Chapter 576 576 Different Ecology
There is a lot of chaos in Japan, Qi Yiming watched from a distance across the sea, but he was not in a hurry or impatient, he didn't brew this thing for a long time, but Japan still has a lot of self-crazy factors, so after proper guidance, it led to such a shocking disaster. Naturally, he could not have allowed the Ebola virus and Aum Shinrikyo to continue to cause trouble in Japan, and this farce could turn from a comedy into a tragedy if it was not stopped.
The Japanese market was originally an important export for Chinese goods, but after the interruption of Japanese trade, Chinese goods could only be refocused on North Korea and Southeast Asia. In particular, North Korea is renovating and opening up its markets, so Chinese goods are selling well in North Korea, and North Koreans are happy to use Chinese products instead of Japanese products.
In 1994, China's GDP finally surpassed that of Germany and Japan, ranking only behind the United States, becoming the world's second largest economy. However, in China, this matter seems to be deliberately suppressed, and there is no hype to report it, many newspapers only have a tofu-sized page to introduce the matter, and the TV stations that have special reports for this are relatively limited. People just watched it and sighed that the change was so fast and big, and they were busy with their own things.
Qi Yiming has been in this plane for nearly ten years, and during this time, China has formed a certain rhythm, people are busy, and life is constantly improving in this busyness.
At the beginning of the year, Qi Yiming went to Shanxi to inspect the local coal chemical industry and ecology, although he is not a legitimate economic official, but he still has a lot of say in the economy, which has existed since the era of the Great Elder, until the era of the new leadership team, he is still a very influential potential political figure.
China's energy consumption is screwed by Qi Yiming, through the support of technology and from overseas oil-producing countries to "conquer the city", China's domestic oil fields now produce a large amount of natural gas and import a large amount of natural gas from abroad, mainly for domestic gas and power generation.
In terms of domestic gas, liquefied petroleum gas, coal gas and other things have been squeezed out of the historical stage by natural gas in the early years, and the gas pipelines built by large and small gas companies around the country under unified standards have been able to enter thousands of households. And the price of natural gas is not expensive, which reduces the cost of living for people. In some larger cities, boiler rooms have appeared in residential buildings, and after natural gas is introduced, it is connected to the tap water system to boil hot water to provide hot water services for residents, and the north can also provide heating in autumn and winter.
This is a very small change, but it is a big improvement in people's quality of life. People don't have to endure ice water to wash dishes in winter, and they can also take a shower all the time.
In addition to natural gas, the proportion of nuclear power generation and magnetic power generation has also increased significantly, and in terms of hydropower, China has mainly built small and medium-sized projects to avoid the possible hidden dangers of large-scale projects and the damage to geological landforms. The proportion of new energy has not increased much, but the total amount is considerable. And China's power generation surpassed that of the United States this year, becoming the world's first. Although the per capita level is not as good as that of the United States, China's energy efficiency is much higher than that of the United States, and the economic effect of this power generation on China, as well as the improvement of people's lives, are quite huge.
The change in energy has naturally led to the decline of China's traditional thermal coal power generation. In addition to the limited standard ultra-high thermal power plants in operation, there is no such thing as small thermal power in various places. Natural gas is all over China, and electricity is cheap and convenient, which has also led to an unimaginable reduction in residential coal consumption. China is the third largest coal producer in the world, and in places like Shanxi, the coal industry is also a pillar industry.
When Qi Yiming was engaged in energy structure reform, in fact, he played a relatively blunt one-size-fits-all approach with Chinese characteristics, Shanxi actually had a hard landing, a large number of coal mines were directly shut down, coal mining must have a very high standard of mining licenses, and unlicensed mining was caught, that is a heavy sentence, after several rectifications, Shanxi's coal production plummeted.
And even if the coal is mined, there is nowhere to sell it, and most of the coal is used in the chemical industry of the coal head, except for some exports. Among them, a large part of the coal chemical industry is coking, China is the world's steel power, steelmaking in addition to iron ore, but also need coke, of course, not all coal mines are suitable for coking. Coal chemical also includes the production of vinyl acetate, the methanation of coal, and the preparation of hundreds of thousands of chemicals. Shanxi quickly changed from a large coal mining province to a large chemical province.
