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Chapter 371 New Lion City Plan

Guangjia Aerospace has an office in Singapore, which is mainly responsible for space tourism-related business docking.

Guangjia Technology has a branch in Lion City, and the research and development of some innovative drug pipelines and the sales of human hibernation equipment to Southeast Asia are all located in Lion City.

Therefore, news continued to come from Lion City.

The frontline reports from employees of the Light Armor Enterprises are different from the reports available on the market in terms of detail and perspective.

After watching it, Lin Jia was shocked that the turmoil in Lion City calmed down so quickly.

With her position, she is able to get a lot of inside information. If she shares the information that Chen Yuanguang got from the official with Lin Jia, then the richness of her information sources will definitely be considered top-notch.

Therefore, Lin Jia was very clear that there was no trace of China's involvement in this matter from beginning to end, and America's silent attitude from beginning to end indirectly indicated that they were involved in this matter.

Otherwise, with the American character, they would never remain silent at all. They still have JD in Lion City.

Lin Jia thought that even if America's strength had declined, it was still able to accomplish such a great thing without making any noise, and it should not be underestimated.

Chen Yuanguang said: "Let's talk about this topic again after a while. You should be able to see it more clearly after a while."

Lion City has a representative system, which simply means that the head of government is elected by the members of parliament.

Therefore, within just one month, the leader of Lion City was replaced by Wang Yikang.

After he took office, there were many different opinions from the outside world, because in the past month, more than 200 billion US dollars of capital flowed out of Lion City, and the number of wealthy Chinese who returned to Hong Kong from Lion City exceeded 1,000.

The outside world thought that the first thing he should do after taking office was to restore the outside world's confidence in Lion City. He should first split up the telecommunications industry and introduce a third-party supervisory agency to supervise Lion City Telecommunications, ensure that the incidents exposed in the past do not happen again, and gradually build up Lion City's credibility and stabilize Lion City's financial industry.

The results are somewhat similar to what the outside world predicted, but also somewhat different.

Wang Yikang first delivered a speech to all the people of Lion City. The content of the speech was roughly that Lion City’s past behavior was a serious mistake. Now Lion City is on the road to correcting its past wrong behaviors and will work hard to regain the trust of the international community.

Is it useful to say this? It is useless. The damage caused to the entire social ecology by decades of wiretapping cannot be repaired by speeches.

The sense of insecurity caused to international capital cannot be eliminated by this speech.

For Lion City, Chinese capital is also international capital.

In the past, even among international capital giants such as Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Morgan, everyone only knew that Temasek was particularly well-informed, but no one actually knew how it obtained this information.

Now I know that if you treat China in the same way as you treat us, an outflow of $200 billion a month would be considered merciful.

Therefore, speeches alone will not help. They will not save Singapore’s financial industry in any way, nor will they help Singapore continue to siphon wealthy immigrants from the Asia-Pacific region.

The core engine of economic growth has stalled, which has had a negative impact on Lion City's economy. International rating agencies have significantly lowered their GDP growth forecasts for Lion City from 2.9% to -2%.

Lion City is facing a chain collapse and is facing an unprecedented crisis as a whole.

After the speech, Wang Yikang immediately prepared to hold a press conference in the name of Lion City, but those who received the invitations were not mainly financial giants from Europe and the United States, but wealthy countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as China.

The title on the invitation letter reads: "Witness the New Lion City"

"Renkang, get ready. You need to go with the new cabinet to attend the press conference this time," the leader said.

Wang Renkang was surprised. As a Chinese, he was also a newcomer in Lianhe Zaobao. The last time he got the opportunity to attend Wang Yikang's press conference was because the time was sensitive. If he went, the safety factor would be the highest.

This time things had calmed down, and he even had the opportunity to attend the new cabinet's first press conference, a treatment rarely afforded to newcomers.

Just like last time, he also rushed to the scene very early this time. After observation, he found something strange: all the giants in China's construction field were there.

China Construction, China Railway, China Railway Construction, etc., all the Chinese giants who can be named in China gathered together.

Wang Renkang wondered in his heart, after the financial industry failed, would Lion City start large-scale infrastructure construction to boost the economy?

