"I'm talking to Director Wu, didn't you say that pollution and development coexist at the same time? But if this is the case, then even if technology has progressed, we still can't get rid of pollution?"

The speaker is Xu Zheng’s wife, Tao Hong. She also appears in this movie, and her status is very transcendent. She came to Thailand with the crew, which is great, as a tourist. However, from this sentence, we can

It can be seen that this woman's thinking is very careful.

Wu Xiang did not answer the question directly, but asked another question: "Do you know how much fuel the previous cars consumed per 100 kilometers?"

"..." They all shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know.

"In the past, cars burned dozens of liters of oil for 100 kilometers! They were just ordinary cars, because the car engines in the past were all made of steel, but now we use aluminum. How light are aluminum engines? So

It saves fuel! Isn’t this technological progress?”

"But you still haven't answered my question, so isn't the pollution still there? Even if fuel consumption is reduced now, it seems that more oil is needed."

"Yes, but you must know that this is just a symptom of development, that is, more and more people are driving now, and our lives are more convenient, right?"

"You, this, you..." Tao Hong didn't know what to say. It seemed right, but it also seemed wrong. Wu Xiang's words were still confusing!

In fact, this is a Jevons paradox, that is, the more we save resources, the more resources we consume, because we are actually constantly developing.

"Not only cars, but many things in our lives are like this. They are constantly developing, becoming better and better, more energy-saving, more fuel-efficient, and more convenient for you. We have produced a lot of

Pollution, I admit this, but do you know how serious our pollution was in the past?"

"..." Still shaking his head, he seemed to have forgotten.

"Just talk about me." Wu Xiang began to give an example. "My home is in Shencheng, which is an old industrial base. When I was a child, I looked at the sky and it was sometimes even red! There was a lot of smoke in the steel factory.

I have seen the smoke and the huge cooling tower of the power plant with my own eyes, so there is no need to lie. But what about now? It’s just a few days of haze, which one is more serious?”

Yes. This is really what Wu Xiang saw with his own eyes. Although the relocation of heavy industry enterprises in Shencheng City is not ruled out, we must know that our current industrial production capacity is at least two times smaller than when Wu Xiang was.

Ten years ago, it was many, many times better. If the energy conversion efficiency was the same as before, then China today would not be able to find a clean sky. At least the eastern industrial cities should not see the sun.

Yeah, right?

But is this the reality?

In fact, we are now experiencing the fact that 'development solves pollution'. However, this is a silent process of moisturizing things, and many people cannot see it!

"Let me talk about the consequences of not developing. That is, we will always become the 'factory' of those countries in Europe and the United States. Yes, that is to say, they will move their highly polluting industries to our country, but if

That's fine if we continue to stand still. These highly polluting industries will remain in our country and cannot leave. So how can pollution be controlled?"

"How could this happen? This is wrong! Haven't Europe and the United States solved it?" No one believed it.

"Didn't I say before that they moved away?" That's right. That's the truth. "Well, if that's the case, if they in Europe and the United States can move away these highly polluting industries, so can we, right? We are copycats.

As a big country, why not copy this method?"

Wu Xiang's words seemed to have opened a window, and it seemed like a good move.

"But, can we do this?"

"Brother, how are we going to move this thing? What will our people do if we move out?"

Everyone has been brought in by Wu Xiang, and they have all started thinking about this matter.

Yes, can we move these industries out? You know, we are a country with a population of more than one billion, and the pressure on this employment issue is huge. Although some polluting industries are very polluting, they are also really polluting.

It drives employment!

"Yes! We can do it!" Wu Xiang gave an affirmative answer as soon as he came up. Is he so sure?

This guy Wu Xiang is really a bit sure. He was reborn. Although the result was not fully revealed when he was reborn, the situation is still very good.

"Actually, there are two main points. Everyone should have often heard the higher-ups calling for industrial transformation and industrial upgrading, right?"

"That's right!" Even if you don't listen to the news, you all know this.

"Actually, industrial upgrading and transformation are what we are talking about. Let me give you an example. The United Kingdom was also known as the 'world's factory' back then. Everyone knows this. But I'm afraid you don't know that the United Kingdom is

The reason why it declined is very simple. In fact, at that time, they were undergoing industrial transformation. To put it simply, the British saw that they were very awesome, so they did not want to be as lucky as before. This

Just start investing if you help me!..."

invest?

It is really an investment. Back then, before the First World War, the British national power was very strong. It was said that "the sun never sets". With such a strong national power, it was naturally very rich, and the British pound was the currency at that time.

The world's common currency, foreign countries use the pound as foreign exchange reserves.

The British man looked at this and wondered, what else could he do? He could just earn interest, so he began to make financial investments in various forms.

In history books, this is called capital export. And this kind of export has caused Britain to no longer be the world's factory. So what if the world's factory ran away and took it away?

One is Germany. In fact, Wu Xiang said something about this in "Rebirth", which is what Dr. Cattell said about the relationship between 'Made in China' and 'Made in Germany'.

The other is the United States. In fact, the United States used to be the source of British raw materials, such as cotton and so on. But later the British wanted to enjoy it, so they simply built factories in the United States. The British could control it.

