Chapter 705 The loneliness of the eighteenth grade, the motherland knows me
There is a small exhibition hall on the Forgotten Reef, which displays items that have appeared on the reef over the decades and photos that record its development.
There are guns and tools used by the officers and soldiers of the reef guards in the past generations, material samples for the construction of the stilt houses of the past generations, every bit of life of the officers and soldiers of the reef guards of the past generations recorded by photographers, and countless thrilling reef guard operations. A reef
Pan is the epitome of the development of the motherland and the building of the army.
As usual, it was a familiar formula: a huge forklift served as a tractor. The diesel engine roared and emitted black smoke, dragging the dark gray J-8FR away until it was dragged to the arched parking shed far away from the building. Three dark gray J-8FRs were
-8FR is all in place.
Zhong Guobang had been waiting for a long time. Most of them smiled and greeted him, saluting first and then shaking hands.
Li Zhan, who came down the boarding stairs, quickly took off his starched white labor protection gloves in return. He quickly walked a few steps and put down his flight bag. He held Zhong Guobang's hands tightly and shook them vigorously. "Commander Zhong, we meet again!"
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"Hahaha, Captain Li is here safe and sound!" Zhong Guobang, who was unshaven and dark-skinned, said with a smile.
"I'm here to cause you trouble again." Li Zhan sincerely admired this veteran who had been guarding the reef for more than ten years. Only those who have been on the reef can understand what kind of life it was like.
If there are twelve levels of loneliness, then their loneliness is eighteen.
Any officers and soldiers guarding the reef do not need to make much contribution. As long as they can stay on the reef for one year, they can get a third-class meritorious service.
Zhu Wei and Li Zixin walked over and took off their flying helmets as they walked. Waves of heat waves were carried by the sea breeze. The hot and humid feeling made everyone who came here for the first time feel uncomfortable. The two quickly took off their white labor protection gloves.
, touched the sweat on his forehead, exhaled a heavy breath of hot air, and then felt a little cooler.
Influenced by Li Zhan, many pilots in the 101st Brigade like to wear white labor protection gloves. Instead, the new flying gloves issued are only used when they need to pay attention to the scene.
Li Zhan introduced, "Commander Zhong, this is Zhu Wei, deputy chief of staff of the 101st Brigade, this is Captain Li Zixin. This is Commander Zhong Guobang of the reef guarding force."
Zhu Wei and Li Zixin quickly put down their heavy flight bags and saluted and said hello.
The last time Li Zhan and Chen Fei piloted No. 1616 J-16 to make an alternate landing at Forgotten Reef, Zhong Guobang was a lieutenant colonel. Two years later, Zhong Guobang is still Zhong Guobang. He looks more like a middle-aged migrant worker, but his level has also improved.
Yes, the colonel is doing well.
This is a reasonable storyline, and it shouldn’t chill the hearts of those who have dedicated themselves silently, right?
Li Zhan said, "Captain Zhong, please find a cool place to talk. I have brought you good things. I guarantee your satisfaction!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm too excited to see my old friend. I'm sorry." Zhong Guobang quickly asked everyone to get in the car, which was a half-worn Jiangling pickup truck.
Li Zhan took a look. There are many such vehicles on the islands and reefs. They can pull people and goods. They are perfect for the islands and reefs which are still large construction sites. And they don't have any license plates. They are probably used as construction machinery.
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Zhong Guobang insisted that Li Zhan sit in the passenger seat, but of course Li Zhan refused. After a few shirks, Zhong Guobang stopped being pretentious. He asked everyone to get on the bus and went to the agency building. The agency building has also changed a lot. The last time he came here, he was a little boy.
The second floor is now a large three-story row, fully camouflaged.
The surrounding greening has also been improved. It is full of greenery under the sun and looks pretty good with the sea breeze. In fact, after staying for a long time, I would like to swim back to the mainland.
After getting off the car, Zhong Guobang saw Li Zhan and others looking at the greening in front and behind the agency building, and said with a smile, "The greening here costs a lot of money, and a lot of it is shipped from the motherland. The soldiers learned
I have cultivated part of it. Look at the vegetable garden in the distance, it has been cultivated for more than 20 years."
This means that the vegetable garden between the expansion of the island and the reef exists.
Li Zhan and Zhong Guobang walked in front. Zhu Wei introduced in a low voice to Li Zixin, who was least aware of the situation, "It used to be very difficult for the troops guarding the reef to eat vegetables because they had to be transported by ship from the mainland of the motherland. There are storms here."
And there are so many, half of the year is the typhoon season, and when the weather is bad, you can’t eat vegetables for several months, and you even have to rely on canned food to survive.”
