Different from the original time and space, the scale of China's metal minerals and energy minerals in this plane is very small, which is completely out of proportion to the huge industrial output.
The development of minerals in various places is very slow, and the output is far from meeting industrial needs.
Most of the minerals are Rely on imports.
Although the development of China's mining industry appears to be very slow compared to the development speed of other industries, it is not true to say that China's mining industry currently has no scale.
Iron ore and coal mines are two exceptions to the large-scale mining industry, because the use of these two minerals is quite large, and it is unrealistic to rely entirely on imports.
Putting aside the issues of required funds and foreign production, a single capacity restriction is enough to put people off the idea.
In addition, non-metallic minerals such as limestone, quartz, clay, and kaolin are mined on a large scale.
On the one hand, the consumption of these minerals is considerable, and it is unrealistic to rely on imports.
On the other hand, there are so many of these things and they are available all over the world, so there is no need to deliberately preserve them.
However, the scale of other mineral industries is very small.
For example, in the history of the original space and time, tungsten ore, which was regarded as the main export product for earning foreign exchange during this period, was completely restricted from export in this plane.
Only a few sites have been developed in Jiangxi, Hunan and the Korean Peninsula, and production has been limited to very low levels.
It has to be imported from the United States and Canada every year to meet its own needs.
Even the coal and iron ore mined in large quantities in China are still imported in large quantities, because although China has no shortage of coal and iron, it has very few high-quality minerals.
Especially iron ore, more than 10 million tons of high-quality iron ore and more than 30 million tons of high-quality coal were imported last year.
As for minerals such as copper, rare earths, bauxite, nickel, and chromium, they mainly rely on imports.
Although some similar mines have been developed in China, they are mainly used as technical reserves, and the output cannot be counted on.
Anyway, according to the current guiding ideology, "If you can use foreign mineral resources, you will never use domestic ones; if you can use mineral resources in new territories, you will never use core territories."
Moreover, Wen Desi also asked people to formulate a series of measures.
For example, geological surveys must be organized by the state.
At the same time, the mineral resource data in the survey results cannot be fully disclosed.
They must be reviewed before they can be selectively released.
In addition, in various media and school textbooks, statements such as "We are a resource-poor country, most of the mineral resources are scarce, and the per capita possession is extremely low" and other statements.
Such vocabulary is strictly prohibited from appearing in descriptions of China.
Anyway, China now has very strict control over domestic minerals, especially non-ferrous metal minerals and oil and gas resources, and private development is absolutely not allowed.
On the contrary, the Chinese government strongly encourages private individuals to develop minerals overseas and import them into the country.
In addition, China not only imports a large amount of resources every year, but also builds a large number of resource reserve warehouses in sparsely populated and dry climate areas such as northwest and Outer Mongolia.
A large number of smelted non-ferrous metal ingots are shipped to these warehouses every year.
In terms of energy minerals, the situation is similar.
In addition to coal mines, which are in great demand, the development of oil and natural gas is extremely demanding.
For example, the domestic production of crude oil last year was only 880,000 tons, including production in new territories, but the actual usage was 15.5 million tons.
The extra 10 million tons can only be met by imports.
China has imported large amounts of oil and liquefied natural gas from the United States, Mexico, Persia, Russia and other places every year in recent years.
Last year, it imported 15 million tons of oil, 9 million tons of liquefied natural gas, and more than 5 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas. ton.
Since China put gas liquefaction technology into practical use in 1910, it has begun to use these technologies to open wholly-owned or joint venture factories in various production areas, or to invest in local factories through technology shares.
Many gas liquefaction plants have been established to produce large quantities of liquefied gas.
Natural gas and LPG.
For various producing countries, this technology is undoubtedly very popular.
In the past, because these gas products were inconvenient to transport, they had to rely on pipeline network transportation.
However, the construction of pipeline networks is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is difficult to repair them abroad.
Therefore, in the past, many oil fields were limited by transportation conditions and could only burn the extracted natural gas and petroleum gas in vain.
But now with liquefaction technology it’s different.
The volumes of gaseous and liquid are very different.
Each ton of liquefied natural gas can be converted into approximately 14,501,500 standard cubic meters of gaseous natural gas.
