Three days later, the number of applicants exceeded 10 million.
Immigration without thresholds was first welcomed by poor people in Africa and the Middle East.
Those who have more or less access to the Internet and are eager for a better life in the outside world seem particularly enthusiastic when signing up.
However, Jiang Chen obviously disappointed the expectations of these people.
For volunteers from backward areas, Starring Trade performed extremely cautiously, with few applicants from Africa being selected, and few people from the Middle East being qualified for interviews.
It’s not because of racial discrimination, it’s entirely due to considerations such as public security.
Living habits, religious customs, and even food culture may pose hidden dangers to colonization. In order to reduce this risk, no applicant who takes a negative opinion on secularization will be eligible for interviews.
After the interview results came out, Liu Qingpeng couldn't even believe that he had only a high school education and was successfully selected?!
Happiness came too suddenly. He excitedly pulled several workers in the factory out for a drink that day. The next day he resigned from the person in charge of the factory, and then took his identity information to the Embassy of the New Country and obtained a work visa to Koro Island.
Dragging his suitcase, he got off the plane at the airport on Koro Island, and soon he saw the minibus responsible for picking up and dropping off volunteers.
Most of the people on the minibus are yellow, and even his fellow villagers are there.
There were also many people from Europe, the United States, and Russia sitting in the car, but because of the language barriers, he just looked at these foreigners curiously for a few glances and did not communicate too much with them.
The minibus drove onto a ferry, and then the ferry drove to Anga Island, and then the minibus took them to the volunteer community next to the training center.
From now on, they will live here, receiving 4 hours of in-stadium training every day and 4 hours of VR training.
After six months, they will conduct specialized training based on their performance in training.
A year later, their identities will be transferred from temporary workers. Although they are still volunteers, they can already be regarded as quasi-astronauts.
The construction of the space elevator was launched simultaneously with the moon colonization plan. A year later, the star ring trade turned back to select 200 people from these volunteers. As the first group of colonists to go to the moon, they took the first step in this shocking interstellar colonization!
……
After the completion of the space elevator, a large number of astronauts are needed in the space station.
Construction began long before the space elevator program was launched.
On the one hand, it is to provide space station staff to Star Ring Trade, and on the other hand, it is to provide basic aerospace training for the citizens of the new country, at least to adapt to the gravity-free environment!
At present, 30,000 volunteers have arrived in Xinguo for training. Although they have cooperated with Future Ren Tourism, the entire aerospace training center is still in a loss.According to the Department of Finance, the deficit of the aerospace training center this month is about $8 million to $10 million.
Have you lost 100 million in a year?
When Jiang Shuying heard Jiang Chen's report, Jiang Chen's expression did not change much.
The aerospace project is a bottomless pit. He has already prepared to lose money in the early stage. He has lost more than 100 billion yuan. Will he still care about this mere 100 million yuan?
The budget of the training center remains unchanged, but Wei Yun thinks more about how to see if this aerospace training center can make more use of tourism.If you don’t ask for your own profits and losses, just don’t lose too much, and I have no other requirements.
I'll tell him.Jiang Shuying nodded.
In addition, how are the negotiations with Australia's SunRice Company progressing?Putting the astronaut training aside, Jiang Chen asked another question he was concerned about, that is, the future food supply of the space elevator space station and the moon colonial base.
SunRice rejected our proposal to acquire a farm in northern Australia, even though we offered an 11% premium.According to the person in charge of negotiations with us on SunRice, the decision was made by the parent company Cargill in the United States.
As we all know, 80% of the world's grain market is controlled by the four major ABCD companies.
These four companies are ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus, France.
It can be said that global food prices are basically determined by these four companies.
It is not difficult for those who are interested to find that three of the companies belong to the United States. It can be said that the global food market is basically under the control of the United States.
Although the United States has never announced that the food market must be settled in US dollars, the rice in the bowl of people around the world has never left the control of the United States.
In 2004, the soybean crisis, the Chinese exploitation enterprises fell collectively, and the Americans gave a painful trade class to the Chinese who had just joined the WTO less than three years ago.
Until more than ten years later, China's soybean cultivation industry has not recovered from the crisis that year.
You should know that before 2004, China was one of the major soybean producers.
Now is no longer the barbaric Victorian era. The battlefield between countries is no longer reckless. By using the invisible leverage of the market, it can even do things that nuclear weapons cannot do.
