In addition to China, the largest countries with the fastest economic growth in the 1970s were Germany and Japan, and in 1980, Germany's total industrial output exceeded $200 billion, more than Britain and France combined, at least economically revived, and Japan exceeded $300 billion, thus becoming a truly developed country for the first time, rather than a status of a great power that was purely obtained by military force. It is also worth mentioning that North Korea, which has been neglected by the rest of the world, has unwittingly surpassed the $80 billion mark in its total industrial output, and the total industrial capacity of the East Asian cultural sphere, or the three East Asian countries, has surpassed the entire Western cultural sphere for the first time since the first industrial revolution......

The Soviet Union, because it was not very good at light industry, all of it relied on China, so its industrial development was quite good in terms of its huge scale, reaching more than 370 billion US dollars in 1980, further narrowing the gap between it and the United States, and objectively helping China better share the pressure of the West. However, it must be noted that because the strength of the red camp is much stronger than in history, the Western camp is also more united than in history, which makes Hu Weidong somewhat depressed......

Over the next 10 years, China lost three great men in a row, much to the grief of the whole country. However, due to the earlier adoption of China's leadership retirement system at this time and space, the domestic situation has remained stable and the economy has continued to develop rapidly.

It is also worth mentioning that the rate of increase in life expectancy has slowed down significantly (in 1980, the average life expectancy in China was already over 75 years, and it is expected to continue to increase). Naturally, the difficulty is getting bigger and bigger. ), has been criticized for not having enough effect, "at most three children, encourage two children." In 1990, China's total population had reached more than 1.6 billion, but fortunately, China's land area, especially the area of arable land, was much larger than in history, and agricultural science and technology were more advanced, so Chinese people were not only able to eat enough, but also eat better and better.

It is also worth mentioning. In the past decade, the currencies of the three East Asian countries have all appreciated relatively rapidly. The renminbi is no exception, and it is precisely because of this. China's economic growth has slowed, but the growth rate has been greater than in the previous decade, when China's total industrial output exceeded $3.5 trillion in 1990. More than all the other countries of the world combined. Even if it's GDP. It also accounts for more than one-third of the world, and if you only talk about the total amount, it is already a more powerful superpower than the United States at its peak. However, due to the large population base, the per capita GDP is still only one-third of that of the United States (Note 1), and the proportion of China's urban population still does not exceed 50%......

However, with the continuous improvement of the average education level of the Chinese and the emergence of the hope of a complete solution to the food problem, China's terrifying population is no longer a huge burden on the national economy, but more of a positive side, that is, strong production capacity and strong consumption power.

The food problem that has plagued the Chinese for thousands of years is finally possible to be completely solved, not only because of the progress of agricultural science and technology, but also because of the substantial increase in the area of cultivated land. If the western route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project only alleviated the dilemma of water shortage in the north, then the project of transferring water from South Baikal to Hebei has completely solved it.

Lake Baikal is the deepest freshwater lake in the world, and its area is huge, and its freshwater resources account for 1/5 of the world's total surface unfrozen freshwater resources, enough for 5 billion people to use for half a century, and even if the water resources evaporate, they can still be turned into precipitation and returned to the surface, so it can be said that it is completely inexhaustible. Theoretically, it could even turn all of China's deserts into grasslands or arable land, and by that time, even if the Chinese population reached 3 billion, it would still be self-sufficient in food......

However, the altitude of Lake Baikal is too low, and there is a Mongolian plateau in the middle, so it can only adopt the same method as the middle route of the historical South-to-North Water Diversion Project, which consumes electricity to lift water step by step, but in this way, in addition to the huge amount of work, the usual maintenance costs are also staggering, so the scale of the project is inevitably limited, and the role is mainly limited to meeting the water supply of the cities along the way, at least the idea of "pumping water to irrigate the desert Gobi on the Mongolian Plateau" is simply impossible.

"If the altitude is high, then just open a canal and the lake will flow down on its own, and you don't need to use so much electricity anymore, and at the same time you can receive the benefits of shipping." The Brahmaputra River on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is not only extremely high in altitude, but also abundant in water, surpassing the two Yellow Rivers, and if its water can be brought to Xinjiang, the significance is incalculable. But it's so difficult to build a road on the Tibetan Plateau, let alone a canal? Therefore, Hu Weidong can only say a little in his heart, but at this time, the invention of a new technology has made the construction of the Grand Canal in Tibet possible......

