $800 billion, which is very cheap. Now the world's most advanced desert transformation program, the cheapest is more than 3 million US dollars, and that is a high-tech drip irrigation system.
Now the price given by Lao Mei is really cheap, it is simply the price of cabbage. 200,000 US dollars to transform a square kilometer of desert, Lao Mei is daydreaming, 200,000 US dollars, not to mention the transformation, just say that after the initial completion of the transformation, the fertile land is planted with wheat, and a square kilometer is planted with wheat, how much seed, fertilizer, and machinery cost. 200,000 US dollars and more than 1.2 million dragon coins. What is enough, even if it is a reversal of land contracting, the contracting fee of 1,500 acres of land in this square kilometer is not enough.
The most important thing to transform the desert is to transform it. The so-called $300 high-tech renovation should not be said to be a transformation, but rather to grow crops in the desert. 3 million US dollars per square kilometer of 1,500 mu, 2,000 US dollars per mu of land, hehe, can only say these two words, 2,000 US dollars if you buy grain, enough to buy 5,000 catties of rice. This so-called desert transformation is to fool people, and it is those oil tycoons who play with it and burn a lot of money.
This is compared with those who are in remote outposts, more than minus 20 degrees in winter, and engage in greenhouses to improve food. That's also a lot of input and low output.
It's not about transforming the desert. The success of the transformation of the desert in the Saudi-Han country has made many places see hope, but also full of envy and jealousy. Even the United States experimentally threw tens of billions of dollars into it to build 20 square kilometers. For the sake of face, they have had to invest a lot of money to maintain it for decades.
It's not at all like the country of Saudi Arabia, where the climate has changed, the environment has changed, and it has become a subtropical climate. It also produces huge economic benefits every year.
Turned the whole of Saudi Arabia into a habitable place.
Do you know Dubai? I guess even a three-year-old child knows that it is a paradise for the rich, a paradise for shopping. A modern, cosmopolitan city. The second richest city in the Middle East, the economic and financial center of the Middle East, is known as the "trading capital" of the Middle East and North Africa. It was just a special zone of the Han Empire. It is an industry directly managed by the Han Empire. Back then, the emperor used his golden finger to draw a circle in this area. This is what makes this glorious Dubai.
Located in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula and on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf, Dubai is the center of the Gulf region. It is separated from the South Asian subcontinent by the sea. Dubai has a permanent population of about 2.8 million people, of which about 15% are Han Empire, and expatriates come from more than 200 countries and regions around the world. There are about 340,000 dragons living in Dubai, with other expatriates coming from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and more.
Dubai is one of the world's international financial centres, serving as a bridge between the capital markets of the East and the West, as well as an important logistics, trade, transportation, tourism and shopping centre. With the world's first seven-star hotel (Burj Al Arab), the world's tallest skyscraper (Burj Khalifa), the world's largest shopping mall, and the world's largest indoor ski resort, it has attracted the attention of the world with its near-world record features such as active real estate, events, and talks. The 2020 World's Fair will be held here.
The world is interested in the desert transformation achievements of Saudi Arabia. But it's just hehe.
Having said so much, that is the question of how Xiang Ming wants to cooperate with the above. As I just said, according to the market economy, business operations, the above pays, and Xiang Ming contributes. As for the question of how much the renovation fee per square kilometer is, it must not be the price of the old American cabbage. That's not enough for a year's worth of money paid to migrant workers who plant and maintain trees in the later stages. Not to mention the cost of saplings, the loss of pumping equipment, electricity costs, and labor costs for more than 3 years.
At the very least, $5,000 per acre of land, or $7.5 million per square kilometer. These data are the scientific jumping prices calculated by Xiaolan. It is 100 migrant workers per square kilometer. No one has a salary of 3,000 yuan per month, 900 yuan for food, (transportation is difficult, so the price is high) a year-end bonus of 3,000 to 10,000 yuan, and the reimbursement of round-trip tickets for the Spring Festival once a year. If you don't have this amount of money, if you don't have such a good treatment, who would want to come to this ghost place to work? The average cost per person is 50,000 yuan. 100 people for three years is 1500 dragon coins. Not to mention the investment required to build the base, the investment to drill deep water wells, the cost of building at least five pumping units, and the cost of diesel fuel. That's a lot of money, too. Not less than 10 million. As for the cost of the sapling, if it is transported from far away, a one-meter-high sapling will cost at least 10 yuan. More than 100 can be planted on one acre. That's more than 2 million. If there is a need for other construction, then the money per square kilometer will come even more. Xiaolan said that it would cost 7.5 million US dollars, that is, more than 40 million dragon coins, which is really not expensive.
His painstaking transformation of the desert, leveling the sand dunes, transporting large icebergs, digging deep lakes, and even having to build ditches and build windbreaks (many windbreaks in Saudi Arabia are topped by roads with 4 runways). Just like the dam is also a river crossing.
Transporting the silt needed to transform the desert, transporting the straw that covers the silt to prevent the wind and sand from blowing away (inspired by the return of straw and wheat stalks to the field, can increase the fertility of the land. Pray for the role of sand fixation, the underground layer is mixed with silt, and the top layer has to be covered with a straw cover of 10 cm. )
Now the vast number of farmers and ordinary people in the harvest of rice, wheat, corn after the straw, if in the past, it was a fire, leaving grass ash as fertilizer, now the state advocates a ban on burning to reduce haze. If someone's house is secretly burned, they will be fined 2,000 yuan if they are caught by the environmental monitoring bureau. This can be bitter to the people, burn can not be burned, to say that there is recycling, 100 yuan a ton, but the people think that an acre of land is not enough for a ton of straw and wheat straw, to pull to the recycling point or thermal power plant, the freight is enough to choke. It was simply given to them for nothing. Vehicles transporting straw and straw are often over-high and over-wide. A full car is actually not heavy, light and fluttering. But the traffic police are powerful, and these cars are the easiest for them to catch. Sometimes the above policy is good, and the place is crooked. The common people's rice stalks and wheat stalks in the second season every year are pulled home and piled up. CCTV once reported that all the places where wheat straw could be stacked in the front yard and behind the yard of a farmer's yard were piled high. Dozens of piles, and the old straw piles are all ten years old. It can't be burned, it can't be sold, and it can't be disposed of, and every household is surrounded by wheat straw.
100 yuan a ton, how many tons per square kilometer is needed. Just like the straw equal to 1,500 acres of land is all pulled, only enough straw to be returned to the field, and the top layer has at least 1,500 acres of straw.