Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

In the room, Prince Salman was very excited by Xu Huasheng's suggestion.

He had plenty of money, but no technology or talent. Aerospace is not something you can play with casually. It is the pinnacle of science and technology.

Let alone rockets and satellites, they can't even handle those monitoring equipment. They don't have any technical reserves for even the most basic materials. Without someone to lead them, they can't play at all.

If there is a big guy like Huaxia to lead them, it couldn't be better. Saudi Arabia wants to play with the United States, but they don't care.

In the eyes of the United States, Saudi Arabia is a country bumpkin with only oil. You can't play with advanced things like aerospace. Besides, even if the United States agrees, the father of the United States will not agree.

"Your Highness, if you are willing to participate, we can play a big one."

Xu Huasheng saw that it was almost done, and threw out another sentence. As soon as he said this, Salman stared at Xu Huasheng.

"Do you know what a space station is?"

Xu Huasheng asked directly, and Salman was stunned when he heard this question.

"Are you talking about the thing that the United States is building?" Salman asked back. Last year, the United States joined many countries in the world and announced that it would build an international space station in outer space. Salman knew about this. In fact, not only did he know, but Saudi Arabia even wanted to contribute money to participate. But the United States did not agree at all. "Yes, last year the United States joined 16 countries to build an international space station. This is the most advanced technology. Our country also wanted to participate at the beginning, but the United States did not want to. In fact, in terms of technology, we Chinese have some. But you also know that we Chinese are relatively poor now, and the focus is on economic development. But if someone contributes money, this project will be easy to solve. If you are willing to join other countries to invest together, then we can also build an international space station. After the international space station is built, your Saudi astronauts can also directly enter space and live in space permanently. Not only that, even if Your Highness is interested, you may be able to stay in it for a few days..." Xu Huasheng carefully explained the planning of the international space station to Salman. You pay the money, China contributes the effort, and everyone conducts joint research and development. Your people can also participate in learning some technology.

After the space station is built, your astronauts can also move in, and your experimental projects can also be carried out on the space station.

At the same time, you can also develop tourist cabins and carry out space tourism projects. Send a few people up at a time, stay for a few days and come back, and you can make a lot of money at a time. ,

After listening to Xu Huasheng's words, Prince Salman swallowed his saliva.

This is really a good thing. If Saudi astronauts can enter space, it will be a great honor for Saudi Arabia. This is definitely a good thing that can increase national self-confidence.

"Xu, is the investment in this project very large?"

Salman asked softly. Although this thing is good, if the investment is huge, Saudi Arabia must also consider it.

"No, no, no, Prince Salman, this investment is actually very small. Because the entire project takes a long time, on average, the funds needed each year are estimated to be only a few billion US dollars. If our company can attract more people to invest, each shareholder only needs a few hundred million US dollars each year, which should not be a lot of money!"

Xu Huasheng said with a smile.

"Is it really that much money every year?"

After hearing what Xu Huasheng said, Salman asked in disbelief. It only takes a few hundred million US dollars a year to participate in the International Space Station project and send its own astronauts to space. This is too cost-effective.

"Prince Salman, can I lie to you about this? It's true. After all, the salaries of our Chinese scientific researchers are not high. In fact, in addition to the International Space Station project, I have another project here, which is more practical than the International Space Station project. I call this project the Starlink project, which is to launch a large number of earth-orbit satellites..."

When you draw a pie, you can't just draw unreal things, you also need something practical.

So Xu Huasheng directly brought out the Starlink project, which is actually very practical for some small countries.

With the Starlink network, small countries can also have some satellite functions. Including satellite positioning, satellite communications, satellite networks, satellite reconnaissance, etc.

However, this project is not as amazing as it seems. In the original time and space, both China and the United States have this project. This project is actually a supplement to high-orbit satellites, mainly playing an auxiliary role, or doing bad things when necessary.

In the room, after listening to Xu Huasheng's description of the Starlink project, Salman's breathing became heavier.

Saudi Arabia has now purchased some missile technology from China, and there will be long-range rocket technology in the future, butIn order to achieve precision strikes, these technologies require very high requirements for satellites.

Although Saudi Arabia can use China's satellite network now, once a war breaks out in the future, China may not be able to allow itself to use its own military satellite data.

By that time, its own weapons may become blind.

Now the Starlink proposed by Xu Huasheng is different. This thing is mainly for civilian use, and the number is huge. As Xu Huasheng said, China will not provide military technology in the future, but it can provide civilian technology.

As for the use of civilian technology in the military, that is not China's business. Kitchen knives can also kill people, but you can't stop people from selling kitchen knives.

Satellite positioning, satellite communications, satellite networks, satellite reconnaissance...

Although the satellites of the Starlink plan are small, they can be networked in space. The typical thing is that the ability is not enough, and the number is made up, which reduces the difficulty of satellite research and development. If one satellite cannot do too many functions, I don't want too many functions. If one satellite cannot achieve the function, I will launch ten, one hundred, or even thousands of satellites.

Although this thing has a relatively low orbit, it is easy to be shot down. But it doesn't matter, I have a lot of them, I can just shoot them down and launch them again. I can carry hundreds or even thousands of satellites with one rocket.

Big cake, this cake is too big.

Salman wants to eat it all by himself, but Salman also knows that he can't eat it all by himself.

Xu Huasheng's meaning is very clear, he wants to attract more countries to come in, he just wants to use this project as a platform to attract more friends for China.

"Xu, I have to go back and report to the king seriously before I can make a decision. But for the underground city, I hope you can send a survey team as soon as possible. We hope that this underground city will be built as soon as possible..."

Salman said directly.

"No problem, our survey team can set off at any time. After the survey is completed, we will give a plan."

Xu Huasheng nodded, China likes infrastructure the most. Xu Huasheng also likes this project because it can drive too many jobs.

An underground city can easily drive hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs. For China now, the more such projects, the better.