The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 346 Military Training
Panshan Machinery Factory.

The original location of the combined battalion was currently hosting student military training.

Semi-military management is implemented in the Panshan system.

Workers must organize military training regularly, including target practice. Not only men, but women as well must receive military training.

The hospital will teach women some simple battlefield rescue methods, such as disinfection, bandaging, injections, and acupuncture.

Students will organize military training in September every year. It is not too bad for primary school students, as they only have some basic training. But when they start in junior high school, the military training includes night marches, military boxing, target practice, etc.

At this time, the military training that was being conducted was for middle school students.

As a weapons industry system, in the Panshan system, it is not difficult for children of factory workers to go to high school or technical secondary school unless they really don't want to study.

Then after taking the college entrance examination, most of them will choose colleges in the weapons system, and some will go to other industrial colleges.

Those who are particularly outstanding will be admitted to famous universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Northwestern Polytechnical University.

With annual computer donations and cooperation in scientific research, Panshan Group will naturally benefit from it, that is, there is a certain number of places for admission to each prestigious university.

Of course, admission is not just random. The students who are recommended must be both good in character and academic performance.

Even some extremely outstanding students will be sent to study in Hong Kong or famous universities in Europe and the United States after graduating from university in China.

After stopping and watching for a while, Liu Tao nodded slightly.

Yunnan Province is different from other places. It belongs to the southwestern frontier and bears the important responsibility of defending the country. In an emergency, it needs to be mobilized urgently to go to the front line to fight and hold out until the arrival of reinforcements from the rear.

Although the possibility of this situation is becoming increasingly lower, it still exists.

Therefore, Panshan Group has always invested a lot of effort in setting up the armed department and devotes a lot of energy every year to the military training of factory employees and students.

He hoped that in addition to advanced weapons and equipment, there would also be brave soldiers who were good at fighting.

If an army only has advanced weapons and equipment but its soldiers are weak and have no courage or courage to fight, then it will still be a strawberry army that is vulnerable to any attack.

Then we left and visited various schools.

Every primary school is conducting military training. The content of military training for different grades is different. Different military training contents are formulated according to different ages to ensure that children will not be hurt.

Those who provide military training to students are all personnel from the armed forces.

The Armed Forces Department is also a major department of Panshan Group. The three combined brigades, security personnel of each factory, and even the public security of each factory are all under the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces Department.

All overseas security companies are also under the jurisdiction of the armed forces.

Those who can serve in the armed forces are either active soldiers, active police officers, or retired soldiers.

Once there is a real need, the armed forces can immediately mobilize a troop to go to the front line to fight.

Take a look around the entire Panshan Machinery Factory, chat with grassroots staff and understand the situation.

This is what he saw and heard personally to understand the most real situation, so as to avoid people below him deceiving their superiors and hiding things from their subordinates. He always believed in the words of the great man that the eyes of the people are sharp.

The people have the most say in whether a cadre is good or bad.

The cadres who are scolded and criticized by the people are most likely bad cadres. Such cadres must be dealt with. If they are corrupt or violate regulations and disciplines, they must be dealt with. At the very least, they will be demoted or sent to farms or pig farms for labor reform.

The cadres who are praised by the people are most likely good cadres and should be trained and promoted with great care.

Liu Tao did this for the purpose of deterrence, so that these cadres would remember the five words "serve the people" well, and also to deter the discipline inspection team so that they would not dare to neglect their duties.

After inspecting another batch of weapons, ammunition and heavy equipment, Liu Tao left Panshan Machinery Factory and went to Kunming City to take a flight to Yangcheng.

First, he went to the shipyard, tested the latest batch of Type 022 missile boats, and inspected the situation at the shipyard.

After staying for a day, Liu Tao went to Pengcheng.

The design of the water and electricity supply project to Xiangjiang has been completed, and Xiangjiang and Guangdong Province have started coordination in Pengcheng.

The total investment in the water supply project is HK$200 billion, and the total investment in the power supply project is HK$200 billion.

As early as 1980, China Power and Guangdong Nuclear Power Group cooperated to establish Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co., Ltd., in which China Power held a 25% stake. While holding the shares, Hong Kong also purchased 45% of the electricity. Therefore, after the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station was completed, 70% of the electricity was transmitted to Hong Kong.

However, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station was not completed until 1995.

This time, Hong Kong invested 200 billion Hong Kong dollars to transport more electricity from the mainland to Hong Kong. At the same time, the Hong Kong Water Group invested 100 billion Hong Kong dollars to transport more fresh water from the mainland to Hong Kong.

Although Hong Kong has been developing rapidly, it is actually limited by water and electricity.

Many people think that Hong Kong has not developed a decent industry. One of the important reasons is that Hong Kong lacks water and electricity. If it wants to develop industry, Hong Kong’s current water supply and power supply capabilities are not enough to support it.

The current construction of water supply and power supply projects is also based on the future development of Hong Kong, laying a solid foundation for the rapid development of Hong Kong in the future.

As for the thermal power that originally accounted for the majority of Hong Kong's electricity, he has no plans to do so because the pollution is too serious and would be detrimental to Hong Kong's future development.

The terrain of Hong Kong is mainly hilly, with less flat land. About 2214.3% of the land is lowland, mainly concentrated in the northern New Territories, namely Yuen Long Plain and Fanling Lowland, both of which are impact plains formed naturally by rivers. The average annual rainfall in Hong Kong is 8mm, with the highest rainfall in August and the lowest rainfall in January. Although the territory is mountainous, the rivers are short and shallow, and the catchment area is only one-third of the land area. The surface runoff is very small. The average annual water collection in the catchment area is about 1 million m1, and the highest annual water collection is only 17 billion m. In addition, the rainfall is unevenly distributed and mostly concentrated in the flood season. The water source is lost quickly and is difficult to intercept and store, resulting in the inability of the streams in the territory to provide a stable and sufficient water source.

In the past, Hong Kong collected raw water into reservoirs through catchment areas, but this could only ensure water supply in major urban areas, and water supply could not be guaranteed in many places.

One of the important reasons why Hong Kong has not experienced large-scale water outages and can still ensure water supply for the entire city is the Dongshen Water Supply Project.

东深供水工程始建于1964年2月2日，1965年2月27日完工，1965年3月1日正式对香江供水。初期工程位于东莞和鹏城境内，取水点在东莞桥头镇东江边，通过6个拦河坝、8个抽水站以及83公里的输水河、渠和管道，把东江水提升46米后，汇入鹏城水库，然后经过3.5公里的输水钢管与香江对接供水。

At the beginning, the project supplied 6820 million cubic meters of water to Hong Kong annually. With the economic and social development of Hong Kong, the water supply continued to increase and the project was expanded in the 70s.

However, Hong Kong’s current population is 535 million, and the population will continue to grow in the next three to four decades.

The expanded Dongshen water supply project is clearly insufficient to meet the needs.

(End of this chapter)