Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

Hainan, Wujiang desalination plant.

Accompanied by factory executives, Zhao Ye and others visited the entire factory.

This seawater desalination plant is relatively large in scale, with a daily output of 30 tons of water, which can supply normal water to more than people.

However, the cost of seawater desalination is relatively high, 4 yuan per ton, and the external sales price is 3 yuan per ton. Wujiang desalination plant is almost operating at a loss. Fortunately, the state has subsidies, which can barely make up for the losses.

Moreover, Zhao Ye didn't care about this loss, and regarded it as a little benefit to the people of Hainan.

Hainan can develop better and faster if there is no shortage of water.

The slight losses of the Wujiang desalination plant are almost negligible compared with the money earned by the entire Wujiang Group in Hainan.

You know, Wujiang Group has invested huge sums of money in the tourism development of Hainan Island, making tens of billions of profits every year.

"Director Zhao, although our factory is still in a loss-making stage, with the improvement of reverse osmosis seawater desalination process, the cost of seawater desalination will be greatly reduced!!"

Xi Botao, general manager of the desalination plant, said that although Zhao Ye didn't care whether the desalination plant was losing money, as the general manager of the plant, Xi Botao certainly couldn't just sit back and watch the plant lose money. He also has to perform in front of Zhao Ye and satisfy Zhao Ye, otherwise his position as general manager may not be secure.

The boss says it’s okay to lose money, but you can’t really make the boss lose money all the time.

At this time, you have to reflect your value.

Xi Botao paused and continued, "According to our estimates, the cost of seawater desalination will be reduced to about 2.5 yuan! In addition, we are also vigorously researching electrolytic seawater desalination technology, and combining it with hydrogen production technology, through low-cost Use electricity to produce hydrogen!”

China has vigorously developed solar energy, wind energy, and hydropower, and China's electricity costs have dropped significantly, which has laid a good foundation for hydrogen production.

In particular, offshore solar and wind power generation does not cause environmental pollution and is considered "green power".

There is nothing better than producing green hydrogen from green electricity.

Hydrogen is the main industrial raw material and the most important industrial gas and special gas. It is widely used in petrochemical industry, electronic industry, metallurgical industry, food processing, float glass, fine organic synthesis, aerospace, etc. Hydrogen is still used Used as raw material for the synthesis of ammonia, methanol, and hydrochloric acid...

Moreover, hydrogen can also be used as fuel. The development potential of hydrogen fuel cells is huge. Otherwise, Japan would not bet on the national destiny to develop hydrogen energy. However, the development of hydrogen energy is more difficult. Japan is now in deep trouble, but this is not This means that the path to hydrogen production is incorrect.

Japan is a small country with scarce resources. It is difficult for Japan to become a major hydrogen producer. Although Japan currently has many hydrogen energy patents, it is not impossible for China to catch up. Besides, China is also working hard to develop hydrogen energy.

Wujiang Group is currently mainly committed to the development of lithium batteries, because the technology of lithium batteries is more mature and easier to produce results.

The development of new energy electric vehicles in China is in full swing, and lithium batteries are indispensable.

The future prospects of hydrogen-fueled electric vehicles are very great. This is undeniable, but it will take a long time to develop. It will be difficult to see the popularity of hydrogen-powered electric vehicles in at least the next ten years.

Zhao Ye heard Xi Botao talk about hydrogen production and couldn't help but nodded secretly. However, the cost of producing hydrogen after desalination of seawater is still relatively high.

The best way is to directly produce hydrogen from seawater without desalination.

In the future, only when the problems of hydrogen production, storage, and transportation are solved can hydrogen energy be rapidly popularized and applied.

For short-term energy storage, there are lithium batteries, while for long-term energy storage, there is hydrogen storage. As the price of hydrogen production from renewable energy sources decreases, the hydrogen storage industry will become more competitive and market demand will increase.

Zhao Ye also knows the importance of hydrogen energy and secretly thinks that Wujiang Group must invest more research and development funds in hydrogen energy in the future.

Closer to home.

Xi Botao continued to introduce, and Zhao Ye's thoughts returned to seawater desalination. With the increase in agricultural water use, industrial water use, and residential water use in urban areas, the water shortage problem is becoming increasingly serious. Most of China's coastal urban areas must launch seawater desalination projects.

When he came to the office, Zhao Ye chatted for a long time with Xi Botao and other senior executives of the desalination plant, and decided to invest in and build plants in major coastal cities in China to dilute the cost of desalination through large-scale construction and development.

In addition, for seawater desalination, energy consumption is the key that directly determines its cost. At a time when current seawater desalination technology cannot make huge breakthroughs, if cheap electricity is available, the cost of seawater desalination will become even lower.

Therefore, Zhao Ye decided to build offshore photovoltaic power stations and offshore wind power stations while building desalination plants in China's coastal cities.

It is so simple and crude. Zhao Ye is confident that in less than two years, the price of water can be lowered so that everyone can use cheap water.

