Chapter 212 Civil Affairs
At the beginning of the New Year, I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and the luxurious holiday lasts for a "day" has finally arrived!
Of course, "one day" is for senior officials like Zhang Yuan, and the rest of ordinary civilians still have 5-day holidays.
"I haven't had a good rest for the whole year."
Looking back on the huge changes in the entire civilization throughout the year, Zhang Yuan sighed and sighed.
When I got home, I slept beautifully and slept lazily until nine o'clock in the morning. I was so happy. Sleeping a night can make people feel happy, which is simply something that I had never imagined before.
Then he accompanied his wife to watch a science fiction movie "Under the Deep Space", which is a science fiction blockbuster filmed by the Earth civilization. Various cool interstellar war scenes made him exclaimed.
Finally, I walked around the newly built ecological park and sat on the lawn for a simple and simple dinner.
In the blink of an eye, and as soon as I close my eyes, time slips away in a hurry.
The day's holiday passed inexplicably...
It can be expected that in the next year, there will be basically no such holiday, unless it is next year's Spring Festival, you may have another day off.
Even though he had a little regret, Zhang Yuan did not complain too much. On the second day of the New Year, he started his work in the new year.
At present, there are a lot of affairs of all sizes, including industry, agriculture, and service industries, all of which require smarter robots. Oh, and the newly issued population policy...
This policy will be officially reported by the media today, and it can be expected that the public will experience a huge uproar.
However, judging from the rumors, the current public opinion is still controllable. Fortunately, most of the people in the spacecraft are young and are still in a state of infertility. This policy has a smaller impact on them. Young people are more open-minded and more likely to accept new things. Now, even if they complain a few times, they can gradually accept them after waiting for a long time.
When Zhang Yuan returned to his office, he found that one report after another had already filled the entire email address, waiting for his review.
All these reports were written by people, indicating that many people, like him, did not have much holidays. Even these hard-working surface workers did not have much holidays, let alone the senior management.
He quickly joined the work.
"...As of 12 noon today, the railway between the B3 iron ore resource point and the central industrial center of the surface was officially completed. The smart train has passed the unmanned driving test, and the carrying capacity of each trip is about 6,000 tons. It can transport 80,000 tons of ore back and forth every day."
"It is expected that at the b3 resource point, two excavators will be invested in the initial stage, with a total daily iron ore collection capacity of 6,300 tons."
Zhang Yuan frowned, that is to say, is the train's carrying capacity much greater than the collection capacity?
However, there is no way. This kind of excavation equipment is relatively complex and large in size. Some key components are brought from the earth. New civilizations cannot produce them. Some parts have to be printed out by heavy metal 3D printing equipment. At the current speed, one can only be assembled in a month.
More high-end industrial machines are preparing to produce various medical equipment. On the one hand, they are drugs and equipment that can delay aging and increase life expectancy. On the other hand, they are equipment about artificial uterus technology and various nutritional equipment and medical equipment to prepare for future baby booms.
"Fortunately, the current mineral collection volume has long been sufficient for the current use. The production capacity of surface steel smelters has not even been able to consume so much iron ore."
There are always so many bottlenecks in the development of a civilization. The mining, transportation, and smelting of minerals alone will cause so many imbalances. The task of Zhang Yuan’s department is to open up the Ren and Du meridians of the entire civilization and prevent a certain industry from overcapacity.
Under this global planning, even if there are still some big and small problems, overall, the entire civilization is still in a vigorous development momentum...
Next, Zhang Yuan's pupils are slightly dilated, and the new issue of "Time Weekly" should be updated!
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"Latest news! Geologists have discovered a large uranium mine 180 kilometers away. According to the current electricity consumption, its reserves can be used for a thousand years!"
"A variety of nuclear fission units are under emergency research. According to insiders, because there is a small amount of magnetic field on the surface of this planet, almost all the helium-3 brought by the solar wind are squeezed out by the magnetic field. Because the cost of collecting nuclear fusion fuel is too high, using nuclear fusion energy is not as economical as fission energy!"
"Latest news! The ecological park in Area A has been built, and the ticket price is only 1 yuan. According to insiders, after the Spring Festival holiday, it will be open to the public for free..."
"…The science fiction blockbuster "Under the Deep Space" from Earth civilization was unanimously praised by the audience!"
“…The program on batch hatching of babies with artificial uterus technology was voted by the Science Council!”
This is the Times Weekly published by the new government. Each copy is priced at 5 yuan, one issue per week, and it mainly publishes big news and events that happened this week. Compared with the rich content, this price is not expensive. The monthly expenditure is only two yuan, which is basically affordable for everyone.
The purpose of creating such newspapers is to improve information transparency and people's sense of social responsibility.
As a citizen of the new civilization, letting them experience the feeling of slow progress of civilization will create a unique sense of accomplishment and destination. It is precisely because of everyone's hard work that the rollers of history will slowly push.
This kind of progress cannot be separated from the efforts of everyone.
In this issue of the newspaper, the most important content belongs to the "Act for the use of artificial uterine technology to batch incubate babies", which was actually passed!
It's simply shocking!
As expected, the passage of this bill allowed all kinds of bull-headed and horse-faced men to take advantage of this opportunity, including comments from some experts and professors, and cheers from various feminists.
Some feminist people don’t know what they think, and even think that this bill achieves true equality between men and women. Men do not give birth to children, and women do not give birth to children. Let neutral machines give birth to children. It is simply a dreamy equality!
There is a squad on the Internet. Rational debates are OK, but all kinds of offensive remarks are directly deleted and banned, and there is no need for too many people to use. The intelligent algorithm will monitor the network environment and prevent some people with ulterior motives from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.
Fortunately, this bill has been blowing for more than a day or two. As early as the hibernation period, everyone had heard of it. It seemed that it was not so difficult to accept it...
During the Chinese New Year, at least there were no protests such as marches and demonstrations.
Anyway, for a bachelor like Wang Junpeng, it seems... okay.
"Hey, the whole society needs population, and we are unwilling to have children, so we can only do this." Wang Junpeng looked at the newspaper, which had already talked about the various reasons for promulgating this decision, which was quite pertinent.
Although I still feel a little uncomfortable, these reasons are objective facts, and I don’t know how to refute them.
"The government raises children, what do we do? And we don't prohibit us from having children... I don't know what is difficult to accept?" Xu Jie was playing the game. He said heartlessly, "It's a very simple truth. If this bill is not promulgated, there will be only such a small population in decades, and the industrial development will be slow. After the depreciation of machines brought on the earth, all mankind will die! In this case, do those opposition people want to commit suicide? They can't figure it out..."
Wang Junpeng said: "Of course it has something to do with us. Where does the money come from? It is the tax we pay! I took the tax we paid to raise other people's children!"
Chapter completed!