African Nationhood

Chapter 653 State Council-Urban Construction
"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 laptop and spoke.

“In the past five years, the focus of our Ministry of Urban Construction has shifted slightly. In addition to infrastructure construction, we have also made efforts in urban construction.

Our department presided over the construction of the Union Buildings, the tallest skyscraper in Africa and the fourth tallest in the world.

This project has greatly improved our architectural level and is also a baptism for our basic disciplines.

Hankyong University has specially opened a skyscraper major in the Department of Architecture, which has a very obvious boost to Nanhua as a whole.

Moreover, people always look proud when mentioning the Union Building, and some people even suggested that we should build the tallest skyscraper in the world to compare with the United States. "

Hearing this, Shi Jintang couldn't hold it any longer.

These guys had just had enough to eat for two days, and they were already lost.

Cai Jinzhang definitely said this on purpose. He was encouraging Chairman Shi and also testing Chairman Shi.

He wanted to make sure that Chairman Shi was starting to become overly successful because of his age.

When ancient emperors reached the stage of Chairman Shi, they would naturally become extravagant and overjoyed in their achievements.

It's just that Chairman Shi is not an ordinary person. He is a time traveler. He can see clearly and further than anyone of his generation, so he will not get lost in unnecessary extravagant enjoyment.

Over the years, except for his indulgence in female sex, he rarely spent energy on partying, drinking and dressing, these superficial dopamine enjoyments.

Most of the time, I am either dealing with official duties or dictating information.

As an up master, he almost exhausted his energy and brains in planning for the prosperity of the country.

Of course, Nan Hua is growing stronger day by day, and his inner joy is no less than that of others. This is a kind of endorphin enjoyment.

Even the antiques and treasures he collected from Europe were only a little joyful when he saw them.

He knows these things, he is only a recycler, a temporary custodian.

In the future, these things will always see the light of day again, return to people's hands, and become Chinese treasures.

He believes that he is still relatively sober and has not been lost because of the little achievements Nanhua has achieved so far.

His burden is still heavy and the road ahead is still long.

Faced with the speculations of his ministers, Chairman Shi responded righteously and loudly: "There is no need to mention this matter for the time being. Building the Union Building was not my original intention.

My original intention was to build a qualified broadcasting signal tower for the South China Broadcasting Company, and to add office buildings for the Central Parliament and the Judicial Committee.

Xinghan Palace and the United Building are related to the national system and are facade projects of Nanhua. They are by no means my personal enjoyment. "

What Chairman Shi said was very serious.

The officials present were so frightened that they all stood up and shouted loudly: "We have absolutely no intention of doing this!"

Shi Jintang waved his hand, "No matter what everyone thinks, now we should focus all our energy on national development and seeking benefits for people's livelihood."

All the senior officials nodded in unison, "Yes."

"Okay, Minister Cai, please continue."

At the last State Council meeting, I mentioned that the construction of the Kariba Reservoir has been completed and the reservoir is entering the filling stage.

In March 1917, the water storage of Kariba Reservoir was officially completed, with a storage capacity of approximately 3 billion m.

We conducted three different cycles of experimental power generation in April, May and June 1917. According to the test results, our giant hydropower station fully complied with the design specifications and the generator set was operating perfectly.

It has now begun official operation. Only 60% of the units have been installed in the early stage. Installation will continue in the future and we will strive to reach full load power generation in May next year.

At present, our total annual power generation has jumped to 120 billion hours, second only to the United States and surpassing Germany to become the world's second largest power generation power.

With the addition of electricity from the Kariba Hydropower Station, the electrolytic copper smelting capacity of the Lunda Administration has been greatly improved.

It's just that the Kariba Reservoir power generation unit is too far inland from the Lunda Administrative Office, and the power loss along the way is too high.

Our department is thinking of surveying the site of a new hydropower station within the territory of Lunda Administrative Office.

After construction, it can greatly reduce power loss. "

Electric power transmission at this stage is very primitive, and high-voltage transmission can only increase the voltage to 110kv. This technology was developed by Chairman Shi and Tesla and was realized ten years ago.

Nowadays, it is the internationally accepted long-distance power transmission standard. Because Chinese is the first official language of Nanhua, if the international community wants to use Nanhua's power transmission standard, it must understand the specific meaning of Chinese.

Of course, customers can also request English instructions for this standard, but Chinese will still appear in the instructions.

What Nanhua exported was bilingual technical documents in Chinese and English, which could be regarded as reaching international standards ahead of schedule, more than a hundred years ahead of the great Eastern countries of later generations.

No matter how high the 220kv transmission line technology is, Tesla is working on it. According to him, there should be a breakthrough in the near future.

