1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 506: All Industries. Sparks (3)

According to the different scales of large biogas digesters required by each village,

1. Calculate the cement usage according to the engineering standard of 26 bags per household;

2. Calculate the amount of sealant used based on the standard of 3-4 bags per household;

3. Each household shall be provided with a set of biogas-specific stoves and accessories, and a 25-meter gas pipeline;
4. Several steel bars for the biogas tank wall, 2 large feed pipes, several steel handles, several large-diameter main pipes, and several small-diameter branch pipes;

5. Two high-pressure medium-sized gas storage towers, two sets of small-scale biogas compression equipment, several high-pressure valves, and several flow rate counters;

6. A certain amount of excavator rental fee, a certain amount of material transportation fee, a certain amount of construction technicians' wages, and a certain amount of fees for providing technical training and technical guidance to villagers.

This is roughly all the materials and expenses needed to build a large-scale biogas digester.

Strictly speaking, these things are not a lot, but if more than 100 large-scale biogas digesters need to be built, it is definitely not a small business.

In fact, the Agriculture Bureau plans to build 204 large-scale biogas digesters in the first batch at the grassroots level in rural areas. If all of them are built with financial grants, it will definitely make a lot of money for a group of companies.

But the problem is that most of these construction funds are raised by the enterprises themselves, which is equivalent to putting the money into circulation for a while and then returning it to their own pockets, with a huge loss in the process. Apart from maintaining the superficial prosperity of the enterprise, it is no longer of any practical use. It can be said that this business is losing money as much as it can.

Are companies stupid?

Obviously, most companies are not.

Even if it is a state-owned enterprise, without the endorsement of documents from higher authorities, would it do good things at all costs when its own operations are difficult?
Obviously most companies don't.

But why did Yang Mo make them all surrender so obediently with just one phone call?
And they are using this idling mode which is obviously not in compliance with regulations and can easily give people a handle?

This is the doubt lingering in Zhuo Mali's mind.

In this regard, Tugou's explanation surprised her: if they did not have the courage to pay for the construction of these 204 large-scale biogas digesters out of their own pockets, then these enterprises would have lost the chance to save themselves forever, and even lost an opportunity for development and growth that had not been seen in a decade.

Don't underestimate such a biogas digester, and don't think that this thing only deals with feces and garbage and is not worthy of being shown on the table.

But in fact, once it is implemented in grassroots rural areas, the market size of this thing is extremely astonishing!

Will the number of rural areas in Texas, even medium and large villages with a population of over a thousand, be less than 100?

That's naturally impossible.

In fact, there are 8439 natural villages in Dezhou, of which at least 3000 are medium-sized and large villages with a population of more than 500. If a large-scale biogas digester with the minimum standard can be built based on a population of 8000, then this number will immediately soar to about .
So based on the scale of one village, one pond, the demand in Texas is enough to scare people to death.

But the problem is...

Given the tight fiscal budget in DZ City, is it realistic to achieve one pond per village by relying solely on commercial drivers, as in Peiguantun?
In response, Tugou just smiled and continued to take Zhuomali to conduct a survey in each village.

So in the following week, Zhuo Mali saw what it meant to be "everything is a treasure" and also experienced for the first time the complexity of someone's industrial layout...

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2 month 5 day.

Wucheng, Liangzhuang Township.

Tugou stared at a fellow villager who lifted the straw and dug out a piece of mud from the almost dried-up pond. Then, he suppressed his nausea and watched carefully as the technicians measured and evaluated the two leeches they had dug out of the mud.

"Live by the mountain, live by the mountain; live by the water, live by the water; Wucheng is located in the Weiyun River Basin of the Haihe River system. There are many transit rivers and seasonal intermittent rivers in the territory, and the water resources are actually very rich; so in addition to agriculture, as long as we can capture the market trend, there are actually many potential industries that can be developed here."

Seeing the technician nod with satisfaction at the leech in his hand, Tugou quietly stepped back with Zhuomali, who also had a horrified expression, and explained in a low voice: "The leech breeding project you are seeing now is one of them."

Thinking of the filthy things that were being moved around on the technician's gloves, Zhuo Mali suppressed her discomfort and said, "Aren't leeches pests? Why do we keep them? Will other people in the village agree to this?"

Tugou shrugged and said, "Don't underestimate these leeches. They have great economic value."

