Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 318: 317: The shocked local leaders

Xinjiang Province has a vast territory and abundant resources. Of course, this is an exaggeration. In reality, it is not so beautiful because it is sparsely populated and has inconvenient transportation.

The transportation inconvenience here is not because the land is vast and the ditches are deep like in the mountainous areas, but because the distance between regions is too far.

In the northwest region, the Zhetong Electric Power Group built its power supply network by relying on the "Thousand Villages and Thousand Points" approach.

In Xinjiang Province, villages can be widely dispersed, and the distance from one end of the village to the other may be several kilometers.

In this case, it is impossible for the group to directly provide every household with a "Volt Ant Power Supply Box". This is impossible, and even the group cannot afford such a cost.

Moreover, the number of dispersed uncontrollable risks and factors will increase, which is a scenario that neither Lin Zhe nor the group wants to see.

It can only be said that the same approach is adopted as in the construction of the power supply network in the northwest region, with one power supply station being arranged for each village.

Then arrange a dedicated person to be responsible for supervision and maintenance locally, which will save a lot of worry and effort.

Of course, this also means that the investment of Zhetong Electric Power Group in each village will be much larger than that in the Northwest region. After all, the mileage of power lines built in such a vast area is unmatched by other places.

After all, the strength of the country's largest province is clear here. Online shopping here may deliver to your hands within three or four days after purchase in other places.

But in Xinjiang Province, this time is extended to perhaps a week or so to complete.

The logistics costs brought about by such a vast area are rising sharply, including online shopping, where shipping is not free in Xinjiang province.

You can tell something from the train. Under normal circumstances, even if you take the slowest green train, it would probably take three to five days to cross several provinces.

But in Xinjiang Province, if you ask where you are after taking a three-day and three-night train ride, it is likely that you are still in Xinjiang Province.

……

In such a place, let alone major power companies from other places, even the local power plants in Xinjiang Province will not choose to provide power supply services in the rural areas under its jurisdiction.

They really can't earn this money, they can only lose money.

Electricity supply services are only available in cities and larger towns, and there are also area restrictions, with electricity supply services only available in places close to the center.

Once that range is exceeded, the marginal areas may suffer power outages.

Even in the villages, in inland provinces, there may be local families who will do this business, setting up a generator set or a motor or something, and directly pulling wires to the villagers' homes, providing electricity in a small workshop style, and charging a share of the electricity bill.

Although it is not very formal, it at least solves part of the power supply problem for the local area and provides a place for charging for the vast number of villagers who have no electricity.

And there is some profit to be made, so naturally there will be people doing it locally.

But in Xinjiang Province, this village may be as large as a town in other places.

In this case, the investment in circuits is huge. If you engage in this kind of small-scale power supply business, you can't even imagine how much money you can make.

It means pulling a circuit from your home, from house A to house B. The total investment in cables and other miscellaneous items may cost tens of thousands of yuan.

It is impossible for a family to be willing to pay for a small power station worth tens of thousands of yuan, and the villagers are also unwilling to pay. Tens of thousands of yuan is not a small amount of money, and it is a huge burden for any peasant family.

It is not certain whether it is the annual income for one or even two years. How can the villagers be willing to pay for it?

Therefore, basically every household in Xinjiang Province has a diesel generator. When electricity is occasionally needed, the diesel generator is started and each household uses its own electricity.

Of course, this is very inconvenient.

After all, the cost of a diesel generator is not cheap at all. It costs at least dozens of dollars to generate electricity once.

If you use it once every few days in a month, it would cost you about one or two hundred yuan a month, which is already a considerable amount.

This is equivalent to several months' electricity bill for an ordinary urban household.

Moreover, they have paid the money, but the key is that they cannot use electricity all the time. They can only use it once every few days to charge their mobile phones or other devices.

So people here basically don't use motors unless it is necessary, such as when using an electric saw.

This has to be said to be an inconvenience encountered by local people.

And Lin Zhe is here to help the people of Xinjiang Province solve this problem this time! To put it more nicely, Lin Zhe is going to "risk the world's disapproval!" What others can't do, he wants to do himself!
What others can’t provide, Zhetong will provide!
The group’s original slogan was to light up every corner of the world, and Xinjiang province of our motherland naturally could not be left behind.

As long as we accomplish this here, the mission of "lighting up the world" will be halfway accomplished, and it will also dispel everyone's doubts.

After all, Zhetong Electric Power Group will not give up a place like Xinjiang Province and will take it over directly.

There is no need to say more about other places.

……

After landing in Xinjiang Province, Lin Zhe stayed in the provincial capital for one night. The next day, he took another flight to Yuanning County.

Yuanning County is located in the northwest of the central area of ​​Xinjiang Province, which can be said to be a very remote place.

Lin Zhe naturally had his own considerations for choosing this place as the first stop, as it is located on the edge of the desert.

In addition to supplying electricity here, we also need to build the largest desert forest farm here. Not to mention all of it, at least this place will be responsible for more than half of the leaf supply for Xinjiang Province in the future.

Besides, this place is not really developed, and Lin Zhe does not plan to find any of the top 100 counties with large populations and strong economies to start the "first round".

Anyway, when we landed in Xinjiang, we didn’t come here to make money, but just to “practice” and “prove” Zhetong’s slogan.

It’s a good choice to choose such an ordinary county town.

……

In the official office of Yuanning County, Si Hongde, the top leader of Yuanning County, is drinking tea.

To be honest, the population of their entire county is only about 70,000 to 80,000 people, and the county center is just a larger town in other places.

It's such a small county, and there aren't many things for him to deal with, so his work is naturally quite leisurely.

It’s not that Si Hongde doesn’t want to achieve something, but the conditions are really limited. The tax revenue of a county like theirs is not enough to cover expenses, so how can they have money for anything else?

This is the only way, just play it safe.

Today, as usual, after commenting on the few reports, I started to drink tea and take a break.

I picked up the teacup and just took a sip when the phone on the table rang.

Si Hongde slowly put down the teacup and answered the phone.

As the head of a county, the calls usually came from his subordinates, so Si Hongde naturally maintained his attitude.

"Hey?"

"Hongde is of the same value, I am Xue Qiang."

As soon as these words came out, Si Hongde shuddered and almost dropped the microphone. He could really tell from the voice that it was Xue Qiang, the provincial leader. It was really strange that he personally called himself, the head of a small and marginal place.

After all, his level is too high, and it is impossible for him to have any contact with people of my level under normal circumstances.

Now the phone call came.

"I have a task for you. Mr. Lin Zhe, the boss of Zhetong Electric Power Group, has arrived in your county. His arrival is an opportunity for development, not only for your county, but also for the entire Xinjiang province. You must entertain him well! If he runs away because of your problems, I will hold you accountable!"

"Don't worry, Xue Sheng, I'll make arrangements right away. Don't worry, I will definitely entertain Mr. Lin Zhe well!"

……

After hanging up the phone, Si Hongde wiped his forehead which was already covered with sweat. He had to admit that Xue Qiang's voice on the phone was too oppressive, and his tone was much heavier this time, which was enough to show the seriousness of the matter.

But the question is, does Si Hongde really not know who Lin Zhe is? What does he do? Who is he?
No matter who he is, in order to arrange for him, you must first know that he is not the one, so Si Hongde quickly opened the computer and typed in the words "Zhetong Electric Power".

ps: I wish all my parents a happy Lantern Festival, good health and happiness. I am really sorry for the slow update in the past two days. Please bear with me for a while. I am very sorry.

(End of this chapter)