As night falls, a village in Central Africa is bustling with activity.
There was no bonfire party tonight, and no one was dancing. Instead, they were sitting on the floor, staring ahead with anticipation in their eyes.
At the front, a black man was busy. After pulling up the movie cloth and connecting the tablet and speakers, the movie started playing.
Film projectionist, a profession that is only forgotten in China, has become popular in Central Africa.
All the equipment was donated by Huawei. The equipment is very simple. A piece of white film cloth, a latest tablet computer, two speakers, an oversized power bank, and a solar charging panel.
The latest Huawei tablet has a projection function. And the clarity is not as bad as a professional projector.
At the same time, the memory of this tablet computer is up to 4T of super memory. This computer can have specially built video library software.
There are various works in the video library, and the picture quality of these works is very high. Originally, these movies had a large capacity, but after using Longteng Group's super compression technology, the memory occupied by the entire movie has been greatly reduced.
The Blu-ray high-definition film source that originally required 5G memory is only about 100 MB in size after using ultra-compression technology.
In this way, 4T of super memory can hold a lot more movies.
The entire tablet computer can directly play five to six thousand movies without any problems. For these projectionists, once downloaded, it can be played for at least half a year without any problem.
After the video has finished playing, you only need to update the video again.
There is a voluntary power shortage in China and Africa, so Huawei has prepared a super power bank. One of this power bank is for charging tablets and the other is for driving speakers.
The entire power bank is a lithium battery. When fully charged, it can easily drive the speaker for 72 hours without any problems.
It also comes with a solar panel. With this solar panel, it only takes six hours to fully charge the power bank.
Such a simple piece of equipment can support the entertainment of a whole village.
The expressions of many people gathered together and watching TV seriously were gratifying. The wonderful world in movies and TV series also opened the eyes of these people.
Cultural invasion is accompanied by the broadcast of these movies in Africa. Many Chinese stars are familiar to people here.
In particular, martial arts movie stars are popular with everyone. Chinese kung fu movies are very popular here.
Each and every small movie projectionist has shouldered the important mission of cultural dissemination.
This is not the most crazy thing. The most crazy thing is that Zhang Fan and the others also insert a lot of advertisements in these movies.
The advertisements were directly edited into it through editing. These advertisements are advertisements from companies related to Zhang Fan.
Now in Central Africa, there is no electricity, so there is no advertising. But Zhang Fan uses this method to promote his products.
Although these people may not be able to afford these products in the short term, when they become rich, these brands will be deeply rooted in their hearts.
This model is not only implemented in Central Africa, but also in many African countries. These projectionists are all local Africans and can take up the job after simple training.
Each projectionist receives a small salary each month, but these people are very happy. Even if they are not paid, they are still very happy. This is an honor for them.
These countries could not refuse Zhang Fan's request because Zhang Fan was too important to them.
Not to mention anything else, just free treatment for AIDS is a big killer for them.
What's more, Zhang Fan also has hospitals, food aid and other projects in his hands. Even in those very chaotic countries, those armed organizations will not attack these hospitals and other places.
Whoever attacks here will lose the support of the people. Even those crazy militants will not attack because they usually go to these places for medical treatment when they are injured or sick.
Therefore, Zhang Fan's investment went very smoothly in these countries. With these things at the forefront, these countries welcomed Zhang Fan's investment. Even if they were a little unhappy, they would not sabotage it.
The whole of Africa has become lively. Many African countries have benefited from the prosperity of the private sector.
But it is the private neighbors who benefit the most.
Mauritania is next to the private territory. Zhang Fan started to make arrangements here long before the private territory was established.
Mauritania's role is as a private steel base. Because in this country, there are 8.7 billion tons of iron ore reserves.
Although the quality of these iron ores is not as good as Australia's iron ores, it is still a large resource. What's more, with the improvement of technology, the cost of refining these iron ores has also been greatly reduced.
United Steel Group of Mauritania is a newly established steel group. However, it is a joint steel group. There are only two shareholders in this steel group.
One is the Mauritanian government and the other is the Zhang Group. This is a joint steel company, in which the Mauritanian government holds 51% of the shares and the Zhang Group holds 49% of the shares.
However, the Mauritanian government only enjoys the right to dividends and has no management rights.
The entire management rights are in the hands of the Zhang Group, which at the same time provides technology and funds. The funds, including the Mauritanian government's shareholding, are all money loaned from the Zhang Group.
This steel base is very large in scale. After all construction is completed, the annual steelmaking output is expected to reach 500 million tons.
This output ranks first in the world. You must know that the annual output of China's largest steel base is only 80 million tons.
At the same time, the equipment used in this steelmaking base is currently the most advanced equipment.
This is a comprehensive base. Iron ore enters this base and undergoes a series of refining. After leaving the base, it becomes a variety of industrial products.
Not only ordinary steel can be refined here, but also many special steels can be refined. Including the one used on the aircraft carrier just now, there is no problem at all.
Although the entire base is in Mauritania, the control is in the hands of Zhang Fan. Most of the employees here are from the Zhang Group.
Even so, this steelmaking base has provided hundreds of thousands of jobs to Mauritania. At the same time, this steel base has provided a huge economic boost to Mauritania.
After all construction is completed, the annual output will be 500 million tons and the annual output value will be hundreds of billions of yuan. For Mauritania, a poor African country, this will be a piece of pie in the sky.
You must know that Mauritania only has 4.5 million people. As long as this steel base is well constructed, Mauritania's economy will undergo earth-shaking changes.