Qi Yiming walked around Shanxi, and he really felt like a world away. Due to his intervention, the destruction of the environment first and then the environmental protection did not happen, and the destruction of the environment has not only been publicized in China, but also quite in place in terms of the legal system. Recognized by the World Environmental Protection Organization as one of the strictest environmental enforcers and the most punishable countries, the all-pervasive strategy bureau has always found a way to catch the tail even if local governments have tried to approve polluting projects for their performance.
After being caught, not only will the company be investigated and the person in charge will be imprisoned, but the relevant people of the government agency will also face such severe punishment as being thrown to the end, so no one dares to joke about their official hats.
In Shanxi, where the damage is severe, Qi Yiming did not see the surface of the earth that was full of holes because of coal mining, nor did he see the dust in the air, as a large industrial province, the local environment is actually quite good, although the vegetation is slightly worse, but the indicators of soil and water conservation, air quality and other indicators can reach excellent. Over the years, one of the important achievements of the local government in Shanxi has been to restore the local ecology, and it is clear that after so many years, it has also been fruitful.
In addition, the widespread use of super plants in the northwest has fixed a large area of desert, and it is also windproof and sandproof, and there is basically no sandstorm weather in the spring in the north, while China's environment is not as high as that of European and American countries, but the blue sky and clear air are fresh, but Qi Yiming has felt the other extreme traverser is very uncomfortable.
"In fact, the natural ecology has a relatively strong recovery ability, and as long as human beings do not continue to accumulate negative pollution effects, there will still be a day when they will improve. Some of the old industrial countries in Europe have also experienced the process of transformation from industrial waste land to humanistic freshness, although it took decades, but the proof is effective, we may not be able to replicate it. Haha, 3,000 years ago, the Shanxi area was a vast dense primeval jungle, human activities and climate changes have changed the appearance of this place, we don't expect to turn this place into a lush jungle again, but the benign ecosystem and enough vegetation, we are still confident that it will be restored! Qi Yiming, accompanied by a local environmental protection official, said enthusiastically.
In Shanxi, there is no large number of super plants, because the effect of this thing is better in harsh areas, and it can cause serious counter-effects in areas that are suitable for planting and ecological conditions. However, even without super plants, many domestic provinces have created patches of artificial forests through a large number of fast-growing forests.
Forests are the best habitat for animals, allowing many animals that have been rarely seen in another place to reproduce, and stable ecosystems are emerging. This kind of artificial forest park is estimated to be something that Chinese people with strong execution and down-to-earth work can do.
Qi Yiming remembered that he had not crossed the country before he looked at the country on the map, except for the northeast, southwest and other regions that were covered with large areas of green, especially most of the northern regions were a kind of unhealthy gray. Satellite images of China are a different story, with large areas of green in the northwest, where the desert is scattered with its native yellow color.
This phenomenon has also been discovered by many foreign people, who want to go to the field, but as one of China's most important scientific and technological assets, super plants will never be allowed to be snooped on by foreigners. Of course, the information circulated through various channels has also made foreigners speculate that the Chinese have some magic weapon to give birth to large forests in the desert, and many so-called non-profit international organizations have asked China to allow other countries to obtain relevant information, but China is vague and does not disclose the truth.
In the areas that were first improved by super plants, a layer of soil that was not particularly thick, but could be planted to a certain extent, and the state also organized some forces to cut down some super plants, and then reclaimed the land on those originally desert lands for intensive farm management.
However, even if there is soil, but these areas are still relatively short of water, with super plants, it is natural to be able to achieve soil and water conservation, and cross-regional water diversion projects have also been carried out in advance, not only the south-to-north water diversion, but also in the western region, the state has also begun to build some artificial canals with great construction difficulties to lead to these water-scarce areas. Moreover, the super plant itself has the ability to draw groundwater and store water, so although the transformed area is unlikely to be comparable to some fish and rice fields in the east, there is no problem with having a certain population carrying capacity.
Qi Yiming, who had returned from a circle in Shanxi, was called by the Navy Headquarters before he could rest. It's not because of anything else, it's about Japan, but this time it's about the East China Sea and China. Japan has begun to ask for necessary help from other countries, and there are no countries that have sent troops to the virus-affected areas, but this does not prevent China from doing something self-interested in the name of assistance.
For example, in the East China Sea, there is a series of small but very important islands - the Diaoyu Islands.