Whether it is an orbital space station or a lunar base, the only industry that is difficult to be self-sufficient is food production.Even if it is done by hydroponics and air cultivation, it is difficult to control its high production costs.
With space elevators, the cost of transporting food to outer space will be greatly reduced, but it is still difficult to escape the control of the four ABCD companies from the source.
At present, the food of the New Country is basically dependent on imports from Australia. If Jiang Chen takes action against the US dollar at that time, the United States, which has broken up, will undoubtedly attack the New Country in the grain market.
The production of grains to dairy products is completely dependent on imports, and is unprepared for food markets.
There is only one way to minimize price fluctuations in the international market, that is, to produce by yourself and turn from an importer to an exporter!
Even if the rice does not grow from the land of Koro Island, it must grow from overseas farms controlled by the new country's domestic enterprises.
To achieve self-sufficiency in grain production is crucial to the future development of Star Ring Trade!
So Jiang Chen ordered Jiang Shuying to propose an asset acquisition plan for SunRice, which monopolizes the export of Australian grains, hoping to acquire 400,000 acres of farms in northern Australia from it.
Unfortunately, Cargill, which holds SunRice, is not willing to give up its farm, although the 400,000 acres of farms account for only a small part of SunRice's farms.
What about contact with Cargill, the United States?
They were not willing to talk at all.Jiang Shuying shook her head and said.
My suggestion is to register a subsidiary in Australia and purchase the farm from Australian farmers through its subsidiary... Although the cost and efficiency of doing so are not proportional, it is definitely much less difficult than pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.
As one of the granaries in Asia, the Australian agricultural product market is quite mature, and no farmers are willing to sell their farms. After all, many Australian farmers have made a living from this for generations, and they cannot find other work to do without the farm.
Unless Future Ren Group offers a high premium, they will not nod at all.
Jiang Chen also had a hard time.
Everything in Xinguo is good, but the area is a little smaller.
When he chose the base area, he didn't think so far. He thought that anyway, he could buy anything he had money and lacked. However, when the plate was big, he realized that things were far from as simple as he thought.
It’s so annoying. It would be great if I could replace the territorial sea of thousands of square kilometers with land...wait!
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.
Isn’t it enough to just build the farm on the sea?
Immigration without thresholds was first welcomed by poor people in Africa and the Middle East.
Those who have more or less access to the Internet and are eager for a better life in the outside world seem particularly enthusiastic when signing up.
However, Jiang Chen obviously disappointed the expectations of these people.
For volunteers from backward areas, Starring Trade performed extremely cautiously, with few applicants from Africa being selected, and few people from the Middle East being qualified for interviews.
It’s not because of racial discrimination, it’s entirely due to considerations such as public security.
Living habits, religious customs, and even food culture may pose hidden dangers to colonization. In order to reduce this risk, no applicant who takes a negative opinion on secularization will be eligible for interviews.
After the interview results came out, Liu Qingpeng couldn't even believe that he had only a high school education and was successfully selected?!
Happiness came too suddenly. He excitedly pulled several workers in the factory out for a drink that day. The next day he resigned from the person in charge of the factory, and then took his identity information to the Embassy of the New Country and obtained a work visa to Koro Island.
Dragging his suitcase, he got off the plane at the airport on Koro Island, and soon he saw the minibus responsible for picking up and dropping off volunteers.
Most of the people on the minibus are yellow, and even his fellow villagers are there.
There were also many people from Europe, the United States, and Russia sitting in the car, but because of the language barriers, he just looked at these foreigners curiously for a few glances and did not communicate too much with them.
The minibus drove onto a ferry, and then the ferry drove to Anga Island, and then the minibus took them to the volunteer community next to the training center.
From now on, they will live here, receiving 4 hours of in-stadium training every day and 4 hours of VR training.
After six months, they will conduct specialized training based on their performance in training.
A year later, their identities will be transferred from temporary workers. Although they are still volunteers, they can already be regarded as quasi-astronauts.
The construction of the space elevator was launched simultaneously with the moon colonization plan. A year later, the star ring trade turned back to select 200 people from these volunteers. As the first group of colonists to go to the moon, they took the first step in this shocking interstellar colonization!
……
After the completion of the space elevator, a large number of astronauts are needed in the space station.
Construction began long before the space elevator program was launched.
On the one hand, it is to provide space station staff to Star Ring Trade, and on the other hand, it is to provide basic aerospace training for the citizens of the new country, at least to adapt to the gravity-free environment!
