The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 383: Start the Trial Plan

All the century-long projects promoted by Liu Tao have had a huge impact on China.

This is a contribution to the development of China.

Similarly, the 'Shenyang-Haikou Expressway' project and the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway' project are also projects that can make a lot of money.

Naturally, the construction of root servers, the establishment of the Internet, and the construction of communication systems are also projects that can make a lot of money.

For example, the United States spends 50 billion U.S. dollars every year to maintain the root server. Does this mean that the United States is a good person and provides the Internet to the world for free?

Give me a break!

The wool comes from the sheep!
The money that other countries ‘voluntarily’ pay for the operation and maintenance of the root servers is several times or even ten times the $50 billion!
Similarly, to build the Internet, just look at the annual Internet fees and you will know that it is an astronomical and staggering figure.

There are one billion Internet users in China. If we roughly add up the number of businesses and families, and calculate based on 980 million households, and estimate the annual Internet fee at 2940 yuan, the total Internet fee for that year would be billion yuan!

This does not include various traffic packages!
As for communications, look at China Mobile, China Telecom, etc., their annual revenue is approximately 1.4 trillion yuan!
Combining the two items, this project can bring in about 1.7 trillion yuan each year, which is much higher than the revenue from highway tolls, which is almost three times higher.

Liu Tao is not greedy. He only needs to occupy one-third of the market share, and the revenue that year will be 5670 billion yuan!
No matter how much arms Panshan Group sells, the amount it sells every year will definitely not be as much as this.

"The investment in the entire project is indeed huge, but we can first build root servers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Kunming, and also build the second-generation mobile communication system at the same time as a test." Liu Tao said: "The total investment for this part is 100 billion yuan, and it is expected to take three to five years."

"After July 1987, 7, we will build the root server and the second-generation mobile communication system in Hong Kong," Liu Tao said. "We will decide whether to continue building the root server and the second-generation mobile communication system after five years."

When the participants in the conference room heard the figure of 100 billion RMB, they suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, the previous figure was 2 trillion RMB, and now it is 100 billion RMB, which is only one twentieth of it, so it is not that shocking.

"I am so arrogant. One hundred billion RMB actually makes me feel relieved." The head of the Ministry of Finance cursed inwardly.

The head of the Ministry of Finance said: "But even if it is 100 billion yuan, the country cannot come up with it. The national finances are really tight."

"How much money can your Panshan Group provide for the construction?" The old man looked at Liu Tao.

Liu Tao said: "We can apply for a loan from the bank, and we expect to invest 70 billion to 80 billion yuan!"

Now banks can provide loans to the outside world. After all, the amount of savings in banks is really too huge. Using depositors' money to make loans and earn interest difference is itself a major business of banks.

So far, Panshan Group has zero debt.

Countless people stared at Liu Tao in disbelief.

Panshan Group alone can invest 700 to 800 billion yuan, which is even more money than the Ministry of Finance.

You have to know that Panshan Group is leading two century-old projects, the "Shenhai Expressway" and the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway", both of which require equally heavy investments.

"That means that all parties only need 20 to 30 billion RMB. This amount of money is indeed not small, but it can always be squeezed out." The old man smoked a cigarette and smiled, "Your Ministry of Electronics Industry should also reform and set up a company to operate the communications business."

A hammer is fixed.

This means that the country has launched this project. Although it is only a preliminary trial project, once it is launched and people experience its delicious taste, they will not be able to stop.

Liu Tao firmly believed in this.

"Since Comrade Liu Tao believes that this is the third industrial revolution, then we should work hard in this regard. We missed the first and second industrial revolutions, so China had a century of humiliation, the decline of the East and the rise of the West. The West dominated the Age of Exploration, and there were Western powers and industrialization." The old man spoke slowly with a thick Sichuan accent, but very clearly and firmly. "We Chinese must not miss the third industrial revolution. We must participate in the third industrial revolution and use it to enable the country to achieve modern industrialization, liberate our productivity, and improve our productivity!"

People who have lived through that era know only too well those most critical and humiliating years for the Chinese nation, and they will never allow China to repeat the same mistakes.

He firmly believed in Liu Tao's judgment.

Because it turns out that Liu Tao is absolutely a genius in science and technology.

Other scientists may only be proficient in one field, but Liu Tao is proficient in many fields.

At the beginning, when Liu Tao developed the Type 78 pistol, everyone thought he was just a firearms genius. Later, as he developed one firearm after another with advanced performance, Liu Tao was no longer just a firearms genius, but also the best firearms designer in China and the top expert in the field of firearms.

However, when Liu Tao developed the Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and the Type 80 main battle tank, everyone's perception of him was reversed.

Because the Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and Type 80 main battle tank are extremely comprehensive, they have established Liu Tao's position as a top scientist in many fields such as armored defense, materials science, engines, artillery, computers, and radar.

It is not easy for others to win a national award.

Liu Tao wins several national awards every year, and various awards are received in bulk. He receives awards at various levels every year, at least eighty if not a hundred.

It was also Liu Tao who came up with China's first generation of mobile communication technology, which helped China get rid of the embarrassing situation of having no mobile communication technology and filled the gap in China's mobile communication technology.

Not to mention the field of computers, there is no one in China who knows computers better than Liu Tao.

The 'Galaxy' giant computer that the country had finally developed was ultimately no match for Liu Tao's small personal computer.

Even China's current integrated circuit industry was promoted by Liu Tao.

Naturally, trusting Liu Tao's judgment is the best choice.

Just the initial trials will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars, which is a huge amount of wealth.

But if China can really achieve a leap forward with the help of the third industrial revolution, then it will be worth it.

And as Liu Tao said, once the experiment is successful, we can also cooperate with other countries to obtain funds and profits for domestic construction.

They are well aware of the benefits of earning huge profits from overseas and using them for domestic construction.

If Panshan Group had not made huge profits from overseas every year, it would not have been able to build those factories, large shipyards, the "Shenyang-Haikou Expressway" and the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway".

Not to mention that the country has taken this opportunity to have huge foreign exchange reserves. Otherwise, the country's foreign exchange reserves would have become negative long ago.

(End of this chapter)