Li Zixin said, "I often read reports about the officers and soldiers guarding the reefs in the military newspapers. I knew that their lives were very difficult, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult."
"In the past, fresh water had to be transported from the mainland of the motherland, but now it is much better. The desalination system and the four-season vegetable greenhouses can at least ensure that the officers and soldiers on the islands and reefs can live a normal life." Zhu Wei said.
There was a dedicated single bedroom upstairs in the office. Zhong Guobang settled everyone in and then made tea in the reception room for everyone to drink.
Turning on the air conditioner and fan, Zhong Guobang sat down and said with a smile, "The conditions on the reef are much better now. When we came here, we saw that the power station in the southeast corner has three power generation methods: wind, solar, and tide. In case of emergency,
Diesel can also be used to generate electricity. There is a large oil storage tank underground in the power station, which can maintain normal electricity consumption on the reef for a month."
"This power station alone has cost a lot of money. It is currently undergoing the second phase of construction, and it is expected that hundreds of millions more will be invested." Zhong Guobang said this with great enthusiasm, even though it was a local construction project.
Li Zhan said with a smile, "There are three phases of long-term planning, right? Ultimately, it will be able to meet the electricity consumption of a town with a population of 100,000."
"Yes, this is the scale that infrastructure construction on the reef will reach in the next ten years. The second phase of land reclamation has also begun, and the area will be further expanded." Zhong Guobang said, changing the subject, "But the airport is a large consumer of electricity.
It is said that the power supply system is to be built to meet the needs of a town with a population of 100,000, but in fact it can accommodate 50,000 people at most, and I am afraid this number is even less."
Zhu Wei smiled and said, "It's already very good. The scale of Missing Island is much larger than that of Forgettable Reef, and the power station there seems to only have a population of 50,000."
"Missing Island is also undergoing a major expansion, and their long-term plans are even more powerful." Zhong Guobang smiled and smoked, lit up his cigarette and took two puffs and said, "I went to a meeting there a few days ago, good guy, they are going to do ten
A 10,000-ton deep-water dock and a series of shore support facilities have planned a large-scale island tourist area. It is said that it will have the capacity to receive 5,000 tourists at the same time, and the annual number of tourists will reach one million."
The three of them were startled. Li Zhan said in surprise, "The annual tourist reception volume is one million people? This is already the reception scale of the national five-A scenic spot. The Huaguo Mountain scenic spot only receives 10,000 tourists in a single day."
Duo. Missing Island is about to take off!"
"But no!" Zhong Guobang laughed and said, "You are right, they went there based on the national five-A scenic spots. Some of them are natural scenery of the islands, and they include several small reefs around them. It is estimated that it will take ten
It took five years to reach this scale.”
Li Zixin was immediately shocked. Anyone who has no travel experience knows what it means to receive one million tourists per year. If you don't have a concept yet, then the scale of receiving five thousand tourists at the same time is very intuitive.
"Then Missing Island needs to build a 4F-level airport? Otherwise, it will not be able to meet the demand for such a large passenger flow." Li Zixin said subconsciously, "In addition, if such a large-scale tropical island tourist area is built, will there be so many tourists?
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Zhu Wei said, "This is not a problem. Now the local area is very enthusiastic about tropical island tourism in the South China Sea. Look, once tourism is opened, there will be endless tourists and there will never be no tourists."
"Yes, the local tourism department has done a lot of surveys. As Lao Zhu said, there will be no tourists without insufficient reception capacity. For the tourism industry, the scenery of the South China Sea may be a rare all-natural landscape in the world.
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Zhong Guobang said, "Captain Li is right. The long-term plan of the Sinian Island Airport is to build a 4F-level dual-runway airport with an annual throughput of two million passengers and five million passengers within 20 years after completion."
Annual throughput of passengers.”
"Good guy!" Li Zhan drooled.
Not to mention what will happen after 20 years of operation, the fact that it will have a throughput of two million passengers per year is scary enough. The annual throughput of Zhangjiajie Airport is only 17.8 million passengers.
It’s Zhangjiajie!
As for the dual-runway 4F-level airport, the actual size of the airport will not bring much surprise to Air Force pilots like Li Zhan. All airports in our country must first be approved by the Air Force when they are being constructed. What is approved? Naturally, first
Consider whether it meets the requirements for national defense system construction, and then other civil and commercial uses. Forgetting Reef is such a small place, with an area of only a dozen square kilometers, but it has a 3,200-meter-long runway crammed into it. Naturally,
This is because the requirements for the construction of the national defense system have been taken into consideration.
