After inspecting the mercury station, Shan Liangkun, Liu Shiqing and others took a helicopter to the grassland province.

In order to ensure that the seawater desalination westward transmission project benefits more provinces in North China and Northwest China, and at the same time to reduce the difficulty of construction, the pipelines laid are not only bifurcated, but also the main pipeline is not a straight line, but meanders forward. Most of the pipes are buried deep underground, and the distance between the top end of the pipe and the surface is generally about three meters, which is also done to minimize the damage to the surface vegetation as much as possible.

Starting from Jinmen City, it passed through Gongtian Province and Sanjin Province, and then the main pipeline entered Grassland Province. Here, the second most important fork of the seawater desalination project to the west has appeared, and the main road continues to spread to the northwest province, and the fork enters the grassland province, providing the grassland province with the desalinated Bohai seawater.

The total area of grassland in the grassland province is 8 phenol 70,000 hectares, of which the usable grassland area is up to you. 10,000 hectares, accounting for the total area of grassland in the country

It is the most famous animal husbandry province in the country, providing a variety of beef, mutton and leather goods for the whole country. However, as an inland province, the annual precipitation of the grassland province is not very much, only about 5 mm of annual precipitation, although there are many rivers and lakes in the territory, but it cannot completely ensure the amount of water needed for the development of industry, agriculture and animal husbandry. Especially in the past few years, the management of grasslands has not been scientific enough, and herders have overgrazing, which has led to the degradation of many playgrounds and turned into deserts and the Gobi Desert.

Grassland Province is the province with the second largest total area of deserts and sandy land in China, of which the total area of desert is about . It leads to 10,000 square kilometers, and the total area of sandy land is about 60,000 square kilometers. Grassland Province is not just the scenery of the vast sky and wilderness, the wind blowing the grass and seeing the cattle and sheep as advertised in the media, once the wind passes, the wild sand is also one of the most common scenery in the Grassland Province.

From the perspective of the overall environment of Jinguo, Grassland Province is also an important part of the country's environmental protection. Every spring, the dust from the steppe provinces and Mongolia is blown up by strong winds and spreads overwhelmingly to the east, forming the world-famous sandstorms. At that time, many provinces and cities in China will suffer, and even Fuguo and Japan further east will sometimes be affected.

The sub-pipeline of the seawater desalination project to the west of the grassland province mainly supplies water to the deserts, desertified grasslands and water-scarce areas of the grassland province. According to the overall design regulations. After the completion of the desalination project to the west, it will provide about 2 billion cubic meters of Bohai sea water to the grassland province every year, which is equivalent to one-35th of the annual runoff of the Songhua River.

Of course. In terms of the amount of fresh water transported, the annual transportation of 2 billion tons of fresh water is simply not enough to fill the gap in freshwater resources in the grassland province. But there's no way to do it overnight. Along with the seawater desalination project to the west, the freshwater resources transported will be used as much as possible, including energy-saving irrigation, drip irrigation, recycling and other water-saving measures. In addition, the seawater desalination westward transportation project is only the beginning, and in the future, it is necessary to study and determine whether to carry out the second seawater desalination westward transportation project according to the needs of the actual situation and the implementation effect of the seawater desalination westward transportation project. About half of the freshwater resources transported by the desalination project to the west will be supplied to the Hetao Plain between the grassland province and the Xixia province. In the southwestern part of this plain lies a desert with a total area of about 10,000 square kilometers, Ulan Bu and the desert. The individual involved in the seawater desalination project to the west, whether it is a company, a university, or a scientific research institute, the land contracted in the grassland province and Xixia province is mainly concentrated in Ulan Bu and the desert. With such a premise, in order to ensure the interests of shareholders, it is natural to give priority to the supply of water here.

According to the plan, "after the completion of the seawater desalination project to the west, about 900 million cubic meters of desalinated clean Bohai sea water will be provided to Ulan Bu and the desert every year." On average, it is equivalent to irrigating the entire Ulan Bu and desert with fresh water about 3 mm deep every year. As long as the water-saving measures can keep up, and at the same time use scientific planning methods to clean up Ulan Bu and the desert, it is entirely possible to make Ulan Bu and the desert disappear in about one or two decades. If all Ulan Bu and the desert are developed into arable land, more than 7 million acres of arable land can be reclaimed every year. At that time, Ulan Bu and the desert will become important grain producing areas in the Steppe Province and Xixia Province, like the rest of the Hetao Plain.

The place where Shan Liangkun is going to cut the ribbon this time is located on the edge of Ulan Bu and the desert. There are desert shelterbelts planted by the military and civilians of the two provinces of Grassland and Xixia. On one side of the shelterbelt, you can still see traces of human activity, but on the other side of the shelterbelt, you will see the vast Gobi Desert and the endless sea of sand.