What are the results of these British investments?

Obviously, the British did not play finance well. They shot themselves in the foot. Not only did Germany develop and grow, but the United States also took the opportunity to rise and become the world's largest power. Its GDP was the world's largest before World War II.

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The game in the UK was really bad at that time. They were almost at the level of juniors who didn’t know how to play finance. But these British guys still wanted to play and insisted on playing. They played it many times later, and most of them ended in failure.

In fact, there is a special reason why the UK does this, that is, the UK is just an island country. Even if the sun never sets on it, it cannot expand further due to its small size and small population. This

A bit, it's very similar to Japan. Otherwise, why would there be an 'Anglo-Japanese Alliance'? Historically, this strange combination was called 'Glorious Isolation'!

However, this British method is actually very good. The United States later learned it very well. Of course, through many changes and some of their own advantages, they finally achieved the goal that the British originally wanted to achieve. This...

I have to say that Britain and America are really a harmonious father and son.

In that case, our country should now learn from what the United Kingdom and the United States did before? Our country is also very awesome now, with more than 4 trillion US dollars in foreign exchange, let’s invest!

Let’s talk about investment. That’s right, and it is indeed being done. We have invested in a lot of oil fields, mines, and fields. Many of us Chinese people don’t know about it.

In fact, we have become big landowners and big mine owners.

But don’t forget, we have a population of more than one billion, and our employment pressure has always been great!

What to do?

This requires a different approach.

Overseas investment projects, or factories!

This is also very common, but we can export labor services. This is the key!

Yes, exporting labor services abroad will solve the employment problem, right?

And this is actually a model. We can completely change this model, that is, invest in a foreign factory and export labor services there. Of course, we will definitely recruit workers abroad, but we naturally become

Managers, and if you do this, wouldn’t it be equivalent to moving the pollution overseas and solving the problem of employment pressure?

Yes, this is the solution!

Because of development, we have money, because of development, we have technology, then we can invest like the United Kingdom and the United States, and most of the investments we invest are in third world countries. We can do it in the name of developing the local economy.

Build a factory, and we can also export labor services and expand our entire production capacity.

You know, this is the real "world factory"!

The whole world is a factory for us Chinese. We not only export capital, we also export people!

This is the way to solve pollution. Of course, it sounds a bit unfair, but at least when we go to the third world, we don’t bring guns, ammunition, aircraft and cannons with us? And the economy there does need to develop. Third world countries,

It really needs construction.

Development and pollution are good friends. If the third world wants to develop, they cannot avoid the process of pollution, right?

When Wu Xiang said all these things, the entire crew of "Legend of Thailand" was stunned!

They didn't expect that Wu Xiang would be so capable. They didn't expect that this guy Wu Xiang...

No wonder, this guy is the boss!

Well, in fact, none of these tricks are original to Wu Xiang, because in a few years, anyone who pays a little attention to the news will be able to see that our country has foreign investment almost every day, and it is not spread out to help

When a certain country builds a high-speed rail, it is to help a certain country build a canal. Anyway, we Chinese are very busy, looking for things to build all over the world.

Moreover, the most important thing is that because we need to maintain quality, quantity, and speed, we must also let Chinese workers build it. This is necessary because many countries are really lazy.

Let’s just talk about those black uncles in Africa. It’s not that we are discriminating against them. I don’t know what happened to these guys. They were originally colonized by the Western powers. But in the end, the Western powers did not learn the good things, but they learned all over the world.

Stinky problems. For example, it is a common practice in Africa to have a salary negotiated before, but then regret it after less than a day of work, and immediately organize a strike to bargain with you.

This...is really forcing us to fall in love with our own people!

"That's not right!" Some people thought there was a problem again, "If the third world also develops, where should the polluting industries go?"

Wu Xiang smiled, "It's very simple. Didn't Obama have an economic policy before he came to power? Industry is going to return to the United States. Don't they actually care about pollution now?"

"Hahaha..." As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed, because they had already figured out that this polluting industry actually represents economic growth and development, and when in the end, everyone develops, then what they wanted to enjoy before

Europe and the United States, where people live comfortably, may have problems. At that time, they will beg others to 'pollute' them.

This is how it is now. Comrade Guanhai shouted loudly under Zhenhua's large crane that American industry should return to the mainland!

"Old Wu, I said you should just take the civil service exam. I think you will have more development in your official career!" In the end, of course, no one was not convinced by Wu Xiang, but Xu Zheng wouldn't have ridiculed him.

In a word, are you worthy of yourself?

Wu Xiang ignored Xu Zheng's teasing. The guy just smiled and continued: "Let's return to the issue of environmental protection. Don't you think this thing is a bit weird?"

Weird? So what is weird? (To be continued)

ps: Thanks to Mu Xiao for the reward, thanks to Longyou Merchant for the monthly ticket, thank you Black Car!

Don't worry, Heicche will sort it out and talk to everyone. Of course, Heicche is definitely not an anti-environmentalist. Heicche just wants to tell everyone that we are environmentally friendly, but there is no need to be so extreme.
Chapter completed!