There is a small gallery on the reef that displays objects that have been on the reef for decades, as well as photographs documenting developments.

There are guns and tools used by officers and men guarding the reef in previous generations, samples of materials used to build stilt houses in previous generations, bits and pieces of the life of officers and soldiers guarding the reef recorded by photojournalists, and countless thrilling reef guarding operations. A reef is the epitome of the motherland's development and the building of the armed forces.

As usual, the recipe is familiar: a huge forklift acts as a tractor. The diesel engine rumbled black smoke and dragged the dark gray J-8FR away, until it was dragged to the arched parking shed far away from the building, and the three dark gray J-8FR were all in place.

Zhong Guobang had been waiting for a long time, and most of the smiling people greeted him, saluting first and then shaking hands.

Li Zhan, who came down the boarding ladder, hurriedly took off the white labor protection gloves that had been pulped and returned the salute, walked a few steps quickly to put down the flight bag, and held Zhong Guobang's hands tightly and shook them vigorously, "Captain Zhong, meet again!" ”

"Hahaha, Captain Li, don't come unharmed!" Zhong Guobang, who had a scruffy beard and a red complexion, said with a laugh.

"I'm here to trouble you again." Li Zhan sincerely admired this veteran who had been guarding the reef for more than ten years, and only those who had been on the reef could understand what kind of day it was.

If there are twelve levels of loneliness, then theirs is eighteen.

Any officer and soldier guarding the reef does not need to make much contribution, as long as they can stay on the reef for one year, they can get a third-class merit.

Zhu Wei and Li Zixin walked over, taking off their flight helmets as they walked, and the heat waves were carried by the sea breeze, and the feeling of humidity and heat made all the people who came here for the first time feel uncomfortable. The two quickly took off their white labor protection gloves, touched a handful of sweat along their foreheads, and exhaled a breath of hot air, which made them feel a little cooler.

Under the influence of Li Zhan, many pilots of the 101st Brigade like to wear white labor protection gloves, but the new flight gloves issued will only be used when they want to pay attention to the scene.

Li Zhan said, "Commander Zhong, this Zhu Wei, deputy chief of staff of the 101st Brigade, and this Captain Li Zixin. This is Zhong Guobang, the head of the reef guarding force. ”

Zhu Wei and Li Zixin hurriedly put down their heavy flight bags and saluted.

The last time Li Zhan and Chen Fei drove the No. 1616 J-16 to land on the Forgetaway Reef, Zhong Guobang was a lieutenant colonel and deputy regiment, two years have passed, Zhong Guobang is still Zhong Guobang, looking more like a middle-aged migrant worker, but the level has also improved, and the colonel regiment is good.

This is a reasonable storyline, and it can't chill the hearts of those who give silently, right?

Li Zhan said, "Head Zhong, find a cool place to talk, I have brought you good things, and you are satisfied!" ”

"It's rude, it's rude, it's rude to see an old friend who is too excited." Zhong Guobang hurriedly asked everyone to get into the car, the car was a half-old Jiangling pickup truck.

Li Zhan took a look, there are a lot of this kind of car islands and reefs, which can pull people and goods, which is very suitable for islands and reefs that are still a big construction site. And there is no license plate, so it is estimated that it is used as construction machinery.

Zhong Guobang insisted that Li Zhan sit in the co-pilot, but of course Li Zhan refused, and Zhong Guobang was not hypocritical to shirk a few times, and beckoned everyone to get in the car and go to the office building. The organ building has also changed a lot, the last time I came over, it was a small two-storey, and now it is a large three-story townhouse, full camouflage camouflage.

The surrounding greenery has also been raised, the sun is full of greenery, and the sea breeze looks quite good, but in fact, after staying for a long time, I can't wait to swim back to the mainland.

After getting out of the car, Zhong Guobang saw Li Zhan and the others constantly looking at the greening in front and back of the building, and said with a smile, "The greening here costs a lot of money, and many of them are transported from the mainland of the motherland, and the soldiers have learned to cultivate some of them." You look at that vegetable garden in the distance, it's been more than 20 years. ”

It means that the vegetable garden exists between the expansion of the island and reef.