（原时空1912年110kv输电技术达成，1923年220kv输电技术达成。后世东方大国到了21世纪，才在800~1100kv的特高压输电技术上成功突破，成了国际标准。

But it was finally achieved after decades and generations of hard work exploring and tackling key problems. )
Nanhua has a vast territory, and high-voltage power transmission technology will be a key technology that determines future success. There is still a long way to go in long-distance transmission of high-voltage electricity.

This industry is also promising and has a bright future, and we must continue to explore and work hard.

Handu Electric Power College specializes in high-voltage power transmission. As long as the training of these follow-up talents continues, they will naturally make continuous progress.

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“After the completion of the Kariba Reservoir, we built a new reservoir in the Kaholabasa area, more than 400 kilometers downstream.

The reservoir has a total storage capacity of 630 billion cubic meters. The dam site is located at the narrowest point of the 46km-long, "V"-shaped Caborra Bassa Canyon, with the two banks nearly vertical.

The normal water storage level of the reservoir is 326m, and the reservoir area is 2700 square kilometers.

The minimum operating water level is 295m, and the effective storage capacity is 520 billion cubic meters, which can be adjusted annually.

The maximum dam height of this reservoir is 163.5m, the arch dam crest elevation is 331m, the dam crest arc length is 303m, the top thickness is 4m, and the bottom thickness is 23m.

The bedrock of the dam site is fine coarse-crystalline perilla granite-like granite-like gneiss with slight schistosity. There are thin lamprophyre dikes and gabbro dikes in a few locations.

The bedrock is dense and has good lithology. Except for a few parts, it generally has weak water permeability and high elastic modulus.

Because the geological conditions of this reservoir are good, we adopted a double-curved arch dam. Of course, during construction, we specially set up a water dissipation plan to avoid the impact of long-term flood discharge on the dam foundation.

The dam pouring also adopted the engineering method of cooling while pouring that was used before for the Kariba Dam.

During the pouring process, our staff also eliminated many difficulties and summarized many engineering parameters.

For example: in order to ensure that the newly poured concrete is not affected by excavation and blasting, a distance of more than 15m should be maintained between the edge of the pouring block and the rock excavation surface.

During the pouring process, the pouring on both sides is roughly maintained symmetrically. The thickness of the pouring layer is 1.25m at the dam foundation and 2.5m above.

The pouring temperature is limited to below 35°C; if it exceeds, cooling measures must be taken.

There are serpentine cooling pipes buried in the dam body, and the pouring time of the second layer must be staggered by at least 2 hours, etc.

Mastering these engineering parameters is a useful exploration for us to enrich dam construction technology, accumulate successful experience, and improve the construction discipline.

The main buildings of the hub include a double-curved arch dam and an underground powerhouse on the left and right banks.

The project is constructed in two phases. The first phase mainly involves the construction of the arch dam and the right bank underground powerhouse, as well as the corresponding power transmission and transformation projects;

The second phase of the project includes the Left Bank underground factory buildings and corresponding power transmission and living service facilities.

In August this year, the first phase of the reservoir project was successfully completed, and the construction of the second phase of the project started at a later date.

After the completion of the first phase, the dam has officially entered the water storage stage.

A total of 199.6 million cubic meters of concrete was poured into the dam at a total cost of 39.5 billion yuan (3950 million pounds). "

The preset power generation unit is 800 million kilowatts and the designed annual power generation is 400 billion kilowatt hours. After the completion of this giant hydropower station, our power generation 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.

“After talking about the reservoir and dam, with the improvement of people’s economic level.

People's demands for building comfortable and spacious houses are gradually increasing, which has forced our urban construction department to continuously improve the level of urban planning with the process of urbanization.

Because cities have a large population, if every household has a single-family house, it will not only place higher demands on the production capacity of building materials, but also squeeze out our planned indicators for public construction.

Therefore, our department plans to develop new intensive housing, upgrade the previous tube buildings, add living facilities, and increase the public area.

Strengthen greening and convenient supporting facilities, and focus on the construction of hospitals and schools that are closely related to people's lives.

In this way, people's satisfaction will increase, our urbanization level will improve, and it will also stimulate the development of the modern furniture and decoration industry. "

The Tongzi Building in Nanhua was too small to accommodate large pieces of furniture, so Chairman Shi came up with the concept of folding furniture.

Let the industrial and commercial department invite private enterprises to bid for production, and then use it as supporting facilities for the Tongzi Building for new immigrants to use.

If the building is transformed from a tube building into a commercial building, the folding furniture that was commonly used before will no longer be applicable, and new furniture must be designed to suit large-area housing.

At the same time, new houses also need to work hard on decoration.

However, new residential buildings should not be too high, preferably six floors. If they are too high, it will be inconvenient to go up and down the stairs, and installing elevators will consume too much energy.

"The construction of improved housing can be carried out, but intensive housing cannot be discarded. After all, we are still engaged in immigration, so your department's tasks are still very heavy and require more efforts."

Cai Jinzhang nodded, "Yes, Chairman, that's the end of my speech for now."

(End of this chapter)