Chapter 1027
Li Linfei knew that this was a prince, or an heir to the throne, and Tan just told him that this prince was called Hamdan.
At this point Prince Hamdan calmed the exhilaration in his heart and immediately looked at Li Linfei and asked directly and dryly, "Mr Li, when will you be able to supply? On a large scale?"
Although he couldn't be endless, he was a tycoon after all, so he asked a different question.
Li Linfei has to admit that he likes doing business with Middle Eastern customers, who doesn't like to do business with such customers who are not poor and don't care about money?
After personally tasting a few glasses of water separated from the chemical solution, Hamdan's anticipation of the trip immediately turned to impatience.
If this desalination system is introduced on a large scale and spreads throughout Dubai and the UAE, the problem of fresh water scarcity will no longer exist and a major natural geographical constraint to the economic take-off of the region will have disappeared.
Fresh water is arguably one of the core foundations of economic development and with sufficient fresh water resources, Dubai will not be afraid to run out of water for its residents even if its population soars to 10 million.
The impact is multifaceted: seawater cannot be used directly for agricultural irrigation, whereas with sufficient freshwater resources the local agricultural economy can take off.
Because seawater has a lot of minerals, construction machinery will react chemically with the minerals in seawater, so there is no shortage of water for industry, which will provide a solid foundation for local industrial development.
There is also the expansion of desert oases by returning sand to forests, changing the harsh living environment and gaining more living space, etc. ...... There are so many beneficial changes brought about by this technology.
It also reflects the huge impact of this technology, so it makes sense that Hamdan is so eager and impatient.
Although this will lead to greater dependence on the Chinese in the future, Hamdan is well aware that Dubai and the UAE as a whole are only small countries, and that only world powers such as China and the US are qualified to be fully autonomous.
Small countries are inherently destined to be extremely dependent on others in order to get by, and to a certain extent, to pay protection money.
After viewing the prototype, Li Linfei led the group out of the Institute and went to the waiting room of the Institute to entertain Tan Gang, Hamdan and the others.
In the living room, Li Linfei was in the main seat, Tan Gang and the others were on his left, and Hamdan and the others were on his right.
"Mr Li, when will your company be able to supply this desalination unit to Dubai? I hope the sooner the better!" Hamdan was the first to speak up after he sat down, looking eager and unapologetic.
The large-scale application of desalination systems in Dubai and the UAE could lead to a boom in the economy in the foreseeable future, something he had been pushing for and had been under a lot of internal pressure to do.
Now he sees that when he returns, he will be regarded as a hero by his people for having solved the nation's fresh water woes.
His reputation is sure to soar, and his position as heir to the Dubai throne will not only be unbreakable, but his future leadership of the entire UAE will also be in sight.
"The technology has been finely researched by my company for several years ......" said Li Linfei calmly without blushing, well, the future of technology has only been founded a few years?
Then he continued calmly: "as early as six months ago was able to overcome all the technical problems, now has the ability to large-scale commercial applications, now basically integrated."
At this point, Li Linfei stopped, but there was another sentence he didn't say, but Hamdan could hear it, that it was all done, just waiting for the customer to place an order.
Hamdan's heart was full and he was getting more and more excited, the harvest he got from this trip was beyond his expectation, he originally thought that there would be no benefit from coming here, he came to China a few days ago for pleasure, but then he was found by his superiors and told him some things, then he followed Tan Gang here.
I didn't expect anything good, and gave a thumbs up to China's efficiency.
He then asked, "Mr Li, I would like to introduce your equipment to double Dubai's fresh water demand, how soon can you achieve this goal and how much will it cost?"
On the other side, Tan Gang smacked his lips at his words, and Li Linfei was also stunned.
Dubai's water consumption last year was 800-900 million cubic metres of water, doubling that to an average of 1.7 billion cubic metres.
Compare this to Shanghai, a world-class metropolis with a huge population of over 25 million, which uses less than 4 billion cubic metres of water a year.
Dubai, a city of over 3 million people, still in the middle of a desert city, actually consumes nearly 1 billion cubic metres a year, and now it looks like it's going to sprint for 2 billion cubic metres. There is a shortage of water, but it uses more water than China or even the United States. What else can one say but that the tycoons are rich and capricious.
Dubai has become the world's most famous city in just 20 years. There is no fresh water here, but everyone has the money to use water, and they are always buying and building buildings.
Although Dubai is a trench, but there is still a gap with the Saudis, the royal family of Saudis has more than 800 billion US dollars to take out at any time, this 800 billion is not the GDP, but the real existence of the small treasury, this is the real trench untamed.
The company is also estimating that if Hamdan wants to double Dubai's water consumption, it will be a multi-billion dollar super bill.
The whole of the UAE doesn't want it? That would be a fat deal of over $10 billion in the UAE alone.
And Saudi Arabia, and Israel, the whole Middle East, the whole world ...... think about it.
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on this.
Tan Gang nodded secretly when he heard this, and could not help but cast a look of approval at Li Linfei, who did not forget to work for the benefit of his country at a critical moment.
Chapter 1028
Tan Gang heard this secretly nodded his head, could not help but cast a look of approval to Li Linfei, at the critical moment did not forget to make a profit for the country, this is a truly excellent entrepreneur.