Li Zhan and Zhong Guobang walked in front, and Zhu Wei introduced to Li Zixin, who was the least aware of the situation, in a low voice, "In the past, it was very difficult for the reef guards to eat delicious vegetables, because they had to be transported from the mainland of the motherland by boat, and there were many storms here, and half of the year was the typhoon season, and they couldn't eat vegetables for several months in bad weather, and they even had to rely on canned food to maintain." ”

Li Zixin said, "I often read reports about the officers and soldiers guarding the reef from the military newspapers, and I knew that their lives were very difficult, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult. ”

"In the past, fresh water had to be transported from the mainland of the motherland, but now it is much better. The seawater desalination system and the four-season vegetable greenhouses can at least ensure that the officers and men on the islands and reefs can live a normal life. Zhu Wei said.

There is a special single bedroom upstairs in the organ, Zhong Guobang settled everyone down, and then made tea in the reception room for everyone to drink.

Turning on the air conditioner and fan, Zhong Guobang sat down and said with a smile, "Now the conditions on the reef are much better, when you come over, you see that there is no power station in the southeast corner, wind, solar, tide, three ways of power generation, and diesel can also be used to generate electricity in case of emergency." There is a large oil storage tank under the power station, which can maintain normal electricity on the reef for a month. ”

"This power station alone has cost a lot of money, and now the second phase of construction is underway, and it is expected that hundreds of millions more will be invested." Zhong Guobang is very high-spirited when he talks about this, even though it is a local construction project.

Li Zhan said with a smile, "The long-term plan is a total of three phases, right?" Eventually, it will be able to meet the electricity consumption of cities and towns with a population of 100,000. ”

"Yes, that's the scale of infrastructure on the reef in the next decade. The second phase of land reclamation has also begun, and the area will be further expanded. Zhong Guobang said, "However, the airport is a large consumer of electricity, and it is said that it will build a power supply system to meet the needs of a town with a population of 100,000, but in fact, it can accommodate up to 50,000 people, and I am afraid that this number is even less." ”

Zhu Wei said with a smile, "It's already very good, the scale of Synear Island is much larger than Forget Me Reef, and the power station over there seems to be only 50,000 people." ”

"Synear Island is also expanding, and their long-term plans are even stronger." Zhong Guobang smiled and smoked, lit a cigarette and took two puffs and said, "I went there for a meeting a few days ago, good guys, they want to build a 100,000-ton deep-water wharf and a series of shore support facilities, and plan a large-scale island tourism area, which is said to reach the capacity of receiving 5,000 tourists at the same time, and the number of tourists received every year will reach one million." ”

The three of them were taken aback, and Li Zhan said in surprise, "The annual tourist reception scale is one million? This is already the reception scale of the national five-A scenic spot, and the number of visitors to Huaguo Mountain is more than 10,000 in a single day. Missing Island, this is about to take off! ”

"But no!" Zhong Guobang laughed and said, "You're right, they are in line with the national five-A scenic spots, some of which are island natural scenery, and they include several small reefs around, and it is expected to take fifteen years to reach this scale." ”

Li Zixin was directly shocked, no one who has any tourism experience knows what the concept of receiving millions of tourists per year is, if there is no concept, then the scale of receiving 5,000 tourists at the same time is very intuitive.

"Isn't Missive Island going to build a 4F airport? Otherwise, it will not be able to meet the demand for such a large number of passengers. Li Zixin subconsciously said, "In addition, is there so many tourists in such a large-scale tropical island tourism area?" ”

Zhu Wei said, "This is not a problem, now the local area is very keen on tropical island tourism in the South China Sea, look, once it is open for tourism, only the tourists who cannot receive enough will definitely not go without tourists." ”

"Yes, the local tourism department has done a lot of surveys, and as Lao Zhu said, there is only insufficient reception capacity, and there will be no situation where there are no tourists. For tourism, the South China Sea scenery may be a rare all-natural landscape in the world. ”

Zhong Guobang said, "Captain Li is right, the long-term plan of Synear Island Airport is to build a 4F-level dual-runway airport, with an annual throughput of 2 million passengers, and an annual throughput of 5 million passengers in 20 years after completion and operation." ”

"Good guys!" Li Zhan's saliva is about to come down.

Not to mention the fact that after 20 years of operation, the fact that it will have a throughput of 2 million passengers per year is scary enough. The annual throughput of Zhangjiajie Airport is 17.8 million passengers, which is Zhangjiajie!

As for the 4F-level airport with two runways, in fact, the scale of the airport will not bring much surprise to Li Zhan, the air force pilots, all airports in China must first be examined and approved by the air force when they are built. The fact that such a small place as Wangwo Reef currently covers an area of only a dozen square kilometers is forced into a runway 3,200 meters long is naturally in consideration of the requirements of the construction of the national defense system.