Each ton of liquefied petroleum gas can be converted into approximately 510 standard cubic meters of petroleum gas.
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If the product is gaseous, even high-pressure transportation It can't be transported much, but it shrinks many times after liquefaction, which can save a lot of transportation capacity.
After the transportation cost is reduced, it will naturally be easier to sell.
The most important thing is that with China as a big customer, there is no need to worry about finding buyers for the liquefied products.
In this way, a large amount of gas that was previously burned in vain has become a commodity that can be sold for money.
The income of the capitalists who control the oil fields has increased significantly, and China has also obtained the gas it needs.
Why not do something that makes everyone happy?
Although China imports a large amount of oil, only a small part is used as fuel, and most of it is used as chemical raw materials.
This is because China has planted a large number of diesel trees.
Last year, the refined oil provided by diesel trees exceeded 25 million tons, which is enough to meet domestic fuel demand.
As for imported natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas, most of them are used as fuel.
Nowadays, many cities in China have begun to popularize gaseous fuels.
Natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and coal gas have entered households in large quantities.
The two traditional fuels, coal and firewood, have gradually withdrawn from the market.
Even rural areas have begun to gradually popularize biogas and coal gas.
Coal and firewood are no longer directly used as fuel, but are converted into gas through gas generators and then delivered to every household.
Moreover, China is now conducting research on the industrialization of coal gas.
This technology is not difficult, but the difficulty is how to reduce the cost.
If this technology breaks through, even factories and companies will no longer need to directly use coal as fuel.
In addition to the astonishing development of industry, the development of agriculture is also very gratifying.
Especially after the war in Europe, the development of agriculture has been on the fast track.
Last year, China's grain output exceeded the 600 million tons mark, reaching 630 million tons.
At this time, China's population was 535 million people.
In other words, per capita grain exceeds 1,170 kilograms.
This is an unprecedented achievement.
China has never produced so much food since history.
The Chinese alone cannot eat so much food.
Even if they can eat it, they cannot eat 1,170 kilograms of food in a year.
Generally speaking, if the per capita grain of a country reaches 400 kilograms, it is completely sufficient.
In addition, China has had bumper grain harvests every year in recent years, and strategic grain storage warehouses everywhere, as well as granaries of governments at all levels, enterprises and private individuals are full.
So after everyone replaced the grains in the granary with new grains, a large amount of old grains and excess grains were used for other purposes, or exported abroad, or used as feed, or as raw materials for brewing, or for deep processing into A wide variety of food.
With enough food, the development of the breeding industry will naturally be rapid.
Last year, China's meat production reached 25.78 million tons.
In addition to being used for domestic consumption, it was also made into cans and other products and exported to Europe in large quantities.
Now luncheon meat comes from China.
Canned food has become the main meat product for both warring parties.
Moreover, China also imports a large amount of meat from Argentina, the United States, Australia and other places.
Last year, it imported more than 5 million tons.
In the past few years since the war in Europe, the living standards of the Chinese people have improved rapidly.
Not to mention the food, there is simply no end to it.
Vegetables, fruits, chicken, duck, and fish have also entered the dining table of every household.
In terms of nutritional intake, it has reached the level of the first few years of the 21st century.
In particular, the "Infant Nutrition Subsidy" and the "Nutritious Meal Plan" that are mandatory in the country have completely freed the next generation of teenagers, especially those born after the founding of the People's Republic of China, from the label of "malnutrition."
Therefore, in the eyes of the Chinese people, there is nothing wrong with fighting in Europe, especially those who have made a fortune from it, and they hope that those white-skinned people can fight for another hundred years.
As for people dying in war, it doesn't matter because other people's children will die anyway.
Wen Desi put down the document in his hand, frowned and said: "Last year, uranium mines in Australia and South Africa reduced production again."
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Gu Xiaolan said: "Yes, since the war began in Europe, not to mention France and Austria-Hungary and other places that directly participated in the war, the uranium production in Australia, South Africa, Canada, India and other British colonies, as well as in Russia, has been reduced because of the large amount of Manpower has been requisitioned in connection with the war Industries that were closed to them, such as uranium mining, were naturally the first to be abandoned.
