In order to adapt to the rapid increase in the demand for industrial and civil electricity in the country, by the first half of 1901, under the instructions of Chen Zeyu, the central government of Celis had successively increased the construction of power plants and hydropower stations in various regions of the country.

In April of that year, the Liujiaxia Hydropower Station in Yongjing County, Gansu Province, China, was finally completed. Following the Shilongba Hydropower Station in Yunnan, the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station in Hangzhou and the Xiaolangdi Hydropower Station in the middle section of the Yellow River in Luoyang, Celis has finally built the fourth large-scale hydropower project with an installed capacity of one million kilowatts in China.

In terms of installed capacity, the newly built Liujiaxia hydropower station is only slightly smaller than Xiaolangdi downstream. It took 1 year and 9 months to build the gravity dam type hydropower station with a total storage capacity of more than 6 billion cubic meters, a dam height of 148 meters, a total of five generator sets installed from south to north, with a total installed power of 1.225 million kilowatts, and the annual power generation is expected to reach about 5.58 billion kilowatt hours, and on April 19 of that year, the last 225,000 kilowatt unit of the Liujiaxia hydropower station project was also installed in place and put into operation in that month.

Thanks to the newly completed Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, the Yumen Oilfield in Gansu Province, located to the northwest of the plant, has an abundant and reliable energy supply. At the same time, Celis has also continuously increased the development of the northwest petroleum industry, and a steady stream of funds and equipment began to enter the petroleum industry zone located in Yumen.

Under such circumstances, by the end of July of that year, Seris's domestic Yumen oil production naturally reached a new high. According to statistics. Gansu's Western Petroleum Company broke through the record for its monthly crude oil production capacity in the month. It reached an over-record 260,000 tons. Compared with the previous quarter, it has almost doubled, and the entire company has demonstrated amazing operational vitality and development efficiency, and at the same time, it has also shown the wisdom and talent of Celis Petroleum talents.

With the continuous expansion of the oil industry in the western region, the lives of the local Yumen people have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

Except for a small number of elderly people who still stay at home and tend up the fields, most of the young people in Yumen have already gone to the Western Petroleum Company in Yumen New District, and all of them have become oil industry workers. In addition to these locals, there are also many citizens from the east who have also rushed all the way to come because they heard the reason for the lucrative income of Yumen.

Almost in the blink of an eye. The small county town of Hexi, with a population of less than 20,000, disappeared and was replaced by a new industrial city, with a total population of 100,000 by the end of the second quarter of 1901.

However, in just over a year, Yumen, a sparsely populated and barren place, has become a modern oil city in the blink of an eye......

Northwest Yumen in July.

On the shore of an artificial lake not far from the apartment area of the Western Petroleum Staff Dormitory, the willows are graceful and flowers bloom on the shore.

In the commercial district facing the lake from the western oil living area, the streets are full of people. Pedestrians come and go.

Because today happens to be the national statutory holiday, except for temporary overtime. Now that most of the workers of Western Petroleum are idle, these employees with large sums of money are full of excitement, and they are each looking at the dazzling shops and stalls along the street with the flow of people.

Such a scene, if it was in the past, would have been unimaginable.

After more than a year of large-scale oil development, tens of thousands of oil workers and technicians have migrated from various parts of the country...... The first group of personnel was set up in the area of Laojun Temple, which was circled by Dr. Zhao Jianchu, the leader of the expedition team, and under the call of relevant government departments, Western Petroleum, a young enterprise, led a large number of workers with great fighting spirit to work hard in the oil field...... These hard-working and hard-working oil people use their hard-working hands to find oil shafts and build their homes.

In the living area on the south bank of the Shule River, the original more than a dozen bare sand dunes have disappeared, replaced by a forest of buildings, beautiful gardens and a staff living community with complete water, electricity, heating and telecommunications facilities.

It can be said that the workers of the Western Petroleum Company not only found a large number of oil mines for the country and made great contributions to the domestic economy of Celis, but also built the former sand-swept Gobi land into a new industrial city with a modern atmosphere and became a bright and dazzling pearl in Gansu Province.

And what grew up with the city was the money bags of the locals of Yumen and the oil workers in the west......

As an enterprise, Western Petroleum has taken into account the local infrastructure and employee welfare problems from the beginning of its construction, and as a capital owner, Chen Zeyu, a modern person, has been "supervising" Western Petroleum's investment in the treatment of employees from the beginning to the end. Thanks to his somewhat "nosy" head of state, the income of all the workers in the Western Petroleum company has always been among the best in the country, in fact, because the company is basically a "one-shot deal", the company's financial income is so rich that the management is really embarrassed to treat its employees harshly.

According to the calculations of the company's financial department, the average monthly income of a worker in the entire company has reached 255 Chinese yuan. This figure is almost three times the average monthly income of an industrial worker in China, and it only takes seven months to buy a domestic FQ-3 version of the Centrino car, even if it is a higher-grade XB-2 diesel engine car that is restricted to foreign sales, these employees of Western Petroleum can buy one at most a year. 255 Chinese dollars, which is converted into pounds sterling, is 25 pounds and 50 pence, you must know that the per capita national income of the British is only at this level, it can be said that the income of oil workers in the west has actually reached the level of Western countries, and because the domestic price level of Celis is actually much lower than that of European countries, therefore, their real disposable income is more abundant.

In addition to these visible incomes and various employee insurances, Western Petroleum also cares for these employees in terms of life.

In the case of the Yange Lake, which is now close to the Yumen business district, and the land occupied by the surrounding living areas and shops, more than 200 buildings have been built in the entire area of thousands of acres. In addition to the housing for employees, the hospitals, shopping malls and sports venues that have just been built in the new year are all invested and built by enterprises, and these well-equipped infrastructure are designed to meet the growing daily needs of employees.

Because of the high standards of construction, this beautiful and well-equipped Yange Lake has become one of the few and most striking sights in Gansu Province – and as a suburb of a small industrial town, it is also a matter of pride for the locals.

In addition, there is no shortage of educational places for the children of locals and corporate employees to study in those newly demarcated and well-defined living areas. In today's Yumen City, a complete set of primary schools, middle schools and even vocational education schools have been established...... It has to be said that in order to reassure the employees in the enterprise, the management of Western Petroleum has done its best. (To be continued......)