In southwest China, preliminary preparations have been completed for the construction of a number of hydropower stations, and the first hydropower stations have been built in the Yichang area of Hubei Province.

The construction of hydropower stations in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces has not begun, but the construction of roads has begun, and construction can be started as soon as the roads are opened.

Standing on the banks of the Yangtze River in Yichang, William looked at the upcoming Yulong Hydropower Station, a medium-sized hydropower station that is expected to generate 2 billion kilowatt hours a year when completed.

Wilhelm was a German engineer who came to China as early as 1910, when the East China political axe had not even been established, and was only a local armed force, but in six years, the local armed forces had defeated the local army and became the strongest military group in Asia.

As a German engineer who came to China at an early age, Wilhelm enjoyed a very high salary, and also signed a confidentiality agreement, even if he resigned, he could not leave China, but Wilhelm did not plan to leave China, in the past few years, he has basically adapted to the Chinese environment, and has been able to speak fluent Chinese, and has started a family in China, but also obtained Chinese nationality, enjoy the civil rights stipulated by the East China political axe.

China is changing so fast, and that's what William was surprised to see as a country of 400 million people moving forward at an incredible pace and with surprising sanity.

Yichang, where William is located, is the richest hydropower region in China, and there are many large hydropower stations that can be built here, but East China Zhengaxe does not plan to build large hydropower stations, but vigorously builds medium-sized hydropower stations.

Just like the 'Yulong Hydropower Station' they built, the annual power generation capacity is designed to be 2 billion kilowatt hours, which is equivalent to a coal mine with an annual output of 2 million tons of coal, and at the same time can save 2 million tons of railway capacity. It's not very big, but it can be completed in just two years.

Eight more medium-sized hydropower stations like this will be built in Yichang, some of which will generate more electricity than this one.

In William's view, building a large hydropower plant is not a wise move, and while it may seem ambitious and exciting, it will take too long and may cause some unknown ecological problems.

The emphasis on ecological issues is one of the things that surprised William the most, and ecological protection is a very advanced consciousness, even the major powers in the world do not have such an awareness.

In China, however, the East China Axe has put forward a perfect ecological protection plan, and sometimes it is even willing to sacrifice economic benefits to protect ecological benefits.

In terms of the theory of ecological protection, East China Zhengaxe made a systematic discipline, and William also went to an ecological protection class, so he knew the important surname of ecological protection.

And if any official violates this principle, then the end result is only to go to court and receive a harsh trial.

It was a country that really gave William a sense of the depth of their cultural heritage, and at this time China was not only surpassing the world in industrial technology, but also in consciousness.

With China's current development trajectory, William even thinks that the future hegemon of the world will probably be China, because at this time China has all the conditions to become a world hegemon, whether it is population, industry, agriculture, politics, military, education.

Staying in the country was very promising, which is why William chose to put down roots in China. At this time, more and more German engineers and mechanics came to China, and Wilhelm's choice became a role model for them.

Wilhelm understood that China is a country with a high sense of nation, but although Germany was a country that had invaded China before, it was not the main culprit, and the current cooperation between the two countries was good, and there was basically no mustard between the two countries, so the Germans were not dangerous in China, but the situation of the Chinese in Yuben was very bad, and Yuben's anti-Chinese sentiment rose to a very terrifying level.

The construction of the hydropower station was about to begin, and the workers on the site were ready, and William was doing the final theoretical verification work, and with the cooperation of several Chinese students, he found that there was no mistake in the design.

Several Chinese students are very studious, and they study very hard, which is a common learning atmosphere that can be seen in Chinese students today.

Not only these students study hard, but also those uneducated workers on the construction site, they are also learning the culture hard.

This is what shocked William the most, at a time when the whole of China was immersed in this kind of learning boom, which meant that the overall level of the country was rapidly improving.

Before the start of the project, people from the Ecological Protection Bureau came to inspect it again, and then agreed to start construction.

The Bureau of Ecological Conservation is a department that has been established for many years and has developed a number of ecological protection measures, and recently the Bureau has designated a large ecological reserve in Sichuan to protect giant pandas.

Pandas are not called pandas in this era, but cat bears, or bamboo bears, and they are still a wild animal species unknown to the world.

Although some Westerners brought the panda back, because it died on the way, people did not believe in the existence of such an animal and thought it was a fraud.