Wang Renkang felt that he was unlucky enough to have chosen to work in Lion City, only to encounter this incident. Without the financial industry, the upper limit of Lion City was gone and the upper limit was locked.

Whether this level of economic development can be maintained in the future has become an unknown.

He could only be thankful that he had not immigrated and that he still had room to maneuver.

With the financial industry gone, the economy is driven by infrastructure. Seeing that Europe is looking for Chinese companies to build infrastructure, it is not surprising that Singapore makes a similar choice.

After all, although Lion City has nothing else, it still has plenty of funds. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. The demise of Lion City’s financial industry is in the present tense, not past perfect tense.

What surprised him even more was that in addition to Wang Yikang, there was also an Alpha Technology sign on the main table of the press conference.

Alpha Technology's LOGO is very famous. After the Lion City incident broke out this time, the original Lion City side hoped that Alpha Technology's Hornbill would block the relevant content, but Alpha Technology did not accept it.

This caused Hornbill to be unusable in Singapore for a period of time.

Alpha Technology appeared at the main table and was even placed to the left of Wang Yikang, which made Wang Renkang have a lot of speculations.

As Southeast Asia's leading technology giant, if Alpha comes out to support Lion City, it will at least rebuild confidence at the manufacturing level.

Anyone who pays attention can see the vitality that Alpha has brought to the entire Johor Bahru.

The South China Morning Post has reported on the rapid development of Johor Bahru. Alpha Technology's B-side artificial intelligence applications have attracted worldwide attention.

If a factory is built in Lion City and Alpha Technology can provide the capabilities, Lion City's economy will not decline rapidly.

Thinking from this perspective, it makes perfect sense for Alpha Technology to be invited as the guest of honor.

Guests arrived one after another, and the entire venue was full of people, which was in stark contrast to the sparse attendance at the last press conference. "Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.

It was a month ago that I last held a press conference. I am delighted to be here again, this time in a different capacity, as Head of Cabinet. In just one month, we have completed the transition of leadership, re-delegated public service leaders, and built a cadre that is not corrupted.

We have to eliminate the negative impact of the past, which is a long and difficult task. It is even more difficult to rebuild the confidence of all sectors of society in the cabinet.

At this point in time, we are faced with an unprecedented challenge, which is how to lead Lion City forward.

Lion City has come a long way. Over the past six decades, we have made steady progress. Our economy has been radically transformed. Lion City is a key regional hub and global node.

But with everything that happened this month, Singapore will lose its status as a financial hub for a long time, which means we cannot guarantee an increase in income, and the quality of life of Singaporeans - better education, better healthcare, better housing and better jobs - may be affected.

In the past, the Cabinet has been doing the wrong things, and we have corrected the past mistakes. We are also facing a very severe test. If the wrong actions bring material prosperity to the people of Singapore, and we correct the wrong actions, but make the people's lives more difficult, this is unacceptable to this Cabinet.

Although this is the price that must be paid for justice and a form of compensation for historical mistakes, as this cabinet we need to minimize the impact as much as possible and overcome possible severe economic recession and regional unrest.

The fundamental question behind this is what we should do now, how we should do it, and who we should cooperate with.

Today I am here to introduce to you the infrastructure stimulus plan of this cabinet: the New Lion City Plan.

We plan to expand the area of ​​Lion City as a whole. In the past, Lion City has been reclaiming land. In the early days of our independence in 1965, the entire area of ​​Lion City was only 581.5 square kilometers. In the past 728.6 years, we have expanded the entire area to 23 square kilometers through land reclamation. Now % of the land is reclaimed from the sea.

We plan to invest US$300 billion in the next five years to complete the reclamation of 1000 square kilometers of land and expand the entire Lion City to more than square kilometers.

In the past, because of Singapore’s land reclamation, our neighbors Indonesia, Cambodia and Indonesia stopped exporting sand, granite and sea sand, the basic raw materials for land reclamation, to Singapore.

Because they are worried that the land growth rate in Singapore is too fast and will affect the regional balance.

I am honored to tell you today that we will be working with Alpha Technologies to use desert sand to build land reclamation factories. "

The most excited people in the audience were the representatives from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Sand is different from sand. Not all sand can be used as a building material, and not all sand can be used for land reclamation.

