The rise of nanometers

It was already three days after Li Bin performed artificial insemination on the cows of more than a dozen herdsmen families.

But his mission is not over yet. He still needs to go to two other settlements to artificially inseminate the cows of herders.

The convoy continued along the road and continued deep into Oriental Province.

Dongfang Province is actually part of the Hulunbuir Prairie. You can see quite a few settlements on both sides of the road to Qiuba Mountain. After herdsmen transition from nomadic to settled, they often choose to settle near the road.

The road from Hulunbuir to Qiuba Mountain is also the route of water pipelines and ultra-high voltage transmission lines.

Li Bin saw a new four-lane highway under construction on the side of the road.

The convoy passed through the Prague town of Tamsag and drove nearly a hundred kilometers until they arrived at the settlement of the second customer.

The population of this settlement is even larger, about more than a hundred people. On the north side of the settlement is a large salt marsh.

The herdsmen's breeding farm is located on a relatively high ground next to the salt marsh.

However, after watching for a while, Li Bin still noticed some problems: "Uncle Enhe, you must be careful about the location you choose. It is best to move to the high ground on the west side of your settlement."

Enhe scratched his head in confusion: "Brother Li, is there anything wrong with this place?"

Li Bin pointed to the north side. Starting from an area less than 500 meters away, there was an obvious decline in terrain: "The north side used to be a lake, right?"

"Yes, when my father was a child, this was still a lake with abundant water and grass. However, the water here dried up a few decades ago. Is Brother Li worried that the lake will flood the breeding farm? Don't worry about this. It should be impossible for this lake to recover." and explained with a smile.

Li Bin shook his head: "Uncle Enhe, don't be too careless. Haven't you noticed that there has been more rain this year?"

"Um..." Enhe thought about the weather in the past few years. This year's rain was actually earlier and more rainy than in previous years.

Herders don’t understand this, but Li Bin studied ecological breeding and knows that the climate of a small environment can actually be modified artificially.

Dongfang Province is part of the Hulunbuir Prairie, and the surrounding Hulunbuir Sand Land, Horqin Sand Land, and Hunshandake Sand Land have been gradually transformed into grasslands, farms, pastures, and forest farms. In addition, the sandy land in Dongfang Province itself has also been transformed into grasslands, farms, pastures, and forest farms. Transformed step by step.

The increase in vegetation coverage and freshwater supply will cause the local climate to gradually transition from a semi-arid area to a semi-arid and semi-humid area. Precipitation may suddenly surge in some years.

Most of the salt marshes in Oriental Province are degraded from inland lakes. Once precipitation increases, it is very likely that these salt marshes will turn into salt lakes again.

Li Bin looked at the location of the breeding farm. Although it was relatively high, there were obvious salt-alkali deposits on the ground, indicating that the previous water level of the salt lake had definitely flooded the area, and even the settlement was not necessarily safe.

“Will this lake really come back?”

"Hulun Lake has expanded a lot. It will be better for you to prepare for a rainy day sooner or later. Now these earthen shacks can be easily improved, and it is best for your settlement to be moved to a higher location."

"Thank you, Brother Li, for reminding me. I'll discuss it with you guys."

Li Bin did not continue to persuade, but immersed himself in work and artificially inseminated those cows.

The possibility of salt lake recovery is basically a certainty based on the current progress of sand transformation.

Historically, there are many documented records of the existence of a large number of lakes in the Hulunbuir Prairie.

Also on the border, many of the series of deserts, Gobi deserts and salt marshes are ancient grasslands, ancient lakes and ancient rivers.

After the climate here returns to a semi-humid area, these rivers and lakes will definitely appear on this land again.

Just like the Chinese-funded power represented by the Food Alliance, it has returned like lightning and returned to this land.

After another three days of busy work, Li Bin and a few assistants finally freed themselves from hundreds of awesome people and headed to the next settlement exhausted.

On the highway in the evening, Li Bin was in the pickup truck, leaning against the door and snoring. In the peaceful Gobi Desert, except for a few smokes, there were few traces of people.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the convoy arrived at a new town - Rhenium Town.

Rhenium Town, as its name suggests, is related to rhenium mines. Last year, the prospecting team of China Minmetals Corporation discovered a rare mixed molybdenum-rhenium mine in this area.

Although the depth of the deposit is about 70 to 120 meters, this molybdenum-rhenium mixed mine has rhenium reserves of about 1,573 tons, and the unit abundance is very high, which is 17% higher than the rhenium abundance associated with ordinary molybdenum mines. ~24 times, this is a world-class rhenium mine.

Minmetals quickly built a molybdenum-rhenium mining base here, and nearby there is a rare earth mine of Southern Rare Earth and two coal mines of Western Mining.

So everyone got together and built a new industrial and mining city-Rhenium Town.

The rise of the new city brought second-hand traders, catering and service industries, and many herders settled nearby, and the place quickly prospered.

Rhenium Town currently has a permanent population of more than 5,000 and a floating population of more than 1,000. It is a benchmark for emerging cities in Dongfang Province.

The layout of the town is very simple, with the main highway passing through it, and then 6 streets with vertical main roads. From the satellite view, it looks like a pair of fish bones.

Li Bin and his party found a hotel and planned to rest here for the night.

Li Bin, who yawned, took a luxurious bath in the hotel. In this kind of desert Gobi desert, if he wanted to take a bath before, he was basically dreaming.

The hotel owner is a young man who also runs a small restaurant. The young man gave Li Bin a clay pot rice.

The beef, sauce and crispy rice made Li Bin feel like he was out of time and space: "Has the boss been to Lingnan? This claypot rice is quite authentic!"

"Haha, brother, I'm from Shunde." The young man smiled and poured a glass of Phoenix Dancong for Li Bin.

"..." Li Bin was very surprised: "Shunde is a great place! Why did you come to the Gobi Desert outside the Great Wall?"

"Maybe!" There was a gentle look in the young man's eyes: "In my hometown, I had enough food for one person and the whole family was not hungry, so I came out to try my luck."

What else did the young man want to say? Several miners wearing safety helmets shouted:

"Xiao Lin, let's have some sausage rice."

"I want pork belly and an egg."

"Another half a draft of beer, I want it from Qingdao."

The young man smiled apologetically and shook his head, then stood up to entertain the customers. In addition to the young man, there was also a girl wearing local clothes in the store.

The girl was a little shy under the miner's teasing.

Li Bin took a bite of rice and secretly guessed that maybe the young man found a love here and stayed in the Gobi Desert regardless of his own safety.

Although Mobei is a bitter and cold place, it contains huge opportunities.

The cost of renovation of the natural environment here is actually lower than that in the Xinjiang region, and the potential for mining, agriculture, and animal husbandry is better than that in the Xinjiang region.

As the new granary of China, it is also the core agricultural area in the future. Before the two powers compete for hegemony, the importance here is comparable to that of the border areas.

Many adventurous people have entered this land in advance, hoping to seize the development opportunities in Mobei.

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