Chapter 20: Silicon

The earth, in the 21st century, is a period of frequent financial and economic crises, and the entire world economy is in a turbulent period of subversion, but also a period of new and more powerful changes brewing. In the first decade of the 21st century, a series of major economic crises occurred around the world, which hit the backbone of the entire world's financial circles hard, and the developed countries have not yet recovered.

With the intensification of the world energy crisis, countries have increased their bargaining chips in the development of new energy fields, such as wind power generation in the United Kingdom, nuclear power generation in France, and new development technologies for shale oil and shale gas in the United States.

Huaxia, as a booming emerging country, naturally has its own considerations, it has invested heavily in solar energy development related fields, a large amount of investment and related preferential policies poured into it. As of 2010, the solar energy industry in Huaxia has quickly become the world's largest producer and exporter of solar photovoltaics, and the scale of new photovoltaic power generation has increased rapidly every year at the GW level.

With the large-scale expansion of Huaxia capital in the field of energy materials at home and abroad, the world's original traditional steady growth trend was quickly swallowed up by this tide, and the market strategy of Huaxia capital is still rampant everywhere in this new field, relying on low labor costs and low-end technical advantages, Huaxia has produced a huge amount of solar photovoltaic industry exports, like the tide of the sea quickly engulfed the market in this field occupied by the capital of various countries. The survival of the original foreign capital in this field quickly became difficult.

This is obviously in line with the encroachment policy of the central government of China, guided by the preferential policy of the national policy, on the one hand, it is to release the excess domestic expansion capital, and on the other hand, it is also to see the signs of the upcoming explosive growth of silicon energy technology in the future, and make a strategic investment in the whole country.

After nearly ten years of hard work, Huaxia's industrial power in the low-end market has quickly laid a solid foundation, expanded the scale of production, and almost excluded the competition of homogeneous surnames at low prices. Just like what China Xia Guocapital did in the field of motorcycle, automobile, and home appliance production in the past.

If the expansion of Huaxia's capital in the traditional fields of motorcycles, automobiles, and household appliances only makes the developed countries feel heartache, then the expansion of Huaxia in the field of electronics industry and new energy directly makes the developed countries directly hurt their muscles and bones. This is the core area of competition in the world economy and science and technology in the future, and whoever masters the core competitiveness in this area will win the future; in this regard, the attitude of the Western countries is the same, and we must not allow the Chinese people who are like a flood of beasts to break into this circle. Otherwise, it would be the arrival of the real Yellow Peril era.

Therefore, this is also the fundamental reason why the world's major countries are afraid of Huaxia capital since entering the modern era, and the attitude of encirclement and interception and strict defense in the field of electronics industry and new energy has always been the same.

Since the first decade of the last century, almost every time Huaxia has litigated trade disputes with foreign countries, there is a shadow of silicon product exports, and Western countries are trying to strangle the budding momentum of Huaxia in the cradle in this way.

Su Yu and Yu Jing led the team to inspect the domestic silicon material production market, the solar photovoltaic field and the basic raw material market of the electronic semiconductor industry. In fact, silicon is the most common basic material in the industrial field in the world today, and the quality and scale indicators of silicon industrial production also represent the basic industrial strength of the world today.

In order to support the solar energy field, Huaxia has made a big bet on the production of polysilicon and monocrystalline silicon materials, and there are silicon material companies in almost all major cities across the country to increase the production capacity of silicon materials to supply the booming solar panel and electronic semiconductor industry in China.

The raw material silicon required by the electronic semiconductor industry requires higher purity, and the raw material silicon required for the production of solar panels is relatively low.

Why? It all starts with the mother tree.

As a super plant, the mother tree itself has the ability to absorb nutrients from the soil, which in itself is to provide the necessary substances for its own growth.

However, after Su Yu's research, it was found that this ability of the mother tree is not only able to provide its own use, in fact, in the environment of the earth, its absorption capacity is far more than its growth rate, and Su Yu can even borrow this ability to turn the entire tree into a huge mining factory.