Zhao Ye couldn't help but think about the desalination problem of the Bohai Dam. Not only must we pump water and pour it into the ocean, but we must also build a super-large desalination plant to provide fresh water resources for surrounding cities. This not only solves the local water shortage problem, It also speeds up the desalination of seawater in the Bohai Sea, killing two birds with one stone.

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It was a rare trip to Hainan. Zhao Ye spent more than ten days here before returning to Shanghai.

But the decision he made was already in preparation.

The combined investment in seawater desalination plants, offshore photovoltaic power stations, and offshore wind power stations is huge, and the leaders of major coastal cities can’t help but rejoice.

Everyone never expected that Wujiang Group would suddenly make such a large-scale layout, which is really surprising.

All projects were carried out very smoothly, and the local government gave the green light and escorted the entire process.

Every city has water and electricity problems to one degree or another. Of course, the local government will fully support the projects proposed by Wujiang Group.

In just about a month, Wujiang Group signed cooperation projects with 3000 coastal cities, with a total investment of no less than billion yuan, most of which came from low-interest bank loans.

For projects like this that benefit the people and have stable income (water and electricity bills), the bank fully agrees to lend, so Wujiang Group naturally does not need to use its own reserve funds.

Even if the Wujiang Group is left with nothing, I am afraid that the local government will take the initiative to promote the project and help Wujiang Group get a loan from the bank.

Before long, netizens in major coastal cities who received the news were all cheering.

Water and electricity are related to everyone’s vital interests.

Therefore, the people were happy when they learned that Wujiang Group was building a seawater desalination plant, offshore photovoltaic power station and offshore wind power station locally!

Everyone realizes that once these three projects are completed, water and electricity bills will definitely go down.

"Wujiang Group is awesome! The high utility bills will finally be reduced!"

"Utility bills have been rising every year. They can't rise any more now. Wujiang Group is the one behind it. This is a conscientious enterprise!"

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Internationally, China's methods to solve water shortages are simple, direct, and inhumane, which can't help but make countless foreigners dumbfounded, and at the same time a little bit envious and jealous.

Of course, some people say they are not envious.

"That's it? Our country will not waste resources to build desalination plants. Our country has the Ganges and Indus rivers, and there is so much fresh water that we can't use them all!" Since China and India have similar populations and relatively large land areas, plus It is also a neighboring country, so many Indians like to compare their country with China, and some Indian netizens expressed disdain.

Good guy, this Indian netizen must be relatively ignorant and does not know the sufferings of India. Even though India has many large rivers such as the Ganges and the Indus, it is extremely short of water resources. India has a large population, and 600 million people do not have access to normal water supplies every year, and 200,000 of them lose their lives as a result...

As a few days have passed, the popularity of this incident has not subsided, but has intensified, triggering heated discussions around the world.

Not all Indian netizens are like idiots. They know that their country is short of water, so some people on the Internet have proposed that they want to learn from China's methods and build desalination plants to solve India's water resources problems.

However, as soon as this suggestion was put forward, netizens in Western countries began to ridicule it.

"Still want to use desalination to save lives? Can farmers in India afford it?"

"It is unrealistic. The cost of seawater desalination is too high and ordinary Indians cannot afford it. If India wants to truly solve the water crisis, it is better to find ways to save water."

In this generation, India's economic development has been slow and has been completely suppressed by China. As we all know, there is a term in economics called "siphon effect". China has developed too fast, and the siphon effect has seriously affected surrounding countries and talents. and funds have been sucked away by China, resulting in restricted development of neighboring countries.

In previous lives, India had three main economic pillars: manufacturing, agriculture, and services.

But in this life, India’s service and manufacturing industries have been brutally strangled. In the past life, India was known as the "Land of Programmers". The information technology service industry was one of India's most competitive and innovative fields and one of the important sources of India's foreign trade and foreign exchange income, including the original outsourcing model. Transform into a consulting, solution and product model, and expand from low-end data entry, software development and other businesses to high-end knowledge process outsourcing, R&D centers and other fields. It is a pity that in this life, Wujiang Group did not give India a chance at all, and directly cultivated a large number of IT personnel in China to replace them. Moreover, most of the Internet giants belong to Wujiang Group. Whoever gives orders and who they do not give orders to, it is not Wujiang The group has the final say.

Needless to mention the manufacturing industry, Indian manufacturing cannot even go abroad. Instead, it has to be conquered by Chinese manufacturing to seize India's domestic market share.

Today, China has moved towards Industry 4.0 and established automated and intelligent factories. China has not only become a major manufacturing country, but also a manufacturing power. Products made in China have become more competitive. This has made it difficult for the Indian manufacturing industry to rise, let alone Attempting to take advantage of the demographic dividend, follow China's early development path and take the low-end manufacturing route.

Although China is now moving towards high-end manufacturing, it has not given up on low-end manufacturing.

Machines are cheaper than labor, isn’t it great? Why give up low-end manufacturing.

Now that I have started eating meat, do I think the soup doesn’t taste good?

Both low-end manufacturing and high-end manufacturing must be grasped, and both hands must be strong. At least this is what Wujiang Group does.

If we look at India again, probably only agriculture can take advantage of it.