The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

The Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station, because of the construction of a controlled nuclear fusion demonstration reactor, has an astonishing power generation capacity and supplies clean and cheap electricity to Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong.

The changes brought about by fusion nuclear power plants are most directly felt in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong.

This city, one of China's economic centers, has an annual electricity consumption of about 1 million kilowatt-hours. Now, a nuclear fusion reactor can almost meet the electricity needs of the entire region. Combined with hydropower, thermal power, nuclear power, wind power, solar power, and tidal power generation, this place has the most sufficient electricity supply in the country and even the world.

Under policy coordination, electricity prices in the south have been reduced by 10%, while electricity prices in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong have been reduced by a total of 30%, which is a very significant reduction.

This is a major positive for Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong, and can be said to be a blessing from heaven.

Whether it is the service industry or the manufacturing industry, electricity is needed. Nothing in modern society can be separated from electricity. The reduction in electricity prices means that production costs, operating costs and living costs are decreasing at a visible rate.

The production costs of enterprises have dropped and profits have increased, while the electricity costs of people have dropped and they have more money to spend.

It can be said that the economic effects brought about by this disruptive revolution in energy structure are far-reaching.

China has always emphasized that science and technology are the primary productive forces, because science and technology are the real creators of wealth and improve productivity. This principle is still applicable today.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area seems to have been given a pair of wings for taking off.

Of course, the disruptive revolution in the energy structure is also triggering an accelerated adjustment in the economic structure of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao as a whole.

After so many years of development, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has become a world base for emerging industries, advanced manufacturing and modern services, and has become a world-class urban cluster.

In the entire Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, there are no more seriously polluting enterprises or low-end manufacturing industries.

All these enterprises have relocated abroad.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is also the first place in China where low-end manufacturing industries migrated.

Over the years, the economic structure of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has undergone earth-shaking adjustments.

Now, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station is helping the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to further adjust its economic structure.

In order to solve the problem of fresh water resources, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has started the construction of a large-scale seawater desalination plant.

Of course, corresponding impacts also appear elsewhere.

This year's new energy vehicle industry summit will be held in Pengcheng.

Bigwigs from the domestic automobile industry, academic leaders from related research institutes at major universities, and investors interested in this field have all flocked to this city.

New energy vehicles are the first piece of cake after the breakthrough of controlled fusion technology. With the release of solid-state batteries and the explosive growth in production, it is foreseeable that more capital will enter this field in the future, accelerating the renewal of China's automobile market and eventually completely eliminating fuel vehicles.

Moreover, this change will not only occur in the Chinese automobile market, but also in overseas markets.

After all, solid-state batteries provide tremendous support to new energy vehicles.

Solid-state batteries effectively solve the shortcomings of new energy vehicles in the past, such as short driving range and the battery's proneness to spontaneous combustion.

The contribution of solid-state batteries to new energy vehicles can be seen from the fact that Huaxia Motorcycle and Huaxia Automobile's electric motorcycles and electric cars dominate the world's new energy motorcycles and new energy vehicles.

This trend has already existed simply after the technological breakthrough of solid-state batteries.

This can also be seen from the fact that China New Energy Vehicles' annual sales have surpassed fuel vehicles for several consecutive years.

Now, breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion technology have exacerbated this trend, after all, electricity costs have become cheaper.

Even if China Petroleum and China Petrochemical are lowering oil prices and reducing everyone's refueling costs, they cannot change this trend.

The opening ceremony of the summit begins.

Liu Tao attended the opening ceremony of the summit, which also represented the country's high attention to the new energy vehicle summit and also expressed the country's attention to the new energy vehicle field.

Amidst applause, Liu Tao was the first to go on stage and deliver a speech.