At present, 30,000 volunteers have arrived in Xinguo for training. Although they have cooperated with Future Ren Tourism, the entire aerospace training center is still in a loss.According to the Department of Finance, the deficit of the aerospace training center this month is about $8 million to $10 million.
Have you lost 100 million in a year?
When Jiang Shuying heard Jiang Chen's report, Jiang Chen's expression did not change much.
The aerospace project is a bottomless pit. He has already prepared to lose money in the early stage. He has lost more than 100 billion yuan. Will he still care about this mere 100 million yuan?
The budget of the training center remains unchanged, but Wei Yun thinks more about how to see if this aerospace training center can make more use of tourism.If you don’t ask for your own profits and losses, just don’t lose too much, and I have no other requirements.
I'll tell him.Jiang Shuying nodded.
In addition, how are the negotiations with Australia's SunRice Company progressing?Putting the astronaut training aside, Jiang Chen asked another question he was concerned about, that is, the future food supply of the space elevator space station and the moon colonial base.
SunRice rejected our proposal to acquire a farm in northern Australia, even though we offered an 11% premium.According to the person in charge of negotiations with us on SunRice, the decision was made by the parent company Cargill in the United States.
As we all know, 80% of the world's grain market is controlled by the four major ABCD companies.
These four companies are ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus, France.
It can be said that global food prices are basically determined by these four companies.
It is not difficult for those who are interested to find that three of the companies belong to the United States. It can be said that the global food market is basically under the control of the United States.
Although the United States has never announced that the food market must be settled in US dollars, the rice in the bowl of people around the world has never left the control of the United States.
In 2004, the soybean crisis, the Chinese exploitation enterprises fell collectively, and the Americans gave a painful trade class to the Chinese who had just joined the WTO less than three years ago.
Until more than ten years later, China's soybean cultivation industry has not recovered from the crisis that year.
You should know that before 2004, China was one of the major soybean producers.
Now is no longer the barbaric Victorian era. The battlefield between countries is no longer reckless. By using the invisible leverage of the market, it can even do things that nuclear weapons cannot do.
Whether it is an orbital space station or a lunar base, the only industry that is difficult to be self-sufficient is food production.Even if it is done by hydroponics and air cultivation, it is difficult to control its high production costs.
With space elevators, the cost of transporting food to outer space will be greatly reduced, but it is still difficult to escape the control of the four ABCD companies from the source.
At present, the food of the New Country is basically dependent on imports from Australia. If Jiang Chen takes action against the US dollar at that time, the United States, which has broken up, will undoubtedly attack the New Country in the grain market.
The production of grains to dairy products is completely dependent on imports, and is unprepared for food markets.
There is only one way to minimize price fluctuations in the international market, that is, to produce by yourself and turn from an importer to an exporter!
Even if the rice does not grow from the land of Koro Island, it must grow from overseas farms controlled by the new country's domestic enterprises.
To achieve self-sufficiency in grain production is crucial to the future development of Star Ring Trade!
So Jiang Chen ordered Jiang Shuying to propose an asset acquisition plan for SunRice, which monopolizes the export of Australian grains, hoping to acquire 400,000 acres of farms in northern Australia from it.
Unfortunately, Cargill, which holds SunRice, is not willing to give up its farm, although the 400,000 acres of farms account for only a small part of SunRice's farms.
What about contact with Cargill, the United States?
They were not willing to talk at all.Jiang Shuying shook her head and said.
My suggestion is to register a subsidiary in Australia and purchase the farm from Australian farmers through its subsidiary... Although the cost and efficiency of doing so are not proportional, it is definitely much less difficult than pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.
As one of the granaries in Asia, the Australian agricultural product market is quite mature, and no farmers are willing to sell their farms. After all, many Australian farmers have made a living from this for generations, and they cannot find other work to do without the farm.
Unless Future Ren Group offers a high premium, they will not nod at all.
Jiang Chen also had a hard time.
Everything in Xinguo is good, but the area is a little smaller.
When he chose the base area, he didn't think so far. He thought that anyway, he could buy anything he had money and lacked. However, when the plate was big, he realized that things were far from as simple as he thought.
It’s so annoying. It would be great if I could replace the territorial sea of thousands of square kilometers with land...wait!
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.
Isn’t it enough to just build the farm on the sea?
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