Chapter 422 Aerial Photography of China VS Aerial Photography of the United States
Coming out of the center, a gust of cold wind blew past, and Guo Yang couldn't help shivering, with sweat breaking out on his palms and back.

In fact, he took a great risk by solving the problem in this roundabout way.

Although Jiahe is a large company, it is hard to imagine how difficult it would be to shake up the agriculture of a country like India, which has the largest cultivated land area in Asia and is the third largest grain producer in the world.

What gives Jiahe the confidence?
If you dig deeper, the seed shops may be exposed.

Fortunately, the leader did not investigate further, or he may not have cared. As long as it could not cause trouble for India, it was good enough.

After getting in the car, Guo Yang reviewed the entire process again. There should be no mistakes and the reasons given on the surface were also tenable.

Although India is a major agricultural country, its wheat and rice production is second only to China, ranking second in the world, and its total grain output has reached about 2.34 million tons.

But China produced 6.4 million tons of grain last year using less arable land than India.

On the one hand, this shows that India's agriculture still has huge potential, but it also exposes the weakness of its agricultural production technology.

Seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural machinery... are all the weaknesses of Indian agriculture.

The farmers in India are also suffering.

The Bollywood movie "Live Suicide" tells the absurd story of a humble little person who was caught up in the whirlpool of politics and media because of suicide.

This humble man committed suicide because he got a message: farmers who committed suicide due to debt would be compensated with 10 rupees!

In 2009, a farmer committed suicide every 30 minutes in India.

There is also a scene in the movie where the Indian Federal Agriculture Minister, through political bargaining, gets the Chief Minister to agree to give all seed contracts to the American company "San Mondu" - which undoubtedly reminds people of Monsanto.

As early as 1998, Monsanto acquired a huge stake in India's largest seed company, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Ltd., at a price 24 times higher than its market value and established a joint venture.

This established its dominant position in the Indian seed market.

In 2002, Monsanto introduced genetically modified cotton seeds into India, helping India become the world's largest cotton fiber producer and second largest cotton fiber exporter. It also monopolized India's cotton seed market, causing its seed prices to rise 80 times.

The grain and cotton produced by Indian farmers do not belong to the farmers, but are legally plundered by Monsanto.

As a result, the rift between India and Monsanto has become increasingly deeper.

This is not only true for cotton seeds, but also for other seeds such as onions, eggplants, tomatoes, etc.

These are the information that Jiahe has collected in the past few days, and are also the preparations that Jiahe has made to enter India to invest in agriculture.

Of course, these are all superficial reasons.

In fact, what Guo Yang wanted to do was to replicate the biological invasion that happened in the United States and add some surprises to India's agricultural development.

Releasing seeds from the Yarlung Zangbo River is one of his ideas.

As for destroying the environment in southern Tibet?
He is not such a saint. The territory is not in his hands, so it is destroyed. If he can take it back, he will just manage it again.

Or you can adopt other solutions, but you still need to consider it carefully.

While he was lost in thought, a secretary in the center sent him a message with a name and a phone number.

Luochuan?

I think this should be someone from the security department!

Why didn't he give me a position? Guo Yang complained in his heart. After thinking for a while, he made the call.

"Hello, who are you?"

"Hello, Director Luo, I'm Guo Yang from Jiahe, and my boss gave me your number."

"Oh, oh, it's Mr. Guo. I'll take care of the matter of Urat. I'll be back to the capital right away."

Judging from the voice on the phone, Luo Chuan should not be very old. Guo Yang said, "Where is Director Luo now? Do you need someone to pick you up?"

"I'm in Bameng."

Guo Yang exclaimed, "Director Luo, you don't have to come back. I will go back to Bameng right away."

"No, Mr. Guo, please let me go back to Beijing to meet you. I can stay in Beijing for one more day."

Guo Yang didn't expect this to be the case, but thinking that Luo Chuan might have some private matters to attend to in Beijing and asked for help, Guo Yang had no choice but to agree.

He then called Bao Xinyu to learn about the latest developments in Falcon Town.

The herders and Houqi calmed down a little because of the arrival of the working group, but they did not give up.

After the working group left, the construction of Falcon Town still could not proceed normally.

As the snow melts and spring arrives, the grassland will soon turn green again, and it will be more difficult to manage. This makes Bao Xinyu anxious.

