November 2017 was a lively month.

Especially after Shanmei, after the press conference of the chip production line of Galaxy Technology.

HiSilicon Chip Company of Huawei Company, Huada Chip Company of Huada Semiconductor, Unisplendour Chip Company of Tsinghua Unigroup Group, and Dongtang Sanxin, which came to join in the fun, these semiconductor companies have settled in Shanmei.

Many people were dumbfounded, it is understandable that Hua Wei and Ziguang went to join in the fun, but what the hell did Sanxin also run over?

And didn't Galaxy Technology say that it would not sell chip production lines? So what are the flowers doing for them? The range of this action is also too large, and the direct enclosure of the factory is in full swing.

It made many people itch, and they left messages on the official website of Galaxy Technology, asking whether Galaxy Technology would sell the chip production line.

The person in charge of the official website of Galaxy Technology replied that there is no plan to sell.

It's true that it's not for sale, after all, the lease can't be considered a sale, and it's given directly after expiration, so Galaxy Technology is not a lie.

However, Huawei, Unisplendour, and Huada Semiconductor directly invested tens of billions of dollars in Shanmei, is it just for a shell?

After all, they don't have a plan to purchase lithography machines, which can only show that their production line is very likely to be a chip production line that does not use lithography machines, and it is the only one in the world, that is, Galaxy Technology.

Anyway, many people in China are talking about it now, and they are all speculating whether Galaxy Technology will sell the production line to them.

These outside disturbances did not disturb Huang Haojie.

On November 29, Fengdu Group's first experimental vertical farming building was completed.

Huang Haojie and Lin Liangshen, president of Fengdu Group, and others came not far from Fair Town, Haicheng County.

A 30-story building towers over farmland, making it look like it stands out from the crowd.

"Huang Dong! This is the first vertical farming building we built, covering an area of 16,000 square meters, with 30 floors above ground and 3 floors underground, with a total area of 528,000 square meters. Lin Liangshen introduced Huang Haojie as he walked.

"How much does it cost to build the building?" Huang Haojie looked at the building and asked.

"There is no computing equipment or the like, and the building is about 1,700 yuan per square meter, and the total cost is about 900 million yuan." Lin Liangshen hurriedly said the cost situation.

Huang Haojie calculated in his heart that 528,000 square meters is equivalent to about 792 acres, and the unit utilization rate of vertical agriculture is about 16 times that of traditional agriculture, that is to say, this building is equivalent to 12,600 acres of farmland.

Let's say 50% of this area is used for planting.

According to the latest official statistics of Dongtang, the Northeast region has the largest yield of vegetables per unit area, which is 46995.6 kg/ha; followed by the eastern region with 42,058.4 kg/ha; The yield of vegetables per unit area in the central region was 34531.8 kg/ha; The yield of vegetables per unit area in the western region was the lowest, at 28 693.7 kg/ha.

Taking the data of the eastern part as a reference, the yield per mu is 2.8 tons.

6,300 acres, which can produce 17,600 tons of vegetables.

Based on the retail price of 3 Chinese yuan per kilogram, it can generate about 500 million Chinese yuan in revenue a year.

Of course, this calculation is relatively rough, after all, the price of vegetables is not the same, and the yield per mu is also different.

And Huang Haojie can't grow vegetables, after all, this kind of thing is really competing with the people.

"Liangshen! Is the rest of the equipment inside finished?" Huang Haojie then asked.

Lin Liangshen nodded: "It's basically done, and the experimental planting will start next week." ”

"Didn't encounter any difficulties, or problems or anything like that?"

"There are some problems, such as the amount of light from the LED bulbs is not enough to supply the growth needs of tomatoes and cucumbers; In addition, the cost of the water recycling system is too high, especially the service life of the filter device is very short. Lin Liang thought about it for a while and talked about the situation.

"For the problem of the water recycling system, you can communicate with the Materials Research Institute to see if we can use our own materials instead." Huang Haojie commanded.