At this time, it is winter, and the cold wind is hunting, but on the construction site, it is a lively scene of gongs and drums. The people here may not understand what kind of technical problems and measures are needed to transport Hanyou to the public after being transferred to the public, but what it means to send fresh water to Lianlian, but they are very clear. This means that they will have more arable land, they will be able to produce more food each year, and they will earn more money each year. What's more important is that they no longer have to face the dilemma of sand entering and retreating, and they don't need to give up the fields and estates they have lived in for many years and migrate to live in other places because of the pressure of the desert.

After Shan Liangkun, Liu Shiqing and others got down from the helicopter, the sound of gongs and drums became even more noisy. The relevant leaders of the grassland province and the Xixia province, the responsible persons of the local government, and the common people all gathered around.

Shan Liangkun walked in the front, clasped his hands into fists, and threw his hands at the people around him. "Ladies and gentlemen, it's coming to the old year soon, and I give you a New Year's greeting."

Surrounded by local government officials, ordinary people, and representatives of construction units, Shan Liangkun walked at the front of the team and arrived at the front of a channel. This is one of the several terminals of the desalination project in Ulan Bu and the desert, and the Bohai sea water will flow into the ditches of these terminals through Guò. The scene of the celebration was newly decorated, in the middle of the pipe connected to the pumping mercury, raised high, a festive red flower was tied with red satin, and next to the mercury room, a stone tablet was erected, on which was written a line of large characters Monument to the completion of the seawater desalination project to the west. A piece of red silk hangs down on the stele, covering the surface of the stele, and when the cold wind blows, the dozen or so words that have been drawn with cinnabar appear and disappear from time to time.

"Come, Mr. Liu, let's unveil the monument together." Shan Liangkun invited with a smile.

Liu Shiqing didn't like to join in this kind of fun, he said with a smile: "This honor still makes you unique." Vice Prime Minister Shan, please. ”

Shan Liangkun strode forward, and the reporter who had been waiting here for a long time hurriedly pointed the lens of the camera and video camera at Shan Liangkun. Shan Liangkun smiled and uncovered the red silk covering the monument. Someone had already set off firecrackers at the moment when Shan Liangkun unveiled the red silk, and the people in the mercury room closed the switch, and with a huge roar, the white water dragon gushed out of the pipe, fell into the ditch, and flowed along the ditch that had been arranged in advance.

Shan Liangkun didn't care about the cold water, reached out and took a handful of water, took a sip, and praised: "This water is good, sweet!" ”

Liu Shiqing shook his head secretly, it would be strange if this water was sweet. After the seawater desalination treatment plant pumped out the water in the Bohai Sea, it has undergone purification and desalination treatment, and the minerals and impurities contained in it have almost been cleaned up, and then transported through pipelines and mercury stations, in order to ensure water quality, during this period, it will also be purified, even if the water has a little taste, it will definitely not be sweet, but the taste of chlorine has a little bit.

However, Shan Liangkun said sweet, which is understandable, after all, he is a vice premier, a political figure, and sometimes he needs to say something that is not appropriate to the occasion according to the different occasions.

"Comrades, fathers and fellow villagers, the water has come, from more than a thousand miles away from the Bohai Sea, just listen to this, the distance, you should know how hard-won this water is, I hope you can cherish the hard-won Bohai Sea, make good use of it, pay attention to conservation. The people of the Hetao Plain are industrious and full of wisdom, and I believe that you will be able to make good use of the Bohai Sea and create many miracles. I hope that tomorrow I will be able to eat the grains, fruits and vegetables grown by the people of the Hetao Plain using the Bohai Sea. In addition, here, on behalf of the Central Political Bureau and the State Council, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the comrades who participated in the exhibition of the seawater desalination project to the west. Thank you so much. ”

As he spoke, Shan Liangkun clasped his hands into fists and made a few gestures around. Naturally, Shan Liangkun won a round of applause.

At present, according to his understanding, from a technical point of view, as long as there is no natural disaster, there is no possibility of sudden interruption of the seawater desalination westward transportation project.

Of course, for the specific situation, Shan Liangkun also needs to find out the direct responsible persons of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, the Huaxia Academy of Engineering, and several central schools involved in the design and construction.

As for directly asking Liu Shiqing to understand the situation, he was directly excluded by Shan Liangkun, on the one hand, Liu Shiqing's Galaxy Industry is the largest shareholder of the entire project. On the other hand, Shan Liangkun also knows that Liu Shiqing is a busy man, and if he has that time, it is better to let Liu Shiqing make a few more inventions and create a few more inventions.

Thanks for the reward of "industrial food, naughty watermelon", thank you (to be continued) D