Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 627 Then spend [-] million to buy peace of mind
Obviously, compared to the international marathon with mass participation and people's carnival, tennis with a high degree of professionalism is more suitable for making stars.

Steffi Graf, who just turned 16 this year, is another masterpiece that Tang Huan never tires of.

She won the French Open at the end of May and early June this year at the age of 5, becoming the youngest Grand Slam winner in history.

After her 16th birthday, Steffi Graf continued to compete in the British Wimbledon Tennis Championships from the end of June to the beginning of July.

This time she was not neglected to be excluded from the list of seeded players, and she broke out of the seventh group without any suspense, and competed with Martina Navratilova just like the French Open not long ago. Champion belongs.

在4:6先丢一盘后，施特菲·格拉芙以6:3和6：2连扳两盘，最后击败玛蒂娜·纳芙拉蒂洛娃这位宿敌，连着第二次在大满贯中登顶。

Although it seems inappropriate to describe a 16-year-old girl as a "German tank", the media reporters were so shocked that they couldn't find a more suitable adjective.

You know, to be able to win a tennis Grand Slam is a supreme honor, not to mention two times in a row.Especially when the warrior who will overthrow the dynasty of Martina Navratilova is so young.

The German, who was intoxicated by this brilliant achievement, began to say incoherently: Our talented girl is only one step away from the world's number one throne, and maybe she can create the miracle of the annual Grand Slam.

People who can't stand this kind of arrogance will naturally retort: ​​a typical nouveau riche, rampant when he is proud.Not all tennis players can perfectly adapt to the court environment of clay, grass, and hard courts. It is still too early to say anything. I don’t know whether your talented girl can pass the hard court environment of the US Open. level.

After the British Wimbledon Tennis Championships ended in early July, there is still a relatively long period of time before the US Open from the end of August to the beginning of September.

Taking advantage of this gap, Steffi Graf completed three commercials - for the German sporting goods manufacturer Adidas, the world's largest video game entertainment content provider EA, and Mr. Richest Man's "One Child One Computer" program. A big customer shoots a promotional video.

On August 8, the nearly two-week US Open kicked off.Tang Huan was so busy that he only went to the East Coast of the United States to watch the match once, but the young Steffi Graf was very focused and unaffected, and his performance was stable and he easily broke out of the fifth group.

Just as reporters from all walks of life kept their eyes open to see who would win the championship trophy, the US Open broke out. The previous champion Martina Navratilova and the runner-up Chris Evert, Unexpectedly, they failed to make it to the final, and the player who finally competed with Steffi Graf for the championship was the Czech women's tennis player Hana Mandlikova.

Strictly speaking, it is not accurate to say that this result is an upset.Geinhana Mandlikova is not a newcomer, she has had her shining moments before.

她是1980年澳大利亚网球公开赛和1981年法国网球公开赛的大满贯得主，并且在1980年到1981年期间，跨年度连续闯入1980年美国网球公开赛、1980年澳大利亚网球公开赛、1981年法国网球公开赛、1981年英国温布尔登网球锦标赛这四项大满贯的决赛，收获了两个冠军、两个亚军，就差一点成就“跨年度大满贯”的丰功伟业了。

Therefore, Steffi Graf's opponent is not really weak, otherwise he would not be able to make it to the final stage.

And judging from Hana Mandlikova's performance in this US Open, she has obviously ushered in the recovery period of her sports career, and her strength is quite eye-catching.

The same is true of the game process. Although Steffi Graf defeated his opponent in the end, it was very difficult to win. Hana Mandlikova once went straight to the second set 6:1, and she won the first game. In the first set and the final set, the score was very exciting 7:6.

When Steffi Graf won the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open three consecutive Grand Slam titles, coupled with the same excellent performance in other tours, the ranking points increased rapidly , And then sat on the throne of women's tennis world number one, became the youngest queen - 16 years and 3 months.

