Chapter 345 New Trend

Chapter 345 New Trend

Chapter 345 New Trend

The result was just as Xiao Rong had guessed. The application of the Casey Station scientific expedition team to visit Aurora City was rejected.

Of course, this is just an internal statement. Qi Zhugang did not say this in his official reply email to Casey Station. Instead, he said that Aurora City is still under construction and there is no plan to open it to the public for the time being. It is expected to be open to the public around 2031.

The scientific expedition team at Casey Station had no doubts about this result. They could not have guessed that Aurora City was equipped with a controlled nuclear fusion device.

at the same time.

The cold wind is blowing in the Shanmei city area.

Although there is no heavy snowfall like in North China and Northeast China, the temperature has dropped to 7 or 8 degrees Celsius recently.

Despite the low temperature, the local passenger flow is still very large.

Huang Weiwei's family, who came from Hong Kong, were getting off at the Shantou-Meishu High-Speed ​​Railway Station.

The young girl wore sunglasses and held a guide cane, and was supported by her parents, Huang Jiale and Li Meiqi.

"Second uncle?"

Hearing this voice, Huang Jiale saw a young man with a horse face not far away. He looked very similar to his eldest brother when he was young. "Ah Ren?"

Huang Haoren came over and took the suitcase from his second uncle: "It's me, second uncle, second aunt, and Weiwei."

"You've changed so much! I almost didn't recognize you."

"Uncle, let's go to the parking lot first. I'll park my car over there."

"Okay, you arrange it."

The group left the underground parking lot and got on a Panshi P1 electric car.

The car drove out of the parking lot and onto the road.

Huang Jiale then discovered that there was a building on the road: "Ah Ren, what is on the road?"

"Up there? Oh, that's the city's overhead light rail. If we don't drive, we can buy tickets directly next to the high-speed rail station and take the light rail into the city." Huang Haoren, who was driving, answered with a smile.

Maggie Q also couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't been back to the mainland for a few years, and the development here is really changing with each passing day!"

Not a moment.

The car drove onto the second-floor highway in the city.

Huang Jiale, who had been back to Shanmei several years ago, said uncertainly: "Huh? This road seems to be higher than before?"

"Uncle, this road is also an elevated road. Below it is the old road, which is also a first-floor highway in the city."

“This is not a small investment!”

"We haven't been back for a few years, and we can hardly recognize the place."

"Uncle, Aunt, it's not a big deal to go through customs now, so come back often! Once Weiwei's eyes are healed, you can live in peace and enjoy your old age."

Maggie Q shook her head: "Your uncle is destined to be a hard worker. If he is idle for a few days, he will probably feel uncomfortable all over."

"Haha, you'll get used to it. Just like my dad, he used to say he couldn't let go of the farmland at home, but since his monthly pension was raised to 5,000 yuan, he doesn't want to go back to the village anymore."

Huang Jiale's eyes suddenly widened: "Your father's pension is 5,000? Isn't he a rural hukou? He's not a retired employee, how come he suddenly has such a high pension?"

"Uncle, the whole country has started to unify now. For people over 60, the minimum pension standard has been raised to 5,000 yuan per month."

"If this is the case, can the mainland finances support it?"

Huang Haoren replied confidently: "Haha, Uncle, things are different now. Isn't money printed by banks? As long as money can buy things, the pension will naturally be supported."

In fact, this is also one of the core drivers of the current domestic economic expansion.

After all, as the world is divided into several relatively independent economic circles, the Asian Community naturally cannot rely on foreign trade to maintain economic growth as before.

Since external demand is not enough, we can only stimulate domestic demand.

So how can the Asian Community stimulate domestic demand?

There are five core measures: raising the minimum wage in Southeast Asia, increasing pensions for all elderly people, promoting twelve years of compulsory education, providing comprehensive subsidies for infants and young children, and increasing vacation time for workers.

Among them, increasing the pension for the entire elderly population is actually just giving money directly.

According to the population size of the entire Asian Union, if the pension of all elderly people reaches more than 5,000 yuan, this huge sum of money will greatly stimulate the expansion of the market.

Although it has not been promoted in Southeast Asia at this stage, it has been fully promoted in China.

Hundreds of millions of elderly farmers and ordinary low-income urban elderly people can receive trillions of yuan in pensions every month.

Such a huge amount of money was directly injected into the market, greatly promoting the prosperity of the market.

