The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is the first super-large cross-sea passage jointly built by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao under the framework of "one country, two systems". It is 55 kilometers long, with a designed service life of 120 years. The total investment is about 1200 billion yuan, and construction is expected to start during the th Five-Year Plan period.

This is a new century project belonging to the 21st century!
There are currently three main plans: one is a full bridge, one is a full undersea tunnel, and one is a combination of bridge and tunnel!
Liu Tao is naturally very clear about the importance the country attaches to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as he has attended many meetings and was the first proposer and promoter.

The entire Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area covers two special administrative regions, nine prefecture-level cities, a population of nearly 2 million, and a large economic aggregate. It is one of the most open and economically dynamic regions in China, and plays an important strategic role in the overall national development.

The entire bay area has obvious location advantages, strong economic strength, a concentration of innovative factors, a leading level of internationalization, and a good foundation for cooperation. It will be built into a vibrant world-class city cluster, an international science and technology innovation center with global influence, a window for China to meet the world, an important support for China's regional economic integration in ASEAN, a demonstration zone for in-depth cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, and a high-quality living circle that is suitable for living, working and traveling, and become a model of high-quality development.

Once a strategy like this is established, it will be implemented continuously in the future.

At present, China has four national strategic centers: the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the Southwest.

This has also formed four national-level urban agglomerations, and the four national-level strategic centers also have their own characteristics.

In the future, the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta will promote regional economic integration and break down internal barriers. For the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong and Macao need to be included to form a "Greater Pearl River Delta", which will not only radiate to the surrounding provinces and cities, but also to the entire Southeast Asia.

The southwest is shouldering the three major responsibilities of promoting the development of the central and western regions and radiating to the South Pacific and South Asia.

This is at the national strategic level and will not last for one or two years, but will be a long-term, sustained effort from one term to the next.

Hong Kong’s plan to reclaim land on a large scale is no longer feasible!
Hong Kong's future development will revolve around finance, tourism, international trade, luxury brands, Internet technology, education, biomedicine, etc. As for normal manufacturing, it will inevitably be transferred to the mainland.

This is an irresistible trend that cannot be stopped by individuals or interest groups.

Just like in recent years, there has been heated discussion about the land reclamation plan in Hong Kong, which has been strongly criticized by environmental protection professionals and other countries.

Even within Hong Kong, there is no unified opinion on this.

A hint of disappointment could not help but flash in Ho Ying-tung's eyes.

Today, Hong Kong’s population exceeds 1500 million, most of whom are immigrants from outside, and this is already the population ceiling that Hong Kong can bear.

This year, Hong Kong's immigration policy has been tightened. Previously, anyone with a bachelor's degree could immigrate to Hong Kong, but now, one must have a bachelor's or master's degree from a key university.

If Hong Kong wants more population, it will need more land area, and more land area must be obtained through land reclamation.

Of course, some Hong Kong people also have a creative idea, which is to cede some areas of Pengcheng to Hong Kong, so as to expand the administrative area of ​​Hong Kong.

But this operation is too difficult!
Liu Tao knew what Ho Ying-Tong and others wanted, but at his current level, he was focusing on the entire country, the entire country as a chessboard, the entire world.

Xiangjiang is just a point, a relatively important point. Compared with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area strategy, the importance of Xiangjiang as a whole is not as high as one level.

Not to mention, during the 11th Five-Year Plan, the two major strategies of developing the central and western regions and revitalizing the old industrial base in the northeast will be further promoted. In the Red River Delta, investment will also be increased to further promote the development of the Red River Delta and promote the construction of the entire Beibu Gulf Economic Zone.

Southwest, Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, these are not only China's regional strategies, but also China's grand strategy facing Southeast Asia and South Asia!
Which one is more important is self-evident.

Liu Tao came to Hong Kong to attend the World Computer Internet Conference, not just to meet old friends or to attend the opening ceremony of the conference.

He also participated in some exchanges.

He also represents the country's high attention to the World Computer Internet Conference.

It also expresses the country's attention to the development of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is one of China's computer Internet centers, and the National Internet Center (Hong Kong) serves the entire Southeast Asia and Oceania.

The two national supercomputing centers, the National Supercomputing Center in Pengcheng and the National Supercomputing Center in Yangcheng, not only provide computing power support for the South China region, but also provide computing power support for the entire Southeast Asia and Oceania.

At this year's World Computer Internet Conference, China officially announced that its latest supercomputer has a computing speed of 1271 trillion times per second, far ahead of the rest of the world.

The development level of supercomputers represents the highest level of development of a country in the field of computers.

Currently, China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the field of supercomputers. The development of China's computers and the Internet is supported by advanced supercomputers.

The second is the United States. The supercomputers of the United States are second only to those of China and far ahead of other countries. The supercomputers of other countries are not even a little behind those of the United States.

While attending a seminar on future computer development, Liu Tao boldly predicted that within 10 years, the computing power of supercomputers will enter the exascale era, and quantum computers will usher in rapid development in 10 years.

The concept of quantum computer originates from the research on reversible computer. It is a new computer based on quantum theory. It is a physical device that follows the laws of quantum mechanics to perform high-speed mathematical and logical operations, store and process quantum information. Quantum computer uses quantum bits, which can be in multiple states at the same time, instead of being in a binary state of 0 or 1 like traditional computers.

It has been more than 30 years since the concept of quantum computers was proposed, and they have been continuously improved in theory, but quantum computers have not yet been born.

Europe, the United States and Japan have all invested heavily in quantum computers, intending to lead the world in the field of quantum computers, thereby overtaking others and changing the current situation in which China is the only dominant country in the field of computer development.

Of course, in the computer field, regarding future development trends, in addition to quantum computers, optical computers are also a hot topic.

The so-called optical computer is an optical computer, which is made of optical fibers and various optical components based on the principle that the propagation speed of light is faster than that of electrons. It relies on a small beam of low-power laser to enter an optical circuit composed of reflectors and lenses to "think", but it also has storage, calculation and control functions. (End of this chapter)