The media has been speechless about this. For a while, they don’t know how to describe this tennis genius who is only over 16 years old. This gives those rational analysts a chance to speak out. Winning calmly in the adversity of the Open final is the biggest highlight of this rookie. With this quality, she can go further and build a woman of her own like Martina Navratilova. The view of "tennis dynasty" has been widely recognized.

As far as tennis singles is concerned, the average tennis player's career is about 15 years. If injuries and even off-court factors are included, this time may be even shorter.

Calculated according to this standard, it is time for Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert, who have ruled an era of tennis, to abdicate. This is an objective law of sports, and no one can change it.

Compared with the king sitting on the throne and quietly aging and being defeated by time, people obviously prefer to watch the current fierce scene of being directly overthrown by the challenger.

Therefore, no one questioned Steffi Graf's strength, and his worldwide popularity soared, so happy that WTA officials would wake up from their sleep with laughter. Naturally, the advertising effect of Adidas and EA is also needless to say.

Under such circumstances, Steffi Graf naturally became the most dazzling star among all the players arriving in Hong Kong, and the little girl's occasional shyness in front of the camera fascinated the audience even more.

Similar to the Hong Kong International Marathon, every time it is held, it can form a wave of consumption economy, and the same is true for the Hong Kong Tennis Open.

All of a sudden, the sales of tennis equipment and clothing skyrocketed, and the supply of tennis courts and tennis coaches was in short supply. I don't know how many people were thinking of Amitabha Buddha in their hearts, and thanked Tang Huan for bringing them good prosperity.

After interviewing the players who came to participate in the competition and instructing the relevant hotels to do a good job of reception, Tang Huan ignored the specific operational affairs of the Xiangjiang Tennis Open, but concentrated on entertaining the Men's Professional Tennis Federation - ATP and the World Women's Professional Tennis Association ——The officials of the two major sports organizations of the WTA discussed the naming rights of their companies by the way.

The people of Xiangjiang warmly welcomed the Xiangjiang Tennis Open with open arms, but it does not mean that they love everything related to Tang Huan, such as the Daya Bay nuclear power plant which is under construction.

Seeing the business opportunities in the power supply gap in Xiangjiang and the indispensable power supply capacity for the future economic development of the Pearl River Delta region, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant project started planning very early, and in 1983 the site was determined to be located in Ling'ao Village by the Daya Bay.

At that time, as one of the tripartite collaborators, Tang Huan also personally intervened in this matter.

Heung Kong has two electricity suppliers - Heung Kong Electric and CLP Power.The power supply area of ​​the former includes Hong Kong Island, Ap Lei Chau, and Lamma Island; the latter covers Kowloon and the New Territories, and began to connect with Nanyue Province in 1979, supplying power through a 132 kV transmission network.

As one of the winners of the battle between Qinhe and Jardine, Tang Huan also attaches great importance to the development of Heungkong Electric.

There is a gap in Xiangjiang's power supply, and it seems that there are good business opportunities. However, in a small place like Xiangjiang, power plants are facing increasing pressure on environmental protection, and Xiangjiang Electric must develop new energy fields.

In addition, even if the Xiangjiang market is served comfortably, it does not mean that the financial resources are rolling in. A small place is a small place, and the degree of market saturation can be easily calculated.Moreover, as an enterprise in the public service field, Xiangjiang Electric is subject to the profit control agreement formulated by the Hong Kong government.

Driven by the instinct of development and growth, in order to pursue greater profit margins, Xiangjiang Electric Lighting must go global.

In this regard, the Kadoorie family's CLP Power has done quite impressively, actively integrating with the mainland grid, and has seized this market; while Heung Kong Electric has fallen behind.

Therefore, after eating and wiping Jardine clean, Tang Huan won over the British and let Xiangjiang Electric try to extend its tentacles to Canada and Australia, while quickly connecting with the mainland. The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant is one of the achievements.

According to the plan, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant will become the first nuclear power plant in China to use foreign technology and funds for construction. It will introduce French nuclear island technology and equipment and British conventional island technology and equipment for construction and management; and the participating three parties will form a The operating company, of which Xiangjiang Electric holds 12.00% of the shares, and CLP Power holds 20.00% of the shares.