Although Hu Weidong used his influence to let the Ministry of Education select a small number of outstanding high school students every year to study the "Gravitational Dynamics Theory" founded by Tesla, and some people made further theoretical developments, because the mainstream physics community still studied relativity and quantum mechanics and sub-disciplines based on both, so the status of these scientists has always been very awkward. But under such difficulties, there is still a scientist who has successfully designed and manufactured a greatly reduced volume, but the efficiency is greatly improved "Super Tesla coil", which can make the instantaneous output power of the current increase tens of thousands of times, hundreds of thousands of times or even more, although this can not realize Tesla's "unlimited energy" idea, but still has a wide range of uses, among which the application of lasers is particularly worth mentioning.

With the help of the "Super Tesla Coil", even a small battery pack can produce an astonishing instantaneous output of power. Enough to drive high-power lasers without having to rely on large generators with huge installed capacity, as was the case before. This not only makes the development of practical laser weapons possible, but also means that the most important restriction of laser-induced nuclear fusion - the supply of electrical energy - is greatly relaxed, although this alone is not enough to achieve controlled nuclear fusion with economic value, but Hu Weidong is keenly aware of another potentially important use, "Maybe we can use 'battery pack + super coil' instead of the atomic bomb as the detonator of the hydrogen bomb?" ”

The experiment was a complete success soon after, and Hu Weidong was immediately excited, because the significance of this was too great. Everyone knows that fusion material is quite cheap compared to fissile material. Now there is this new type of detonator at an affordable price. China can easily build tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, or millions of hydrogen bombs, and such hydrogen bombs will basically not produce radiation contamination......

Since the Cold War has lasted for many years, the traditional hydrogen bomb is enough to destroy the world, and unless the country is about to be destroyed, no government will easily use nuclear weapons, especially strategic nuclear weapons. So the military significance of this invention is not particularly huge. But after the hydrogen bomb became the price of cabbage, and there was no pollution. But there can be another use......

Relying on the roar of countless hydrogen bombs to open the way, the Chinese government spent nearly a decade successfully breaking through the mountains on the roof of the world. If one can't be exploded, then ten, hundred, no matter how tall the mountain range is, it can be torn apart to create a grand canyon, and then on this basis, it will be connected into a "heavenly river". It is worth mentioning that, due to the persuasion of a water conservancy expert, Hu Weidong gave up the idea of directing water from the Brahmaputra River directly to Xinjiang, and instead connected the Yarlung Zangbo River with the upper reaches of the Nu River, the Lancang River, and the Yangtze River, and finally joined the Yellow River, increasing its water volume by more than three times, and then diverting water from the Yellow River to irrigate the deserts of Inner Mongolia, greatly reducing the amount of work, and also opening up more than 100 million mu of fertile land and larger grasslands and forests.

In addition, China has made full use of surface runoff to develop irrigated agriculture in Outer Mongolia and northern Xinjiang, and has used hydrogen bombs to blow up the Altai and Tianshan mountain ranges, allowing water vapor from Siberia to enter Xinjiang, causing its average annual precipitation to increase by several percent, not enough to completely turn the vast desert into usable land, but only to increase the area of grassland by at least 100,000 square kilometers

It's already of great value. Although the drastic changes in the distribution of water resources have caused severe and frequent natural disasters in these regions and beyond, after a period of time and a new balance has been established in the water cycle, China's arable land has increased by more than 600 million mu, and if you add new grasslands, forests and waters, China will still be completely self-sufficient in food even if its population increases to more than 2.5 billion.

In addition, the frenzied blasting of more than 10,000 hydrogen bombs has unexpectedly blown up a lot of mineral deposits, making it impossible for China to be completely self-sufficient with only oil left. And China's crazy practice of blowing up more than 10,000 hydrogen bombs has completely deterred the world powers, and the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union have actually put aside their ideological contradictions and joined forces, but with the strength of China today, even if it is the enemy of the whole world, what is there to fear? And the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union is actually mainly for self-preservation, and whoever dares to take the initiative to confront China now must be crazy......

As China has become the world's only superpower, the status of the Chinese overseas has also become higher and higher, so the number of Chinese immigrants overseas has also increased, but the purpose is purely to facilitate the money of foreigners, which is fundamentally different from the historical desire to go abroad for better working and living conditions, or even simply because of the psychology of worshipping foreigners. In 1990, the total number of overseas Chinese had reached more than 100 million, and they had become the most populous ethnic group in more than one country, and more countries were also controlled by the Chinese to control the economic lifeline, and the living space of the Chinese nation was also expanding more and more.

In 2000, China's real economy accounted for 60% of the world's total, and the GDP was close to half Chinese......