After a conventional opening speech, Liu Tao talked about the development of science and technology: "We are carrying out the fourth industrial revolution with our heads held high and entering a new era. The development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, and productivity has increased significantly. The improvement of productivity by the fourth industrial revolution will be much greater than the sum of the first, second and third industrial revolutions, and the impact on the world situation will be much deeper. It is an inevitable trend for new energy vehicles to replace fuel vehicles. The next 20 years will inevitably be an era of substantial growth in the production and sales of new energy vehicles."

According to the latest national policy, new energy vehicles will be used to replace fuel vehicles at an accelerated pace. In addition to subsidies to new energy vehicle companies, subsidies will also be given to consumers who purchase new energy vehicles. Subsidies will also be given to car owners who scrap fuel vehicles ahead of schedule.

China's used and new fuel-powered cars are mainly exported to other countries.

As for China, electric vehicles will be the main focus in the future.

this day.

The China Space Administration officially announced that it had successfully built a lunar space station in lunar orbit.

As soon as this news came out, it caused quite a stir.

After all, China has established a lunar space station, which means that the development of the moon has entered a new stage.

China's lunar space station occupies the high ground, which also means that even if other countries want to build a space station in the lunar orbit, the difficulty will increase significantly.

After all, the moon's orbit is much narrower than the earth's orbit.

Perhaps with the development of aerospace technology and computers, the capacity of spacecraft on the same orbit can be increased, but with the current technology and even the technology expected in the next fifty years, a lunar orbit space station is the limit of what the moon can bear.

It can be said that by now, the winner of the space race has been decided.

Whether exploring from the Earth to the Moon, or from the Earth to deeper space, China's lunar space station is unavoidable.

Anyone who wants to launch a probe, satellite, etc. to the moon, or even more distant planets, must submit an application to the China Space Administration. Only with the approval of the China Space Administration can they proceed.

And China's Earth space station and lunar space station will have easier travel.

There is no need for the "Panshan", "Yuegui" and "Xinwen". A vehicle with much lower technical requirements can travel back and forth between the two space stations. At the same time, with the lunar space station, a lunar module with much lower technical difficulty can carry out manned lunar landing from the lunar space station.

It can be said that it has played a great role in reducing usage costs and technical difficulties.

Of course, the most important thing is the strategic role of occupying high ground.

But for private aerospace companies, this is a major boon. Now private aerospace companies have become a blue ocean.

As long as an aerospace company obtains a space license, its market valuation will start at at least tens of billions.

The country has paid huge sunk costs in the field of aerospace technology, but private aerospace companies do not need to pay this sunk cost. Now, with the help of the country, they are facing a great opportunity for development.

In fact, this has been the case for the past few decades.

Without the country's vigorous investment in infrastructure, how can there be convenient transportation, electricity, water, roads and paths in every village? Without the country's vigorous investment in infrastructure construction, how can there be a substantial development of the Internet?
All of these have required huge investments from the country, resulting in huge sunk costs.

Private enterprises do not need to pay these sunk costs.

If private enterprises were asked to pay these sunk costs, I'm afraid no private enterprise would be able to afford it.

In the current era, aerospace is definitely a blue ocean.

Unfortunately, at present, only China's aerospace companies can enjoy this blue ocean.

Space exploration is like a shot of stimulant, activating people's enthusiasm and desire for new technologies.

Just as the American continent saved ancient Europe, the exploration of outer space is bound to rekindle people's longing for a new world.

Compared to the entire universe, the earth is too small.

The news that China had built a space station called "Moon Palace" in the lunar orbit caused an uproar around the world.

As the service life of the International Space Station has been extended again and again, everyone knows that it will not be many years before the International Space Station is bound to be retired. At that time, China's "Tiangong" space station will become the only space station in the Earth orbit.

Given the current international situation, it is impossible for multiple countries to work together to rebuild the International Space Station.

Not to mention, China's current "Tiangong" space station is much larger than the International Space Station, whether in terms of total mass, space, or technological content.

Some countries that are friendly to China have already sent astronauts into China's "Tiangong" space station to carry out a series of scientific research.

China has always been a country that keeps its promises and has never raised prices temporarily or bullied the weak.

