northernbook Chapter 275 Saturn V launch vehicle, heavy aircraft carrier commissioned
Chapter 275 Saturn V launch vehicle, heavy aircraft carrier commissioned
With the arrival of the New Year, the Executive Yuan of the ancient country also fell into a busy state.
The calculation of fiscal revenue and planning of fiscal budget all fall on the Executive Yuan and various ministries.
So during this period of time, basically all departments have been working overtime.
Through some data submitted by the Executive Yuan, Jiang Hua also has a clearer understanding of the current development of the ancient country.
As the ancient country's industrial construction began to show results, the fiscal revenue in 33 also saw a small boom compared with previous years.
Therefore, the fiscal revenue in 33 years reached 124 billion yuan.
Among the fiscal revenue, taxes account for 65% and non-taxes account for 35%.
Jiang Hua was not very satisfied with this data.
Normally, it is normal for taxes to account for 90% of the fiscal budget, and at least it should reach 85%.
However, this also shows that the current industrial development of the ancient country still has some shortcomings and is not very comprehensive.
Of the fiscal revenue of 124 billion yuan, 8 million yuan was obtained through debt.
Expenditure reached 122 billion yuan, and the gap between income and expenditure was about 2 million yuan.
This can be considered as barely maintaining the balance of fiscal revenue and expenditure.
Among them, Executive Yuan Premier Chu An-shih played a vital role. Not only was there no fiscal deficit, but there was even a surplus of 200 million.
This year's fiscal budget plan has just been released and is placed directly on Jiang Hua's desk.
The fiscal budget planning for the new year is also very different from previous ones.
In the past, military expenditure accounted for a relatively high proportion of expenditure, about 15%.
The military is going to have a hard time this year.
Because for a period of time in the future, the focus of the ancient country's development will be on economic construction.
Therefore, this year's military expenditure only accounts for 10% of the fiscal budget, a direct cut of 5%.
It was Jiang Hua himself who made this decision.
Because according to the current situation in the surrounding areas, if there is no war, maintaining around 10% is just right, and we just have to live a tight life.
The remaining 90% is used in education, medical care, infrastructure, social security and employment, people's livelihood, agriculture and other fields.
Among them, education, agriculture and infrastructure are considered the three giants of fiscal budget planning.
Infrastructure accounts for 41%, agriculture accounts for 23%, and education accounts for 15%.
These three giants alone account for 79%, plus 10% of military spending, leaving 11% to be divided among other areas.
This allocation is not very reasonable, but it is the only solution we have.
None of the four major expenditures, namely infrastructure, agriculture, education and military spending, can be touched, so the budgets in other areas will naturally be reduced.
However, with the increase in future fiscal budgets, this situation will be much better.
Moreover, according to Chu Anshi's calculations, the government's fiscal budget will double in the next five years, and the proportion of tax revenue will reach more than 85%, reaching 90% within ten years.
According to this fiscal budget report, infrastructure spending accounts for 41%, which also shows that infrastructure will be the focus of development in the next few years.
This is also because infrastructure covers a very wide range of areas.
Energy and power projects such as oil, coal, and electricity.
Transportation projects such as highways, railways, aviation, water transport, roads and bridges, tunnels, ports, etc.
Water conservancy projects such as reservoirs, dams, river and sand control, and sewage treatment.
Telecommunications, communications and other postal and telecommunications projects.
All of this is included in the infrastructure.
So even though infrastructure accounts for a large proportion of the budget, the amount allocated to each project is actually not much.
Among electricity, roads and railways, which one is not a major expenditure?
There is no need to say much about electricity. Electricity is needed for both people's livelihood and industry, so the construction of electricity is currently very urgent.
The power sector not only needs to meet society's electricity needs, but also needs to meet the industry's increasingly high demand for electricity.
If the Red Alert base had not allocated some of its electricity, the ancient country's electricity demand would definitely not be met.
Electric power construction cannot keep up with the development speed of the ancient country.
This is also because the ancient country is developing too fast nowadays, which can be described as changing with each passing day.
Every county and every city across the country is undergoing large-scale construction, and the demand for electricity will naturally increase.
Take last year for example, excluding the power generation provided by the Red Alert Base, the total power generation for the whole year was as high as 172 billion kWh.
The Red Alert Base's power generation capacity is 74 billion kWh, and its total power generation last year was 246 billion kWh, just enough to meet the needs of people's livelihood and industrial power generation.
Therefore, this year, investment in electricity remains the largest.
There is still a long way to go before electricity is accessible to every household.
The ancient country is developing very fast now, but the time is too short.
Therefore, it is still unable to meet the electricity needs of rural areas and towns.
If we give it another three to five years, we may be able to start supplying sufficient electricity to towns and rural areas.
The farmers can still afford to wait for this period of time.