"I made a note of it! Go back and contact the Materials Research Institute, Huang Dong, how about we go inside and see?" Lin Liangshen came to the door of the vertical farming building.

Huang Haojie nodded.

For example, the negative third floor is the assembly area of the water circulation system, the negative second floor is the electrification equipment, and the negative one floor is the fertilizer, pesticides, and tool warehouses.

And the first floor is the general control room and transport area.

Due to the experimental nature, the 2~5 floors are the aquaculture area, the 6~10 floors are the livestock and poultry breeding areas, and the 11~30 floors are the planting areas.

On the top floor is a group of wind turbines.

Huang Haojie observed the setting of each floor and the quality of the building while walking, and he was still satisfied with it on the whole.

"How much does it cost?"

"A total of about 340 million Chinese dollars."

Huang Haojie knew that most of these things were produced by Fengdu Group itself, and the price was still relatively much cheaper.

Otherwise, the total cost of this building will definitely exceed 3 billion Chinese dollars.

Some workers are planting strawberries.

Huang Haojie picked up one of the seedling trays: "Are these strawberries all the seeds of our own company?"

"Yes! We all use our own company's seeds. ”

"Hmmm! You must use your own seeds, in addition, you arrange, to establish a Dongtang native seed bank, even if your own seed yield is low, I will never allow Fengdu Group to use genetically modified crops. Huang Haojie is extremely resolute about this matter.

The risks of genetically modified organisms are very huge.

An biological evolutionary cycle is often measured in 10,000 years, while genetically modified organisms are born in a few months and a few years with artificial intervention.

Without the precipitation of time, coupled with the fact that the overall understanding of biological genes has not yet been fully understood, it can only be said that these biologists are bold enough to carry out cross-species hybridization in this situation.

Here is a popular science about the difference between traditional hybridization and genetically modified, because many people are easy to confuse the two.

Traditional hybridization, to use an analogy, is equivalent to the mixing of various human races.

Of course, in traditional hybridization, there are also extreme cases, such as the mule, the product of the combination of horses and donkeys, and the liger beast, the product of the combination of lions and tigers, and these extreme hybrids have a price, that is, the loss of reproductive ability.

Transgenic is even more extreme, hybridization is carried out in the same species, but transgenic is a hybrid that crosses biological boundaries.

For example, the bi-antibody transgenic tomato is to add one of the genes in the worm to the tomato gene.

It is to add animal genes to plant genes, which has crossed two boundaries, who can guarantee the safety of these genetically modified products?

The uncertainty of genetically modified crops is very large, which may cause human allergies and drug resistance, and may also cause ecological disasters, because the genetic factors of genetically modified crops may be transmitted to other plants, resulting in the birth of super-resistant weeds, superbugs or viruses.

Huang Haojie's plan to establish a seed bank of native plants is urgent.

Fengdu Group absolutely prohibits the use of genetically modified crops or animals, and Huang Haojie would rather increase costs than encourage this Pandora's box to continue to open.

At present, the genetically modified vegetables and fruits on the market in Dongtang are mainly antiviral genetically modified papaya.

At present, Dongtang has approved a total of 5 categories of genetically modified varieties, all of which are processed raw materials, not approved for direct consumption/use, of course, these genetically modified products also have non-GMO varieties.

Up to now, the genetically modified crops approved in China: insect-resistant cotton, virus-resistant papaya. These two are grown commercially on a large scale.

Genetically modified crops such as soybeans, corn, cotton, rape, and sugar beet can only be imported and used as raw materials for processing, and cannot be planted by domestic non-scientific research institutions.

However, in some parts of the country, there is a phenomenon of stealing or misplanting.

In 2014, there was a transgenic soybean incident in Heijiang Province, resulting in genetically modified contamination of the native soybean producing area.

At present, the world's largest supplier of genetically modified seeds is Monsanto, which is very greasy and deep.