At this moment, Chen Dong was also sitting in the last row of the conference room, looking at the faces of these experts and scholars with righteous indignation, and said with great disdain: "The Yangtze River will definitely experience a flood in June this year."
"Perhaps you think I'm exaggerating, or that I'm making these remarks to achieve some kind of goal."
"However, I want to tell you that DragonTen has already allocated $10 billion to procure disaster relief supplies globally."
"Longteng has now established 120,000 small warehouses in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and related materials have been transported to China one after another."
"I still stand by my opinion: natural disasters are merciless. When that time comes, it will be too late to use any emergency response plans. Moreover, as far as I know, even the highest level of emergency response plans cannot cope with the mid-year floods."
"Because this flood broke out so suddenly, and the area it swept through was so vast."
Chen Dong is a businessman, while those scholars and experts are well-educated intellectuals who have always looked down on profit-driven businessmen. They were puzzled by Chen Dong's words, wondering why he would be willing to spend tens of billions to deal with a so-called flood disaster that was not even a six-month-old event yet.
The current situation is that Chen Dong is facing a dozen or so experts and scholars who oppose him.
Old Lin sat in the main seat and sighed silently.
At that time, Chen Dong asked him to establish an emergency factory in China, procure relief supplies, and relocate residents from low-lying areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Such a large-scale operation cannot be based solely on Chen Dong's so-called predictions.
Lowering his voice and somewhat nervously, Elder Lin said to the experts, "This matter concerns the lives and property of hundreds of billions of people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. I urge you all to be extremely cautious!"
"...We need to conduct more model studies to arrive at accurate and scientifically based conclusions."
Several experts and scholars looked at each other in bewilderment. Although their models indicated that a flood was likely to occur, they believed that conventional emergency response plans would suffice.
During this period, many anomalies have indeed appeared in the permafrost layer of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
However, when this anomaly is considered within the context of climate change along Changjiang Road over the past few decades, it appears to be very minor.
Most importantly, in the decades since the opening up, many reservoirs and hydropower stations have been built in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River due to the advantage of the terrain difference. The construction of these hydropower stations and reservoirs will also involve the construction of dams. With the regulation of these dams, even if there is a large amount of rainfall in the Yangtze River, it will not necessarily cause flood disasters.
“How about we go back and do some more research?” one of the young scholars said hesitantly.
"snort!"
Although the older scholars found the matter complicated and exhausting, they still nodded in agreement with the support of Professor Lin and several younger scholars.
At this time, Afang negotiated terms with production companies in mainland China, preparing to build a factory in China.
Firstly, it is to reduce the cost of procuring disaster relief supplies, and secondly, it is to make it easier and more flexible to mobilize and produce disaster relief supplies.
At the same time, she offered a "billion-dollar bounty" in Southeast Asia and went on a buying spree of fuel, clothing, food, dried fruit and other goods.
Southeast Asian consumer goods companies and electrical equipment companies are extremely interested in this multi-billion dollar reward and have taken the initiative to approach Longteng, hoping to reach a cooperation agreement.
Because Afang's purchasing team did not set high requirements for the materials they purchased, Afang signed contracts with most large and medium-sized enterprises as long as they could lower the prices and guarantee a stable supply.
The disaster relief supplies prepared by Longteng are divided into three parts. The first part was transported to the port by Afang and the entire procurement team via ocean shipping from Europe, America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. It is currently stored in the port warehouse.
The second part consists of the purchase contracts signed between the purchasing team and industrial and manufacturing enterprises in mainland China. As long as a contract is reached with Longteng, the products produced by their factories within a quarter must be given priority to Longteng, and the quantity of goods that Longteng has agreed upon in the agreement must be met.
This is to prevent industrial and manufacturing enterprises from taking advantage of the occurrence of major floods to raise prices, disrupt commodity prices, and affect the social production order.
Meanwhile, this batch of products and equipment was centrally allocated by Longteng, which avoided the problem of chaotic arrangement and allocation of disaster relief supplies and was also a preparatory measure to ensure that people could purchase supplies after the disaster.
In the third part, Afang directly acquired more than ten industrial factories in China, using existing production lines to ensure that supplies could be produced continuously in the event of a major flood.
They did this for two reasons: firstly, to flexibly allocate resources, reduce inventory, and cut costs; and secondly, to prevent overseas companies from taking advantage of China's access to relief supplies and profiting from it.
After a series of arrangements, the procurement work has finally come to an end, and now we are just waiting for the higher-ups to arrange the corresponding emergency response measures.
The news of the 10 billion yuan bounty quickly reached China. Although it was just a gimmick, it was enough to stir up the hearts of all industrial enterprises in China.
Cheung Kong Holdings even sent people to contact Mr. Lin several times to inquire about his attitude toward the matter.
Old Lin gritted his teeth and complained to his secretary Wang beside him, "The country's foreign exchange reserves in 1998 were only 144.96 billion US dollars, and this Chen Dong actually spent over 10 billion to purchase goods overseas."
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