Chapter 7 Introduction Walking the Bloody Digital Road

Counting from the birth of the first human being on the earth to the first one billion, it took about 500,000 years to say the least.It took about a million years to go from the first billion to the second billion.By 1987, the total number of people in the world was 5 billion, and the total growth time of the last three 1 billion was less than 50 years!According to the report of the United Nations Population Fund, when the bell rang in 1995, the world's population was close to 6 billion.This one billion only took 7 years. The fecundity of human beings is incredible even to human beings themselves.

It is not only human beings who cause panic.The earth, known as the cradle of mankind, has long been crying silently, and began to retaliate and punish mankind in its unique way: ——Do not give fresh and clean air, let people get sick and get cancer in a toxic environment; ——Without giving clear and sweet water, people are panting and struggling on the dry and cracked land. Smart humans don't seem to be afraid of any of this.Polluted air can be purified, and diseases can be healed; when the sweet fresh water is lost, they start to ask for it from the sea and the center of the earth... However, human beings are not omnipotent lords, they can transform every inch of land on the earth, but they cannot regenerate the mother earth milk in the body.This milk is the source of the three major problems that sociologists, economists and futurists are most concerned about today.

Population, resources, environment, the insurmountable crisis of human beings in the future, it ranks first.When a mother gives birth to a child, the child needs to be fed.There was only one mother, so the children scrambled to grab the plump breasts and suck them desperately.Finally the day came when the breasts were sucked dry and the children were on the brink of weaning. The relationship between human beings and resources is the relationship between children and mother's milk. There are too many children, too much food, and the mother's breasts are already dry and scarred. This is the harsh reality of today's world.

In China, a country in the sky, as a member of the big family of the earth, mothers nurture more children here, accounting for one-fifth of the world's total, while the land they own only accounts for a few percent of the earth's land area.After waking up from the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution, the descendants of Chinese people who are accustomed to eating tofu and pickled vegetables began to create wealth with incomparable vigor in the past.During the 16 years from the late 1970s to the late 1980s and early 1990s, people felt that the number of buildings, color TVs, air conditioners, cars and money in their pockets increased countless times.However, at the same time, people are surprised to find that there is less coal for heating in winter than before, more and more power outages after eating, the gold and silver jewelry in the store is scary, and an emerald ring costs tens of thousands. Yuan……

Factories began to stop production, the main railway line was empty, and the mines were like deflated balloons. The Orient Train, which was rushing forward, seemed to have discovered something.Over the years, the yellow people who are proud of their vast land and rich gold medals began to panic.They found that the resource crisis faced by western developed countries approached China almost overnight! There is no need to hide anymore. The situation of China's mineral resources is severe, and it is urgent to protect resources!Five years ago, the Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources of the People's Republic of China spoke out loudly.

This is impossible!We are a country recognized by the world as a country with vast land and abundant resources. Could it be that even the legacy left by the earth will depreciate and disappear? With an area of ​​9.6 million square kilometers, China has the third largest land area in the world. China has discovered 162 kinds of minerals, including 148 kinds of minerals with proven reserves. We have almost all the mineral resources on the earth. China has world-class oilfield bases and coalfield bases such as Daqing and Kailuan. China's reserves of tungsten, bismuth, titanium, rare earth, pyrite, arsenic, asbestos, gypsum... 10 mineral resources rank first in the world.

Are all these not enough to prove that China is the third largest mining country in the world?How serious is it? As a result, the news and public opinion circles started dialogues with government ministers again and again: Reporter: Comrade Minister, what is the situation of our country's resources? Minister: In terms of the total amount of mineral resources, we are a veritable resource-rich country, second only to the Soviet Union and the United States.But the resource ownership in the world is calculated on the basis of per capita. In this way, we will drop to the 80th place in the world, and the per capita resource possession is less than half of the world average level! …

Reporter: According to this level and the status quo of the country's economic development, what is our recent resource situation? Minister: From a short-term perspective, compared with the requirements of national economic development, the proven reserves are still grim.Some bulk minerals in the steel, non-ferrous and chemical industries include iron, manganese, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel, sulfur, phosphorus, and sodium. Although the total reserves can basically guarantee the current construction needs, due to various factors, The output of these minerals cannot meet the needs of national construction, and some of them need to be imported into the Republic in large quantities every year. Reporter: And these minerals have always been our top products in the past, and they have one of the best reserves!