In fact, even if the desalination plant to the Dubai people also does not matter, the core technology is carbon nanotube composite membrane, the future of technology absolute monopoly of the technology, pinching the composite membrane supply source.
But Li Linfei so request is a kind of attitude, but also a blindfold, deliberately cover an unimportant thing to death, but also for their own country to fight for more say.
The desalinated water plant in Dubai is under the control of the Chinese, that is the same as pinching the lifeline of the Dubai people and even the entire UAE in the future, when the time comes, they will inevitably worry about being pinched off the supply of life-giving water at critical moments, then Hamdan and their mentality will inevitably gradually move towards being pro-China and alienated from the US.
When the U.S. empire was fighting with the locals in the Middle East, the UAE was fighting behind their backs, and they were definitely the West's first-class ponies.
And now Hamdan is clearly disenchanted with the West and is looking east instead.
"Just double the amount of water for Dubai, that's all I have to ask Mr Lee." Hamdan put it succinctly and emphatically again.
"His Royal Highness is indeed a man of thunder and lightning, nothing more to say, you are the first customer my company will serve for that technology." Li Linfei also said with a quick snap.
This is the same as taking the initiative to willingly give you the lifeline of your throat, so if this kind of sincerity and determination is not approved on the spot, it is really chilling.
As the saying goes, Li Linfei smiled cheerfully and said, "The total amount of this contract is 15% discount, only the UAE Dubai enjoys this treatment, also including future purchases are a strand of this discount, permanent, as a gift to His Royal Highness."
Tan just slightly dumbfounded, simply does not regard money as money, this words out of the mouth is equal to tens of billions of soft currency in one go, and also future purchases are 15% discount, this meeting gift is not a bit heavy?
Fortunately, this guy only said Dubai, UAE, not the United Arab Emirates.
However, Tan just quickly understood that Hamdan was the first to eat the crab, and it was still necessary to show this cooperation and solid friendship to the world, well, mainly to show the sincerity to our friends in the Middle East.
"Then Mr Li, I will leave you for now, I have to go back immediately." Hamdan got up and said with a smile, basically there was no more suspense, once we turned back to prepare and then get the new contract signed, the trip would be over perfectly.
"No problem!" After a final handshake and a few words of courtesy, Hamdan left without further ado.
With Hamdan gone, only Tan Gang was left in the parlour, and Minister Tan was overcome with emotion, saying: "I say, Boss Li, now that you have given the first batch of equipment to Dubai, you must also consider the domestic ones, as the Greater North China region is also in dire need of this desalination equipment."
After seeing the sample prototype and then personally tasting the filtered, purified water, there was basically no need to consider anything, it was a big plus.
There is bound to be a massive demand for this equipment from above to alleviate the plague of scarce fresh water resources in the north, as well as to relieve the pressure on the South-North Water Transfer Project.
Listen to Tan Gang's tone a bit seems to be the flavor of complaint, Li Linfei calmly smiled and said: "Minister Tan, this matter I am well thought out, Dubai's sincerity you also see, plus this is the first overseas business, in order to show sincerity and attention must also do so ......"
The first phase of the Institute's raw material capacity supply is not able to keep up with the demand for the volume of North China, and now it is trying to The other thing is that the first phase of the Institute's raw material capacity cannot keep up with the volume of demand in North China and is now being expanded.
It was true that Dubai was not on the same level as the whole of North China, not only in terms of land area but also in terms of population.
But when Tan just thought of this super scale, he immediately thought of the sky-high investment and asked, "Then if we want to meet the entire Great Northern China to take water from the Bohai Sea, approximately how large an investment will it cost? You have to give a fair price to your own family, don't ask too much, Mr Li, the country's finances are very tight."
Then, Tan Gang looked at him with a serious face, posing as if he was prepared to bear an astronomical amount of psychological preparation, looking at Li Linfei crying and laughing, crossing his legs and jokingly saying, "Then Minister Tan, is this an appointment now?"
"Uh ......"
Tan Gang froze and said, "This time I'm here to collect data reports from you as the head of the research team, so it's not considered an appointment, but next time it might be."
So direct? Stunned, Li Linfei whirled around and laughed, "No need for another time, just do it all at once."
Tan just looked at him in confusion, but did not answer the question but silently waited for the following, Li Linfei thought for a while and then said seriously: "Do you think it must be a super large investment?"
"In terms of its scale, it is actually a cabbage price, the South-North Water Transfer spent more than 500 billion, this I think more than 50 billion can be fixed, do you think it is a cabbage price?"
"What?" Tan Gang was shocked and stunned at hearing this, and then hurriedly said, "Only 50 billion of investment is needed? This figure is unscientific, Boss Li, don't joke, I have a bad heart, don't say then that there are two zeros to be added at the end."
"Haha ......" Li Linfei laughed for a moment, then swirled his large hand in the mid-air in front of him and brought up the holographic display, then opened a map of the Greater North China region.
Tan Gang rarely revealed a nonchalant look, more than 50 billion to solve the water scarcity problem in Greater North China? To say that out loud was like a nightmare from heaven.
Not long after, Li Linfei stared at the map and said, "I have four feasible options, the first one is to rely on the terrain to send the desalinated water up to the highlands, with the help of the lakes and rivers along the way as an excess, eventually forming a self-flow, but this will require the construction of open channels, a huge amount of engineering, huge investment and long time consuming."