In these areas with special circumstances, the airport level cannot fully reflect the situation of the tourism industry. The airports in many tourist cities are developed passively and are slowly expanded and upgraded with the prosperity of the tourism industry. It is just the opposite here. The Forgotten Reef Airport is such a
An airport capable of taking off and landing four-engine large passenger aircraft may not have many takeoffs and landings throughout the year, but this cannot affect the construction level of the airport.
So when Li Zhan and others heard that Missian Island was going to be built into a tourist area that would receive one million tourists a year, and that it would reach an annual throughput of five million tourists twenty years after the airport was completed and put into operation, they were quite shocked.
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Calculated based on annual throughput, Siannian Island Airport will be able to be included in the list of the top 50 airports in the country in the future!
In the future, an average of millions of tourists will flock to the South China Sea Islands every year. The scene is simply...
This does not include tourists who choose to sail.
Li Zhan smiled and shook his head and said, "The 100,000-ton deep-water terminal is going to be built on Missing Island. Isn't it just for the purpose of receiving international cruise ships?"
International luxury cruise ships are generally more than 100,000 tons, and of course more cruise ships are tens of thousands of tons. Calculated according to the standard ratio of one to twenty, a 50,000-ton cruise ship can accommodate up to 2,500 tourists. That is
It is said that Missing Island will receive international cruise ships, and one cruise ship can fill the tourist area they planned.
Zhong Guobang smiled and nodded, "In addition to cruise ships, we have also planned to meet the berthing and supply functions of some large ships. In the future, we will have the ability to receive and supply three 100,000-ton cargo ships at the same time."
Li Zhan and the other three were dumbfounded. What is this, a miraculous work of nature or a crazy infrastructure maniac? Or is it the crystallization of the wisdom of the great working people?
Look around, how many ports in the world can accommodate one 100,000-ton cruise ship and supply three 100,000-ton cargo ships at the same time?
Thinking of the big place like Missing Island, and looking at the Forgetting Reef, which can be seen from beginning to end at a glance, Li Zhan had only one idea - those cutter suction dredgers must not be enough.
"After all, these are long-term plans." Zhong Guobang refilled the tea for the three of them and said, "I think it will lose the flavor of natural scenery when all the facilities are built. If you have time,
You can bring your family here for a visit in two years. The best months for weather are from October to January."
Li Zixin was tempted. On the way from the airport just now, he felt that his eyesight was not enough. He visited a lot of coastal areas in the motherland and several coastal tourist cities. He also saw all kinds of beaches and blue seas and blue skies. However,
Compared with the one here at Forgettable Reef, it is not on the same level at all.
It’s really pure white clouds, it’s really a blue sky, it’s really crystal clear blue water, this is an absolute virgin land, and it’s a precious treasure left by our ancestors to us, our descendants.
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"Is it open?" Li Zixin asked, "My wife is clamoring to make up for her wedding and honeymoon. I think Nanhai is really good. It is definitely much better than Bali in the Maldives."
Zhong Guobang said, "It will be opened one after another next year. If it is not opened, I will contact you, mainly because some of the reception measures here will not be put into use next year. I have never been to Bali, Maldives, but judging from various information, there
It’s just general and not as authentic as the one we have here.”
"I'm so tempted." Li Zhan said with a smile.
He grew up by the sea and is very familiar with the ocean. When he grew up, he had little interest in ocean scenery. However, when he came here, he would be attracted by the almost perfect tropical island scenery.
"Hahaha!" Zhong Guobang laughed and came up with an idea, "Actually, it doesn't have to be that troublesome at all. Commander Li went back to ask for instructions from the unit to organize a military camp experience activity for family members of the army, invite all the family members over, and the army organized a plane to pull the people away.
If you are here to stay for ten days and a half, why wait until it is open for tourism?"
Zhu Wei slapped his thigh and said, "What a great idea. Let's go to Missing Island, Forgettable Reef, and several other islands and reefs, and let the family members take a look around their own territory and territorial waters."
The army often organizes family members to participate in military camp experience activities, and there will definitely be related activities during the New Year and holidays. Zhong Guobang's idea is really great.
Li Zhan drew inferences and said with a smile, "After this training, I made a suggestion to Haisi to invite the families of the officers and soldiers guarding the reefs. Even visiting relatives in the team is also a military camp experience."
Hearing this, Zhong Guobang's expression became serious. He slowly stood up and looked at Li Zhan and said, "Captain Li, if the trip can be made, I will thank you on behalf of all the officers and soldiers guarding the reef!"
He gave Li Zhan a military salute.
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