In the past decade, the effect of the family planning policy has been further revealed, and in 2000, the Chinese population exceeded the 1.8 billion mark for the first time, and the overseas Chinese were less than 2 billion. And with the development of industrialization and urbanization. China's childbearing couples are increasingly reluctant to have children, signs of aging are beginning to appear, and now that eating is no longer a problem, so there are proposals to abolish the family planning policy, but because the family planning policy is the job of millions of people in the National Family Planning Commission, this proposal has been criticized a lot. Fortunately, Hu Weidong, who has been out of the front line for many years and has been engaged in scientific research with peace of mind, came out to support it, so as to prevent China from entering an aging society before becoming a developed country, which was also the last time Hu Weidong exerted his influence in politics.

The Soviet Union in this time and space had little economic problems because it had the support of China in the front and the United States in the back, but the accumulation of national contradictions eventually led to its split. This is because the existence of the three Nordic republics and the proportion of non-Russian population in the Soviet Union is much higher than in history when the Soviet Union collapsed (Note 2). The Soviet Union in this time and space was more completely divided, and as a result, there were more than 20 countries in the world at once......

At this time, the Soviet Union did not have much oil and water for China, which was like a giant Mac, but only took the opportunity to recover the more than 500,000 square kilometers of land that was ceded to the Soviet Union, but the United States and other Western countries reaped a lot of economic benefits. But even so. In 2014, China fully met the standards of developed countries. Although at this time, China's per capita GDP is still about 30% lower than that of the United States. However, due to the increase in population to more than 2 billion (plus no less than 2.4 billion overseas Chinese), China's huge economic output has accounted for more than two-thirds of the world's total, and the total real economy has reached more than 70% of the world's total. The total industrial output is close to 80%, which is really a set of data that makes Westerners despair.

And because China still retains a significant proportion of the planned economy, the Chinese government can destroy the world economy at any time if it wants to, without breaking its bones. In fact, even if the Chinese government does not do this, many Western countries, including the United States, will still unwittingly deindustrialize and become China's resource suppliers, while those former powers that have no resources can only survive on tourism, and if they do not even have tourism resources, they can only be reduced to so-called "undeveloped countries......

Militarily, although the peace-loving Chinese have not been exhausted, the level of weapons and equipment of the squadron still has a huge advantage ahead of the West, and the morale has been sharpened to a certain extent due to the inevitable hardships and dangers in ordinary disaster relief, and it is much stronger than the Western ** teams that are all holding their tails and cannot get actual combat training.

In terms of cutting-edge technology, the most important thing is the development of thorium fission reactors, and although controlled nuclear fusion is still far away, with thorium fission reactors with greater reserves of nuclear fuel and less nuclear waste, China will not have to worry about energy for at least a hundred years (taking into account the increasing demand for energy). The success of the manned spacecraft landing on Mars marks that Chinese has truly begun to "go to the sea of stars......

However, many Chinese nationals, especially those overseas Chinese, have generally taken out the style of the "Heavenly Empire" in the past, and hated many foreigners, especially Westerners who can only look for glory in their memories, but they are helpless. In fact, with the increasing maturity of China's laser and particle beam anti-missile weapons, even if the West has another mustache and dares to go crazy and take nuclear weapons to die with China, it is no longer possible, and when Chinese begin to migrate to space, and Westerners can only stay on the ground to complain, it is even more hopeless......

When China launched the "Venus Cooling Program" to prepare for a large number of immigrants to space in the future, Hu Weidong was already very old, and he looked back on the difficult process of New China, and his heart was full of emotion, "From the standpoint of Westerners, the 'China threat theory' back then was indeed very predictable, but in the final analysis, it is to blame capital for pursuing profits and ignoring the nature of the country!" Who can blame you for transferring and de-industrializing your own industry? ”

Note 1: Due to the great loss of young and strong people in World War II and the decline in the attractiveness of the United States to immigrants, the population of the United States in 1990 was only more than 210 million, more than 30 million less than the same period in history, and less than 1/7 of China's total population in this year. Therefore, even though China's per capita GDP is still far inferior to that of the United States, its economy is already more than twice that of the United States, and this does not take into account the fact that China's prices are still lower than those of the United States.

Note 2: The fertility rate of other ethnic groups (mainly Muslims) in the Soviet Union is several times higher than that of the three Slavic ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, and the proportion of Muslims in the population at the time of the founding of the Soviet Union was only a few percent, and it was close to 40% before the disintegration...... (To be continued.) )

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