Among the construction projects submitted by the power department, Jiang Hua also found a bright spot.
The highlight is the nuclear power plant.
[Regarding the development prospects, feasibility and experiments of nuclear fission power energy]
The power sector has a great interest in nuclear power.
So they proposed to build an experimental nuclear reactor to verify the feasibility of nuclear power generation.
Jiang Hua directly signed his name on this report.
But he added one more sentence later.
"Safety is of paramount importance. If a nuclear leak occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable."
There are many real examples of the painful lessons of nuclear leakage in the original time and space.
Nuclear power can be developed, but the premise of everything is safety, safety and safety.
In this field, safety awareness must be ingrained.
Because once a safety accident occurs, it will be a catastrophic event.
There are many Red Alert experts in the power sector, so there is basic security guarantee, which makes Jiang Hua feel a little more at ease.
After completing the approval of the report submitted by the power department, the next one is the road and railway construction projects.
If you want to get rich, build roads first.
These six short words are ingrained in the bones of every time traveler.
The difference between areas with developed transportation and underdeveloped areas is like the difference between heaven and hell, and the difference between rich areas and slums.
Developed transportation will drive a series of economic development.
So even if the investment in this field is huge, the output it brings will be even greater.
A well-maintained road or railway can even drive the economic development of a region.
Therefore, the construction of roads and railways is also a top priority for economic development.
The transportation department has planned more than ten highway and railway renovation and new construction projects.
New highway construction is mainly concentrated in the northwest and southwest regions and the two westernmost border provinces.
Railway construction is mainly concentrated in coastal areas.
Giving priority to railway construction in coastal areas is also a helpless move.
After all, coastal areas have natural advantages, so they are also priority development areas.
We can only develop the coastal areas first, and then use the prosperous coastal areas to drive the economic development of the central and western regions.
There is no perfect solution in this regard, and decisions can only be made through trade-offs.
As aviation is an emerging mode of transportation, ancient China is still in its early stages of development and is almost at the same level as the West.
However, it is foreseeable that in this field, the development of the ancient country will surpass them at an extremely fast speed.
After all, in the field of aviation technology, the ancient country was far ahead.
There are also many private investors who are very optimistic about the development of this field and have begun to invest in the field of civil aircraft manufacturing.
However, the main investment direction of private capital is still small and medium-sized aircraft.
Large aircraft have high technical requirements and high capital requirements, and the prospects are not very clear.
If the ancient country was far ahead in the field of aviation, then it was absolutely ahead in the field of aerospace.
There are now three major launch bases in the aerospace field.
They are the Yuntian Launch Base in Saibei, the Jinquan Launch Base in the northwest, and the Haichang Launch Base in Qiongya.
Among them, the Yuntian launch base will be relocated as a whole to Jinquan in the northwest.
Therefore, for a period of time in the future, the ancient country will only have two rocket launch bases, one in the south and one in the north.
The reason why the Yuntian Launch Base was relocated to Jinquan was also because of the climate problem in the northern Saibei region where the Yuntian Launch Base was located.
Once winter comes, launch missions basically come to a standstill.
So this place is not suitable as a rocket launch center.
The reason I chose this place before was out of helplessness.
After all, the Restoration Government at that time only occupied the northern region except the northwest region.
Only the uninhabited area here is suitable for the covert development of the aerospace industry.
Compared with the location of Yuntian Base, Jinquan is very suitable for rocket launches.
First, the terrain is flat; second, it is sparsely populated; and third, it is dry and rainy.
It doesn't rain for 365 of the 300 days a year, making it one of the ideal launch sites.
Currently, the Jinquan Launch Center has completed the construction of the first phase.
Under Jiang Hua's instructions, the Ancient Aerospace Science and Technology Industry Group also began to study the possibility of manned flight.
If we say that ancient countries developed by standing on the shoulders of giants, then the aerospace field is developing by standing on the heads of giants.
The Yuntian-2 experimental rocket, the first rocket launched in the aerospace field, is a mature aerospace rocket, not a product like the V that was modified from a primitive ballistic missile.
Today, the Yuntian series of rocket showers has developed to Yuntian No. 5.
This Yuntian-5 rocket had another famous name in the original time and space - the Saturn V giant carrier rocket.
The reason why it is called giant is because it has a take-off weight of more than 2900 tons and a carrying capacity of up to 127 tons.
This thing is enough to send people to the moon, let alone into space.
However, manned lunar landing is not that easy, so Jiang Hua’s current requirement is manned space flight.
If manned space flight could be achieved, it would mean that the ancient country had already occupied an absolute high position in space, leading the West by at least twenty years, and the gap would continue to grow.
After the New Year's bell rang, the Red Alert Shipyard launched two more models of large warships.
They are the Red Alert version of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier and the Yamato battleship.