Because the desert sand is too fine and too smooth, concrete cannot be molded with it. Another reason is that the desert sand contains a high amount of alkali. Salt and alkali are corrosive to the steel bars of a building, affecting the stability of the building.

Therefore, even though Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both located in desert areas, their buildings have to import river sand from overseas.

The price of river sand in China is about RMB 90 per square meter, but in Singapore, which has always imported it from Malaysia, the price in the 200s was US$ per square meter.

Even at the high price of US$200, Malaysia was not very willing to sell it to Singapore. Later, Singapore had to import from other countries, including Indonesia and Cambodia. However, the high demand from Singapore led to a shortage of river sand in these two countries, and the supply was gradually stopped around 2024.

The lack of river sand will cause a series of environmental problems, and the resulting soil erosion is, in a sense, irreversible.

全球每年的河沙消耗量在320亿吨到500亿吨之间，而全球每年的河沙自然恢复量只有120亿吨，这意味着每年有200亿吨到380亿吨的河沙被人类永久性的消耗掉。

What it means if the desert sand can be utilized is that there will be no other objective factors that can hinder the process of land reclamation in Singapore.

For desert countries, a major obstacle restricting their ability to build cities has also disappeared.

In the past, river sand had to be imported from overseas as building materials, and the cost of constructing buildings in the desert was very high, but now all raw materials can be produced locally.

This is a technology comparable to seawater desalination. The large-scale utilization of desert sand can also help desert countries indirectly manage the desert.

Wang Renkang finally understood that this meant finding the technology provider, potential investor, biggest beneficiary and construction team.

The desert tycoons have the willingness and funds to support the maturity of this technology. China can provide rapid infrastructure capabilities to help Lion City complete its ambitious plan to reclaim 300 square kilometers of land in five years, and Alpha Technology's technology is the cornerstone of all this.

Find China, China is the best at this.

In the past, Wenzhou's Oufei Project hollowed out two mountains for land reclamation. It was divided into three phases and expanded by 20 acres, roughly equivalent to 150 square kilometers. The first phase alone expanded by 100 square kilometers, and it took only five years.

Considering that the Oufei project was a 2011 project, with technological advances and Singapore's willingness to pay, it is not impossible to complete 300 square kilometers of land reclamation in five years.

Although Lion City cannot expand indefinitely because it needs to maintain the existence of the Strait of Malacca, it at least means that Lion City can transform from a country the size of a booger's nose into a country the size of a palm.

It took 55 years to reclaim 143 square kilometers of land, but Wang Yikang started with a large-scale project of about 300 square kilometers.

The Singaporeans present suddenly regained their confidence.

Wang Yikang continued:

"For a long time, every rise of Singapore was closely linked to land reclamation. Land reclamation in the 19th century enriched the city's functions and made it more prominent. We developed from a small fishing village to the administrative seat of England's Straits Settlements, and from a trading port to a mature colonial city.

The land reclamation project in Jurong on the west coast of Lion City in the 60s made it possible for Lion City to develop its electronics industry.

With the rapid advancement of land reclamation projects, Jurong Industrial Area had 1968 factories in 153, and the electronics industry became one of our pillar industries.

In the 90s, in order to develop a large crude oil processing industry, we began to merge seven small islands south of Jurong into one large island, Jurong Island, by land reclamation. The completion of Jurong Island helped the crude oil processing industry in Singapore to take off rapidly in the following 2008 years. By , Singapore had become one of the world's three largest oil trading and refining centers.

In addition to these projects, Changi Airport and Marina Bay area are both products of land reclamation. The development of Lion City is inseparable from land reclamation.

As artificial intelligence is developing rapidly today, in addition to continuing to benefit the general public and build new HDB flats, we will use the additional land from land reclamation to develop the artificial intelligence industry and invest in the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants, helping Singapore become one of the industrial centers in the future era of artificial intelligence.

Alpha Technologies will also invest more than US$20 billion to build their global data center in the Lion City.”

Now the loop is closed. Alpha Technology obtains funds from Lion City through its technology, and then invests these funds in building a data center in Lion City. It is a purely profitable business.

What neither Wang Yikang nor the guests knew was that the Lion City was destined to become a hub for artificial intelligence.

(End of this chapter)