The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

China has achieved the commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion technology.

This news gives unique meaning to this Chinese Spring Festival.

Let this year's Spring Festival be more festive.

This is a huge surprise gift to the people of the whole country.

Everyone knows that it won’t be long before the streets are filled with electric cars.

And everyone realizes that it won't be long before oil will no longer be used as a fuel, but only as a raw material for industrial production.

Oil is no longer the 'blood of industry' or 'black gold'!
The entire European and American academic community was speechless.

They joined forces to force China to pay more money, but the result was that China simply overturned the table and withdrew from the group.

China is developing its own controlled nuclear fusion technology, and the first step is to build a demonstration reactor.

How long does it take from the start-up of the demonstration reactor project to its ignition?
A few months!
Who could have thought that the Chinese would act so quickly?
You know, it took nearly twenty years from ITER site selection to project subcontracting.

At the beginning, when China announced that it would independently develop controlled nuclear fusion technology and build a demonstration reactor, Europe and the United States did not believe that China would be able to complete the project so quickly. Even the heads of national laboratories and technical leaders of the Energy Bureau believed that this was impossible.

But China created a miracle.

When they saw that Liu Tao was appointed as the chief engineer, they had already overestimated him as much as possible, thinking that it was already remarkable that China could achieve breakthrough progress in ten years.

But in fact they found that they still underestimated Liu Tao.

The demonstration reactor is not only ignited, but also directly connected to the grid for power generation.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the State Grid Corporation of China announced a price adjustment, reducing the electricity price of China Southern by 10%.

Just after returning to work after the Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Water Resources officially issued a document requiring the demolition of small hydropower stations across the country. Some medium-sized hydropower stations that have been under construction for a long time are also to be demolished in batches to restore the river ecology.

There are a large number of small hydropower stations across the country, which have made great contributions to China's economic development in the past. But now, small hydropower stations have completed their historical mission and it is time to withdraw from the stage of history.

Not only small hydropower stations, but also some medium-sized hydropower stations that have been built for a long time and have been in operation for decades will be demolished in batches and exit the stage of history.

The medium-sized hydropower station built at that time has reached the end of its service life due to technical limitations. In the past, it was constantly reinforced. But now, it no longer needs to be reinforced, but needs to be demolished.

This is the case for hydropower stations, not to mention others.

Thermal power generation will be gradually phased out in the next two years.

For solar power generation, wind power, etc., it is like doomsday, because the subsidies were cancelled with a piece of document!
You know, in the past, solar power generation and wind power generation made a lot of money thanks to subsidies.

It can be said that the ignition of the demonstration reactor and its connection to the grid for power generation will have a very obvious impact on all aspects of China.

Controlled nuclear fusion seems to have given China's development wings to take off.

Just after the Lantern Festival, China officially announced that it will build a fusion power station to meet the country's electricity needs in the next five years and gradually phase out the original fission power stations.

Soon, China signed agreements with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, and China will increase the supply of electricity to them.

After all, the power generation of fusion nuclear power plants is astonishing, which means that China's power generation will surge in the future.

The electricity produced can not only be supplied to China, but the scale of China's hydropower generation is also astonishing.

Naturally, this electricity should be sold, not wasted.

In fact, the cross-regional power grid interconnection project started as early as ten years ago, the only difference was the size of China's power supply.

At the same time, the situation where the Southern Power Grid and the Northern Power Grid coexisted as two strong powers has come to an end, and they have completed their mission.

The initial formation of the coexistence of the northern and southern power grids was due to a number of factors.

On the one hand, Panshan Group needs to invest more funds in the construction of hydropower stations, thermal power stations, wind power stations, tidal power stations, nuclear power stations, solar power stations, etc., so as to quickly improve China's power generation capacity to meet China's development electricity needs.

Secondly, it is to promote self-reform of the power system through competition and break the old rules and regulations.

The third is to regulate the market and improve service awareness. Of course, there was another plan at that time, which was to go public for market financing.

Now, with the commercial application of controlled nuclear fusion technology, the historical mission of the parallel competition between the northern and southern power grids has ended.

