On April 2nd, Li Guangyu, Cao Weiqing, and Zhang Ziyu came to Bentley Island again.
Bentley Island All the fighter planes participating in the Allied Forces were withdrawn from Bentley Island in early March. This time Li Guangyu and others came to visit these warriors and were concerned about whether their rewards had been paid in place.
It has been more than two years since Bentley Island was opened to the public. Now it no longer looks like one street, several government office buildings, or a community.
Bentley Island is now like a prosperous town, with a permanent population of more than 21,500 people, which does not include more than 6,000 armed personnel.
Here there is not only the Star City Community, but also the coastal villa area established by Zhaoji Group and the tourist resort established by Hongji Group.
There are many hotels here, including Jiuhua Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, New World Hotel, Far Eastern Hotel, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Shangri-La Hotel, etc., providing comfortable accommodation for tourists coming to Bentley Island.
Bentley Island Airport is the base airport of Hong Kong Airlines. It currently has seven fixed routes to Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul.
And Xiangjiang Airlines has teamed up with ANA, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Korean and other airlines to provide charter flights to Bentley Island for travel groups.
There are now more things to visit on Bentley Island, not only the beach, but also the large-scale comic-themed amusement park established by Xiangyu Cultural Group here.
At the same time, Bentley Island is also turning this place into a honeymoon destination, attracting newly married couples to come here for their honeymoon. Some supporting facilities in this regard are being improved.
Coupled with the promotion of Jiayi Group in the past two years, Bentley Island has become more and more famous in Asia, especially in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Now, more than 12,000 people come to visit every month.
Visitors.
Now Bentley Island's biggest income is tourism income, and it has also become an important film and television shooting spot for Hong Kong Channel 3 and Lisboa TV. Especially some modern urban dramas will choose to shoot here.
Of course, there are still many shortcomings in Bentley Island. The first fresh water problem is mainly solved by fresh water plants. Now Bentley Island is building a fifth fresh water plant to support the continued expansion of Bentley Island.
The second, third, and fourth fresh water plants are located on Phoenix Island, Hengyu Island, and Xingyu Island, serving the garrison troops on several islands.
The design treatment capacity of the fifth fresh water plant is quite large. Once this fresh water plant is completed, the two fresh water plants on Bentley Island will be able to supply 300,000 people a day.
In the future, Bentley Island will expand the capacity of its first fresh water plant, which will be able to supply water to 500,000 people a day.
These include the fresh water needed by the power plant, which is a big water user. The reason why Bentley Island is building a fifth fresh water plant so quickly is because the power plant draws too much water.
Now Bentley Island has begun land reclamation in the northeast. The first phase of the plan is to reclaim 10 square kilometers of land. There will be a second and third phase of the plan later. The ultimate goal is to connect Bentley Island with the relatively close Suzaku Island.
The area of Suzaku Road is not large, and the entire island is less than two square kilometers. You must know that Bentley Island has an area of about 13 square kilometers.
In addition, the area of Phoenix Island is 3.6 square kilometers, Hengyu Island is 2.7 square kilometers, Tianyu Island is 1.8 square kilometers, and Xingyu Island is 2.1 square kilometers.
The land area of Bentley Island territory is currently only 25 square kilometers. Currently, Bentley Island is mainly developed, and the other five islands are distributed to the north and east of Bentley.
Not far to the north of Bentley Island Territory is the Maldives, which is known as the smallest country in Asia by land area, and its area is more than ten times that of Bentley Island Territory.
Bentley Island still has a long way to go to develop and grow. Now Bentley Island beach hotels, ports, airports, etc. are basically reclamation and land reclamation in the south, west, mainly north and east of Bentley Island.
The third phase of the Bentley Island project will create a total of 50 square kilometers of land. The entire planned investment will exceed 45 billion US dollars. The cost of reclamation is much higher than that of Xiangjiang. The main reason is that Bentley Island cannot fully provide the raw materials for land reclamation.
It also needs to be purchased from Sri Lanka and brought back by ship from China Shipping Group, resulting in a cost nearly half higher than that of Xiangjiang.
Once the third phase of the Bentley Island plan is completed, millions of people will live on Bentley Island without any problems. You must know that the land area of Lisboa is only about 30 square kilometers, and after the reclamation of Bentley Island is completed, the land area will reach 75 square kilometers.
This is an extremely large plan. It will take 12 years to complete the third phase. When Bentley Island is truly connected to the mainland of Suzaku Island, it will not be until February 2003.
Such a huge reclamation and land reclamation project on Bentley Island is also quite shocking to the world. The reclamation and land reclamation area in Xiangjiang is huge, but it took more than a century to accumulate. One plan of the Li Group is only 50 square kilometers, and only uses
It was completed in twelve years, which is unique in the world.
At the same time, it also made major forces lament the richness of the Li Group. This project alone will bankrupt the governments of many small countries.
At the same time, after the completion of this plan, the land area of the Bentley Island Territory will officially exceed the Bermuda Islands. As for the sea area, there are only six islands in the Bentley Island Territory, and the six islands are next to each other, not far apart, so they belong to Bentley.
The island's sea area is very small.
The Lee Consortium has absolute autonomy in the Bentley Island territory. The sovereignty of the Bentley Island territory is in England, and the right to use it is with the Lee Consortium (999 years from 1987). All this land is privately owned by the Lee Consortium, even if Bentley is naturalized.
These people on the island have no land rights.
As for those who want to call democracy and have an independent government, sorry, they do not exist in the Bentley Island territory. Naturalized Bentley Island must either live according to the rules set by the Lee Foundation or leave Bentley Island. The Lee Foundation will not do anything for others.
Make a wedding dress.
Now the easiest people to naturalize in the Bentley Island Territory are the employees of the Lee Consortium and its allies. Other personnel need a comprehensive assessment of their assets and abilities.
Originally, in addition to building Bentley Island into Bermuda, Li Guangyu also planned to learn from Lisboa. But after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. Firstly, there are no developed countries around here, and secondly, its reputation is not very good.
It’s better not to grab Lisboa’s business, after all, he also has many industries there.
In the future, the Bentley Island territory will become a financial offshore center, a tourist resort, and a financial center in the surrounding areas of the Indian Ocean.
As for what the Bentley Island territory will eventually develop into, Li Guangyu doesn't know now. After all, this territory did not exist in the previous life. Maybe there were not these islands in the previous life. It was only his butterfly effect instigation that led to such a large island.
Here, let him have a foothold.
As for the establishment of an exchange, Li Guangyu planned to establish it after 2001. At that time, the computer remote trading system was relatively mature, and that was also the year when the mainland joined the WTO.
By then, Bentley Island will mainly attract some mainland companies and companies from around the Indian Ocean to come here to list, such as companies from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Southeast Asian countries, East Africa, and some countries in West Asia.
Moreover, the Bentley Island Exchange will complement the Hong Kong Exchange. Some of the things that the Hong Kong Exchange does not allow, the Bentley Island Exchange can do, but first grab Bermuda’s share in Asia.