Minister: Yes.In addition, although important mineral resources such as oil, natural gas, copper, precious metals and coal have certain potential, there is a large gap in reserves available for planning, development and utilization.The growth of reserves has become a key issue in the development of production... Daqing, Shengli, Kailuan and other major oil fields and coal mines that made great contributions to our socialist motherland decades ago have mostly entered the middle and late stages. That is to say, by the year 2000, all or almost Entering the aging period in which mining capacity gradually declines.The production capacity of iron, aluminum and zinc mines will also disappear by 10% to 40% respectively, and most non-ferrous metal mines will start to dry up.

Resources are related to the survival of the nation! The rapid development of the socialist modern economy determines the huge body of national economic construction, which needs to rely on a large amount of resources for blood transfusion.Whoever wants to stop or reduce this kind of blood transfusion is tantamount to putting the country and the nation to death. China's resource cause has been ruthlessly suspended on the wheels of rapid progress! It’s really rainy and rainy. Just when China is facing a resource crisis, a huge and brutal wind of looting for mines and stealing treasures has swept across the land of China like a tornado. It has continued since the mid-1980s and has continued to blow more and more violently. , Liaoyuan 9.6 million square kilometers of every inch of land potential!

In the beginning, there were those scattered and small mines. Some people used hoes and shovels to plan a piece here and dig a scoop there. Later, when people raised their feet and crossed the mine boundary line, some people began to carry burdens on their shoulders, and there were buying and selling transactions.The mine began to be restless, and at its feet and surroundings, it was already a noisy business field; later, thousands of teams, driving cars and holding prominent signs, rushed all over the mountains and plains, and the mine fell into chaos and passiveness. Concession, until the final out of control. Digging, logging, pumping!Never-satisfying digging, logging, pumping without end! Coal fields, tungsten mines, copper mines, mercury kilns... Countless national key or non-key mineral resource bases are all suffering unprecedented devastation, and are at the critical moment of life and death! Therefore, the famous Kailuan exclaimed: Because hundreds of small coal wells competed with the national mines for coal mining, large areas of raw coal fields were destroyed and could not be recovered. As a result, Gejiu, known as the tin capital of the world, was in a hurry: private mining teams from more than a dozen provinces entered the state-run mining area, and the mine was in a state of anarchy, and refined tin sand worth hundreds of thousands of yuan was stolen every day; Therefore, Mohe, which is known as the North Pole of China, weeps: The Qing soldiers and Japanese devils sent by Cixi back then were not so ruthless. In a few years, the rich gold mining area will become a pile of ruins... As a result, hundreds of thousands of state-run mines that have stood proudly and proudly on the land of China for many years, supported the magnificent building of socialist construction, and started the historical wheel of the Republic, all collapsed overnight.Reports of production suspension and emergency telegrams flew like snowflakes to the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Metallurgy, Ministry of Coal, Ministry of Petroleum, Ministry of Civil Affairs, State Council, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China... Every bloody Chinese descendant who cherishes human resources and the living environment of human beings, when he understands the current situation of China's mines, will be angry and worried!According to the statistics of the national mineral management department: among the more than 7,000 state-owned mines in my country, more than half of them are in the state of being stolen, robbed, or occupied, resulting in production suspension, paralysis or semi-paralysis!Among them, there are more than 100 hot mines that are in dire straits! What is a hotspot?The Lanping lead-zinc mine in Yunnan can be cited as an example. The state spent tens of millions of survey fees on this mine and found out the reserves of 14 million tons.This world-shocking large lead-zinc mine is in the preparation stage, but it has been dug indiscriminately. In just a few years, more than 5 million tons of high-grade rich ore have been excavated, leaving behind a barren land full of holes and scars. Qiu Cangtian... What's the matter? Could it be that the common people in China who only want to make a fortune have gone crazy and don't even want their most basic living conditions?Don't even need clothes and trousers, and enter the 21st century with bare buttocks?