The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 663: Construction of the Three Gorges Dam Begins

The lessons learned from the Iran-Iraq War are very profound and far-reaching!

It is enough for military strategists from all over the world to study for ten or even twenty years!
There are cases in the Iran-Iraq War that make people sneer, as well as cases that make people's eyes light up.

There is enough to learn from here.

For example, at a seminar held in Beijing before, there was one point that everyone agreed on, that is, huge amounts of money can buy modern weapons and equipment, but not the modernization of the army. Iran and Iraq are wealthy oil exporters in the Middle East. Since 1973, the two countries have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to compete to import a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from abroad. However, the industrial base of Iran and Iraq is weak, and many parts of advanced weapons are not available for repair in their own countries. Ammunition is mainly supplied from abroad. The cultural level of the soldiers of the two countries is very low, and it is quite difficult for them to master advanced weapons such as advanced missiles, advanced tanks and armored vehicles, and advanced aircraft.

In addition, in modern local wars, the main goal should still be to annihilate the enemy's effective forces, and we should not be overly entangled in the gains and losses of a city or a place. In the Iran-Iraq War, almost all battles were offensive and defensive battles targeting cities (towns). Both sides were satisfied with the superficial "victory" of conquering cities and plundering territories, and ignored the annihilation of a large number of enemy effective forces.

Liu Tao is reluctant to see the Iran-Iraq War end, but he is not too sad. After all, the war cannot go on forever, and peace and development are what everyone pursues.

After the Iran-Iraq War, the two countries should make up for their losses and strengthen their military construction, and they can still make money in this area for a few years.

Iran and Iraq are turning to peace and development, which is also full of business opportunities, especially for Persia. Such a large area of ​​land is in ruins and the war has brought ruins. That is the essence of Persia. It is impossible for Persia not to rebuild it, and reconstruction will cost a lot of money. The reconstruction work is also a business opportunity and cooperation can be carried out.

He racked his brains to retain Abadan, Port Khomeini and a large number of oil fields. Wasn't it so that Persia could continue to export oil after the end of the Iran-Iraq War and rely on oil to restore its economy?

Fortunately, Iraq has given us some face and has not launched large-scale shelling and bombing on Abadan and Port Khomeini so far.

Of course, Iraq has also extracted a lot of oil from Persia over the years.

Liu Tao stayed in Hong Kong to handle some matters, and then took a special plane from Hong Kong to Jingchu Province.

Because the Three Gorges Dam is about to start construction!

February 1990, 2 happened to be the Lantern Festival.

The world-renowned Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project on the Yangtze River officially started construction.

At the opening ceremony, the leader delivered a speech entitled "Benefits for the Present and Future Generations", pointing out that the Three Gorges Project is a project with huge comprehensive benefits such as flood control, power generation, and shipping. The Yangtze River flood has always been a major concern for the Chinese nation. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are important economically developed regions in my country. Serious flood disasters have occurred many times in history, causing great losses to the lives and property of the people in the Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake area, as well as important cities, industrial and mining enterprises, and transportation arteries along the river. The Three Gorges Project is a key project among many measures to address the threat of floods in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It can not only prevent devastating disasters on both sides of the Jingjiang River, reduce the threat to the Jianghan Plain, Dongting Lake area and Wuhan, but also improve the flood control standards in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is of great and far-reaching significance.

The Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is the largest hydropower station in China and even in the world. It will provide a large amount of electricity to central China, east China, Sichuan and other regions, and will promote the formation of a national power grid, which will have a huge driving effect on the economic prosperity along the Yangtze River. After the completion of the Three Gorges Project, the high gorges will lead to a flat lake, which will greatly improve the shipping conditions of the Yangtze River. The 10,000-ton fleet will be able to go directly from the river city to the mountain city, giving full play to the role of the golden waterway.

After careful planning, the Three Gorges' historical sites will be protected to the greatest extent possible, and new landscapes will be formed. The Three Gorges Project and its dam area will become a magnificent scenic tourist area with green mountains and clear waters and a beautiful environment that combines modern and ethnic styles, and the Three Gorges' tourism industry will be further developed.

At the same time, a clear timetable was also given!
The preparation started in 1987 and the total construction period was 17 years. It will be completely completed in 2004. Then, the leaders announced the start of the Three Gorges Project!
With the official start of construction, it also means that China is once again carrying out a century-long project!
At present, the resettlement of the Three Gorges Project has been completed and properly resettled, all of them have been resettled in the Red River Delta.

Also resettled in the Red River Delta are immigrants from the four major hydropower stations on the Jinsha River.

Only China has such strong organizational and mobilization capabilities that it can accomplish this feat in less than three years.

According to the schedule of the Three Gorges Project, the construction of the four major hydropower stations on the Jinsha River will be completed ahead of schedule. The total construction period of these four major hydropower stations is 8 years, including a construction period of 1996 years. They will all be completed in 1997-.

For these century-long projects, the country mobilized water conservancy technicians from all over the country to participate in the construction, and hundreds of thousands of workers were mobilized!

Moreover, these century-long projects all adopt high-standard construction requirements. The requirement for construction is not to become a sinner who will be infamous for thousands of years. Construction workers must not become complacent or slack, and must strictly control every small link of the project.

From then on, Liu Tao would visit these century-old projects every month to strictly control the quality.

After all, the Three Gorges Dam and the four major hydropower stations on the Jinsha River are century-long projects that are intended to be used for a long time.

Unless humans have solved the problem of controlled nuclear fusion and can use it to generate electricity, allowing humans to have inexhaustible energy, hydropower will always be an important component of electricity.

As for when humans will be able to solve controlled nuclear fusion, that may be forever 50 years!
Controlled nuclear fusion technology is theoretically feasible, but it is extremely difficult to achieve.

Liu Tao will not develop controlled nuclear fusion technology now. Firstly, this thing is very difficult and requires many technical solutions; secondly, even if he develops controlled nuclear fusion technology, it will definitely be a disaster for China now.

In today's world, the only two countries that can develop controlled nuclear fusion technology and benefit from it are either the Soviet Union or the United States. Whoever else develops controlled nuclear fusion technology will be in trouble.

Because whether it is the Soviet Union or the United States, they will never allow other third countries to master controlled nuclear fusion technology, which would be unacceptable to them.

Besides, nuclear power plants based on the application of nuclear fission technology are still making great progress. Who would invest huge amounts of money in the research of controlled nuclear fusion technology at this time?

At least in the next thirty years, Liu Tao will not see the true realization of controlled nuclear fusion technology and its use in commercial fields.

It is for this reason that he strongly supports the construction of reservoir hydropower stations and the use of hydropower stations to generate electricity, in order to increase the proportion of hydropower in electricity, reduce the proportion of thermal power, and thus reduce environmental pollution.

(End of this chapter)