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Shandong, Xiwangzhuang, Wenshang County.
After Indian geophysicist Devendra arrived in China in early May, he first went from Shanghai to Xuzhou, and then planned to start from Xuzhou and walk from the Huaihe River to the Yellow River.Of course, he walked dozens of miles with his escorts, stopping every time a meteorological observation station appeared to check the local weather, and at the same time check whether the medium and long-term weather forecast in his hand was accurate.
Devendra was born in India but is now mainly active in Europe. In 1957, Devendra conducted the world's first tracking observation of the atmospheric ozone layer. In 1958, he began to transfer observation points to high-latitude Norway and Iceland, and planned to cooperate with countries that established Antarctic research stations to carry out ozone layer observations in Antarctica.
Walking for a while and stopping for a while, Devendra walked from Xuzhou to Jining in early July. At this time, the accompanying staff told him that there might be a severe flood in the Yellow River Basin in decades, and suggested that the group stay in Jining for two to three weeks.
"Similar to China and India, the long-term stable farming society has raised a huge number of people, reaching the upper limit of the number of people arable land could carry as early as several centuries ago."
"I'm currently in Jining, Shandong. A small town somewhere in Jining is said to be the hometown of Confucius, the greatest philosopher in China. But I don't have any plans to go to the town of Confucius. I just walk through weather stations one by one. "
"Xiwangzhuang, where I live, is a village with a population of 5000 people. Its appearance may not have changed significantly in 200 years: the first-class houses are built with stone foundations, thick walls made of green bricks, and the roofs are Wavy curves and brick carvings. Moderate houses use bricks and tiles, but the poor head of household does not waste money on meaningless decorations, and the houses are all regular and simple styles. Poor houses have no blue bricks, the walls are made of clay, and the roof is Paste a layer of clay with straw."
"It's not too different from rural India."
"The difference in Xiwangzhuang lies in the people. The residents here work in a manner similar to industrial workers. With the sound of the whistle every day, the labor force of each family walks out of the house and enters the cultivated land in line. These cultivated lands are all taken over by the people's communes and become The farm is a collective property. When I get off work in the afternoon, I calculate everyone’s workload and work points, and then go home.”
"In a village of 5000 people, nearly 3000 people work regularly every day. In fact, the farm in Xiwangzhuang is not big, only about 3300 Chinese mu (4 acres), and the accompanying Chinese officials told me that the average per capita in Xiwangzhuang is [-] mu. Cultivated land is considered relatively high in China.”
"It seems to me that there is little point in organizing 3000 men into a well-disciplined force to work so little land, when, by any means of organization, 3000 men can accomplish the task of cultivating 3300 acres."
"However, the potential of this kind of organization cannot be underestimated. I think that if China implements industrialization, these farmers who live in a similarly industrialized organization will be more likely to adapt to urban production and life than those scattered farmers in India."
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In addition to traveling and looking at weather data, Devendra also writes a travel diary every day.
The next morning, Devendra was woken up by a noise, looked at his watch, and saw that it was an hour earlier than the usual time for the village to start work.
Walking out of the house, he saw young and middle-aged men from Xiwangzhuang lining up in Shauguping. This was obviously not going to work, because there were more than 700 donkey carts or mule carts, and hundreds of wheelbarrows in the team of six to seven hundred people.In addition to these means of transport, the shovels and pickaxes on the carts, each farmer carried a bag of dry food on his back.
"Jayaraman? Jayaraman?" Devendra called to his assistant. "Go and ask them what happened."
Jayaraman didn't understand Chinese either, so he went to ask the comrades from the Meteorological Bureau who accompanied him. The comrades from the Meteorological Bureau spoke to Jayaraman in English, and he came back and told Devendra.
"The Yellow River in Shandong is about to usher in a big flood peak. The village dispatched 700 of the strongest men to protect the embankment of the Yellow River."
"I saw that each of them was carrying a bag of dry food," Devendra said. "This shows that this work is not only unpaid, but also that they have to pay for their own rations."
Jayaraman nodded.
"I don't see soldiers with live ammunition around," Devendra added. "These 700 men are doing this unpaid work voluntarily. What does that say?"
Jayaraman nodded again.
Devendra: ...
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Zhengzhou.
"You mobilized 175 million civilians and 20 troops to the banks of the Yellow River, including six elite army divisions," Stagg continued to talk to Tu Changwang as he crossed the Yellow River Bridge in Zhengzhou. Made it in days. God, the British army that invaded you 58 years ago should have been wiped out."
Tu Changwang: "58 years ago and now are two different eras."
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"Hello Chairman!"
