Guide to Galactic Dominance

In the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, people looked at the spaceships and aircraft passing by in the sky with curiosity and excitement. By this time, the amount of black snow falling in the sky had reduced. Some businesses and road cleaners quickly swept away these black dust clumps, making the road tidy again.

A black car passed quickly on the road, and in the back seat sat Fei Xiangfei, who had been busy these days. Even though it was winter, he still opened the car window, letting in any bit of cold yet particularly fresh air. Many vehicles on the road did what he did. It was really rare to encounter such good air in the imperial capital!

This year, people have been suffering from smog, and some people even laughed at themselves, saying that the control of smog basically depends on the wind. The manufacturers that produce masks are making a lot of money, but people are suffering from the smog in the city. Not only are flights delayed and canceled, but people's physical conditions have also deteriorated.

Most sensible people also understand that controlling smog is by no means as simple as people becoming aware, shouting slogans, and the government issuing military orders. Many Western countries have personal experience. Taking London as an example, the British have worked hard for decades to go from a foggy city in the 1950s to clear water in the 1980s.

For Country C, controlling haze will be a protracted battle.

It's understandable, but people inevitably pay for air pollution with their quality of life and health. In this process, many people tend to criticize the government's inaction and incompetence, but fail to see the deeper systemic reasons. First of all, the energy structure of country C is dominated by coal-fired power. Country C is a major coal-producing country and has a long history of coal-burning industry. Not to mention that there are huge coal-related interest groups behind it. It is no longer a matter of difficulty to cut off the coal with one stroke, but that it is impossible to do so.

Furthermore, a considerable number of companies have blindly expanded production capacity many years ago while deliberately ignoring their own environmental responsibilities. The situation of secret emissions and improper emissions is getting worse. For bosses who are concerned with their own profits, if they can do nothing to deal with industrial emissions, they will not do anything. Every penny spent on treatment is wasted. . This is also an inevitable manifestation of the profit-seeking nature of capital. A well-known Western environmental scholar proposed the concept of "fossil fuel capital". Under the environment of huge pollution penalties and treatment costs in the West, some Western companies have offshored their factories to third world countries. Among them, Country C is the first to bear the brunt. , while becoming the world’s factory, it has also become the world’s chimney. Regardless of whether they are domestic enterprises in country C, foreign-funded enterprises, or joint ventures, they all benefit from the investment environment in country C that encourages industrial and commercial development but ignores social cost expenditures, further exacerbating environmental and ecological problems.

Finally, it must be pointed out that every person in China, and even consumers around the world, are inseparable from pollution. On the one hand, the citizens of country C are the beneficiaries of rapid economic growth, and on the other hand, they are the victims of the side effects of rapid economic growth. People are complaining about bad air, but they don’t consider stopping burning coal for heating in winter. The output of various heavy industry and polluting enterprises also benefits various consumer goods that people enjoy in their lives.

For country C, there is no doubt about the national will to control haze and other environmental pollution issues, and public opinion is here. But this is by no means a matter that can be solved simply by cutting excess capacity and industrial upgrading and transformation. This systemic problem affects all aspects and affects the whole body.

Cut overcapacity and change the energy structure, but what about the workers who produce glass, steel, coal and chemical products? Some observers say that the reduction of overcapacity in the coal industry alone may result in three million unemployed people. Many of these people still hold the iron job of state-owned enterprises, and even several generations of their families have been in state-owned enterprises. How to place them and what industries to guide them to are all serious issues.

Country C has vigorously stimulated e-commerce consumption in the past two years, and it is also consciously using another member of the GDP Troika to stimulate economic growth, or at least create a certain economic prosperity on the surface. A large number of employed people have been directed towards the virtual industry and service economy, but the growth of these industries is not fast enough, and the pain of industrial transformation is unavoidable.

To be extreme, even if this painful period lasts for ten years, similar to the lost ten years of Nihong Country, as long as the transformation is successful, this game will be won. The price to be paid is real. Basically every generation in this country is paying a price for the progress of the country and nation and for no longer being bullied. The generation in the first half of the last century wasted their lives and blood, while the generation after the founding of the People's Republic of China created a complete industrial system and the infrastructure of a great country in an extremely difficult environment. In the hesitation of reform, the third generation exchanged cheap labor for the accumulation of original capital. The current generation is bound to have to pay the price of difficult industrial upgrading and transformation and health while enjoying the fruits left by their predecessors.

However, in general, each generation will have better conditions than the previous generation. It is with such a little effort and price that a weak country can continue to grow and become a force that everyone on this planet respects.

This is a persevering nation and a nation worthy of admiration.

Xiang Fei's complicated thoughts gradually came back, because the vehicle had stopped at the hotel where Bai Zhongqi, the head of state of Iridium, was staying.

In the morning, Xiang Fei received a notice saying that Iridium had informed him that he was dissatisfied with the air quality in the Imperial Capital and would take measures to deal with it. On the one hand, this made Didu feel a little embarrassed, on the other hand, he was also a little curious.

Unexpectedly, in less than half a morning, the sky of the Imperial Capital was filled with Iridium aircraft and spaceships. Wherever they passed, the haze disappeared, a black snow fell, and the warm winter sunshine was like the hands of a kind mother. Touching the ground and people's faces.

The people of Country C couldn't help but marvel at the Iridium people's handiwork. Some military personnel are actually frightened. The helicopter-sized aircraft flying everywhere, if equipped with any weapons, may be devastating to a city.

If Bai Zhongqi knew such thoughts, he could only laugh. This is just an industrial-grade drone, much more expensive than a war machine of the same size. Bai Zhongqi can produce thousands of drones equipped with 2WM level firepower in one day. Coupled with their powerful maneuverability, they can sweep any army on the earth.

Xiang Fei came to visit Bai Zhongqi, the leader of Iridium Star, naturally hoping to reach an agreement with Bai Zhongqi on haze control. The harm caused by smog affects the lives of hundreds of millions of residents in North China and even across the country. Now that country C has seen hope of an immediate solution, it will naturally not give up.

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