But the cooperation that was promised at the beginning is what it is now.

The whole world is now full of uncertainty, and the only certainty is China.

The whole world was shocked by China's construction of a space station called "Moon Palace" in the lunar orbit. After all, building a space station on the moon is much more difficult than throwing a lunar module to the moon.

Back then, NASA proposed an ambitious plan - the Deep Space Gate!
The goal is to build a space station in the lunar orbit, thereby occupying the commanding heights and blocking other countries' space for exploration of the moon and deep space.

Unfortunately, due to limited funds and high technical difficulty, the "Deep Space Gate" project is currently in the research stage.

The current government has been cutting funding, and although the Deep Space Gate project has not been cancelled, its funding has been cut to less than 10 million US dollars.

But there is no doubt that the United States has the best understanding of lunar space station research and knows most clearly the importance of the lunar space station.

This means that even if the second country has the ability and funding to build a space station in the lunar orbit, the difficulty will be several times that of China building the "Moon Palace".

China's big investment in the aerospace field is not just about building the lunar orbital space station "Moon Palace".

On this day, the "Laurel" spacecraft took off from the Wenchang Launch Center. After taxiing for a long distance on the long runway, the nose of the aircraft slightly tilted up, the landing gear left the ground, and then it quickly took off into the air.

When the Laurel spacecraft reached the second cosmic speed, the hatch opened.

I saw a huge object sliding out of the cargo hold automatically.

Afterwards, the Laurel spacecraft accelerated to leave the orbit, and the giant object, under the operation of the ground command center, adjusted its angle, and then ignited the rocket, rapidly accelerating it to the third cosmic speed of the earth, and the speed was still increasing.

When the three-stage rocket fuel was exhausted and fell off, its speed had reached an incredible level, quickly moving away from the earth and flying away from the sun.

The purpose of carrying rockets and satellites on the Laurel spacecraft is to save rocket fuel and make better use of the launch vehicle in space.

This is a deep space telescope and a deep space probe.

The deep space telescope will reach the edge of the solar system to better observe the universe outside the solar system and discover possible planets with life. The deep space probe will fly away from the solar system and enter other star systems, allowing China to have a deeper understanding of other star systems.

Whether it is deep space telescopes or deep space probes, they are all equipped with electronic thrusters and nuclear batteries.

In addition to building the 'Guanghan Palace' permanent lunar scientific research base, China has not stopped other space missions, but has a greater ambition, which is to increase understanding of deep space.

China is no longer satisfied with the solar system, but hopes to learn more about other star systems.

This deep space telescope and deep space probe are tasked with enhancing China's understanding of other star systems.

In about two years, the deep space telescope and the deep space probe will fly 60 astronomical units, or 90 billion kilometers. At that time, the deep space telescope and the deep space probe will separate, and the deep space telescope will be located about 100 billion kilometers from the earth, orbiting the sun to observe other star systems. The deep space probe will continue to accelerate and eventually reach the Proxima Centauri galaxy.

Proxima Centauri is the closest star system to the solar system, only 4.22 light-years away from the Earth, and is the third star in the Alpha Centauri system.

The probe will explore the Proxima Centauri system to detect whether the planets in the Proxima Centauri system have life.

After exploring the Proxima Centauri system, we will explore star systems such as Alpha Centauri and Barnard's Star.

The information detected by the probe will be transmitted back to Earth continuously.

In the short term, China can only launch deep space probes to explore other star systems. It cannot use spacecraft to explore because the journey is too long and the time required is too long. The astronauts will have died before the spacecraft reaches the outer star system.

Unless China's aerospace technology makes a deeper leap forward.

China's launch of deep space telescopes and deep space probes in this way has also been monitored by other countries. I don't know how many countries are envious.

China is the only country in the world that can do this.

The Laurel spacecraft, which completed its launch mission, did not return directly to Earth, but flew toward the moon. (End of this chapter)