After saying that, he recalled the information in his mind and explained in a low voice: "This is not the leech we usually see in the fields, nor is it a mountain leech. It is a wide-bodied golden leech that was selected and cultivated after an academic exchange between the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences... Chinese medicine has always had a tradition of using leeches as medicine, and this thing has been used in clinical surgery a long time ago."

"Of course, all the major hospitals used live animals in the past, and they were sterile cultured live animals, so the breeding scale was very small and the purpose was relatively single... But it's different now."

At this point, Tugou had a strange expression on his face: "You know, foreign medicine has proven that the natural hirudin in leeches has very obvious anticoagulant and thrombolytic effects, and has extremely strong commercial medicinal value... In developed countries and regions abroad today, high blood pressure and high blood lipids caused by obesity have become the number one health killer, and the natural hirudin that can dissolve blood clots has naturally become more and more important."

"The biggest risk for people with three highs is blood clots blocking blood vessels, or blood clots implanting on blood vessel walls for a long time, causing the blood vessel walls to become thinner and harder. You know this, right?"

Zhuo Mali didn't know much about medicine, so she nodded as if she understood, and then asked a question that even a layman could see: "But, does our country have the extraction technology for natural hirudin now? Or... is this technology mature enough to achieve industrial production?"

Although she did not understand medical knowledge, she knew that the pharmaceutical industry, like many other industries, was divided into three major levels from bottom to top: raw materials, APIs, and finished drugs.

But unlike other industries, the profit gap between the three major levels in the pharmaceutical industry can be described as a world of difference.

Let's put it this way, if you have the technology to make finished drugs, even if they are generic drugs, you can make a lot of money and have fun every day and every night, not to mention those who make primary drugs and special targeted drugs;

If you are in the business of raw materials, then with certain technical barriers and industry thresholds, you can also obtain relatively low but overall good profits. If you can gain a certain voice and pricing power through economies of scale, you can still thrive.

However, for those who make raw materials, unless you can monopolize the picking quotas of scarce natural resources such as wild yew, or control the core production areas of certain authentic medicinal materials, otherwise, ordinary planting and breeding not only have no bargaining power, but also take the path of small profits but quick turnover, and the gross profit margin is pitifully low... Not only is the gross profit margin pitifully low, the investment cost is also high, and the unpredictable risks are also great. Whether it is a natural disaster or market changes, you may lose all your money.

Therefore, as an investor, unless you have other purposes, raw material planting and breeding projects are definitely not an option that you would consider.

No matter from which angle, at least we have to get involved in the field of APIs. Although the three words "APIs" sound only one letter different from raw materials, the technical differences between them are like two different worlds;

Therefore, when Zhuomali saw this non-GAP authentic medicinal material breeding project, her first reaction was to question...Do we have relevant extraction technology in our country that can be used for large-scale industrial production?

There was no way. At that time, there was a hopeless gap between China and the developed countries in Europe and America in the field of modern medical research. She did not have much confidence in the technology for non-joint venture projects like this.

As expected, when Zhuomali asked this, Tugou spread his hands and said, "Although the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Laiyang Agricultural College have set up relevant research groups at the request of Dahua Company to realize the natural leech extraction process for large-scale industrial production, I estimate that it is unlikely to produce results in the short term... Besides, even if the process is designed, the equipment is still a big problem!"

Zhuo Mali thought that this was indeed the case, but she became a little confused: "If that's the case, then...?"

Tugou had a strange expression on his face. "Although we don't have mature technology for large-scale extraction of natural hirudin, but...what if I tell you that these broad-bodied golden leeches don't actually need to be specially extracted, and can be directly taken after being freeze-dried and powdered, and can also play a more obvious role in ablating blood clots?"

Eh?
Zhuomali's eyes suddenly widened.

Tugou smiled and said, "Don't think this is a lie. The powder of the broad-bodied golden leech can indeed soften blood vessels and dissolve blood clots when taken directly... In fact, according to the clinical response of Chinese medicine in China, although the speed of taking leeches directly is not as fast as industrially extracted hirudin, its safety and diversity of efficacy are even better... In the data of the third phase of Western medicine clinical trials, due to individual differences, the dosage of hirudin drugs was not well controlled, and it was not uncommon for cases of massive bleeding in the body. However, if freeze-dried leech powder is taken directly, there seems to be no related negative effects. In addition, if you insist on taking freeze-dried leech powder, the effect of dissolving implanted fat and blood clots on the blood vessel wall is also significantly better than taking hirudin alone."