Among them, medical service consumption, food consumption, and tourism consumption have been greatly increased by this pension.

In the past, old farmers in rural areas only received a few hundred yuan in pension each month, and they had no way to spend it if you asked them to.

But now with 5,000 yuan a month, most people would definitely dare to spend lavishly.

The sales of various products with the health of the elderly as their brand value have been growing rapidly this year.

The confidence that supports the pension is Seres’ current huge productivity.

Now we are not afraid of a lack of products, but a lack of consumers and purchasing power. As long as there are people willing to consume and have the funds to consume, let alone ordinary vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and milk, even those agricultural products labeled as luxury goods, as long as there is market demand, production can be expanded at any time.

For example, the consumption of salmon, cod, king crab and other products that are rarely eaten by the older generation in Shantou and the United States has doubled or tripled every year in the past three years.

Do the older generation not like to eat king crabs?

That's because there is no money.

You give them 5,000 yuan every month and see whether they spend it or not.

Currently, Hailufeng Group has a total of 57 large-scale indoor aquaculture bases of various sizes throughout the Asian Union. These bases produce huge amounts of aquatic products every year, but are still in short supply.

Now other companies and investors within the Asian consortium are also entering the indoor aquaculture industry.

Hailufeng Group did not take action against these new competitors. Instead, as an industry leader, it formulated strict production guidance plans and allowed them to use Hailufeng Group's technology, provided that they reported the matter and paid a certain amount of patent fees each year.

This is also the consistent style of Hailufeng Group.

Not only in aquaculture, but also in agricultural planting, agricultural and sideline product production and other industries, latecomers are welcome to enter this industry, provided that they abide by the rules.

If an enterprise intends to pass off inferior products as good ones, or to engage in vicious competition by using bad money to drive out good money, then such an enterprise will soon be blacklisted by the Hailufeng Group.

After all, Hailufeng Group and Jiang Miao think that normal business competition is nothing big, and it can even motivate themselves.

But some people are not so rule-abiding. We must strike hard against such people and businesses. Otherwise, it will not only ruin an industry, but will trigger a chain reaction, leading to a decline in consumers' trust in market products.

For example, the king crabs that Hailufeng Group currently breeds in large quantities can not only shorten their growth time but also reduce the amount of feed if some banned drugs and chemicals are used. In order to regulate the entire king crab breeding industry, Hailufeng Group took the lead in setting very strict standards for all king crab breeding practitioners, which must be followed not only within Seris but also in other parts of the Asian Federation.

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Before he knew it, Huang Haoren's car had arrived near his home.

I saw him driving directly into a residential area on the side of the road.

Looking at the unfamiliar high-rise buildings: "Ah Ren, is this community newly developed?"

"Well, this is a new property that was just developed at the end of last year, and it was also developed by a company under the Hailufeng Group."

The car drove into the community from the roadside and went directly into the third floor of the community's parking building, because the road surface height of the second-floor highway in the urban area corresponds to the height of the building, which is the third floor of the building.

After entering the parking building, Huang Haoren drove the car to a parking space.

I operated it from the mobile app.

The car is then picked up by an automatic clamping device and moved to the designated position in the parking building.

Looking at the car that was taken away, Huang Jiale was confused: "Ah Ren, your car was taken away?"

"The system will automatically send you to the empty seat above, don't worry."

"Wouldn't it be troublesome if you wanted to use a car? Wouldn't it be inconvenient to find it?"

"Uncle, when I need to use the car, I can operate the APP at home in advance. When I arrive at the parking building, the car will be parked in the temporary parking space on the third floor."

Huang Jiale was amazed: "It's still possible to do this? The mainland is really becoming more and more advanced now. We old guys can't keep up with the times."

"Uncle, let's go this way..."

Passing through the pedestrian bridge on the third floor of the parking building, the group arrived at the building where Huang Haoren lived.

The corridor at the front door of their house surprised Huang Jiale and his wife.

The corridor is more than three meters wide, wider than the entrance of their old house in the village.

What surprised them even more was that although the house was a high-rise, the style of the entrance was that of a trendy old-fashioned building, with various stone door frames and stone carvings, heavy wooden doors, etc. It did not look like a high-rise residence at all, but rather a bit like living in a village.

“Come in…”

"Sister-in-law!"

"Ah Le, you haven't been back for a few years. I just prepared some lei cha and vegetable cakes."

