African Nationhood

Chapter 564 State Council-Urban Construction
Liu Jiazhao wiped his sweat and returned to his seat. Ouyang Geng looked at Cai Jinzhang.

"Please tell Minister Cai about our urban and rural construction situation."

After Cai Jinzhang stood up and nodded to the two heads of government as usual, he opened his notebook and spoke.

“In the past five years, our Ministry of Urban Construction has still focused on infrastructure construction.

The focus is on the construction of hydropower stations and various thermal power plants. According to the plan of the last mid-term work meeting, our department has built 387 new thermal power plants and 33 hydropower stations across the country.

Among them, there are 5 large hydropower stations with a total power generation capacity of 18 billion kilowatt hours.

Far exceeding the expected goals of our last work meeting and achieving leapfrog development.

Entering the forefront of the world, it is now ranked sixth in the world, the same as France, and only lower than the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Russia.

Although our development speed is astonishing, there is still a huge gap between our power generation capacity and that of the United States, which ranks first. There is still a lot of room for improvement in our department.

The power generation capacity of 18 billion is enough to achieve electric lighting coverage in the core areas of our rule.

However, the electrification level of the more remote Lunda Administrative Office, the West African Administrative Office and the Falklands is still insufficient, and can only reach 43% of electric lighting coverage.

This is because the development of various regions is uneven, and our department still has a lot of work to do.

In addition, the construction of the Kariba Reservoir area has been completed, and the next step is the water storage work in the reservoir area.

This work is expected to take four years, by which time the power generation capacity of the entire hydropower station will exceed 4 billion kilowatt hours.

Once the water storage is completed, our national power generation capacity will exceed that of most countries in the world, second only to the United States.

Kariba Reservoir Dam is 138 meters high and 650 meters long. This dam creatively develops the technology of building large-volume concrete high dams.

The main buildings of the project include barrages, diversion tunnels, flood discharge tunnels and power plant buildings.

At the same time, in order to prevent uneven cooling of the concrete, under the reminder of Chairman Shi, we adopted the technology of pre-embedded cooling pipes, which perfectly solved this engineering problem.

The entire dam adopts a gravity-type dam body, with a width of 12m at the top and a maximum width of 118m at the bottom. At the same time, the dam body is fully earthquake-proof in accordance with high-strength standards.

A total of 298 million cubic meters of concrete was poured into the dam at a total cost of 58.8 billion yuan (5880 million pounds). "

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“According to our estimates, the storage area of ​​this reservoir will exceed 5000 square kilometers, making it the largest artificial lake in the world.

We dug two caves 144 meters long, 41 meters high and 23 meters wide on both sides of the reservoir.

The initial installed capacity is 70 kilowatt-hours, and will be gradually added later. The maximum installed capacity is 265 million kilowatt-hours (preset power generation loss is 35%).

During the filling of this reservoir, we will continue to build a giant hydropower station in the Kaholabasa area downstream. This hydropower station will generate several times more electricity than the Kariba Hydropower Station.

The preset power generation capacity is 800 million kilowatt hours. After the completion of this giant hydropower station, our country's electricity level will directly rank first in the world.

The power generated by these two giant hydropower stations will fully supply electrical applications in all areas of the country.

In addition to the construction of giant hydropower stations, our department will consider building a number of skyscrapers in large cities such as Hanking (Pretoria), Handu (Bulawayo) and Jianye (Harare).

This is used to highlight our development achievements, but whether this is appropriate or not remains for Chairman Shi and Premier Ouyang to decide. "

The Ministry of Urban Development's report on the construction of skyscrapers has been reported, and Shi Jintang is a little hesitant.

Building skyscrapers can highlight development achievements, but it is expensive and requires a long cost recovery period.

His original intention was not to build large and thankless buildings such as skyscrapers. But Ouyang Geng felt that he could still give it a try. After all, doing so could boost people's morale.

Shi Jintang thought for a while. At this time, the Empire State Building in the United States had not yet been planned, and their skyscraper was only over a hundred meters high.

It would be feasible if we just built one in Hanjing.

But Shi Jintang is still a little undecided about what kind of cultivation it will be.

The skyscrapers he requested can be based on the style of Red Goose's "Seven Sisters of Moscow", and it will be very convenient to overlook it from the Xinghan Palace.

"This matter still needs to be discussed further, so let's put your report aside for now."

Cai Jinzhang nodded, "Okay, Chairman."

“Now that we’ve talked about skyscrapers, let’s talk about our urbanization rate.

Because we are an immigrant-oriented country, our urbanization rate has always been very high. After all, most immigrants first work in industry and mining when they come, and their food and accommodation are in large agglomerations.

This arrangement has caused our urbanization rate to remain above 80%. After the three-year employment period, most immigrants chose to stay in the cities and continue to engage in industrial and mining, and handed over the allocated land to state-owned farms. Company management.

This also facilitates our urbanization construction.

According to Chairman Shi’s guidance, we have been working hard to promote the construction of standardized housing.

However, as immigrants continue to enter the country, we can only continue to build intensive residential buildings to facilitate the lives of immigrants. "

In its early stages, Nanhua mostly adopted the resettlement strategy of shanty towns on-site. After all, the company was just starting out at that time and there was no money to build housing for the immigrants.

Later, due to the tsetse fly, Nanhua began to build concentrated housing for new immigrants, and also to give immigrants a greater sense of belonging.

At that time, the urban construction department was under great pressure and did not know how to cope with the huge demand for housing.

Therefore, Shi Jintang came up with the "Khrushchev Building" and promoted modular building, prefabricated panels and bricks, which greatly accelerated the construction speed of the building.

Moreover, this kind of intensive tube building can not only meet the housing needs of immigrants to the greatest extent, but also greatly save the common area.

The garbage and toilets in one building are all processed in a centralized manner, which provides a good boost to urbanization.

“Although these intensive housing are simple and efficient, they also restrict the further development of urbanization.

We applied to relax the approval conditions for housing construction and at the same time increase the investment in infrastructure construction materials.

The production capacity of domestic cement factories, brick factories and prefabricated panel factories has been growing steadily. If we continue to use the old method and maintain the approval system, it will easily breed corruption problems.

Hearing this, Shi Jintang couldn't help but frown. The disadvantages of the planned economy had begun to appear.

Now that we are loosening control over the market, we are afraid that the market will expand disorderly and many people will fall into a frenzy without even realizing it.

"Well, I understand Minister Cai's suggestion. I will discuss this issue with Prime Minister Ouyang. The specific restructuring still needs to be considered. I hope the cabinet can do some research.

The first is for grassroots people, the second is for grassroots government organizations, and the third is for our policies and regulations.

I think that although our approval system is rigid in many places, it is still suitable for our current national conditions. If there are indeed many problems, we will discuss the rectification situation. "

Ouyang Geng nodded, "Okay, Chairman, I will arrange someone to go to the grassroots level to conduct in-depth research in the near future.

I will report back to you after the results come out. "

(End of this chapter)