Chapter 1156 Reaction from the other side of the ocean


    After the overall plan is finalized, all that remains are the technical details.


    For example, the ratio of the two raw materials polyacrylamide and carboxymethyl cellulose sodium, the selection of auxiliary salt solution, and the detailed steps of the entire soil fixation process.


    In fact, under normal circumstances, such high-level meetings will not discuss overly specific operational issues.


    After all, if everything is too micromanaged, the value of the hierarchical leadership system will be lost.


    But this time, after all, the incident happened suddenly, and many resources were allocated directly by the ministries or the general bureau level.


    Therefore, it was inevitable for Chang Haonan and Zhuang Bingchang to lead a round of inspection and correction to ensure that the preparations before the start of construction were flawless.


    However, the two of them had already reported everything about the situation during their last meeting, and those who hold high positions are all thoughtful people.


    But no mistakes were found.


    The only pity is that there are currently no high-yielding crops suitable for planting in modified sandy soil. It can only take a few years to cultivate the soil conditions before planting the same varieties as those in the black soil of Northeast China.


    This is also within the acceptable range of everyone.


    After all, being able to turn unusable and increasingly degraded sandy land into farmland is an unexpected blessing.


    How could there be a more excessive request?


    However, just after Zhuang Bingchang finished talking about this, a leader from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences suddenly spoke:


    "Academician Chang, Professor Zhuang, regarding crop breeding, I can help contact the founder of domestic plant molecular biology, Academician Xin Zhiwen."


    "In 1998, Academician Xin took the initiative to coordinate the cooperation between Yenching University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong to build a joint laboratory for plant genetic engineering, which included functional genome research on rice and soybeans. Later, he and Yuan, who we are all more familiar with, In cooperation with academicians, we have conducted research on lodging-resistant and disease-resistant rice, and the results are quite good..."


    After finishing speaking, maybe he was worried about being misunderstood, so he added a special sentence:


    "In the research of Academicians Xin and Yuan, molecular genetic technology is only an auxiliary means, and it is not the same technology as the transgene we usually hear about..."


    Chang Haonan knew almost nothing about the field of biotechnology, so he did not express any opinions and just told Zhuang Bingchang to make his own decision.


    And this proposal is equivalent to directly raising the latter''s status by several orders of magnitude.


    He readily agreed.


    "So…"


    After confirming that no one had any other questions, the elder sitting at the head closed the notebook in front of him, and his eyes calmly and enthusiastically swept over every face in front of him:


    "For the entire high-standard farmland construction project, the state will set up a special working group, and I will be personally responsible for the pilot phase... If you have any difficulties or needs at work, you can skip the intermediate level and contact me directly to solve it."


    "Next, let me assign tasks..."


    “…”


    …


    Under the direct intervention of the highest decision-making level, the entire state machine began to operate efficiently and precisely.


    Soybeans are sensitive to cold and have a long growth cycle, so it will definitely be too late to plant them this year.


    However, September and October happen to be a good time to sow grass seeds. In particular, the selected varieties such as Elymus elegans, naked oats, and Tibetan sandgrass are native to the plateau and are cold- and drought-tolerant.


    If you act quickly enough, you can enter the growth stage or even the maturity stage before the cold winter comes.


    These weeds were not originally planted to harvest, but simply to use their roots to strengthen the soil, so it didn''t matter even if it snowed early.


    For a time, the entire area south of the Greater Khingan Mountains in central Mongolia was filled with lively and busy scenes.


    Trains and trucks collect bags of raw materials from all over the country to the newly built mixing area, and then mix them with ferrous chloride and water according to the mass ratio of 0.25:0.045:0.03:25 to form a milky suspension, and then mix it with the sand. Solidified sand is formed.


    The tractor pulls the rotary tillage and ridging machine to treat the already bare dry sand according to farmland standards, then fills the deep pits and shallow trenches with solidified sand and additional solidifying liquid, and finally sows grass seeds...


    In short, if it weren''t for the fact that the land under their feet was yellow instead of black, it would have looked like they were plowing in the autumn after harvesting crops...


    On a ridge in a field, two agricultural technicians wearing coarse cotton clothes were holding their arms together and staring at the curing agent being mixed with the sand in front of them.


    Perhaps because this job was too monotonous, the two of them still had a lot of free time to chat and joke around.


    Naturally, they soon came to the strange-sounding task at hand:


    "I said, Lao Li, let''s just fill in this... stuff, and we can grow crops in this yellow sandy land during the New Year?"


    One of them wrinkled his nose and asked with some hesitation in his tone.


    As an old technician from the reclamation area in western Mongolia Province, he has been fighting desertification for almost half his life, and he considers himself to be half a veteran of desertification control.


    However, the commonly used method in the past was to first use grass squares and sand-fixing nets to form wind-proof walls to prevent sand accumulation. After the sand in the middle of the squares was effectively crusted, a small number of shrubs and grass species were gradually planted.


    It is indeed useful, but it generally takes 5-7 years to form soil with average fertility, and the efficiency is relatively average.


    Such operations directly on the sand itself were absolutely unheard of before.


    Although the man standing opposite him was called "Old Li", he was actually a bit younger in appearance. He moved the water collecting funnel to the next pit and smacked his lips:


    "I guess... since there is such a big battle up there, it must be reasonable..."