The family came in.

Just sat down in the living room.

Huang Jiale looked through the window glass and saw the lush greenery outside. He rubbed his eyes and looked carefully for a while and found that they were not posters or stickers, but real green plants.

"Sister-in-law, why are there so many flowers and plants outside?"

"Let Aren introduce it to you! I don't really understand these."

Huang Haoren came out of the kitchen, drinking mineral water. After hearing what his mother said, he smiled and opened the window to introduce his second uncle's family:

"Rural housing is being promoted in the mainland now, and Shanmei is one of the pilot cities. Our family now has seven people, and the standard indoor area is 7 square meters, and there is also a 350-square-meter green balcony."

Huang Jiale went out from the side door.

Came to this so-called balcony.

Huang Jiale was stunned by the 700-square-meter balcony. After a while, he came to his senses and said, "Aren, is this large area all yours?"

Huang Haoren shook his head: "No, this is not included in the property certificate. It is given to every owner by the property management. You can move around in it and plant some flowers and plants, but you are not allowed to modify it casually or pile up garbage or debris, otherwise the property management will take it back."

"I see. But this is not bad! With such a large green area, there won't be a shortage of space for children to play around in the future."

At this moment, Huang Haoren's father Huang Jiahui came back. As soon as he entered the door, he started complaining to his younger brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Ah Le, don't think that such a large green space can be used to grow vegetables. This is such a waste."

Huang Haoren said helplessly: "Dad, don't even think about farming. Vegetables and fruits are so cheap now, and the ones you grow yourself don't taste good. Why waste your energy and time? Isn't it better to drink tea and play chess with friends, or go traveling?"

Hearing his son's words, Huang Jiahui's face darkened: "You've grown wings, haven't you? Didn't our family rely on me to grow vegetables in the past to support your studies? Now you look down on what I grow?"

"Haha, Dad! This is a different time. You and Mom have a pension of 10,000 yuan a month, and you are still growing your own vegetables. Aren't you stealing jobs from young people?"

"Wrong logic..." Huang Jiahui still had a curse on his face.

Huang Haoren shook his head and did not continue arguing. After all, as a son, he knew very well how stubborn his old man was.

In his opinion, the country has already given a lot of pension to every elderly person, but they still grow vegetables at home. This is just too much hardship, and at the same time, they are indeed competing with young people for jobs.

After all, if all elderly people do this, their pension spending on fruits and vegetables will be greatly reduced, which will affect the country's large-scale agricultural industries and lead to a reduction in farm jobs in these industries.

Although this idea is a bit of a generalization, Huang Haoren does think that wealthy elderly people should no longer be involved in social labor.

On the one hand, the elderly’s body functions have aged, but continuing to work is something that needs to be considered only when absolutely necessary.

On the other hand, the labor of the elderly will squeeze out the jobs of young people. Even the act of growing vegetables on one’s own balcony is an indirect act of squeezing out the jobs of young people.

But Huang Haoren knew that the elderly were sometimes too stubborn. He didn’t want to argue with his parents about this, so he could only take out the regulations of the property management company and ask his parents not to grow vegetables on their balcony.

In this regard, the property management company under Hailufeng Group does have relevant regulations.

After all, planting vegetables and fruits on balcony green spaces is not just a matter of indirectly squeezing out young people’s jobs, but also involves considerations of food safety and residential safety.

Many old farmers always subconsciously think that what they grow is good, and that what is grown on those farms is full of technology and hard work.

However, the facts may be very different from what you think.

Take the use of pesticides for example. Ordinary self-employed individuals are often arbitrary and uncertain in their use of pesticides, making it difficult for them to comply with regulations.

Large farms, on the other hand, are relatively professional and fixed in their use of pesticides.

There is no way, this is determined by the professionalism of both parties.

Although some old farmers have a lot of local experience and methods, this is not the basis for them to deny modern agricultural technology.

Times are developing and technology is advancing.

Many people's concepts are still stuck in those of more than a decade or even decades ago. They wishfully use their old ideas to look at the rapidly changing modern agricultural technology. This is obviously a very wrong concept.

Take the vegetables and fruits produced by Hailufeng Group as an example. Ordinary farm dishes are completely crushed in terms of nutritional content, food safety, flavor accumulation, and yield, but many people still use old concepts to look at them, which is obviously out of touch with the times.

(End of this chapter)