Perhaps because Tugou himself was a half-barefoot doctor and was also the project leader of a rural grassroots pharmacy, Zhuo Mali believed it easily and her eyes lit up immediately.

Seeing Zhuo Mali opening her mouth to speak, Lu Yingying shook her head: "Sister Zhuo, I know what you want to say, but... it's impossible!"

Sighing, Tugou took out two fruit candies from his pocket and handed them over. Seeing Zhuo Mali waved her hand to refuse, he put the extra one back in his pocket, then peeled the other one and threw it into his mouth: "Europe and the United States do not recognize our domestic clinical data on traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, for profit considerations, they are unlikely to recognize it... and they classify traditional Chinese medicine as a condiment, which is not inferior to the category of medicine. It is useless for you to collect more data and cases... To put it bluntly, these wide-bodied golden leeches cannot enter their market as medicines at present."

Shrugging his shoulders, Tugou laughed: "Although it cannot be used as a medicine, it can be used as a health food without any problems... In fact, the health food market is not only hot in our country, but also abroad, especially in Europe and island countries, which have been very obsessed with natural health products in the past two years."

"So... this is actually a good thing, especially when the scientific research level in various fields in our country has not caught up yet!"

At this point, Lv Yingying rolled the candy to her left cheek with her tongue: "You know, although the technical content of freeze-dried leech powder is not high in the medical field, it can play a very good role in promoting the industry in other fields."

"For example, in leech farming, generally speaking, 20 kilograms of snails and river clams are needed for every thousand leeches, and blood clots from poultry and livestock are fed once a week... As long as the scale is increased, it will be able to drive the snail farming industry, river product farming industry, and animal husbandry industry very well;"

"Especially the snail farming industry. Currently, the commercial demonstration zone is trying to incubate a small-scale chain franchise project of spicy snails. If it is proven to be feasible, coupled with its feed value, it can drive a snail farming industry of considerable scale... Snails are extremely rotten and cheap, easy to raise, and basically have little technical threshold. It is a very suitable income-generating project for rural grassroots."

"In addition, wide-bodied leeches have high requirements for water quality. When breeding leeches, in addition to cleaning up blood residue and other leftover food at any time, other auxiliary means are also needed to keep the water clean... This has put forward rigid requirements for a series of products such as water purification equipment and harmless biological disinfectants, which in turn provides a stable market demand for the city's manufacturing and biological companies with a relatively large scale;"

"At the same time, although the broad-bodied golden leech is relatively cold-resistant and generally not easily frozen to death under natural conditions, since it is artificially bred, we naturally want to pursue maximum benefits. Obviously, we cannot watch them hibernate for such a long time. Therefore... there is a demand for medium-sized water circulation heating equipment, water temperature monitoring equipment, oxygen production equipment, light energy equipment, etc. Under the coordination of Dahua Company, the relevant companies in the city have technical directions and related orders that need to be conquered;"

"Also, the natural enemies of leeches are mainly voles, frogs, weasels, snakes, etc. Although the ecological environment in our Qilu area is far from as good as before, there are many of these things in the countryside. In order to prevent losses, farmers must purchase microgrids for prevention and control and tools for trapping... This has created some demand and orders;"

"But the most important point is that since the broad-bodied golden leech has high requirements for water quality, it must not be exposed to pollutants such as fertilizers, pesticides, and saline-alkaline solutions... This means that the best way to raise golden leeches is a two-tier PPP model with the whole village participating. Otherwise, if there is no direct interest involved, it is difficult to guarantee the quality of the water source, and it is also difficult to guarantee that no one will throw something into the water source that can cause heavy losses out of jealousy;"

"But this is only one aspect. Another aspect is... As long as the land of the leech breeding base is free of pesticides and fertilizers, at most three to five years, after the original chemical components have degraded, these lands can barely meet the requirements of ordinary GAP planting bases. At that time, conventional GAP planting projects can be introduced according to actual conditions, which will add another profitable income-generating project... As for the original leech breeding base, we can change a piece of land in the village, dig a number of ponds and move them there... You know, after a few years of breeding, these ponds will accumulate a lot of nutrients, and filling them up will make them fertile fields."