However, production in African colonies such as Niger and Namibia has also been severely affected by war, but they can still maintain production.
There are only a few mines in the United States and Brazil.”
"Well, most of the places where things like uranium are produced are involved in the war.
This can be considered a negative impact," Wen Desi said somewhat depressedly.
Although the European War made China a lot of money, it was not entirely a good thing.
For example, Mr.
Wen’s plan to plunder the world’s uranium mines was severely affected by this war.
There is no way, basically all the places with the most uranium mines have joined the war.
"How much uranium have we collected now?"
"About 350,000 tons, all of which are processed concentrates with uranium content above 10.
There are also 3,200 tons of yellow cake," Gu Xiaolan replied.
In fact, the search for uranium mines went smoothly, better than Mr.
Wen expected.
Because of the new mining and mineral processing equipment he provided through Majia Company, the output of uranium mines in various places far exceeded the same period in the original time and space.
About 3.7 million tons of uranium ore had been collected from around the world until last year.
However, the uranium ores bought by China are all ores that have only gone through preliminary selection, and the average grade is about 1.
After being sent to China, it will be selected and made into a concentrate with a content of more than 10%.
These natural uranium ores are then crushed, extracted and precipitated with various solutions, and then made into "yellow cake" uranium octoxide and sent to sealed warehouses for storage.
In fact, the name "yellow cake" comes from the color and shape of the impure finished product produced according to the original production process.
The "yellow cake" produced through modern advanced technological means is actually not yellow, but brown.
Or black.
Wen Desi searched so hard for uranium mines all over the world, and it was certainly one of his goals to develop a killer weapon as soon as possible, but his goal was not just the atomic bomb.
He plans to build a nuclear power plant as soon as possible.
This thing is extremely important in terms of energy.
In addition, after having nuclear reactors, China's aircraft carriers and submarines can also replace their guns with guns earlier.
Besides, in order to protect the environment, it is natural to reduce carbon emissions as soon as possible if possible.
Mr.
Wen is a very environmentally friendly person.
In fact, China's first experimental reactor and supporting nuclear power plant were officially put into operation on October 1 last year.
Mr.
Wen has collected so much uranium ore, which is not something that would look good in a warehouse.
China's nuclear program began after the first batch of yellow cake was refined in 1911.
China's nuclear program in this dimension is very different from that of the United States in the original time and space.
Due to the pressure of war, the United States in the original time and space was afraid that Germany would build an atomic bomb first, so it used a very deceptive method.
They are rushing to build an atomic bomb, so they need weapons-grade uranium with a concentration of 90%.
Therefore, they need to build tens of thousands of centrifuges or diffusion machines to run for several years.
They also need to use the Lawrence electromagnetic method, and the energy consumption is 60 times that of gas centrifugation.
Gas diffusion method to separate uranium.
Therefore, the Manhattan Project in the United States uses more than 10% of the electricity in the United States, and the cost is astonishing.
The main expenditures of the plan are on energy consumption, in addition to the repeated construction of refining plants.
China in this plane is completely different.
Because there is no pressure from war, there is no need to use this incredibly expensive method to catch up.
China adopts a step-by-step approach, and the most economical gas centrifugation method is used to refine uranium.
First, thermal power plants are used to drive hundreds of gas centrifuges, which are connected in series to refine uranium fuel with a concentration of about 4.
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Use these products to build first-generation reactors for critical experiments, then develop and build second-generation practical reactors, and start driving more centrifuges to refine weapons-grade uranium and plutonium.
This makes the initial energy consumption of China's nuclear program only one ten thousandth of that of the United States' Manhattan Project in the original time and space, and the scale of the factory is also much smaller.
Although the energy consumption will increase in the later period, the enriched uranium in the reactor will be consumed instead of oil or coal.
Because China used the most optimized low-cost approach from the beginning, with no time pressure, and sufficient computer power support to make full use of uranium energy and collect data incidentally, the funds and manpower spent were quite low.
In the six years since the entire nuclear program began in 1911, the total investment has not exceeded 300 million yuan, and a complete nuclear material refining system and a nuclear power plant have been developed
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