According to him, this year these 60 mu of degraded grassland will be transformed into high-quality pasture. If normal grazing production is affected due to unrest among herders, it would be a huge loss.

For this reason, Bao Xinyu has already contacted other forces and is determined to make some trouble.

Guo Yang decisively asked him to pause and reassured him: the security department had been sent to handle the matter, so he just had to wait patiently.

After communicating with Bao Xinyu, Guo Yang called Fu Qiuyan from Jiahe Publicity Department and told her that there should be no problem with aerial photography of China and asked her to come to Beijing to communicate with CCTV.

Fu Qiuyan did not do nothing during this period. She contacted a documentary director: Yu Le, and was discussing from which angle to start shooting the documentary.

Now, if aerial photography of China can be launched as a project, that would naturally be the best.

At the same time, Guo Yang also talked about the Tianjing Qilian project, but he had to wait for Luochuan in Beijing anyway, so he asked Fu Qiuyan to send someone to bring Yu Le to Beijing first.

After a phone call, Guo Yang also arrived at his newly purchased house in Beijing.

This is a villa located in Xishan with a comfortable environment. It was bought by Yang Cheng for him in the capital, and it is a temporary place to stay.

Just as I sat down, another phone call came.

"Hello, Mr. Guo. I am Cheng Jun, the secretary of Minister Zhao of the Propaganda Department. Minister Zhao asked me to meet you at 10 a.m. tomorrow to discuss aerial photography of China. Do you have time?"

"Hello, Secretary Cheng, I have no problem."

Zhao Chengyi is one of the deputy ministers of the Propaganda Department.

It was just a documentary, but a big shot of this level was dispatched at the very beginning. This also made Guo Yang realize the reason why his leader scolded him.

So many resources have been spent on the film without even seeing a single thing. If the documentary doesn't turn out well in the end, it will be a bit embarrassing.

But Guo Yang knew that this could be done.

In the previous life, Aerial Films of China 2, 3 and 4 were made. The entire country’s propaganda departments from top to bottom were supporting this documentary, and usually the ministers were present.

After making an appointment, it was still early and he didn't want to go to Weiguang and Huinong.com, so he stayed in the room, surfing the Internet and chatting with Lin Keqing.

No matter how much I try to avoid him, I have to go see Mr. Liu tomorrow.

After browsing Weibo for a while, Guo Yang logged into Huinong.com again and found that the Xiangyang Lake ice fishing video he posted on Huinong.com last time unexpectedly received a lot of views, comments and likes.

This was an unexpected surprise.

In addition, since Huinong.com provides subsidies to video UP hosts, it attracts more content creators.

Some UP hosts have already shown potential.

At the same time, Huinong.com has also specially opened a game section, but there is not much content.

Guo Yang thought of Riot Games' game League of Legends, which should be one of the most popular games in the next ten years. The US server is now online, but the Chinese server is not yet online. Should he remind Penguin?

After thinking about it, Guo Yang decided not to do it. He could use the extra time to acquire more shares of Penguin.

He opened Tencent again and saw the news about Geely's acquisition of Volvo posted high on the portal.

The heat of this merger and acquisition has been going on for a long time, from the beginning of last year to now, and it has recently reached a new level.

Because only the final signing step is left and the "poor boy" can marry the "big star".

The popularity of overseas mergers and acquisitions has remained high in the past two years.

Thinking of this, Guo Yang called the group office and asked for a copy of the progress information on Guoliang and Guangming’s overseas sugar acquisitions.

Unfortunately, Guangming Group was attacked again.

In January, Bright Dairy Group proposed to acquire the sugar and renewable energy businesses of Australia's largest sugar company, Cecil, for A$1 billion, but once again lost to Wilmar International.

Guoliang's acquisition target, Tully's Candies, is still in fierce competition with Bunge and Louis Dreyfus, but another acquisition target has already been easily acquired by Wilmar International Group.

So far, Wilmar International already owns 7 sugar mills in Australia, accounting for half of Australia's raw sugar supply.

There has always been a gap in domestic sugar consumption, which can only be filled by imports.

At the same time, the raw material production of the domestic sugar industry has always been weak. Guo Yang then remembered that he forgot to cultivate sugarcane and beet varieties during the last breeding.

