Longyuan City.

It is the core city of the Red River Delta and also one of the central cities of the Beibu Gulf urban agglomeration, with a permanent population of over 10 million.

Longyuan City is also a coastal city and a port city. One of the key ports in the Beibu Gulf is Longyuan Port.

Longyuan City is positioned as a tourist city, port and shipping city, shipbuilding industry, aquaculture industry and seafood transit point, tropical ecological agriculture, etc.!

This is also a second-tier city, and ranks in the upper-middle range among second-tier cities.

Kunlong High-speed Railway is the first railway from the southwest to the port and also the first land route.

To date, this railway still plays a significant role in the development of cities along the line.

Even if a huge amount of money is invested in dredging the Panlong River and making the Panlong River-Honghe River navigable, shipping still cannot completely replace railways.

It is precisely because of this railway that Yunnan Province has developed rapidly in recent years.

Liu Tao came to Longyuan City for inspection. He visits this city at least once a year. He has personally witnessed the rise of this city.

From the 90s to the present, this city has risen very rapidly, with industrial restructuring and almost everything started from scratch. In less than years, this city has become no less important than Jinling, Hangzhou, Jiangcheng and other important cities.

This is also China’s open window to Southeast Asia and a demonstration zone for economic development.

Liu Tao was on the top floor of Longyuan Tower, looking at the city through a telescope.

Longyuan Building is not one building, but two buildings. It consists of two 310-meter-high towers connected by an aerial corridor in the middle, forming an ‘H’ shape. It is also affectionately called the Longyuan Twin Towers by the citizens of Longyuan City!
This is the tallest building in Longyuan City and an all-round complex project. One of the buildings is a five-star hotel and office building, the other is a SOHO office building, and the podium building integrates shopping, leisure, entertainment, and catering.

Liu Tao is in a sky restaurant, which is also a very famous restaurant in Longyuan City. From this restaurant, you can look out to the sea and also see the entire Longyuan City.

The consumption here is not cheap, starting at 500 RMB per person.

But even so, the business here is still very good. Many tourists who come to Longyuan City always choose to dine here and enjoy the delicious food and beautiful scenery.

There are many people like Liu Tao who watch with a telescope.

Of course, Liu Tao’s safety is guaranteed when he comes here, and security personnel are protecting Liu Tao’s safety.

After inspecting Longyuan City, Liu Tao drove his private plane directly over the Beibu Gulf and arrived at Qiongdao Island.

Qiongdao has been completely transformed into a tourist destination.

Revenue from tourism accounts for nearly half of the GDP of Qiongdao Island, and people from the north of Qiongdao Island who have settled here account for half of the current permanent population of Qiongdao Island.

The mess that Panshan Group took over had all the houses built and now they have all been sold.

The entire commercial plaza of Qiongdao Island provides convenience for tourists to go shopping.

Tourist villages are always crowded during the peak tourist season.

Liu Tao came to the Qiongdao Animal and Plant Medicinal Materials Breeding Base. Qiongdao is rich in animal and plant medicinal materials and is known as the “natural medicine storehouse”. About 4000 of the more than 2000 species can be used as medicine, accounting for 40% of the country’s total. There are 500 species included in the pharmacopoeia, 137 anti-cancer plants and more than 30 southern medicines that have been screened. Animal and marine medicinal materials include nearly 50 species, including deer antler, monkey paste, bezoar, pangolin, hawksbill turtle, sea dragon, seahorse, sea snake, amber, pearl, sea cucumber, coral, shell, oyster, stone cassia, shark fin, turtle plate, etc.

This animal and plant medicinal material breeding base is the largest medicinal material base in the entire Qiongdao Island, with an annual output value of hundreds of billions of RMB.

The entire industry chain of Chinese medicinal materials is receiving more and more attention.

After all, traditional Chinese medicine has unique advantages in treating diseases, and it is incomparable to Western medicine in terms of health preservation.

This has also led to various regions continuously paying attention to Chinese medicinal materials and developing the Chinese medicinal materials industry.

For example, the annual output value of the wolfberry industry in Qinghai exceeded RMB 100 billion, the output value of the wolfberry industry in Ningxia exceeded RMB 250 billion, and the output value of the entire Chinese medicinal materials industry chain in Yunnan Province exceeded RMB 5000 billion.
Moreover, with the continuous development of Chinese medicinal materials, the output value of Chinese medicinal materials is still growing.

Qiongdao is no exception.

Like this base, its annual output value exceeds 200 billion yuan.

Due to transportation problems, Qiongdao Island has limited development potential. In addition to tourism, the most important industries are agriculture and industry.

Agriculture includes vegetables, fruits, fisheries, forestry, and animal husbandry, and the total agricultural output value is approximately in the hundreds of billions.

In terms of industry, the output value of the petroleum processing industry and the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry is approximately in the hundreds of billions level, and the rest added together is also probably around hundreds of billions.

The medicinal materials production base is the most important link in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.

Panshan Group has provided great help to Qiongdao in this regard.

And because of the huge help that Panshan Group has provided to Qiongdao, from around the mid-90s to the present, for almost 20 years, Panshan Group has dominated the development of Qiongdao and has been deeply involved in the development of Qiongdao.

