Chapter 1258 Guanghan City Special Zone

The last day of the National Day holiday.

The silver-white cargo cabin finally entered the atmosphere for the third time through constant orbit changes, using air resistance to slow down, and finally successfully landed safely on the open space of Jinling Space Launch Center.

This cargo cabin, which marks the crystallization of materials science and engineering technology of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, except for the loss of the surface heat dissipation coating in the return section, the main structure is basically intact and can be reused after minor repairs.

At the same time, the most critical thing is that the cargo stored in this return capsule is also intact.

After hearing the news, the atmosphere of the Institute of Astronautics of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study was almost as festive as a festival. The same is true for several other domestic cooperative aerospace units. The burden in the hearts of the project team leaders has finally fallen to the ground, and they are all happy.

before the end of the seven-day holiday.

The Lunar Orbit Construction Committee finally used its own way to present a big gift to the people of the whole country.

This gift consists of 4.27 tons of lunar ore, 50 kilograms of wheat, corn, potatoes, and some biological reagents and scientific research specimens produced on the moon.

When they saw this precious gift, many old academicians and experts of the Air Science Group burst into tears with excitement.

How many years?

It has been almost two generations since the start of aerospace engineering.

They have never had such a huge harvest on the moon—or in outer space!

In the 1970s, during the honeymoon period of Sino-US relations, a lunar rock sample brought by President Carter's security adviser made them feel like a treasure.

And that sample is only 1g.

It was not until Chang'e-5 that Huaguo truly mastered the technology of collecting ore samples from the moon.

From Chang'e-5 to the present, only four years have passed.

In the past four years, under the guidance of Academician Lu, Huaguo's aerospace industry has almost undergone earth-shaking changes. Especially after the establishment of the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, everything is like a dream.

In addition to those ecstatic scientific research specimens and rare earth ores, there was another great gift that followed.

At noon on the last day of the National Day holiday, the Office of the Elderly Home suddenly held a press conference to announce that after discussion and decision at the high-level meeting, the official establishment of the "Guanghan Special Administrative Region" was approved!

According to this document approving the establishment of the "Guanghan City Special Administrative Region", the 50-kilometer area around the lunar scientific research station will be included in the public facilities development zone.

The so-called public facilities development zone is a new concept put forward by the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee, that is, any spacecraft deployed in this area, as long as the ownership belongs to Chinese citizens or organizations, it will be governed by Chinese laws. At the same time, it is also protected by the laws of China.

In addition, Huaguo will plan to send 2,000 immigrants to the Guanghan Special Zone in six batches within three years, and build larger and more reliable life support facilities near the lunar scientific research station.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar all over the world.

People were amazed at the ambitions displayed by the Hua people on the space issue, as well as the terrible execution ability.

Send two thousand immigrants to the moon?

Is this going to build a colony on the moon? !

After hearing the news, many people panicked.

on twitter.

"I bet it won't be long before they have the moon on the map!"

"The Chinese are occupying the moon! Can't the White House do something?"

"They can't do that! The moon belongs to everyone!"

"Wait a minute! I mean...is this a hoax? I bet they don't have the capability to send two thousand colonists to the moon, they just want to drag us into the race and drag Destroy our economy!"

"This kind of situation exists, but the premise is that it is not profitable to develop lunar resources. But it is obviously not the case now. If you pay attention to the futures market, you will find that dysprosium, terbium, scandium...all of these appear in Queqiao 3 The price of the ore varieties on the material list of No. 1 cargo hold has begun to be unstoppable..."

"We can send the Mexicans up there."

Whether the water in the river is cold or not, the ducks swimming on the river are the first to know. Although the reaction of the capital market cannot represent changes in the economic situation, it can basically and accurately reflect market expectations for future conditions.

Queqiao No. 3 can not only carry one cargo hold, it is impossible for Huaguo to have only three Queqiao No. in the future. With the completion of the lunar surface mass accelerator and the establishment of the Guanghan City Administrative Special Zone, the development of lunar resources has entered the next stage, and the impact on the rare earth market will be earth-shaking.

Of course, what frightens Americans even more is that Hua Guo has come from behind and has taken the lead in the "New World" that they originally regarded as their back garden.

Damn it!

These things originally belonged to them!

However, those insignificant protests did not have any impact on this plan, let alone shake China's determination to explore and develop the outer space field.

At the same time, the actions of Hua Guo's high-level officials did not stop.

A public enterprise named "Guanghan City Development Co., Ltd." was established soon, and raised 50 billion funds on the Shanghai Stock Exchange through IPO, private placement and other means, and issued a total price of 50 billion with an annual yield of 7 % of corporate bonds.

In a sense, this can be regarded as the benefit of public offering.

With the proven huge reserves of titanium ore and rare earth minerals on the moon, even if the rate of return of this "Guanghan Urban Development Co., Ltd." is not as good as that of East Asia Power, which aims to make profits, its future development potential is not weak at all.

Not only the big households like the Social Security Fund bought it, but even Xingkong Technology bought a little with their spare money.

There is even a saying in the financial circle that as long as you buy the lottery, you are basically making money. Even if you don't buy the stocks in Guanghan City, the corporate bonds with a 7% annual yield are quite good, which is almost twice the interest rate of time deposits.

Compared with the rising enthusiasm of the domestic people for space exploration, the international public opinion environment is completely opposite.

Most of the Western countries, led by the United States, expressed worry and anxiety on this issue. This kind of emotion is like a person who has not bought a ticket and looks enviously at the person sitting in the first class.

But, they couldn't say anything.

After all, Huaguo is actually playing a word game here.

This statement on the establishment of the "Guanghan City Special Administrative Region" is not aimed at the land on the moon, but only at those spacecraft and fixed facilities deployed on the moon.

And what counts as a facility?

Planting units can be counted, so can lunar mass accelerators, even a floor tile or even a flag can be counted. Anyway, the final interpretation of everything belongs to the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee.

Want to protest?

no problem.

Find a way to go up first and then talk!

Facing this kind of "rogue" trick, other people really have no good way to do it.

Director Carson, who landed at the Shanghai International Airport, clearly felt that his trip would be a bit embarrassing when he visited Huaguo at this time.

However, it is not appropriate to temporarily cancel the itinerary.

One is that there is not so much time for him to wait, and the other is that releasing people's pigeons casually will overdraw their enthusiasm. In order to develop friendly cooperation in the future, he must seize this opportunity...

Thinking of this, Chief Carson felt a sense of aggrieved inexplicably.

It wasn't like this ten years ago.

No, even five years ago, it wouldn't have been like this five years ago...

Looking at the expression on his boss's face, there seemed to be something wrong, the assistant standing next to him asked in a low voice.

"gentlemen?"

"It's nothing." With the heavy expression on his face, Director Carson coughed lightly, and looked at the assistant standing beside him, "Let's go, let's meet those Chinese people."

At the same time, a cross was drawn in his heart.

Hopefully this time a happy agreement can be reached.

At least, hopefully not too embarrassing or disappointing...