Just as the earth's mining industry digs up the ore from the land to extract the minerals that people need, the roots of the mother tree do not even need those tedious refining industrial processes to extract the minerals from the soil, some of which the mother tree needs, and it absorbs itself to meet its own needs for growth. And more are refined in the form of high-purity elements, which for the mother tree are like excrement produced after eating, which is piled up in the body indifferently. Wait for the body to be expelled when necessary.

The gold that Su Yu got last time was one of the by-products of this kind of got.

And these excrements, which are called garbage according to human habits, there are many, many of them, and Su Yu is something that can be used by humans.

For example, iron, such as aluminum, these are the most abundant by-products of the earth's soil, but the mother tree does not require so much, but it is a valuable mineral raw material for human industry. Su Yu can establish his own primary mineral processing industry based on this and occupy the market with low cost.

The most abundant of all these by-products, the most valuable element for Su Yu, is silicon, a large amount of silica and other silicon compounds that the mother tree absorbs from the soil and rocks. After the primary extraction process, it exists in the form of silicon compounds with high purity, which can be directly used for the treatment and processing of silicon products, which makes Su Yu directly avoid the huge cost of raw material treatment in the process of processing and production in the future.

You must know that in the international market, the price of each ton of electronic-grade silicon wafers is more than hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Such a highly profitable industry is, of course, more attractive to Su Yu's attention. And the more important significance for Su Yu is that this industry is not only closely related to the solar photovoltaic industry in the new energy industry, but more importantly, it is also the foundation of the burgeoning silicon-based semiconductor industry on the earth.

On the one hand, there is a new energy industry, and on the other hand, there is a semiconductor industry, and Su Yu's entry into this industry is very relevant to solving the most critical concern in Su Yu's heart. With the high efficiency and low cost of the "super mineral excavator" of the mother tree, Su Yu can fully occupy a place in it and accumulate strength for the upcoming future.

Only by mastering industry can we control the modern society, and only by mastering semiconductors can we control the future of the information society. Su Yu's plan is far more than planting trees, and selling some apples can be satisfied.

This ambition is so ambitious that Su Yu can't communicate with anyone around him at all, does he want to tell his best friends that in the future, the earth will face an alien invasion, and the entire human race is the only one Su Yu can save the world?

Of course not! Not only can he not tell others the secrets in his heart, but he also has to do everything possible to hide his ultimate goal.

To do things in the human world, safety comes first, just like planting a tree, Su Yu also has to find a superficial purpose for each of his actions, and build a large-scale cover umbrella for every one of his transactions. Most of his silicon raw materials come from mother trees, which is impossible to leak out anyway.

Therefore, Su Yu and Yu Jing came to investigate, carefully and meticulously.

He wants to use the massive amount of primary processed silicon products he got from the mother tree to carry out deep processing and put them into the big cake of high-purity silicon products. Therefore, he needed to build a large enough factory to disguise the source of his high-quality silicon raw materials.

Therefore, this time they came to Shunde, Jiangxi Province, one of the ultra-large-scale solar photovoltaic production enterprises supported by the state. Su Yu and Yu Jing exchanged views with each other while leading the team to inspect its production process and management.

"When did the company get another million kilograms of apples, how did I not know? Where are the fruit trees that can be harvested now? Yu Jing asked Su Yu. She is not like Zhang Zhe, she only knows that she happily receives the goods from Su Yu's hands, and then goes to exchange for the working capital required by the company. Almost as soon as she heard the news, she instinctively felt that there was something greasy in it.

"Of course you don't know, this is what I ordered to be stored last year and wait for this year's peak season." Su Yu replied calmly, of course he couldn't tell Yu Jing now, these apples were just harvested from the mother tree, and trees like the mother tree don't even need to look at the time of day of the earth and the eyes of the four seasons!

"But your production last year was ...... Where did we get so many apples, didn't we just organize the villagers to plant our own apple trees? ”

"Hehe, this, you don't have to ask more specifically, as long as you can need it, I have enough supplies, I Su Yu planted trees, if I didn't have the craftsmanship to press the bottom of the box, would I dare to make such a big move, especially if I have to move your big Buddha." Su Yu looked at Yu Jing playfully and laughed unscrupulously.

The woman's face immediately turned red under Su Yu's gaze.

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