Sixty-seven years after Father David's discovery of the giant panda, the dream of capturing a live giant panda was finally realized by a tenacious American woman. In 1936, the 35-year-old New York female fashion designer Ruth? Harkless's newlywed, husband William? Harklis was an avid explorer who traveled to China two weeks after his marriage in search of giant pandas. However, William died of illness in Shanghai before he could reach the panda production area. Ruth's initial request to go with her husband was rejected by him as a burden, and now she was determined to fulfill his legacy and set off for China in April 1936, two months after his death. Ruth's expedition consisted of just two people - she and 25-year-old Chinese-American Ginting Yang. Yang's brother had participated in Roosevelt's son's expedition to China. They traveled from Shanghai to Chengdu in small wooden boats, and then entered Wenchuan, where they searched for giant pandas in the mountains and forests, and set traps for hunting. On November 9, when they came to a snow-covered bamboo forest (Caopo Township, Wenchuan County, according to experts), they heard a sound similar to a baby's cry coming from a dead tree hole. When Yang Tingkun caught a small furry animal from the hole in the tree and handed it to Ruth, who was already numb from the cold, she couldn't believe that this was the giant panda that Westerners had dreamed of for more than half a century. Ruth thought that the little one, who was less than 3 pounds, had a female surname (which later turned out to be a male surname), so she named her "Su Lin" after Yang Tingkun's wife. Luckily, Ruth knew how valuable she had been, and took Su Lin back to Chengdu quickly, and then flew to Shanghai. But there was trouble leaving the country.

Although Westerners have sought the giant panda for more than half a century and know it to be a rare and endangered animal, until then, Chinese knew almost nothing about the giant panda. Hunters are free to hunt these "bears" at will, and there are no regulations or measures for the protection of the political axe. Ruth's trouble is not that she captured a giant panda, but that she could not leave the country because she had incomplete procedures to enter Chinese mainland. In the end, she took a bribe to board a ship bound for the United States, put Su Lin in a large wicker basket, wrote "carry a pug with you" on the customs registration form, and mixed out of customs.

Ruth and Su Lin were still sailing in the Pacific Ocean, and the news had already spread throughout the United States by transoceanic telegrams. When the ship docked at the San Francisco pier, it was the day before Christmas, and the surprised Americans held a grand welcome ceremony on the pier, arranging the most luxurious suites for their precious guests. Su Lin was sent to many big cities to exhibit, causing a sensation everywhere she went. Theodore, Roosevelt's son who had traveled to China in search of giant pandas, said emotionally when he met Su Lin, "If this little guy were to be a souvenir from my gun, I would rather use my son instead." "After a stiff competition, Chicago's Brookfield Zoo got Su Lin. People flock here like a tidal wave, with a maximum of 40,000 people a day, surpassing the zoo's highest record. Su Lin's every move made the news in the newspapers, businessmen rushed to make panda-like products, hipsters swaggered through the market in panda-patterned swimsuits, and even a cocktail named after the panda. Ruth and Surin's story became a bestseller and was brought to the screen.

Unfortunately, Su Lin only lived for a year, and was later made into a permanent specimen. Su Lin's appearance made the giant panda from the museum to the public, she is not only rare, but also especially cute, and has become an animal star all over the world for a while. From 1936 to 1941, the United States alone took nine giant pandas from China, and the West China University, a church school in Chengdu, "greatly helped" in this process. Stayed in the giant panda production area for 20 years, the Englishman Tangier, known as the "Panda King"? In the three years between 1936 and 1938, Smith acquired nine live pandas and brought six of them to the UK.

During World War II, the giant panda "Ming" at the London Zoo was bombed by German planes and became a wartime hero in the hearts of London citizens. At the height of the war, the newspapers continued to report on Ming's life. Ming died at the end of 1944, and an obituary published in The Times said: "She could die without regrets because she brought happiness to thousands." After the end of World War II in December 1945, the British organized a team of more than 200 people through diplomatic channels to conduct a large-scale search in Wenchuan, and finally captured a giant panda and sent it to Britain. Like many things in China, the panda's status in China has risen rapidly since it made a splash abroad. From the 40s of the last century, the political axe began to restrict the hunting activities of foreigners. Perhaps because of this, the giant panda survived.

Xia Jun, as a traverser, naturally wants to avoid this phenomenon.

Westerners hunt giant pandas at will, which is simply a shame for China.

Therefore, after Sichuan was included in the jurisdiction of East China's political axe, Xia Jun immediately let people set up a giant panda reserve, because Xia Jun did not know much about the current name of the giant panda, so he directly called it the giant panda, so he began to call the cat bear a panda.

Just like Lu Xun's typos in later generations can become the correct words, Xia Jun can also become the mainstream name when he calls the wrong panda's name.

The Giant Panda Sanctuary is very large, and the area of the Giant Panda Sanctuary is nearly 30,000 square kilometers, covering many residential areas.

The population of these settlements will be relocated, and plants such as bamboo will be planted in large quantities in the reserve to create an environment suitable for giant pandas under the mountainous area.

Due to the growth of the population, the living area of the giant panda began to shrink, and the bottom of the mountain area itself is also the living area of the giant panda.

Since the distribution of giant pandas is a small population in the shape of islands, it is inevitable that they will inbreed and lose their genetic diversity, and eventually lead to the extinction of small populations with poor germplasm one by one. In addition, the giant panda has a single food surname, and if the giant panda's staple food bamboo cycle surname blooms and dies (about 60 years cycle), it will inevitably lead to the giant panda starving and dying of disease due to lack of food.

In response to this situation, Xia Jun set up a special giant panda protection department.

On the issue of the distribution of giant pandas, Xia Jun's approach is first to expand the area of the reserve and try to link the reserves together.

