Chapter 385: The Sea Becomes an Island
"Tuvalu's integration into the SAR? Mr. Wei, I think you're saying the opposite, right? ”
Li Wei's words made Wei Minsheng suddenly feel that he had said too much.
If the Tuvaluan authorities had known their intentions in advance, they would be prone to many uncertainties when the SAR had not yet taken shape.
Therefore, Wei Minsheng took the initiative to stop the topic and said to them: "I can't reveal too much about some of the situation in the Tuvalu Special Zone at the moment.
Moreover, the construction of the special zone cannot be completed in a short period of time.
Therefore, the number of our immigrants will not be too many for the time being, and some things can be improved while building, so there is no need to be in too much of a hurry.
And, for some immigrants with other ideas, Tuvalu can also be used as a springboard.
After adapting to the local living habits, there is much less resistance to immigrating to Australia or New Zealand.
Of course, for some immigrants who are willing to participate in the construction of Tuvalu's special district, the future of the special district will definitely not disappoint.
Working and living in Tuvalu, everyone can work and imagine to the fullest.
Because it is a city of freedom, a city of integrity, a city of hope......"
In fact, Minsheng Company's application of integrity in various businesses has become very common, and employees have also felt the benefits of being in a working and living environment that stresses integrity.
If we act in good faith, we will minimize unnecessary loss in the work process and save a lot of work expenses compared to other companies.
For example, the customized lunch box in the Minsheng canteen has a very small proportion of loss and damage.
Moreover, the use of these lunch boxes is almost closed, and the unique code can be easily traced back to the person who used it.
It will not be like a shared bicycle, in an open and unrestrained environment, and it is easy to be maliciously damaged by some people with ulterior motives or low quality.
And the new city described by Wei Minsheng to them takes freedom and honesty as the foundation of the city, which makes people full of infinite reverie and hope.
No matter how beautiful Wei Minsheng described the city of hope, it was still under construction.
And to build a new city from the sea by reclamation, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is obvious that it cannot be completed in a short time.
During this period, it is not very urgent to expand the number of immigrants, but only to spread the construction of the Tuvalu Special Zone through tourism, so that everyone can deepen their understanding of each other and spread it through word of mouth.
When Tuvalu is truly built into a livable city, it is much better to speak with facts than all the propaganda is now.
Even at that time, Wei Minsheng and his mind were not about propaganda, but about finding ways to control the number of immigrants.
Because of the scale of construction in Tuvalu, it is doomed to the impossibility of super-large-scale immigration.
Tuvalu's tourism resources were originally very rich, but due to the long-term crisis of submergence and the lack of living materials, as well as the lag of social development, these tourism resources of Tuvalu have not been developed.
The steel structure houses built by Long Hao can already meet the basic living needs after improving the relevant supporting facilities.
In such a situation, tourists attracted by the free tourist quota provided by Minsheng can make the most intuitive suggestions on the living conditions here and improve them in time.
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The islands of Tuvalu are scattered and surrounded by reefs, which are not conducive to navigation, and only Funafuti and Nukufetao have large and good anchorage ports.
As a result, in the waters off Tuvalu, only freighters under 1,000 tons can have a relatively free navigation area.
In order to make the Tuvaluan authorities feel their sincerity, Wei Minsheng purchased several 1,000-ton freighters and one 10,000-ton freighter through Minsheng.
The 10,000-ton freighter was just a façade and parked in the deep sea near Tuvalu.
The earth and rock transferred through the shared space are temporarily stored on 10,000-ton vessels, and then transferred to the places in Tuvalu that need to be filled with earth and rock.
According to the treaty signed between Wei Minsheng and Tuvalu, all the existing land outline photos of Tuvalu have been fixed by aerial photography, and Wei Minsheng only needs to ensure that the land within these areas is no longer flooded by the sea, even if Tuvalu's requirements are met.
In the process of transporting earth and rock on these 1,000-ton vessels, a large number of local human resources from Tuvalu were also used.
While Wei Minsheng fulfilled his obligations, he also made the Tuvalu authorities see the enormity of the island reclamation project.
Before there was no protection of the embankment, more than 20% of the soil and stones that were filled in would be washed away by the waves, which made Ener and others feel a pain in their flesh.
The earth and rocks transported from distant places by thousand-ton freighters, not to mention its significance to the island nation of Tuvalu, are not a simple figure.
In the eyes of Enell and others, the value of these earth and rocks is even much higher than that of seafood, because they simply could not afford to obtain so much earth and stone to fill their own land.
The story of the vicissitudes of life has always existed only in the offshore waters of one continent.
Such a practice as Wei Minsheng has never been heard of in the history of any country.
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On the outskirts of Tuvalu, there is no huge stone block for the construction of dikes, as in the outskirts of Nurakita Island.
Instead, about four kilometers outside the island of Nyurakita, a circular embankment with a diameter of more than one kilometer was built with large and small stones.
A small sand-suction boat then piles coral reef debris from the surrounding seabed into the circular dike.
Excess water flowed out of the cracks between the top of the circular levee and the rocks, leaving only coral reef debris and sediment on the seabed, which were not afraid of the corrosive sea.
Long Hao and Wei Minsheng occasionally used the shared space under the cover of night, transferring the sand and gravel in the shallow sea area directly into the annular embankment as the foundation of the island.
Although only one sand suction vessel is working every day, the progress of the project beneath the surface of the sea cannot be seen intuitively.
Therefore, why it took less than a week and a week to fill in the middle of the ring embankment of more than 1 million square meters can only be explained by the miracle of Huaguo.
After the island foundation is formed, a large amount of cement mortar is injected into the sand and gravel to strengthen the entire foundation.
With the support of shared space, what Tuvalu once thought would never be possible has been easily done by Wei Minsheng.