Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

In later generations, Qiongzhou will become a popular tourist destination, especially in winter when northerners will travel south to Qiongzhou to spend the winter. They own property in Qiongzhou and there is a large army of RVs.

Now that we're going to build an aerospace company in Qiongzhou, the supporting facilities certainly can't be too bad, and the housing problem for employees is the first thing to consider.

One thousand acres of land is 666666 square meters. If we calculate based on a plot ratio of 1.0, we can build houses of the same size. If each house is 100 square meters, that would be more than 6,000 households. The families of Starship Company employees should be able to be properly settled.

"By the way, the government also needs to provide us with supporting solutions for primary and secondary schools. The schools in Longlou Town can't support the needs of our employees. As for the hospital, we'll build it ourselves."

When employees come, their children's education becomes an issue, which is very important. The reason why older neighborhoods are so popular in later years is because they are all located in school districts. Even if they look dilapidated, people have to put up with it for the sake of their children's schooling.

We can't solve the education problem ourselves, but we can solve the medical problem ourselves. Just build a top-tier hospital, and that will solve the problem of medical care for our employees.

"President Qin, you remind me of the state-owned enterprises of the past," said Director Zhang.

Healthcare, education, and employment—a state-owned enterprise is a microcosm of society. However, that kind of system is destined to be unsustainable.

"Yes, that's how state-owned enterprises used to be. But we can't follow the old ways. Schools are government-supported, and although we run the hospitals ourselves, we still have to follow the same system as other institutions. Medical care has to be covered by medical insurance."

The system of state-owned enterprises can make employees have no worries, but it can also easily breed laziness. For example, some employees of state-owned enterprises have seen this opportunity and, after joining the company, stay in the hospital for a long time. If they can lie down, who wants to work hard?

Hospitals should remain independent, and employees should be covered by medical insurance so that companies won't take over this mess.

"Yes, that's right. Systems are always evolving. Mr. Qin, we will hold a meeting to discuss and study your request as soon as possible and give you a reply."

"Is a week enough?" Qin Chuan asked. "We'll start surveying and planning in a week, and construction will begin in a month. If you haven't given us a reply by then, we'll look for other locations."

Leader Zhang was taken aback again, then smiled wryly: "No wonder private enterprises can grow and thrive. Your efficiency and decisiveness are a model for us to learn from. Rest assured, we will do our best! President Qin, would you like to stay in Qiongzhou for a week and relax with some sightseeing?"

Before Qin Chuan could answer, Zhang Chengzhi spoke up, "President Qin, several groups of aerospace experts have already traveled thousands of miles to the East and are all staying in Shanghai. You..."

"Yes, I have to go back and entertain them," Qin Chuan said. "Leader Zhang, Leader Wang, thank you for your continued support. I... I'll take my leave now!"

"President Qin is leaving already?" The two exchanged a glance and gave a wry smile.

Approving 5,000 mu of land in a week—nowhere else in the country can achieve this level of efficiency!

However... we have no choice but to agree to President Qin's request; there is no other way!

"Okay, Mr. Qin, we will do our best."

Leader Zhang is a local official, and Leader Wang is from the aerospace department. Qin Chuan asked them to do more work, and there was another reason: since Starship Company has chosen Wenchang, then the next fourth launch site should also be built in Wenchang, and the two should even be next to each other!

Leader Wang took a deep breath: "President Qin, our aerospace department will also come up with a plan as soon as possible."

"Ok!"

The next day, in the morning.

Laiyang Group's headquarters are in Laiyang, and its second largest base is in Shanghai, which has become a hub for Laiyang Group's high-tech industries. Half of the industries in Zhangjiang Development Zone are related to Laiyang Group.

Since this is an international metropolis, it's not unfair to temporarily arrange for the world's most outstanding aerospace engineers to be here.

Laiyang Hotel is the largest hotel in Zhangjiang Development Zone and is a subsidiary of Laiyang Group. At this moment, a group of aerospace experts gathered in the conference room on the top floor of the hotel. Many of them even knew each other.

As they were exchanging pleasantries, they heard footsteps outside. They turned around and saw a familiar figure.

"Mr. Qin?"

"Welcome everyone!" Qin Chuan's face was full of smiles. "We all come from different parts of the world, but we've come together for the same goal: to send humans to Mars!"

Just talking about building reusable rockets wouldn't have garnered this many responses. These people heard the news, quit their original jobs, and came to the East. Their goal was to go to Mars. They were a group of idealistic people!

They might not even care about wages or the 996 work schedule; what they care about is sending people to Mars. Working for an ideal is the greatest happiness.

"Mr. Qin, we would like to ask you to give us a briefing on the engineering plan for landing on Mars!"

Although it was introduced on the sea launch ship, it was only a general overview and not a detailed explanation!

"Alright, everyone here is a pragmatist, so let's skip the pleasantries. Let me first introduce our first phase of the project, which is to develop reusable starships to gain the ability to enter space at low cost. I just returned from Qiongzhou, and we've already decided to make that place our starship company headquarters. We will be conducting engineering research and development there!"

"You've all heard about the overall design of the starship. Our goal is to make it reusable and recyclable. Therefore, we will commission Ermao Southern Machinery Factory to develop the matching liquid oxygen methane engine."

"How much thrust does this engine produce? How many do we need?"

"Regarding the engine, we can't rush it. According to the plan, the initial engine built by the Southern Machinery Plant will have a thrust of about 185 tons, which will then be increased to 230 tons. When it is developed into the third generation, it will be increased to 280 tons. In the years of increasing thrust, we will also study rocket recovery and other technologies."

Southern Machinery Plant only had the production technology for the RD-120 engine, which had a thrust of only 120 tons. Even after modifying it into a liquid oxygen-methane engine and using new technologies such as a fully flowing gas generator cycle, the thrust could only be increased to 185 tons, which was the limit.

Next, we continued to improve. This was the development path for the Raptor engine in later starships. If the Raptor could do it, then our side could definitely do it too.

"So, to achieve the planned thrust, multiple engines still need to be connected in parallel?"