"Of course, more importantly, since we want to make freeze-dried leech powder, we definitely need vacuum freeze-drying equipment, cold storage, and cold chain transportation... With these demands and orders, it will undoubtedly provide sufficient driving force for industrial upgrading for related equipment manufacturing companies in Dezhou."

Finally, Tugou concluded: "Well, you see, although the industrial chain of wide-bodied golden leeches is not long, the demand it generates still involves all aspects;"

“Although the technical content of freeze-dried leech powder is not very high, it happens to be the most suitable for the current industrial status of Texas. It can also provide a clear direction for the transformation and upgrading of Texas’ manufacturing industry, rather than those unattainable visions;”

"The breeding of broad-bodied golden leeches has its own unique requirements, which objectively requires fellow villagers to deepen the two-tier PPP model derived from the commune system if they want to make money;"

"Once the leech breeding project is implemented, driven by the nature of thriftiness and external interests, the village will most likely set up small and medium-sized snail farms and poultry farms;"

"After building small and medium-sized snail farms and poultry farms, large-scale biogas digesters can be added naturally, and then upstream feed and poultry medicine will arrive as expected... This is a two-way process, which is slowly driven by countless small but ubiquitous interests."

"Until... everyone's living standards have undergone a qualitative change, until everyone has become accustomed to the interdependence of all, and until the cultural environment of the entire region has undergone a huge change."

Nanjie Village, which is one of the ten famous villages in China in the future and is known as "the last G-producing village in China", is still not well-known at this time, otherwise Zhuomali would definitely shout out in surprise. Isn't this basically the "co-investment, co-creation, co-cooperation and co-support" model of Nanjie Village! ?
However, although she couldn't understand this nearly ideal cooperation model, she had already put herself in the role of assistant to the general manager of the Urban Real Estate Fund, so she asked a question that went straight to the point: "Sister Yingying, your idea is good, but the problem is... these projects are in the incubation stage, and the scale of each is not large. Even with the support of General Manager Yang, are the companies in the city really willing... no, should I say, do they really have the motivation to do supporting scientific research and equipment production for these projects in a timely manner?"

This is a very heart-wrenching question. Anyone who has worked in a medium or large-scale manufacturing company knows the attitude these companies take when dealing with such small orders.

Hearing this, Tugou laughed even more happily: "Of course we know that the current scale and demand are not enough for those large enterprises in the city to take it seriously, but we are not afraid... Our idea is to adopt the model of [project cooperation + agency production]. As long as those enterprises are willing to do scientific research and design, or provide technical support, the production and improvement of these supporting equipment can be completely transferred to the township level and done by township enterprises. Anyway, the sales share is not small, and the factory buildings and most of the equipment do not require those enterprises to pay for them, so they will definitely be willing."

At this point, Lv Yingying looked at the peach in front of her with a smile: "Don't forget, Yang Mo plans to build a three-level value chain of county-township-village, and transfer some manufacturing links with smaller market capacity and lower sensitivity to towns and villages, so that they can try to take the [Hidden Champion] route, which is a very important link!"

Hidden champion?

Zhuomali, who seemed to have heard this word somewhere before, was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that the fog in front of her eyes had dissipated for the most part.

Seeing Zhuomali bowing her head in deep thought, Tugou added with a smile: "Besides, who told you that the market capacity of these equipment is really small? You know, many demands of breeding projects are similar. Take heating and insulation equipment for example. As long as the core equipment can be manufactured, the other accessories can be slightly modified and immediately applied to another project... We are from the countryside. We don't have anything else, but we still have strength and patience."

After saying that, he gently patted Zhuo Mali on the shoulder and said, "Sister Zhuo, let's go. There is another project in this village, which is about raising mealworms... This is one of the key projects prepared to specialize in the overseas pet food market. It has great potential. As long as this project is effective and gradually spreads, the problems of sinking and transferring some related supporting equipment manufacturing will be solved!"

Mealworms?
Overseas pet food market?

Thinking of the equity tree designs she had made for Yang Mo a few months ago, and a certain Gantt chart that she and Song Wenxuan had seen in Yang Mo's office before, Zhuo Mali's heart suddenly started pounding.

Rural areas…………all industries!!

At first glance, this noun, which seemed to have a sense of history and was also full of idealism, appeared in her mind.

Could it be...

That guy Yang Mo...

Is this a model of robbing the rich to help the poor, planting sparks in these rural areas?
(End of this chapter)