"Understood."
After saying that, Wangcai tugged at Ma Guoliang, and the two left the office together.
Having reached the end of the corridor, Ma Guoliang glanced back at Chen Dong's office several times before cautiously pointing to his head and asking, "Our boss... could he have been blinded by the prospect of $10 billion?"
"Disaster relief? Where in China, Hong Kong, or even Southeast Asia are there any disasters?"
"Even H country and island nations don't have that! What kind of disaster is he saving? A financial stock market crash?" Ma Guoliang couldn't help but complain.
"Shh!" Wangcai covered his mouth. "The boss's decisions are always right. I trust his judgment."
"Didn't his several risky decisions in the financial market prove to be correct in the end?"
When the topic turned to the financial market, Ma Guoliang became even more excited. "We're both traders, we look at the market data."
"The boss wants us to go and buy supplies? What kind of job is this?"
Wangcai snorted and said with a smile, "Anyway, the offshore company doesn't have any financial investment projects right now, so let's just consider it a vacation for the two of us."
"Let's go, let's go to the marketing department and find Afang."
There are three main factors that cause a major flood: the first is climate, the second is topographical and environmental factors that cause flooding, and the third is human factors.
To prevent and respond to disasters, we must start with these three elements.
Regarding the first point, Chen Dong absolutely could not go against the weather.
Secondly, there are two directions. One is that nature's ability to shape the environment cannot reverse the trend, but it can control the fierce onslaught of floods to a certain extent by releasing water from reservoirs, limiting floods by closing sluice gates, digging deeper drainage ditches in advance, and raising flood control dikes.
The third point is the direction Chen Dong is currently working towards.
The procurement of large quantities of disaster relief supplies will meet the resource needs of post-disaster relief work, as well as provide food, drinking water, and accommodation for the affected people.
Making proper emergency preparedness for reservoirs, dams, and flood discharge channels is not something that Chen Dong alone can accomplish.
After thinking it over, Chen Dong realized that to complete the solutions for points 2 and 3, cooperation from the mainland was essential.
While Longteng mobilized all its resources to procure supplies globally, Chen Dong went to the capital alone to find Elder Lin.
Having not seen each other for some time, Old Lin was pleasantly surprised to see Chen Dong suddenly arrive in the capital.
"Chen Dong, it seems you don't come here unless you have a reason. What brings you here this time?"
"Nothing can be hidden from Elder Lin." Chen Dong handed the local specialties he brought from Hong Kong to his secretary, and then said directly to Elder Lin, "Elder Lin, to be honest, I do have something I need your help with this time."
Seeing Chen Dong's unusually serious expression, Old Lin also became serious, sat up straight, and said, "Is what you want to say related to China?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Dong silently sighed in his heart, "Old Lin is indeed very perceptive."
Chen Dong got straight to the point: "From last year to the beginning of this year, there was continuous rainfall. The rainfall in the Yangtze River basin was twice as much as in previous years, and the middle reaches experienced rare flooding in the autumn and winter seasons."
"I estimate that by the middle of this year, the Yangtze River, Nenjiang River and other areas will experience widespread torrential rains."
"The economy in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is developing rapidly, and many enterprises and residential buildings have been built on both sides of the river."
"If the extreme weather of torrential rain leads to a major flood, the damage to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will not only be to crops and land, but also pose a great threat to people's lives and property."
"Mr. Lin, I've come here to ask for your help in preparing relevant contingency plans and disaster relief measures as soon as possible."
The secretary next to Old Lin gave him a strange look, as if to say, "What are you talking about?"
“Chen Dong, this…” Old Lin hesitated, “It’s a good thing to have a sense of crisis.”
“But it’s January 1998 now,” Old Lin said incredulously, checking the small calendar on the table. “Are you guessing that a massive flood will happen in six months?”
"It's not a guess, it's a conjecture," Chen Dong corrected.
Old Lin seized on the key point: "Does your so-called speculation have any factual basis?"
It seemed that Old Master Lin simply didn't believe what he was saying. Chen Dong sighed inwardly. When he was at Longteng Group, even the people around him didn't believe him when he talked about the flood disaster, let alone Old Master Lin.
Chen Dong said confidently, "If you don't believe me, you can find experts to study the precipitation models for the second half of 1997 and the first half of 1998."
"I believe the experts' conclusions are definitely the same as my own."
By building models based on data from several years of rainfall, river flow, typhoons, etc., and conducting research, it is indeed possible to draw conclusions about whether or not floods will occur.
But putting aside the human resources and talent costs required to build such a complex model, just consider weather forecasting. Even professional weather forecasters can make mistakes. The weather is constantly changing. After they develop this model and predict the flood, will the flood definitely happen?
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