This does not solve the problem of the scattered distribution of giant pandas, so Xia Jun plans to have the male giant pandas moved by anesthesia, transporting the male giant pandas from this reserve to another reserve, and transporting the male giant pandas from another reserve to other reserves.

For the problem of food shortage, real-time monitoring is adopted, and if the bamboo blooms and dies, it is solved by manual delivery of food.

In order to protect the giant pandas, Xia Jun allocated 10 million yuan in the conservation of giant pandas, mainly for the relocation of residents in the reserve, as well as the restoration of the ecology, and the study of conservation measures for the giant pandas.

At present, China's economic development is not too high, and the cost of relocating residents to the west is also not high, which saves a lot of money in the protection of giant pandas, so the area of the demarcated protected area is relatively large.

…… A photography team came to the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve, which is located in Wenchuan County, Sichuan, and has a large number of giant pandas.

The camera crew belongs to the East China Film Company, the director's name is Zhang Zhilin, is a documentary director, the documentary director is not a mainstream director, and the commercial surname is not strong, but the support of the political axe is high, and the reward for shooting an excellent documentary is very high, and the shooting cost of the documentary can be reimbursed to the political axe half.

The filming of the documentary on the giant panda this time is a task assigned by the political axe.

Zhang Zhilin is ready for a long time to shoot, and it takes a long time to shoot wildlife documentaries, sometimes even five or six years.

If you're lucky, you can do it in two or three years.

To shoot this kind of documentary, you have to run all over the mountains, trekking through mountains and rivers is inevitable, and you have to keep trekking through mountains and rivers to track the traces of wild animals.

So shooting wildlife documentaries is a very tiring job, and the working environment is 108,000 miles different from those who shoot commercial films.

But it's also a hobby, and Zhang Zhilin has a great interest in exploring this wild animal that even the Chinese themselves know little about.

On the first day of the photography team's arrival at the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve, they saw the panda under the guidance of the reserve's staff.

Thirteen giant pandas have been caught in the reserve's breeding base, and after these giant pandas have bred offspring in the breeding base, the breeding base will release the bred giant pandas back into the wild.

It is not a good idea to set aside a protected area for the giant pandas to fend for themselves, and the East China Political Axe has taken a dual route of natural breeding and artificial breeding to ensure the growth of the giant panda population.

Zoos from all over the country also ran to the giant panda sanctuary, and they all wanted to get a giant panda back.

However, there is no policy to open up for the time being, except for the National Zoo in Hangzhou, which has transported two giant pandas, and the other private zoos can only wait slowly.

…… On the day the two giant pandas arrived in Hangzhou, Hangzhou caused a sensation in the Chinese and foreign media, after some media questioned whether the East China political axe spent tens of millions of yuan to protect animals was making a fuss, and when people saw the giant pandas, this doubt slowly disappeared.

The giant panda is a very cute animal, and the surname is docile, a simple and cute appearance is naturally loved by people, and the giant panda is facing the danger of extinction at this time, tens of millions of yuan of conservation funds are nothing, after all, this is a national treasure.

After the propaganda of the Propaganda Department, people quickly accepted the status of the giant panda as a national treasure.

And the Western media also frantically took big pictures of the giant pandas and sent them back to China as big news.

Soon the appearance of the giant panda caused a sensation in the world, and this cute animal quickly became popular.

In China, soon the giant panda was on the big screen, and several film companies reached an agreement with the National Zoo that the giant panda would appear in the film to better promote the giant panda.

Xia Jun also took his son and daughter to see the giant pandas, but the zoo was crowded, so Xia Jun had to enter through the back door of the zoo.

After playing in the zoo for most of the day, Xia Mengmeng and the two little ones watched the giant pandas in the zoo and were still reluctant to go. Xia Mengmeng said that the giant panda is cuter than the little black raised at home, and they want to raise one.

Xia Jun has a black modified Chinese pastoral dog at home, which is a warning dog, very docile to familiar people, and likes to play, and is also the pet of the three little ones.

Raise a giant panda yourself?

Of course, this will not work! In those giant panda reserves, there are only about 100 giant pandas in a county, where can they be raised by individuals, and the three little ones were quickly forcibly pulled back by Xia Jun.

Western countries learned of the existence of giant pandas, and some countries wanted to get a few back.

Among them is the United States, which wants to ask for a few political axes from East China.

Western countries thought that this was Chinese cabbage, but Xia Jun naturally didn't give it, and the number of giant pandas was already small, so naturally it couldn't be sent casually.

At this time, China's international status does not need to be tied to anyone, so to give pandas to other countries, it must be a country with which it has a very good relationship.

In order to legislate the protection of giant pandas and other wild animals, the East China Political Axe stipulated in the Constitution that the state should protect precious animals and plants. In addition, the "Forest Law", "Wildlife Protection Law", "Environmental Protection Law" and other relevant supporting laws have been formulated and implemented, and the "Criminal Law" has been supplemented to severely punish those who smuggle and speculate on giant pandas: "They will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than 30 years, and may be punished with confiscation of all property, and if the circumstances are serious, they may be sentenced to life imprisonment and death." ”

(To be continued)