"An expedition of necessity."
"Well said!"
The old man sitting in the office couldn't help but exclaim in admiration as he watched the scene on the TV and the applause resounding throughout the room.
Before the summit began, he was a little worried that Lu Zhou wouldn't be able to withstand the harassment from Western reporters and "environmental activists". He didn't expect that Academician Lu not only presented the achievements of China over the past five years to the world, but he also looked forward to the future, elevating the moon landing project to the level of a community of human destiny.
Yes, the development of outer space was not only for the benefit of China, but it was also an obligation that must be fulfilled for the survival of mankind. As a responsible superpower, what Academician Lu said simply touched the old man's heart.
Director Li stood in front of his desk. He smiled and spoke.
"After all, he is Academician Lu. He is quite eloquent. Every time I discuss a problem with him, I feel like I'm enlightened. Things that I didn't understand before, I suddenly understand. "
Not only did he understand, he might even solve the problem as well.
His favorite thing to do on weekdays was to visit Academician Lu's house.
The old man grabbed the armrests of the chair with both hands. He stood up from his desk and walked to the blueprint hanging on the wall.
This blueprint was jointly designed by the Lunar Orbit Committee and the Guanghan City Planning Committee. It depicted the appearance of the city in the Guanghan Special Economic Zone after the population exceeded 10,000. Even though it was just a concept map that looked no different from a movie poster, many of the things on it had been technically realized, at least in the laboratory of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
As long as they continued to develop at the current pace, sooner or later, this blueprint would become a reality, or even more magnificent than it was …
After staring at the blueprint for a long time, the old man suddenly spoke.
"Speaking of which, when will the first group of pioneers set off?"
Director Li responded.
"It should be in a few days."
The old man nodded. After thinking for a while, he continued to speak.
"Although our publicity department has done a series of mobilization work some time ago, I feel that it's still lacking."
"We've said the superficial words and conveyed the medium and long-term strategy to our grassroots, but we've neglected one important thing, and that is, we haven't conveyed our spirit to the world."
"The development of lunar resources by the Lunar Orbit Committee is not only for China, but also for the world and the future of humanity."
With that said, the old man looked at the secretary standing on the other side of the desk, who hadn't said a word since the beginning, and ordered with a serious expression.
"In tomorrow's newspaper, let's use the topic 'Expeditionary Necessity' and add Academician Lu's speech."
The secretary immediately nodded and replied in a respectful tone.
"Yes!"
…
The next morning, a piece of news titled "Necessity of Expedition" appeared on the headline of .
In the news, the author used Academician Lu's speech at the Copenhagen Global Climate Action Summit and his answers to questions from environmentalists as an introduction to the future of mankind. At the same time, he discussed the ultimate way out of ecological and environmental protection.
In the end, the article refined Academician Lu's speech and proposed the conclusion that "humans can't curl up in the cradle for the rest of their lives. Only by walking out of the cradle is the future."
Even though this sentence sounded a bit far-fetched, it was actually a very realistic problem.
Many species that dominated the planet and stood at the top of the food chain were born on Earth. They might not have established a prosperous civilization like humans, but they had existed for far longer than Homo sapiens, which only had a history of 250,000 years.
But now, most of them no longer existed.
Facts had proven that even if an industrialized civilization had not been born, it did not mean that the ecosystem and the individuals in the ecosystem could always coexist in harmony.
Conquering nature and controlling nature was the true way out for human civilization.
This might not be the only solution to environmental problems, but from a materialistic perspective, it was the only solution that could see a better future.
Of course, since this article appeared in instead of , , or , the real purpose was naturally not to discuss the issue of environmental protection itself.
It was to convey a signal or thought to the outside world.
That was the development of moon resources and the conquest of outer space. This was not only the expectation of the world, but also the responsibility given to us by the times.
Or in other words …
It was destiny!
As soon as this article was published, it immediately caused countless media platforms to forward it crazily. In less than a morning, it spread all over the Internet and blew up countless Chinese netizens' WeChat moments.
Although there was no impassioned speech in the entire article, nor was there a large amount of rhetoric that awakened the soul of every reader who read the article with simple words, evoking the resonance in the hearts of countless Chinese people.
Of course, compared to the patriotism and destiny revealed in the article, people were more surprised by the amount of information revealed in this article.
The first batch of immigrants to the Guanghan Special Economic Zone was about to set off?
Why didn't they even hear about the registration?
On Weibo, discussions had already flooded the bottom of Everyone Daily's official Weibo.
"F * * k! Are they really going to set off? "
"I thought it was a joke from the Office of Strategic Deception? I didn't expect the Guanghan Special Economic Zone plan to be real! "
"Is it too late to go and speculate in real estate now?"
"There's no f * * king real estate for you to speculate in! It's just a pile of dirt, and most people can't do it even if they want to! "
"It is said that there are already more than 100 people in the Guanghan Special Economic Zone now, and the average person has a doctorate degree. They have the highest score in the country. It's terrifying!"
Compared with pure emotion and amazement, the wide spread of this article also triggered countless people to think.
In particular, a highly praised answer on Qiu Hu expressed the thoughts of countless people —
"Sigh, I really didn't expect that there would be such a day when we need to lead the world forward …"
It wasn't just the person who wrote this line who didn't expect it.
Almost everyone who pressed the like button on this line didn't expect this day to come so suddenly.
So much so that the moment they realized it, it felt like a lifetime had passed.
Just five years ago, the throne of global hegemony still stood on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Whether it was a developing country or a developed country, the answer to the future could be found in a certain street or a certain university in North America.
Now that five years had passed, the focus of strategic balance had unwittingly shifted to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.
From controllable fusion to the aerospace industry, the rise of China's intelligent manufacturing had subtly changed the tilt of the balance and redefined the order of the new world.
How should they proceed in the future? This was a new question that everyone had to ponder.
Should they be like the old hegemons, who used the leverage of money and guns to loot the wealth of the world's people and enjoy the luxury of the next century, or should they achieve the prosperity of the community of human destiny as a whole?
It wasn't just the people living on the land of China.
The whole world was waiting for the answer of this awakening dragon.
And now.
This article called "The Necessary Expedition" had obviously given China's answer to this question of the century …
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