In these special areas, airport levels do not fully reflect the tourism industry. The airports of many tourist cities are passively developed, slowly expanding and upgrading with the boom in tourism, but here it is the opposite. An airport that can take off and land four large passenger planes may not have a few takeoffs and landings throughout the year, but this cannot affect the construction level of the airport.

Therefore, when Li Zhan and others heard that Sinian Island was going to be built into a tourist area that would receive millions of tourists a year, and that it would reach a throughput of five million people a year after the airport was completed and put into operation 20 years later, the shock in their hearts was quite powerful.

According to the annual throughput, Synear Island Airport will be able to squeeze into the list of the top 50 airports in the country in the future!

In the future, millions of people will flock to the Nanhai Islands every year on average......

This does not include those who choose to sail.

Li Zhan shook his head with a smile and said, "Sinian Island is going to build a 100,000-ton deep-water wharf, it won't be for the purpose of receiving international cruise ships, right?" ”

International luxury cruise ships are generally more than 100,000 tons, of course, more tens of thousands of tons of cruises. According to the standard ratio of 1:20, a 50,000-ton cruise ship can accommodate up to 2,500 tourists. In other words, if Synear Island wants to receive international cruise ships, one can fill up the tourist area they planned.

Zhong Guobang nodded with a smile, "Not only cruises, but also planned to meet the berthing and supply functions of some large ships, and in the future, it will have the ability to receive and supply three 100,000-ton cargo ships at the same time." ”

Li Zhan and the three of them were dumbfounded, what is this, the magic of nature or the crazy infrastructure maniac? Or is it the crystallization of the wisdom of the great working people?

Let's take a look around, how many ports in the world can receive one 100,000-ton cruise ship and supply three 100,000-ton cargo ships at the same time?

Thinking of the big fart place on Missy Island, and then looking at the island and reef where you can see the end from the beginning to the end at a glance, Li Zhan has only one idea - those cutter suction dredgers are definitely not enough.

"At the end of the day, these are long-term plans." Zhong Guobang filled the three of them with tea and said, "I think that when all the facilities are built, there will be no taste of natural scenery." If you have time, you can bring your family over in two years, and the best months are from October to January. ”

Li Zixin was tempted, he felt that his eyes were not enough along the way from the airport just now, he had been to a lot of coastal areas on the mainland of the motherland, and he had also gone to a few coastal tourist cities, and he had seen all the beaches and blue seas and blue skies, but compared with the side of the Forgetless Reef, it was not at the same level at all.

It is really a white cloud, it is really a blue sky, it is really a clear blue water, this is an absolute virgin place, and it is a precious wealth left by our ancestors to our descendants!

"Is it open?" Li Zixin asked, "My wife is clamoring to make up for her wedding honeymoon, I think the South China Sea is really good, much better than Bali, Maldives." ”

Zhong Guobang said, "It will be opened one after another next year, if it is not opened, I will help you contact, mainly because some reception measures here will only be put into use next year." I haven't been to Bali, Maldives, but from all sources, it's not as generic as ours. ”

"I'm tempted." Li Zhan said with a smile.

He grew up by the sea, so he was quite familiar with the ocean, and when he grew up, he had little interest in it, but he was still attracted by the perfect tropical island scenery when he came here.

"Hahaha!" Zhong Guobang laughed and came up with an idea, "Actually, there is no need to be so troublesome, Commander Li went back to ask the unit for instructions, organized a military camp experience activity for the families of the troops, invited all the family members over, and the troops organized planes to pull people over for ten days and half a month, why wait until it is open for tourism." ”

Zhu Wei slapped his thigh, "Good idea, miss the island and forget the reef, and several other islands and reefs have been walked on, so that the family members can take a turn in the territorial waters of their own home." ”

The army often organizes family members to participate in military camp experience activities, and will definitely engage in related activities during the New Year's holiday, Zhong Guobang's idea is simply good.

Li Zhan drew inferences from one case and said with a smile, "At the end of this training, I will make a suggestion to the sea secretary to invite the families of the officers and soldiers of the reef guarding troops to come over, even if they come to the team to visit their relatives and experience the barracks." ”

Hearing this, Zhong Guobang's expression became serious, he slowly stood up and looked at Li Zhan and said, "Commander Li, if you can make the trip, I will thank you for all the officers and soldiers guarding the reef!" ”

After saying the marching salute.

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