In the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, people looked with curiosity and excitement at the spaceships and flying machines that passed by in the sky from time to time, and by this time, the black snow falling from the sky had decreased. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info some businesses and cleaning staff on the road quickly swept away these black dust lumps, making the road clean again.

A black sedan drove quickly on the road, and in the back seat sat Xiang Fei, the central secretary of the busy day. Even though it's winter, he still leaves the windows open, and any cold but fresh air blows in. Many vehicles on the road have done this like him, and it is really rare to encounter such good air in the imperial capital!

This year, people suffered from smog, and some people even laughed at themselves, and the smog control basically relied on the wind to blow. Manufacturers of masks are making a lot of money, but people are suffering from smog, not only will there be delays and cancellations, but people's physical condition will also deteriorate.

Most reasonable people also understand that the fight against smog is by no means as simple as people becoming conscious, shouting slogans, and the government issuing military orders. Many Western countries have experienced it firsthand, and in London, for example, the British have put in decades of effort, from the fog of the 50s to the clear sky of the 80s.

For country C, smog control will be a protracted battle.

It is understandable, but people are inevitably paying for air pollution with their quality of life and health. In this process, many people tend to criticize the government's inaction and ineffectiveness, but fail to see the deeper systemic causes. First of all, the energy structure of country C is dominated by coal thermal power, country C is a large coal-producing country, and has a long industrial history of burning coal, not to mention that there are huge coal-related interest groups behind it. If you want to cut off coal in one fell swoop, it's no longer a matter of difficulty, but you can't do it at all.

In addition, a significant number of companies blindly expanded their production capacity many years ago, while deliberately ignoring their own environmental responsibilities. The situation of clandestine and improper emissions is becoming more and more serious, and for the bosses who are related to their own profits, they will not deal with industrial emissions, and they will feel that every penny spent on processing them is a waste. This is also the inevitable embodiment of the profit-seeking nature of capital. A well-known environmental scholar in the West put forward the concept of "fossil fuel capital", and some Western companies have offshore their factories to third world countries in the context of huge pollution penalties and treatment costs in the West, among which country C has borne the brunt, becoming the world's factory and becoming the world's chimney at the same time. Regardless of whether it is a domestic enterprise in country C, a foreign-funded enterprise or a joint venture, they are all benefited by the investment environment of country C that encourages industrial and commercial development and ignores social costs, which further aggravates environmental and ecological problems.

Finally, it has to be pointed out that every person in country C, and even consumers all over the world, is actually inseparable from pollution. On the one hand, the citizens of country C are the beneficiaries of the rapid economic growth, and on the other hand, they are the victims of the side effects of the rapid economic growth. People are complaining about poor air, but they don't think about stopping coal burning for winter heating. The output of various heavy industry polluting enterprises has also benefited various consumer goods that people enjoy in their lives.

As far as country C is concerned, there is no doubt about the will of the state to control smog and other environmental pollution problems, and the public opinion is here. But this is by no means something that can be solved by simply removing overcapacity and industrial upgrading and transformation. This systemic problem involves all aspects and involves the whole body.

De-overcapacity and changing the energy mix, what about the workers who produce glass, steel, coal and chemicals? Some observers say that the coal industry's capacity reduction alone could lead to three million unemployed. Many of these people still hold the iron rice bowl of state-owned enterprises, and even their families have been in state-owned enterprises for several generations. How to place them and what industries to guide them to are serious problems.

In the past two years, country C has violently stimulated e-commerce consumption, and it is also consciously using the other troika of GDP to stimulate economic growth, or at least create a certain economic prosperity on the surface. A large number of employed people are being directed to the virtual industry and service economy, but the growth of these industries is not fast enough, and the pain of industrial transformation is inevitable.

To the extreme, even if this painful period lasts for the last ten years, similar to the lost decade of the Bombardment Country, as long as the transformation is successful, this game will be won. The price to be paid is real. Basically every generation in this country is paying the price, for the progress of the country and the nation and for no longer being humiliated. In the first half of the last century, the generation shed their blood, and the generation after the founding of the country created a complete industrial system and the infrastructure of a large country in an extremely difficult environment. In the hesitation of reform, the third generation exchanged cheap labor for the accumulation of primitive capital. The current generation is bound to enjoy the fruits left by their predecessors for themselves, while paying the price of difficult industrial upgrading and transformation and health.

However, in general, each generation will be better off than the last, and it is in this little effort and price that a weak country can continue to grow and become a force that everyone on this planet is feared.

This is a stoic people, and it is also a nation worthy of admiration.

Xiang Fei's complicated thoughts gradually came back, because the vehicle had already stopped at the hotel where Bai Zhongqi, the head of Iridium, was staying at this time.

In the morning, Xiang Fei received a notice that Iridium had informed him that it was dissatisfied with the air quality in the imperial capital and would take measures to deal with it. On the one hand, this made the imperial capital feel a little tight-skinned, and on the other hand, he was also a little curious.

Unexpectedly, in less than half a morning, the imperial capital was full of Iridium aircraft and spaceships, and everywhere they passed, the smog disappeared, a black snow fell, and the warm winter sun touched the earth and people's faces like a kind mother's hand.

The people of country C couldn't help but marvel that the Iridium people's handwriting was too big. There are also some military people who have heart palpitations, and the flying helicopter-sized aircraft flying everywhere can be devastating to a city if they carry any weapon.

If Bai Zhongqi knew such thoughts, he could only laugh and laugh. This is nothing more than an industrial-grade drone, which is much more expensive than a war machine of the same size. Bai Zhongqi can produce thousands of drones equipped with 2WM level firepower in one day, and with its strong maneuverability, it can sweep any army on the planet.

Xiang Fei came to meet Bai Zhongqi, the head of Iridium this time, naturally hoping to reach an agreement with Bai Zhongqi on smog control. The harm of smog is related to the lives of hundreds of millions of residents in North China and even the whole country, and now that country C sees the hope of an immediate solution, it will naturally not give up.