The Southern Power Grid and the Northern Power Grid were merged and reorganized into the State Grid.

The State Grid Corporation of China was also officially separated from Panshan Group Corporation and became directly under the central government.

Liu Jingming was appointed as the head of the State Grid to complete the restructuring.

Liu Jingming originally served as the deputy director of the General Administration of Sport of China. After several years of experience, he is now transferred to the position of head of the State Grid Corporation of China, which is a natural progression.

The most important thing is that the merger of the Southern Power Grid and the Northern Power Grid is actually not of the same weight. The scale of the Northern Power Grid is less than one-tenth of that of the Southern Power Grid. If it were someone else, the reorganized State Grid might not be able to hold it. But Liu Jingming can, not because Liu Jingming works for the Southern Power Grid, but because he is Liu Tao's son.

This identity is enough!
As the soul of the Panshan Group system, Liu Tao has been in charge of the Panshan Group system for forty years. It was Liu Tao who made the Panshan Group rapidly develop from a third-line military factory that was struggling to maintain into a behemoth and become the largest state-owned enterprise in China.

This also makes Liu Tao have great reputation in the entire Panshan system.

In other words, Liu Tao does not have the final say, otherwise the Panshan system would have become his one-man show long ago.

This time, the Southern Power Grid and the Northern Power Grid were reorganized into the State Grid, and no one is more suitable to lead the State Grid than Liu Jingming.

Not only Liu Jingming, but Liu Qing'an was also transferred to Qiong Province to take up a post.

The realization of controlled nuclear fusion technology will not only affect these, but also the energy giants.

Beijing, conference room.

After a whole morning of meetings, the heads of China National Petroleum Corporation and China Petrochemical Group walked out of the conference room, looked at the meeting notes in their hands, with subtly complex expressions on their faces.

We will no longer increase the production of oil and natural gas in China, and will gradually shut down oil and gas fields in batches in a planned manner to restore the ecology.

Private gas stations have also ended their historical mission.

No longer invest overseas and stop expanding overseas oil and gas fields.

No more strategic oil reserves will be built, and strategic oil reserves will be gradually reduced to 10 billion barrels.

And that’s not all. There are also a series of hard indicators such as '50,000 charging piles in two years', 'install at least four charging piles at each gas station along the highway within one year', etc.

These are the impacts brought about by controlled nuclear fusion technology. They are very star-like and very impactful.

Just like the power system is divided into the Southern Power Grid and the Northern Power Grid, the energy system is also divided into two giants: China Petroleum and China Petrochemical.

Huaxia Petrochemical is engaged in the exploitation of oil and natural gas on land in China, while Huaxia Petroleum includes shale oil exploitation in China, offshore oil exploitation, overseas oil field investment, import and export of oil and natural gas, etc.

The scale of Huaxia Petroleum is much larger than that of Huaxia Petrochemical, ten times that of Huaxia Petrochemical. Both of the two Chinese energy giants feel the determination of the country, which really intends to gradually remove the attribute of fuel from China.

In fact, they can all understand the decision made by the country. After all, with controlled nuclear fusion, electricity becomes cheaper, electric vehicles will quickly surpass fuel vehicles, and the importance of gas stations will be greatly reduced.

However, understanding is one thing, but it is impossible to say that there is no pain in my heart.

Of course, there is hurt only when there is comparison. In comparison, they are definitely not the worst.

At least compared to those coal companies that were defeated, the two energy giants are still lucky.

Coal, as thermal power plants are swept into history, coal production capacity is destined to fall sharply.

Coal overcapacity reduction!
These five light words are enough to make countless people blow their hair off.

In particular, the resettlement of laid-off workers and the local fiscal
These will make your scalp tingle.

Look, international coal futures have fallen so much that even you can’t recognize them.

China, ASEAN, SAARC, Japan and South Korea no longer import coal.

Who should other countries sell the coal they produce to?

It can't be sold at all.

At the same time, at the global warming conference, Lan Fang's representative was pointing his finger at the representatives from European and American countries and cursing them.

That year, we signed an agreement to work hard to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and alleviate global warming.

