The entire Outer Space Summit lasted for two days, but Jiang Chen stayed in Canberra for a whole week. Half of the time was spent in meetings, four days were spent on business, and the other two days were spent touring Canberra with Ayesha to experience Australia's culture.
However, there wasn't much to shop around recently. Many shops in Canberra were temporarily closed because of this high-level summit.
The harvest of this summit was quite amazing, and in a sense, it exceeded Jiang Chen's expectations. He originally thought that not many people would cooperate with him if he proposed such a harsh cooperation framework without any profit, but this was not the case.
The first country to express its willingness to cooperate was Moro. After all, it was Xin's number one underling. However, Jiang Chen was very skeptical that Santos didn't understand what a space elevator was. In addition, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Madagascar, and some small African countries all expressed acceptance of the cooperation framework proposed by Celestial Trade.
After a period of research, Hua and Russia also expressed their willingness to accept the cooperation framework proposed by Celestial Trade.
The representative of Hua proposed to establish a microgravity laboratory in the gravity-free section of Celestial City for the Institute of Mechanics of the Hua Academy of Sciences to carry out a total of 51 national scientific research projects such as two-phase flow, microgravity combustion, gas-phase epitaxy, and metal alloy nucleation, with a price of 1.57 billion XND.
The conditions for building a microgravity laboratory on the ground were quite difficult, and the UA had been trying to prevent Hua from participating in the International Space Station project, so Hua's microgravity experiments could only be carried out on the ground. After all, the cost of maintaining a large space station alone was too expensive.
In order to simulate the gravity-free environment in the experiment, Hua's solution was to design a very tall tower to simulate the microgravity environment through free fall. In 1995, the National Microgravity Laboratory was officially approved to be established. The design of the 100-meter drop tower had a microgravity time of 3.5 seconds for the drop cabin system and 3.26 seconds for the drop tube system. It was already at the top of the world.
This result was enough to be proud of, but also very helpless, because everything was forced.
After the summit, the first thing the Hua representative did was to propose the establishment of a microgravity laboratory in Celestial City and offered a price of 1.07 billion XND. Converted into RMB, it was a huge sum of more than 7 billion XND. But compared to the tens of billions of dollars spent to build a space station alone, as well as the unimaginable maintenance costs, this amount of money was nothing.
Since Hua was the first country to reach cooperation with Celestial Trade on the space elevator, the microgravity laboratory cooperation document signed with Hua also became the blueprint for negotiations with other parties.
Later, Russia also reached an agreement with Celestial Trade to invest 950 million Xin New dollars to build a relatively small microgravity laboratory in the gravity-free section of Celestial City, which replaced the original plan to expand the International Space Station in Russia.
But the majority of the profits were not these. What really made Jiang Chen rich were the private companies that came to his door.
Originally, space was something that ordinary people could only dream of. If one wasn't a billionaire, they would have to sign a contract with SpaceX and get on a one-way spacecraft to Mars to realize their dream of space travel.
But now, things seemed to have taken a turn for the better.
Celestial Trade announced the price of the space elevator on its official website. The base price of the adult ticket before tax was only 1,500 Xin New dollars! When converted to RMB, it was only a little more than 10,000 RMB. It was even cheaper than a flight ticket from Beijing International Airport to New York during peak season!
It was crazy!
It was as if overnight, space tourism, which only the rich could afford, had become an ordinary overseas tour that even ordinary people could afford.
After SpaceX, the second company to find Jiang Chen was not a space company, and its business had nothing to do with aerospace. It was a hotel chain.
The company that found Jiang Chen was the famous Hilton Group. As early as the beginning of the development of Xin's tourism project, the two sides established a good cooperative relationship and aimed at the tourism prospects brought by the space elevator.
Almost as soon as the UN Summit ended, the president of Hilton Group, Christopher Nasetta, found Jiang Chen and made an invitation for cooperation.
"Mr. Jiang Chen, we are quite optimistic about the tourism prospects of the space elevator. We have studied the relevant information on the space elevator you have published. We hope to be able to rent space-themed hotels with a total area of 24000 to 30000 square meters in the gravity-free section, low-gravity section, and surface gravity section of Celestial City. "
The reason why the space station was expensive was largely due to the high freight costs. After the completion of the space elevator, the price of synchronous orbit construction was no longer the same. Take the International Space Station, which cost 50 billion US Dollar as an example. If Celestial Trade wanted to build an identical one, the cost might be less than one percent. If they wanted to expand the same living area in Celestial City, the cost could even be reduced to less than 100 million US Dollar.
Celestial City was located in the synchronous orbit, and its developable area was much more than that of Penglai City. If it was a year ago, Hilton Hotel wanted to build a space-themed hotel with a living area of more than 10,000 square meters on the synchronous orbit, they wouldn't be able to afford the price even if they sold all of them.
But now, they only had to pay a price of 1.3 billion Xin New dollars to win the project.
However, before signing the contract, there was another issue that needed to be clarified.
That was the opinion of the UA government.
Hilton Group belonged to a UA company, but the UA had not yet made any statement on whether to accept the cooperation framework of Celestial Trade. Jiang Chen had no opinion on Hilton Hotel wanting to enter Celestial City, but if the UA Department of Commerce made things difficult, he was worried that Hilton Group wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure.
After listening to Jiang Chen's concerns, Mr. Nasetta laughed and said nonchalantly, "Mr. Jiang worries too much. We are also a multinational company. Even the Capitol can't stop us from making money. We have a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hilton Group registered on Coro Island. The law of the UA can only go as far as Hawaii and has no impact on our cooperation. "
After hearing this sentence, Jiang Chen also smiled and extended his right hand.
"I wish us a happy cooperation."
Mr. Nasetta grabbed Jiang Chen's right hand and shook it vigorously.
"A happy cooperation!"
The date of signing the contract was set on the day before Jiang Chen returned to Xin.
Early in the morning, Nasetta came to Jiang Chen with his secretary and personally delivered the contract to Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen had received the electronic version of the contract and sent it back to the headquarters of Celestial Trade for three rounds of review by a professional team of lawyers. After receiving the paper contract, Jiang Chen scanned it with his watch and confirmed that it was the same as the electronic contract before he signed his name.
After the contract was signed, Christopher Nasetta enthusiastically invited Jiang Chen to have a meal together, and Jiang Chen gladly accepted his invitation.
Having just signed an investment project worth more than one billion US Dollars, Nasetta was naturally particularly enthusiastic. Favors were popular everywhere, especially for a CEO of a large group like him. To a large extent, it was not just his ability that determined whether he could continue to sit in this position. What was more important was the resources that he had mastered.
A "super quality customer" like Jiang Chen was naturally someone he wanted to make friends with.
After the meal, Christopher Nasetta gave Jiang Chen a black diamond card.
According to Nasetta, this black diamond card was more valuable than the diamond card, and it was not publicly distributed at all. Only important customers of the Hilton Hotel could obtain one. Customers with this black diamond card could enjoy the treatment of swiping the card at the counter and staying in the presidential suite at any Hilton Hotel in the world. Even if there was no room, they could find a way to arrange it for you. As for the three free meals and afternoon tea, there was no need to mention it.
Jiang Chen gladly accepted the black diamond card. After saying goodbye to Nasetta, he returned to the hotel where he stayed.
After taking a shower, he laid on the bed, opened the holographic screen on his watch, and browsed the web.
He would board the plane to return to Xin tomorrow.
Just as he yawned and was about to go to bed early, a video with a skyrocketing weekly view caught his attention. The video was uploaded a week ago, and the time was just the opening ceremony of the space elevator passenger rail …
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