The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 781: 8 cents per kilowatt hour? (Seeking monthly pass at the end of the month)
Zhu Lin came out with a fruit plate.

Three fruit plates, one containing sliced ​​watermelon, one peach, and one apple.

Zhu Lin smiled and said, "It's better to study. Look at Ziyu. He founded such a big company right after graduation. He is a billionaire now. It's much easier for him to make money with technology than Qian Huaqiang and Liu Qi."

"I still hope that my children can read more books. Sports training is too hard," said Zhu Lin.

Liu Tao smiled calmly and said, "As long as the children like it, that's fine. Our family is not short of money, so we can afford to let the children pursue what they like."

Liu Tao supports his children in doing what they like.

If they wanted to swim or play tennis, Liu Tao would support them and even let them receive the best training.

Although he did not try hard to make money, his family's assets quickly expanded to billions.

This does not take into account assets such as real estate.

With four children, each of them was arranged with a courtyard house early on.

"Sister-in-law, my eldest brother-in-law and cousin are running a big business and are well-known wealthy people across the country. We are just a small company now." Liu Ziyu picked up a piece of watermelon and started eating.

Qian Huaqiang, now a nationally famous entrepreneur, owns a screw group with an annual output of over 1 billion yuan, specializing in the production of various types of screws; he also owns a keyboard group ranked second in the world, specializing in the production of keyboards, with an annual output value of tens of billions of yuan.

Now Qian Huaqiang is investing in chemical industry with others.

Qian Huaqiang's business is growing bigger and bigger.

Liu Qi is the chairman of China Far East Group and also the absolute controlling shareholder. China Far East Group is the largest company engaged in bilateral trade between China and the Soviet Union. Its trade volume has long exceeded 10 billion yuan. It is very famous throughout the country and even more famous in the north.

These people, with Liu Tao as the center, either went into politics, the military, or business. Each of them chose a path, and no one was idle anymore.

People who are idle are always looked down upon.

"So what if you run a big business? How long do you stay home in a year? Last time, my eldest sister took the kids to live in Pengcheng for a while during the summer vacation. Qian Huaqiang went there early and came back late, and he was on business trips half of the time." Zhu Lin said, "It's better to do the high-tech business you're doing now. You don't need to socialize or go on business trips. You only need a computer."

Liu Tao didn't say anything.

Every generation has its own things to do.

Qian Huaqiang, Liu Qi and others can only work in more traditional industries. If you ask them to work on computers or Internet applications, they firstly do not have the technology, and secondly do not have the mindset. Even if they have money to invest, they often cannot do it.

Liu Ziyu and her colleagues are different. Their technology is top-notch in the society. They are young, have active minds, strong innovative abilities, and are willing to pay their technical staff high salaries and benefits, and even allow them to have freedom when going to and from get off work.

Therefore, it is easy for Liu Ziyu and others to make this kind of Internet technology company bigger and stronger.

China will definitely give birth to a group of computer Internet technology companies, which will be the trendsetters of the future.

As for why Liu Tao is so confident, it is naturally because China now has a very good foundation.

In terms of computer Internet infrastructure, the only country that can compare with China is the United States.

There is a huge difference between Europe and Japan and China.

But now is an era of letting a hundred flowers bloom.

All industries are becoming bigger and stronger. For example, in the energy sector, coal bosses in Shanxi Province and other places have made a lot of money by taking advantage of the increase in coal demand and rising prices. I don’t know how many coal bosses have taken this opportunity to become multi-millionaires or even billionaires.

There are also those who work in the fertilizer business, and they have made a lot of money over the years.

Similarly, those who are in the steel business have not lost money over the years.

As long as you dare to take risks, as long as you are brave enough and as long as you work hard enough, in this wild era, there is gold everywhere.

Last year, China once again welcomed a wave of people going into business. According to data released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, last year alone, 12 civil servants went into business, and over million were put on unpaid leave.

The gaps in many industries, low competitive pressure and low start-up costs have allowed some "people going into business" to taste the sweetness, and this year's wave of people going into business is even more fierce.

China's elites have always been in the cadre ranks.

In the tide of the times, a group of elite cadres went into business, injecting new vitality into China's business community.

These people are obviously different from ordinary people in that they are capable, especially with their own local connections and are good at dealing with local governments.

"Brother, after the Three Gorges Project is completed, will the electricity bill really be only 50 cents per kilowatt-hour?" Liu Ziyu asked about the hotly debated topic.

Liu Tao laughed dumbly and said, "How is that possible? At most, the electricity price will be stabilized. There won't be a big increase. The electricity consumption in the country is growing rapidly. Hydropower stations and thermal power stations are being built all over the country. How can the electricity fee be only five cents per kilowatt-hour?"

"When the Three Gorges Dam is fully built, the annual power generation will be only 800 to 1000 billion kWh, which is not enough to meet the national electricity demand!" Liu Tao shook his head.

Although Panshan Group has been promoting the construction of hydropower stations in the southwest region in recent years, so that the southwest region has no shortage of electricity and can transmit electricity to east China and south China, the entire society is still short of electricity. Now even many rural areas have power outages from time to time, and it is not uncommon for some county towns to also have power outages.

This has caused the electricity price in the whole society to rise from 0.18 yuan per kilowatt-hour at the time of reform and opening up to 1.8 yuan per kilowatt-hour now.

Now, places like Shenzhen cannot rely solely on power transmission from the southwest, and they have to buy electricity from Hong Kong. In the past, China Power Group spent huge amounts of money to invest in thermal power plants and hydropower plants, and now part of it is sold to Guangdong Province.

It is conceivable how rapid social development is.

The economy of a country can be seen from its power generation and power consumption.

If a country's electricity generation and consumption both decrease, but its economy grows instead of decreases, this is an abnormal situation.

On the contrary, if a country's power generation and consumption increase by 7% and its economic growth rate is only 4%, this is also an abnormal situation.

In China today, the annual power generation is increasing rapidly, with the annual growth rate being no less than 20%, but there is still a shortage of electricity in society.

Industrial electricity consumption is increasing rapidly, and residential electricity consumption is also increasing rapidly.

Of course, once the power generation capacity increases, the electricity price will definitely not be as expensive as it is now, because there will be no shortage of electricity at that time.

The current average electricity price in society has reached 1.8 yuan, mainly because there is a shortage of electricity. This method is needed to allow residents to save electricity and thus free up electricity for industrial production.

In today's society, electricity prices are divided into different situations such as residential electricity use and industrial electricity use, and the electricity prices are different in different situations.

In regions like the southwest, because of sufficient electricity, although the residential electricity price has also been rising in recent years, the current residential electricity price is 0.3 yuan/kWh, and the industrial electricity price is 0.5 yuan/kWh. Also because of the cheap electricity, many companies choose to set up factories in the southwest.

(End of this chapter)