When Tu Changwang saw the chairman, he habitually gave a standard military salute.The predecessor of the National Meteorological Administration was the Meteorological Bureau of the Central Military Commission. Tu Changwang was still wearing military uniform a few years ago.
The chairman stepped forward and extended his hand to shake hands with Tu Changwang. "In the past, it was said that Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind, but that was the interpretation of the Three Kingdoms. Today, your Meteorological Bureau is the real magician!"
Tu Changwang: "Professor Ye Duzheng Ye and Professor Zhu found a way to calculate the weather, coupled with the support of the Shanghai Computing Center. There is also Mr. Stagg, who helped us modify the calculation model after he came to China. The accuracy of weather forecasts has been greatly improved."
Stagg didn't expect the chairman to meet him a day ago. He stepped forward and said, "Dear chairman, hello."
"I heard from Fu Yisheng that you met Churchill and Eisenhower before?"
"Yes, that was in 1944, before Operation Overlord, and I was involved in calculating weather forecasts for the English Channel and Normandy, France."
"Then you come to China this time, have the British government and the army approved your coming?"
"Mr. Chairman, I have always been a civilian. During the war, as an employee, I provided weather forecast theories and algorithms for the Allied forces. After the war, I continued to return to the university as a professor."
The chairman nodded, "The weather forecast in Normandy is to contribute to the defeat of German fascism, and to help us with weather forecast in China, so that we can successfully defeat the flood of the Yellow River. Whether you are fighting or not, your contribution is not small."
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"After this catastrophic flood in the Yellow River, basically we can think of it this way: the medium-term weather forecast of 7 to 10 days, we can now achieve a more credible accuracy; the medium and long-term weather forecast of 10 to 15 days has important reference value."
On August 8, the Ministry of Water Resources and the National Meteorological Administration held a small meeting in the chairman's special train.
"When the medium and long-term weather forecast indicates to us that a major meteorological disaster is about to occur, it is when it plays an 'important reference value'," said Tu Changwang. "The rescue and disaster prevention of the Yellow River, we obtained 7 That’s how the daily weather forecast works.”
Fu Zuoyi nodded: "We mobilized troops and materials 14 days in advance, and moved to both sides of the Yellow River. When the troops are in place, what we get is a more accurate weather forecast for 7 to 10 days. If it is still the same as before, we will continue to implement Disaster prevention and response plan, if the weather changes, withdrawing troops at this time will not have much impact."
Tu Changwang: "This response mode can form a response plan, let's call it the 587 plan. When the medium and long-term weather forecast shows a very serious situation, it will be activated."
Fu Zuoyi: "If this kind of forecast can be covered in major areas of the country, there will be no casualties in major floods in China in the future."
Chapter 188, The Yellow River
"The infrared multi-spectral telemetry system can be made now, but it is not digital imaging and transmission yet."
Wang Dayan's Changchun Optoelectronics Institute started from importing some Soviet parts and building night vision devices. After 7 years of development, it is now a research and production unit covering two major fields of laser and infrared.
Tang Hua: "You know the progress of chip research and development. Before the high-speed data processing chip comes out, let's use the current set. Throwing a live TV system into the sky is enough for a generation of stars."
Wang Dayan: "I think if we wait a little longer, we will be able to wait for the digital imaging system. Hasn't one of our 3/4 micron lithography machines been delivered?"
"We have to keep a generation in our hands. The computers on the market today are still 6-micron chips, which will be upgraded to 5-micron next year, and the next year will still be 5-micron. It was only in 1961 that 4-micron products were officially used in mass-produced computers. It's not that we are stingy, It is because the cost of mass production can be reduced a lot when the technology is well established, mainly due to the high yield rate of chips.”
"Okay." Wang Dayan replied.What I think in my heart is that I will launch it when the cost is low.
"Also, for the passive remote sensing band of the first-generation star, the ultra-color temperature band above 1000 degrees, the detection points should be cut off first, and a 1500-degree test point will be left for testing." Tang Hua said.
Infrared sensing in high temperature areas is prepared for missile warning.A missile early warning system must have at least two-digit satellites in orbit before it can be considered complete.
How can there be so many satellites and rockets now, just launch two or three satellites and focus on weather services.
Wang Dayan: "By the way, the factory next door has reported back, and it is now difficult to produce the optical lens set within the stipulated time."
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Changchun Optical Instrument Factory.
"Minister Tang, we currently have insufficient technical reserves for large-diameter lenses, and it will take time to adjust the glass formula, so..."
The chief engineer of the optical instrument factory was very embarrassed when he spoke, but this time he lost the chain again.