The electricity output from the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant is transmitted to Hong Kong Island in the Hong Kong Electric Light Control District through CLP’s lines in the New Territories and Kowloon.

It can be said that this is a cooperation that achieves multiple results and benefits all parties.

However, the voices of the people in Xiangjiang are one wave after another, which is a bit overwhelming.

For this reason, Michael Kadoorie, chairman of CLP Power, came to discuss countermeasures regardless of Tang Huan's interest in hosting the first Hong Kong Tennis Open.

Tang Huanxin said, what can I do?And I have the least shares, so there is no need to rush to the front.After all, that's the mentality of people, slowly wear it down.

This is just like the era of mobile communication in which people’s awareness was raised in time and space. Residents in the community complained that the mobile phone signal in the area was not good, so the communication company decided to build a communication station to solve this problem; but the citizens were worried that the radiation of the communication station would affect their health. Even if the communication company finds all kinds of professional certificates to show that the equipment is harmless, it cannot win the trust of the other party; as a result, the two sides persist, and the residents of the community continue to complain about the poor mobile phone signal in the area, while the communication company waits for the day when the other party lets go and agrees to build a communication station .

In Tang Huan's view, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, which has been unable to start construction for a long time, is now in a dilemma, and the two sides will inevitably have to play a game. This is exactly the populist characteristic of Hong Kong cultivated by the British in the post-colonial era.

Opponents of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant are mainly based on a partial core meltdown accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, USA on March 1979, 3, that is, the Three Mile Island nuclear leakage accident.

The incident was rated as Level 5 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, which is the third level of dangerous accident, and it is also the most serious accident in the history of nuclear power in the United States.

Judging from the experience of the original time and space, except for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami, the main cause of most nuclear power plant accidents is related to the operational errors of the operators. Details such as processing capacity and humanized design of the control system have an important impact on the safe operation of nuclear power plants.

The Three Mile Island nuclear leak accident falls into this category. The operating personnel did not notice the alarm at all, and did not notice the damage to the core or the leakage of radioactive materials more than ten hours after the accident.

Adding fuel to the flames of public opinion is that the Three Mile Island nuclear leak happened just 12 days after the release of the thriller movie "China Symdrome" about the safety of nuclear power plants.

This weird title does not mean that the film has anything to do with China, but comes from the concept of "China Syndrome" - "China Syndrome" proposed in 1971 by Ralph Rapp, an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Roughly speaking: If an irretrievable core meltdown occurs in a nuclear power plant in the United States, the scorching nuclear fuel melt will melt everything and penetrate the crust, mantle, and core of the earth to China, which is located "under" the United States on the earth.

The movie, starring Jane Fonda, describes a female reporter and her cameraman who stumble upon a nuclear power plant that is close to a "core meltdown" emergency and intends to make the safety issues they discover public to the public. The story of a senior engineer who told the truth was killed by many power plant personnel who wanted to cover up the truth, and even threatened their lives.

The work was nominated for several Academy Awards that year, including Best Actor and Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Art Direction, and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 32nd Cannes Film Festival, and directed by Jack Lemmon won the Best Actor Award at the festival.

With such an influential film to help publicize, the Three Mile Island nuclear leak accident would be hard to imagine. The American public's confidence in nuclear power has been greatly affected, and Xiangjiang's side has also deepened its nuclear fear.

Michael Kadoorie cut his tongue, hoping to persuade Tang Huan to come forward, use his influence as an endorsement, alleviate Xiangjiang's nuclear fear, and promote the progress of the construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant.After all, CLP Power paid a lot for this project.

After thinking about it for a long time, Tang Huan expressed his position: "I like to do it, not to say it. Let's spend [-] million US dollars to buy peace of mind for everyone, and use this fund to purchase some nuclear disaster protection equipment to avoid unnecessary panic. .”

Michael Kadoorie's eyes straightened at that moment, and he said in his heart: Didn't you burn a lot of money!
(End of this chapter)