Chapter 1518 The Future of Tiangong City

On the second day of the Space Colonization Summit, fireworks were set off over the Mars colony.

This is a special kind of firework. The core is not gunpowder, but the holographic projection technology that Futureman Group is proud of.

Now the Future Man Group has become proficient in the application of holographic technology. The holographic image generation unit is made into a string of spheres less than the size of glass beads. After being shot into the air with electromagnetic anti-aircraft cannons, it is projected according to a specific program to generate beautiful and gorgeous fireworks. .

The Mars colony has rehearsed countless times for this day.

No.

To be precise, it should be called Tiangong City now.

Just yesterday, the New Kingdom's Congress officially approved the application for a Mars colony, making it the fourth autonomous municipality in the New Kingdom after Guanghan City. As the former governor of the Mars colony, Hong Zewei was also honored to become the mayor of Tiangong City.

Like other municipalities, Tiangong City is loyal to the constitution of the new country, and the mayor is directly appointed by the Star Ring Trade. Citizen support rate and municipal performance indicators will be used as the assessment criteria for the mayor's performance, which also means that Tiangong City can no longer claim to be a "bottomless pit". How to turn losses into profits in the next four years has become Hong Zewei's challenge. The biggest problem.

Fortunately, the military expenses of the Halo Marines and the expenses of exterminating the devil bugs do not need to be accounted for by the Municipal Finance Bureau. Otherwise, I am afraid that they will go bankrupt if they cannot last two years.

"This is an opportunity and a challenge."

"Future Bank has provided us with a low-interest loan of S$50 billion. Although we are not required to turn losses into profits immediately, from now on our budget is no longer unlimited, and our decisions will also undergo the test of marketization. .”

"I want to hear your opinions."

In the conference hall of Tiangong City, Hong Zewei convened the leadership team of Tiangong City. Most of these people are the first colonists to arrive on Mars. Their professional fields cover all walks of life, and they have rich experience in colonial production and management.

The first person to speak was Rugani, director of the Population Bureau of Tiangong City. This Italian from Rome was once a construction engineer for the Mars colony. The colony's oxygen and electricity transmission and distribution systems were his masterpieces.

"Two thousand immigrants will arrive in Tiangong City next month, and now we only have 620 living spaces left. It's not just a matter of living space, but also water, electricity, oxygen supply, space suits and other wearing equipment. , these must be resolved as soon as possible.”

"Is there any good solution?" Hong Zewei asked.

Hong Zewei had been thinking about this issue before the meeting started.

Cities on Mars and cities on Earth are completely two extremes. What is expensive here is not the land, but the house itself. And it’s not just about housing, but also about food, air, fresh water, and electricity. These are all issues that must be carefully considered.

Before digesting this population, how to solve the resettlement problem of these immigrants has become Tiangong City's top priority.

If the colonial unit in Tiangong City is to be expanded to accommodate more immigrants, a budget of approximately S$2 billion will be needed. It's not that Tiangong City's finances can't come up with this money, but it must be carefully considered. After all, there are many places to use money, and now every penny must be spent wisely.

"Of course," Rugani nodded, "In fact, the intentions of the top management are very clear, including the low-interest loan of SGD 50 billion. The Ministry of Aerospace hopes that we can solve the budget problem through market channels instead of blindly producing and completing the work as before. After producing the quota, I asked for money.”

"The problem is still about money. Should immigrants pay for it out of their own pockets?" Dimit, director of the Finance Bureau, shook his head. "Then no one can afford it."

"We can open the bidding to the outside world and introduce international capital to participate." Rugani said sharply.

Everyone present's eyes lit up and they immediately understood what he meant.

In fact, it’s not that they lack the ability to think of this. Many people, including Mayor Hong Zewei himself, just haven’t changed their thinking yet. After all, a few days ago they were holding the budget of the Ministry of Aerospace, and today it suddenly became a loan from the Bank of the Future.

The top management asked them to find a way to be responsible for their own profits and losses, but now they are still more confused.

"What kind of bidding method?" Hong Zewei looked at Rugani and said, "If we want others to repair our house, we must at least let them see the prospect of profit."

"They will see the prospect of profit. We only need to promise them that the facilities they invest and build in Tiangong City will enjoy permanent housing and land property rights. A large number of people are willing to spend their own money to build houses for us, hire our engineering team, and purchase Steel, aluminum alloy, and graphene building materials from our factory. Not only do we not have to pay a penny, we can even make a fortune."

As long as another regulation is issued, companies that set up factories and produce in Tiangong City must ensure the housing of their employees. At the same time, using the next immigration as the dividing line, Tiangong City will no longer provide free housing for subsequent immigrants, but will instead subsidize apartment rent for five months during the period of unemployment, allowing Tiangong City's real estate to slowly transition to marketization.

"Is there no policy problem?" Dimit hesitated.

"I can guarantee this, there is absolutely no problem!" Rugani nodded and said in a positive tone, "In fact, through the Space Colonization Summit being held in Star Ring City, we can see that the intentions of the higher-ups are already very clear. They hope that more people will participate in the development of space resources and accelerate the progress of outer space colonization, rather than us alone taking the entire responsibility. "

"A lot of people want to join the craze for space resource development, but only a very small number of people can enjoy the cake of Callisto first."

"And we provide another option for international capital."

Rugani’s views are shared by the vast majority of Tiangong City Hall officials, including Hong Zewei, who has been thinking about how to solve the budget problem.

From this moment on, his thinking has slightly changed from the position of colonial governor to the role of mayor.

Not just housing, but factories.

Tiangong City does not need to personally participate in every steel plant and mining station. As the mayor of Tiangong City, he can completely circle the industrial zone on the map with a stroke of a pen. Naturally, countless capitalists will rush in crazily. After entering the country, factories will naturally spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

These shrewd businessmen will not only find ways to improve the productivity of their factories, but also solve the sales of their products themselves. Compared with those "publicly owned" steel plants in Tiangong City that only meet production targets, these businessmen will have a stronger subjective initiative for profitability and will balance products and production capacity according to market demand.

As for whether it is profitable to set up a factory here?

The answer is obvious.

The iron ore here is cheaper than sand, and the low-gravity environment is inherently more suitable for industrial production than on Earth. Even if expensive labor costs are included, the cost of producing a ton of steel is less than half of that of a steel plant on Earth. With the gradual expansion of production scale, this number can be even lower.

When a colony is built on Jupiter, it will have chemical raw materials that are cheaper than those on Earth.

no doubt.

In the not too distant future, this place will become the industrial base of the entire solar system!

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