However, as Qiongdao is getting on the right track, Panshan Group is gradually withdrawing from Qiongdao and gradually returning the dominant power of Qiongdao to Qiongdao.

It is expected that in two years, that is, around 2015, Panshan Group will return all the leading power of Qiongdao to Qiongdao. By that time, the only industries of Panshan Group on Qiongdao will be operated by China Southern Power Grid, China Port Group, China Mobile, etc.

The Qiongdao Command will also be separated from Panshan Group and returned to Qiongdao Province.

After inspecting the medicinal materials base, Liu Tao went to Wenchang for inspection.

The most famous thing in Wenchang in the country is the Wenchang Launch Center. With the Wenchang Launch Center as the core, space tourism has been developed, attracting millions of tourists every year.

Although aerospace planes will be the core in the future and launch vehicles like carrier rockets will be gradually eliminated, launching satellites with carrier rockets will still be the mainstream for at least the next ten years.

As for the reason, it is naturally due to insufficient transportation capacity.

Space planes are not like fighter jets, which can be produced quickly by dozens or even hundreds per year.

In the future, the frequency of producing one aircraft per year will basically be maintained.

This is because, due to demand, China is not actually that urgent in the field of aerospace.

Producing one aircraft every year is enough to ensure rapid progress in China’s aerospace industry.

However, in the future, the frequency of launching carrier rockets from space launch sites will continue to decrease, which is the trend.

Because when the transport space plane is successfully developed, it will be able to carry two to three hundred tons of materials into space at a time. At that time, releasing satellites from the transport space plane will be a normal thing.

At noon that day, Liu Tao tasted the coconuts in Wenchang. Coconuts are a very famous specialty of Wenchang. There are all kinds of coconuts, including young coconut, coconut paste, coconut shreds, coconut blocks, coconut candy, coconut milk biscuits and all kinds of coconut-flavored foods.

Soon after Liu Tao arrived in Lan Fang.

Lan Fang and Australia once again had a maritime conflict over the Tiwi Islands.

The Tiwi Islands are an uninhabited island with an area of ​​33 square kilometers. Refugees from Southeast Asia were once settled here, but now all these refugees have been jointly eliminated by the Australian and American armies, and it has once again become an uninhabited island.

For decades, it has been regarded as Australia’s territory.

However, Lan Fang did not agree with this because there was no legal basis for it. Historically, some Lan Fang people had activities in the Tiwi Islands, and there were still former residences of ancient Lan Fang people there. Therefore, Lan Fang believed that the Tiwi Islands had been Lan Fang’s territory since ancient times.

This undoubtedly made Australia very angry.

Australia accused Lan Fang of being provocative and invading Australian territory.

How can Lan Fang be said to have existed since ancient times? That doesn’t make sense!
Moreover, Australia could not accept Lan Fang’s occupation of the Tiwi Islands because the Tiwi Islands are only 50 kilometers away from Darwin.

Once Lan Fang builds a military base and an air force base on the Tiwi Islands, the whole of Darwin will be in turmoil.

The two sides engaged in a war of words over the Tiwi Islands.

Australia dispatched a coast guard ship to patrol the Tiwi Islands, and then encountered the Lan Fang coast guard ship. Facing the Lan Fang’s 2000-ton coast guard ship, Australia’s 200-ton coast guard ship was just a small boat.

Faced with the provocation of the Australian Coast Guard ship, the Lan Fang Coast Guard ship used its water gun to directly drive away the Australian Coast Guard ship and declared that the Tiwi Islands had belonged to Lan Fang since ancient times.

The Australian government immediately ordered the navy to send warships to drive away the Lan Fang Coast Guard ships.

However, the Lan Fang Navy also arrived and a naval conflict broke out between the two sides.

面对着兰芳海军的052型驱逐舰、054型护卫舰、022A型鱼雷艇和022型导弹艇，澳大利亚的军舰全军覆没，而兰芳损失了两艘022A型鱼雷艇和022型导弹艇。

Soon after, the Lan Fang Navy warships appeared in Darwin Harbor in a swaggering manner, and the entire Darwin Harbor sounded the alarm.

The Lan Fang Navy did not launch an attack on Darwin Port, but instead conducted live-fire exercises 12 nautical miles outside Darwin Port.

The roar of the artillery could be heard clearly in Darwin Port.

Many residents of Darwin Port drove away from the port for fear of being affected by the war.

Subsequently, the Lan Fang Navy built ports and runways in the Tiwi Islands and directly dispatched fighter jets and helicopters to the Tiwi Islands to declare its sovereignty over the Tiwi Islands.

Australia sent fighter jets to stop it, but more than 20 of them were shot down by anti-aircraft missiles.

Australia is furious. This is a slap in the face.

It’s just that both sides are on the edge of the world and the war does not attract worldwide attention.

Even in the United States, because the two parties in Congress failed to reach an agreement on the budget, the third government shutdown in history occurred, resulting in millions of civil servants being furloughed. The news was reporting on this, but as for what happened in Oceania, no media reported it at all.

The attention received by the center of the world and the edge of the world is very different.

If the maritime conflict between Lan Fang and Australia had been in the center of the world, it would have definitely made the world’s front page headlines, instead of being ignored as it is now. (End of this chapter)