But as it turns out, no country in Europe or the United States has actually met the standards. Instead, countries like China have achieved their interim goals.

China promised to the world that it would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Now it seems that it will be achieved many years ahead of schedule.

The representatives from European and American countries were pointed at and scolded by the Lan Fang representatives, and their faces looked very ugly.

Environmental issues are a major issue in Europe and the United States.

In the past, they intended to use environmental issues to restrict the development of developing countries.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a constraint for myself.

Now you are being pointed at and scolded, you deserve it.

Representatives from European and American countries could not help but look at the calm Chinese representative. The Chinese representative had a calm expression, and the representatives from European and American countries naturally knew what this meant.

With the breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology, the political situation both within China and in other countries around the world will usher in a new round of reshuffle in this round of productivity transformation.

China is accelerating its steps to promote economic integration in Northeast Asia.

The situation in Northeast Asia as a whole has been greatly eased. North Korea and South Korea have officially called each other brother countries. The number of troops stationed on the border has been greatly reduced, and there is no need to fire a few artillery shells every now and then to celebrate.

At present, Russia is the only country left in Northeast Asia’s economic integration!

As long as Russia nods, the economic integration of Northeast Asia will be completely established.

Some people have even said that we should just ignore Russia and first develop economic integration in Northeast Asia excluding Russia.

The breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology has made some people happy and others worried.

However, in the changing times, individuals are often insignificant.

Just as the tide of history is irreversible, nothing can stop it from moving forward.

Previously, the United States was conducting strategic contraction like a madman, and there was a lot of opposition within the country.

But now, the voices of opposition within the United States have dropped significantly, and more people agree with strategic contraction.

However, this strategic contraction of the United States, coupled with China's breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology, has caused many countries to be paralyzed.

Persia, which had just turned the ship around and wanted to become an ally of the United States, was dumbfounded and the situation suddenly went out of control.

There are also countries that were willing to serve as pawns of the United States before, but now they are also numb.

Now is the time to settle the accounts.

The current issue of global warming is only part of it.

The European Union is holding a meeting.

This meeting is naturally about the issue of Europe's commercial application of controlled nuclear fusion technology. Germany and France hope that EU member states will invest more money in the scientific research of controlled nuclear fusion technology.

China has achieved a breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology, which means that controlled nuclear fusion technology can really be realized.

Since China can do it, why can't Europe!

You should know that before this, in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, Europe, the United States and China were in the world's first echelon.

And because ITER is located in Europe, Europe has some advantages in this regard.

ITER is now falling apart, and Europe is the only one left.

Europe hopes to focus all its resources on the research of stellarators.

After all, according to the information publicly reported by China, China's demonstration reactor uses the stellarator model. China has proved that this technology is feasible, which means that the tokamak, inertial confinement and other technical routes have been ruled out.

Europe cannot be without its own controlled nuclear fusion technology!
As a country that has been researching controlled nuclear fusion technology, Europe is well aware that if it misses out on controlled fusion technology, the entire Europe will no longer be called a pole.

As long as Europe can seize the time and achieve a breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion as quickly as possible, then for Europe, the future world pattern will still have an important place for Europe, rather than being completely marginalized.

Sense of crisis!
In recent years, Europe's sense of crisis has become increasingly stronger.

Europe has always maintained high social welfare. Except for rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Europe has the highest social welfare, and ordinary people live the most comfortable lives. Even in the United States, which used to have hegemony, ordinary people do not live as comfortably as Europeans.

But for Europe's elites, the sense of crisis is growing stronger and stronger, and they see the problems that exist in Europe.

Europe is not a large place, but it has too many countries and too many nationalities. It is much more difficult for Europe to truly achieve integration than previously imagined.

So far, European military integration has not been completed.

The European coalition led by France and Germany is gradually replacing NATO, which has in fact entered a state of "brain death".

However, even the most optimistic military experts think that it would be great if the European coalition could actually replace NATO completely in the next five years.

Military integration is already like this, not to mention political integration and cultural integration. (End of this chapter)