Chapter 2392: Creating an ecological green barrier
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"Thank you, Mr. Wu." Upon hearing this, Qi Guangkun's solemn face instantly changed into a smile, and then he thanked Wu Hao.
Wu Hao smiled and pressed his hand, then smiled at Qi Guangkun and said, "Hurry up and eat. After eating, follow me for a walk."
"Okay." Qi Guangkun nodded after hearing this, then lowered his head and started eating.
As for Wu Hao, he leaned back on his chair with a smile and drank the mutton soup leisurely. Not to mention, this warm mutton soup tastes good.
While Qi Guangkun was eating, Wu Hao looked at Qi Guangkun who was a little tired and smiled, then he and he put the plates on the recycling table and walked out of the restaurant together.
At this moment, snowflakes began to fall in the sky outside at some point, but the snowflakes fell, the west wind stopped, and it seemed that the whole world had become quiet.
The trees, houses, steps, and the heads of pedestrians were all covered with snowflakes. Many employees came out to enjoy the rare desert snow scene.
Wu Hao and Qi Guangkun were walking on the walking path in the living area of the base. They looked at the snowflakes in the sky and the employees enjoying the snow around them and asked with a smile: "How many people are there in our base now?"
Upon hearing Wu Hao's inquiry, Qi Guangkun immediately replied: "Currently, there are more than 13,000 people in the base, including more than 9,000 scientific researchers, more than 2,000 logistics and administrative security personnel, and more than 2,000 service personnel.
Family members of employees.
However, as the scale of the base continues to expand, the number of employees is also increasing. It is expected that the number of scientific researchers in the base will reach more than 10,000 next year, and the total number will exceed 15,000.
We estimate that this number will exceed 20,000 within three years, and may reach 30,000 to 40,000 within five years."
Speaking of this, Qi Guangkun said to Wu Hao: "Mr. Wu, the number of people in the base is increasing. Should we restrict it a little bit?"
"Restrictions, why do you think so?" Wu Hao turned to Qi Guangkun with some differences and asked.
Qi Guangkun explained with a wry smile: "The carrying capacity of the base is limited. Although we have been expanding the scale of the base, the desolate and harsh natural environment here cannot accommodate so many people. Let's not talk about other things, let's talk about the water consumption of the base.
Currently, the water supply relies on pipelines, which may not be able to supply more people.
It was already very difficult to build a water supply pipeline before. Now it is obviously impossible to expand and increase the water transfer volume. This is not a financial issue, but an environmental and ecological issue. The environmental protection department will not allow us to adjust it so uncontrollably.
water."
"You're right, this is indeed a big problem."
Wu Hao nodded slightly, then looked at the lake not far away and the large desert oasis formed by this artificial lake and said: "But this problem is not unsolvable. Let's start from two aspects.
On the one hand, we still need to limit the expansion speed of the base, especially the expansion speed of the base area and scale. Don't occupy and expand without restraint just because the area is vast and sparsely populated, and pursue the bigger and better everything. This will not work.
Any new expansion projects in the future must be strictly reviewed and approved, and a team of environmental assessment experts must be involved to conduct relevant assessment work before being approved.
Secondly, personnel should also be tightened, the number of scientific researchers and other staff at the base should be controlled, and some unnecessary positions and personnel should be eliminated. This is true for the management department, and the same is true for the R&D department.
The ratio of scientific researchers to support personnel here is five times that of the headquarters, and more than that of the other three research centers. So you must also work hard here to compress service quality without reducing it.
Staffing should be established to ensure elite troops and streamlined administration.
What I want is an efficient research base, not a paradise for people to spend their time on vacation."
Speaking of this, Wu Hao glanced at Qi Guangkun with a sharp look, then looked at the artificial lake and wetland over there and said: "On the other hand, we need to increase the water storage capacity of the artificial lake and expand the area of the entire artificial lake.
, and lead to the expansion of the entire wetland area.
Only if the environment here gets better and better, the population carrying capacity here will become bigger and bigger. One of your priorities in the next step is to increase the environmental management work around the base.
The Plant Technology Laboratory has produced a lot of drought-resistant plants. Go and cooperate with them to expand the coverage of vegetation around the base and build a solid green protective barrier for the base."
"Yes, we have been cooperating with the biotechnology laboratory. However, the drought-tolerant plants developed there have not been approved before. If they are planted on a large scale rashly, it is likely to bring criticism. If they can
If we pass the ecological environment assessment and get the permit, we will fully cooperate with it."
Qi Guangkun explained, and then continued to talk to Wu Hao: "In fact, in the past few years, we have been using the infiltration of lake water to expand the area of wetlands, and the Populus euphratica forests we planted have also survived on a large scale.
In addition, our automatic unmanned tree-planting robots are also working day and night, and have planted more than 200,000 hectares of trees so far.
If all of these can be successfully implemented, then our plan to build an ecological green barrier around the base will become a reality."
After listening to Qi Guangkun's words, Wu Hao nodded slightly. It must be said that Qi Guangkun's work in the past few years has been very effective. However, this result has not yet reached his expectations.
"Are there any difficulties at the moment?"
Hearing Wu Hao's greetings, Qi Guangkun nodded and said: "The environment here is too harsh, too cold in winter, too hot in summer, drought and little rain, and the soil is poor. It is very unsuitable for these trees to survive and grow very slowly.
We intelligently use drip irrigation technology and unmanned vehicle watering technology to promote their survival and growth, but this is only a drop in the bucket. In the end, we still have to pin our hopes on Dr. Yang.
The desert drought-tolerant plants they tried to plant last year were very good, especially the super Haloxylon ammodendron and super moso bamboo, which grew very fast. Now they are hoping to pass the ecological environment assessment and obtain a permit.
In this way, we can use these drought-tolerant plants and quickly build large-area artificial oasis.
Once the scale of the woodland or oasis expands to a certain scale, it will gradually have an impact on the surrounding ecological environment, and even form an independent microclimate.
In this way, the ecological environment here will be greatly improved, and it will be a matter of course to accommodate more people.
This is also in line with our company's sustainable green and environmentally friendly development philosophy, which benefits the local area, drives local development, and fulfills our social mission."