The next day.
Morning.
Ten o’clock.
Thirty kiloters away from Nai Bitu, a long convoy stopped. Sun Jiang and a group of inspection personnel, along with the Myanmar reception personnel, got out of the car.
They saw.
A stream was located so ten ters from the roadside.
"Splash!"
Flowing slowly, on one side of this road, there was clear river water where various sizes of pebbles were visible beneath the water.
Large ones.
Tons, embraced by a person.
Small ones.
Like sand.
From a stream no wider than five or six ters to the roadside so ten ters away, pebbles were scattered all around, making it seem natural to an average person.
...
At this mont.
Myanmar personnel began to introduce:
"This is a new section of a river we’ve dug. Although not deep, it is long enough to ensure the drainage capacity of this section ets the requirents."
"Previously."
"This whole stretch was village farmland."
"Now."
"We compensate for the encroached river by using cash subsidies or off-site land allocation, and have also delineated a restricted cultivation line."
"Farmland encroachnt is prohibited, and pebble retrieval from the entire river is strictly forbidden. Every ten kiloters, there is a river chief to regularly inspect and maintain."
"..."
Listening.
The inspection personnel kept nodding; before arriving, they had understood it, but they wanted to see the specific implentation, which led to this trip.
Regarding this.
They also felt it was very feasible.
Land reclamation.
This used to be a bit of a stretch because the red line for farmland couldn’t be touched. But now it’s different; the ergence of oases has increased Huaxia’s farmland.
Therefore.
It is naturally possible to carry out reclamation work on a sizable portion of the land without touching the red line, excavating web-like river channels for water storage.
Usually.
River channels can be closed.
Heavy rain.
If water levels exceed the limit.
Then.
Open the floodgate directly and divert the river’s water into smaller rivers to reduce the main stream’s water level pressure. Such a plan is indeed good.
Moreover.
River channels are controllable.
New river channels can be completely directed to remote depressions; if one doesn’t work, use ten as long as planned properly, a tributary has huge potential.
Imagine.
Artificial rivers.
Hundreds of miles long.
Every kiloter or few kiloters may have low terrain, a mountain hollow. If uninhabited, its water storage capacity is amazing.
At that ti.
After the rain.
Control various sections again to divert flow away from the main river.
Flood.
Will completely disappear.
...
After the introduction.
They took a closer look.
Got back in the car.
The convoy continued forward.
After another dozen kiloters, they saw another river channel construction site without water flowing, with huge trucks transporting pebbles to the riverside.
"Splash!"
Driving while dumping.
Afterward.
Artificially leveling thicker areas. Quickly, a stone river channel was ford; many people were present, and machinery was ample.
Thus, the speed was very fast.
At a glance.
Many were from Huaxia.
They knew that this year Myanmar’s hydropower investnt was nearly 300 billion Asia dollars, with orders exceeding 200 billion taken by Huaxia companies.
Naturally.
Seeing Huaxia workers is not surprising. Their goodwill towards this neighbor surged; although Huaxia also spent huge sums annually buying things from them.
But they also know the return.
One coming and going.
Both countries can benefit greatly, though it seems Huaxia spent money buying expensive things. But it must be noted that those things are genuinely good.
Oases.
Desert turns into farmland.
Drugs.
Saved countless people.
Frankly.
If these things were invented by Western Countries, the price wouldn’t just double; particularly, those European and Arican pharmaceutical companies.
Tenfold.
Not an exaggeration at all.
At that ti.
Wallets would inevitably be emptied; faced with terminal illness, people have no choice. Now three to fifty thousand for cancer treatnt, tenfold is thirty to fifty thousand.
Scramble east.
Gather west.
Huaxia can gather many, but if they take your money, they may not necessarily buy your stuff, essentially giving them money.
Calculating.
The current Huaxia-Myanmar trade is also a kind of luck.
...
Afterward.
Everyone got back in the car again.
Heading forward.
They arrived at the excavation site, where huge excavators continuously dug shovels of soil, loaded onto trucks, with specialized equipnt behind molding.
What shape?
Uh!
Sowhat similar to drainage ditch molds, giving the whole river a certain shape, then road rollers roll back and forth, compacting, and finally stone is laid.
Walking along.
Looking along.
Until noon.
They arrived at a mountain valley, where transportation is inconvenient, with the river channels winding forward between mountains, no road, only the compacted river channel by road rollers.
Still accessible, mountains all around.
On the road.
Openings could be seen on both sides from ti to ti.
"These branching channels lead to so low-lying places between mountains, thus significantly enhancing water storage capacity, but not just low will do."
"Must be closed."
"Otherwise."
Water flowing out might impact remote residents; so openings are not large, we’d build concrete dams directly."
"..."
Myanmar personnel introduced fluently in Chinese.
Listening.
Made the inspection team feel as if they hadn’t even left the country; if there was any satisfaction with Myanmar, it’s their Chinese language popularity here.
Close-knit.
Of course.
Formal occasions still prioritize Myanmar language.
Language.
Also represents a country’s face; in so circumstances, one can speak but mustn’t say, needing a translator for more equal conversation.
...
Soon.
The convoy arrived at a fan-shaped ’export’, where besides a lot of construction machinery, many prefabricated houses housed river channel construction workers.
Unlike the stone river channel.
Mountain river.
Myanmar generally adopts concrete riverbeds, mainly for easier dredging by dredger boats, usually during heavy rain, rivers might be blocked by various things.
"So big!"
"Feels like a teor pit."
"A bit."
"..."
The valley’s size, seen far before seeing the edge.
"Here is considered the endpoint of this river channel; the whole valley is enclosed on all sides, covering thirty-five square kiloters, with an average water storage depth of twenty-nine ters."
"Uninhabited."
"Water storage capacity exceeds ten billion cubic ters; wanting to fill it, for the next thirty years is unlikely, and it will be utilized as a reservoir."
"..."
Listening.
Their eyes shone.
Indeed.
So sparsely populated but low terrain places, making it like this can store a lot of water; Huaxia’s vast area has many inhabited mountain hollows.
But.
Uninhabited mountain hollows.
Also many.
Moreover.
Artificial river channels can completely be directed to remote mountainous areas, thus avoiding relocating too many people. In summary, they really liked this plan.
"If mountain river channels are blocked by landslides from neighboring mountains, what should be done?" soone is curious.
Upon hearing.
Myanmar personnel smiled.
"No problem."
"Eggs."
"We never put in one basket; in fact, our tributary river channel total water storage design is six tis a hundred-year flood."
"Therefore."
"Unless luck is too bad, the entire river, all segnted water storage projects, is paralyzed by eighty percent, otherwise, it absolutely cannot have a major impact."
After listening.
Everyone looked shocked.
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