    The two of them kept talking back and forth, but the movements of their hands did not stop at all.


    After finishing the whole ditch, he straightened up with support on his sore back and planned to rest for a while.


    "But this is really different from our past methods. If we had left it a few decades earlier..."


    The technician who spoke first took out a pack of cigarettes and prepared to talk about his early experiences.


    But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind them:


    "From the accents of the two of them, I think they are from the western region, which is an arid area with desertification. Engineering measures such as grass grids must be used to retain water and increase fertilizer. But the eastern area is semi-arid and semi-humid desertification, so chemical measures and chemical measures can be used directly. Biological measures for sand fixation.”


    "The two raw materials you just filled in have both long-chain hydrophobic main chains and surface-active hydrophilic branches, so they can wrap and cross-link with the surface of soil particles, thus strengthening the soil..."


    The two turned around and found a young junior who was estimated to be in his thirties.


    He was wearing a brown jacket. Although it was stained with mud, judging from his white hands, he didn''t look like someone who had been doing rough work for a long time. Behind him was another man who looked quite strong.


    After a few more seconds, the two of them realized that the sentence they had just spoken was answering the question they had accidentally talked about.


    Obviously, the other party has been following for a while.


    There is no doubt that this person is Chang Haonan who came to inspect the project.


    According to the previously determined division of labor, he only needs to provide technical support and does not undertake any front-line tasks.


    But after all, he is the project leader who has received funding, so it is impossible for him not to show his face at the beginning of construction.


    By the way, it’s also a holiday for myself who has been busy for more than half a year.


    However, according to Chang Haonan''s character, he definitely can''t take any time off.


    So I walked around the area to see if there were any problems that I hadn''t noticed before.


    When I explained the principle of chemical sand fixation to those two people before, I didn''t really want them to understand. I just used it as an opportunity to catch up on the conversation and get closer.


    But before he could ask what happened next, Zhuang Bingchang came running over from a distance.


    "often-"


    I was about to call out the title, but suddenly I saw some people waiting nearby, so I quickly stopped and walked closer before lowering my voice:


    "Academician Chang, Director Luan of the National Space Administration brought an inspection team over and said it would be arriving soon. Look..."


    Luan Wenjie''s appearance here was indeed beyond Chang Haonan''s expectations.


    After all, the business in charge of the other party has nothing to do with the loess in front of you.


    But after all, they are colleagues in the same system. Now that they have met, they must be received.


    "Let''s go, take me there to see..."


    The two technicians looked at each other''s back as they suddenly left, but they were still in a state of confusion.


    It wasn''t until the burning cigarette burned one of the people''s fingers that he suddenly retracted his arm and his brain started working again:


    "This person looks young, but he always feels like he has a lot of background..."


    "really."


    Another person also threw away the cigarette **** with only one **** left:


    "I''d say the least I can say is a farm director!"


    …


    This wave of land reclamation in eastern Mongolia Province is huge. Tens of thousands of people and thousands of sets of equipment are directly involved. It is impossible to hide from the eyes of other countries.


    In other words, I was not prepared to hide it.


    Instead, there was a fairly high-profile campaign from the beginning.


    "Don''t be afraid of the wilderness and hope to spread, and create another Great Northern Wilderness."


    From the very beginning, Huaxia made it clear that it would build a new reclamation area across Mongolia Province with an output that would match the Beidahuang Group, and planned all the area in the first phase of the pilot to be a soybean planting area.


    The purpose is very clear, which is to counter the current rising price trend of futures in the international market.


    For the United States, which hopes to control the Chinese market, this is obviously not good news.


    Later in the day.


    201 SW 14th Street, Washington, DC.


    Agriculture Minister Ann Veneman looked at a newspaper from China in front of her with a gloomy expression.


    Of course, as an American, she must not be able to understand Chinese.


    Therefore, Assistant Minister Sergei Edmund, sitting opposite, was holding a report to introduce the situation:


    "According to public reports from China, they plan to build at least 7 million acres of high-standard farmland within 10 years. The preliminary pilot projects have now begun. Judging from the results of satellite reconnaissance, the area involved is no less than 400,000 acres..."


    "Strange... hasn''t China been implementing the policy of restoring cultivated land into forests, grasslands and lakes in recent years?"


    Minister Veneman looked like he had seen a ghost:


    “Where did they get all that land?”


    At the beginning of the 21st century, the total amount of soybeans imported by China each year was about just over 10 million tons.


    Among them, about 60% are from North and South America.


    Under such a base, if the annual output of one million tons is suddenly increased in its own country, it will indeed have a significant impact on the market balance.


    You know, the futures market is all about emotions.


    If the other party is allowed to calm down the panic, then it is really possible to get through this crisis safely.


    At that time, the speculators who took advantage of the opportunity to go long will not only lose all their money, but at least lose their pants.


    "The report didn''t make it clear."


    Edmund replied:


    "But judging from their promotional slogans, it seems that they have reclaimed the originally degraded grassland..."


    Hearing this, Veneman frowned slightly:


    "This matter must be investigated clearly..."


    "Even if we can''t interfere with their reclamation operations themselves, we still have to find a way to make the market believe that these farmlands will not be able to effectively produce any crops for at least a few years!"


    (End of chapter)