Chapter 814 Two Backyards
Of course, Southeast Asia and South Asia are the most important.
Make friends with distant countries and attack nearby ones, this is the wisdom left by our ancestors.
The entire Southeast Asia includes two major parts: the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago. The Indochina Peninsula is named because it is located south of China. The Malay Archipelago is a vast sea area scattered between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It is the largest archipelago in the world, with more than 20,000 islands and an area of 2.43 million square kilometers.
Southeast Asia is located at the "crossroads" of Asia and Oceania, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The Strait of Malacca is the "throat" of this intersection and has a very important strategic position. The Strait of Malacca is located between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. It is 900 kilometers long and only 37 kilometers at its narrowest point. It can accommodate giant ships with a load capacity of 250,000 tons.
The entire Southeast Asia is very rich in resources.
For example, agricultural resources, especially tropical crops, are rich here. This is the region with the largest rice production in the world, and more than 20 million tons of rice can be exported each year. In addition, the production of palm oil, rubber, coffee, coconut, etc. occupies an important position in the world. The annual output of palm oil can reach 50 to 60 million tons. At the same time, Southeast Asia is also the largest producer of natural rubber in the world. The total rubber output of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia alone accounts for more than 70% of the world's total output.
In terms of fishery resources, it is also very rich.
Oil and mining resources are also very rich!
This is not only an important source of raw materials for China's development, but also one of the important markets for commodity exports.
In addition to Southeast Asia, South Asia is also worth investing energy and financial resources.
The entire South Asian region covers a vast area between the south, middle and western sections of the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean. It borders the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. The distance between north and south and east and west is about 3,100 kilometers each. There are currently 18 countries.
At present, China's connection with these countries is mainly through roads, and there is no railway so far.
Sometimes Liu Tao can't help but open his mind, that is, to blow a hole in the Himalayas to introduce the Indian Ocean warm current into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so as to make the northwest humid.
Of course, this is just an idea. Whether it is feasible or not, it still needs to be scientifically and rigorously demonstrated.
Even if it is feasible, the investment here will be huge.
Liu Tao drank some tea, cleaned the tea set, and then disinfected it.
Then, he took a walk in the yard.
It was late at night, and most people had already gone to bed, and it seemed quiet at night.
His mother has officially retired and usually lives in the Siheyuan, and his eldest sister Liu Hongying runs the store for Zhu Lin and usually lives here.
With the development of society, the development here in Beijing is also very fast. Bookstores, flower shops, coffee shops, and tea shops are all doing well. After deducting labor costs, water and electricity costs and other costs in a year, there is still a good profit.
These profits are enough for everyone to live a good life.
I drank a lot of tea in the evening, so I still didn't feel sleepy after walking for half an hour.
It was not until after one in the morning that Liu Tao went to bed.
The next day, Liu Tao went to attend a meeting, which was about the protection of the Siheyuan.
A few years ago, people began to realize the historical, cultural and artistic value of the Siheyuan in Beijing, and measures have been taken to strengthen the protection of Siheyuan and its historical and cultural protection areas.
It's just a pity that the destruction of Hutong Siheyuan due to urban development and construction is a foregone conclusion, which is enough to make later generations feel distressed and heartbroken.
In recent years, Beijing City and relevant departments have introduced a number of policies, taken a series of measures, and invested a lot of money. Although certain achievements have been made in the protection of Siheyuan and its historical and cultural heritage, these achievements are still far from the expected goals.
A very important reason is that there are several problems in the protection concept and the positioning of protection policies and methods, which have affected the scientific and healthy development of Siheyuan protection work.
To be honest, the value of Siheyuan has been clearly revealed now.
Many people would rather buy Siheyuan than commercial housing.
At least for people like Liu Tao, he thinks that living in a Siheyuan is more comfortable than living in commercial housing. Siheyuan is really warm in winter and cool in summer. It is not too cold in winter and not too hot in summer.
He was also invited this time, and participated in the spirit of contributing.
This working meeting was quite grand, with experts in ancient architecture, cultural relics protection units, and scholars in historical research.
It is obvious that Beijing has put a lot of thought into this.
"The fundamental point of protecting the Beijing Siheyuan and its historical culture is to protect its traditional style, architectural features and cultural characteristics. This protection should be adapted to the changes in urban development, historical progress and people's living needs. Protection should be active protection rather than passive protection." Liu Tao emphasized in his speech, "In addition to the buildings that have been approved as cultural relics protection units, dilapidated houses that have no cultural relics protection value or only have residual value but are already very dangerous and have lost their use value should be rebuilt and renovated."
"Renovation and reconstruction does not mean building a multi-storey building or rebuilding it in situ without leaving it intact. Instead, it means building a courtyard house that meets the contemporary functional and regulatory requirements in accordance with the pattern and model of the traditional courtyard house." Liu Tao said, "I think there are two biggest misunderstandings about the protection of courtyard houses: one is that 'everything old is good and cannot be moved', and opposes major renovations or reconstructions of old houses."
"The second is that 'large courtyards' are courtyard houses, and protecting courtyard houses is protecting large courtyard houses." Liu Tao said.
These two misunderstandings currently exist and are very prominent.
The house is old and there are great safety hazards. If it needs to be rebuilt, it must be rebuilt, and if it needs to be overhauled, it must be overhauled.
There is no such thing as a fixed principle.
Besides, these courtyard houses in the past would never have thought of the current life, and the facilities are inevitably lacking. Some minor repairs and small actions are normal.
The courtyard house where Liu Tao lives now is not unchanged. The interior has also been renovated.
There are also large courtyard houses, which is a long-standing problem.
This problem is a historical legacy, and it cannot be solved without a strong rectification.
Liu Tao proposed to build a batch of commercial housing, and then relocate all the residents of the slums to the commercial housing, and then restore the slums to quadrangle courtyards.
This requires a lot of money.
It takes a lot of money to build commercial housing as resettlement housing, and it also takes a lot of money to restore the slums to quadrangle courtyards.
This is not something that can be done with hundreds of millions of RMB, nor is it something that can be done with 1 billion RMB, but something that requires tens of billions of funds.
And the later it is, the greater the cost.
The sooner it is solved, the less it will cost.
And it is better to solve it early than late!
Because the later it is, the more money people have, and the desires are getting bigger, and they want more. In addition, the labor costs, materials, etc. are rising, and the cost is increasing exponentially.