But he didn't know anything about the seeds of these two major crops. It seemed that he had asked Qi Ziwen to pay attention to the domestic sugar industry before?

Guo Yang immediately called Qi Ziwen again and ranted to him.

"Yes, yes, Boss, I really did collect the information, but I just forgot to show it to you. I'll look for it right away. In three minutes, no, one minute, hey, I found it."

"If you find it, send it to me immediately so I can take a look."

After reading the information, Guo Yang almost laughed at himself for being so angry that he almost delayed such an important matter.

The important problem in domestic sugar production is the aging of varieties.

The main variety in the main producing area, Guangxi Province, is Taiwan Sugar 20, which has been introduced and planted for more than ten years and has not been replaced by any new variety.

The proportion of the company's own varieties, Yuetang, is small, less than 5%.

According to data provided by Guoliang Tunhe, 97% of sugar beets, another raw material for sugar, are foreign varieties. In the past, one mu of hybrids only cost to yuan, but now it costs to yuan, and the planting cost has increased significantly.

What is even more disturbing to the industry is that the Taiwanese company that originally developed the Taiwan Sugar 20 varieties has now cut its sugarcane seed research and development business and switched to flowers.

It is not a good idea to rely on other countries to introduce seedlings.

"They prefer to sell sugar to us." This is also the reason why Guoliang Tunhe chose to go out to sea.

There is a sugarcane research institute in Yangcheng and Shenzhen in China, but the speed of research and development of new varieties in these places cannot keep up.

In addition, our country has very limited sugarcane germplasm resources.

"There is a gap of more than ten years in the research and development of new varieties." This is the judgment made by an expert from the Sugar Association.

In addition, the information provided by Qi Ziwen also includes information about domestic sugar factories, but domestic sugar companies have completed integration and there are no small companies to buy. They are all various sugar-making enterprise groups.

Guoliang Tunhe, Xinjiang XPCC, Longnan Nanhua, and Botian Sugar in the beet-producing areas of Northwest and Northeast China;
The main sugarcane producing provinces and regions such as Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong and Hainan have been integrated into enterprise groups such as Guangxi Nanhua, Dongtang Group, Yingtang Group, and Guangdong Hengfu.

Competition among sugar companies is also extremely fierce, which ultimately translates into the scramble for raw materials.

In the past two years, the competition for sugarcane has been extremely fierce in various places, including sugar factories in Guangdong Province going to Guangxi Province to grab sugarcane, and sugar factories in Guangxi Province going to Yunnan Province to grab sugarcane... In order to put an end to this disorderly phenomenon, the local government issued relevant regulations, made administrative divisions of different sugarcane producing areas, and prohibited sugar companies from grabbing raw materials, thus forming a management pattern like "district police".

At the same time, the raw material source structure of each sugar company has basically become rigid.

Qi Ziwen also gave an analysis at the end of the information, "Domestic integration is very difficult, and the group cannot find an opportunity to enter the sugar industry."

"This kid can analyze things on his own." Guo Yang muttered a few words.

Judging from the current domestic sugar industry structure, Jiahe really has no room to intervene.

Even when it comes to seeds, which Jiahe is best at, Qi Ziwen and others have no confidence in it because Tianhe has no similar research foundation in the past and the country lacks sufficient germplasm resources.

But Guo Yang is cheating!

Sugar beets and sugar cane...

Guo Yang's mind was immersed in the seed shop. Fortunately, he still had a few hundred points of natural energy left after the last breeding, and he still needed time to collect germplasm resources.

It is enough to breed two competitive varieties.

Beets are easy to solve.

The difficult part is sugarcane.

After thinking for a while, Guo Yang opened the email and began to edit information for Chen Yanqiu, asking her to pay attention to collecting sugarcane germplasm resources in Brazil and other places.

After being busy for a while, Guo Yang finally had some free time. He didn't expect that even if he was not in the office, he would still be thinking about work.

...

The next morning, Guo Yang met Fu Qiuyan and director Yu Le who had rushed over overnight in the office of Weiguang Company.

Yu Le graduated from Fujian Normal University in 2000 and entered the documentary industry right after graduation.

In the past 10 years, this director from Fujian Province has shot many documentaries and won many awards.

But strictly speaking, he has not yet done any large-scale aerial photography work, but there are no two directors in China who have aerial photography experience.

At this time, in the office, Yu Le couldn't help feeling a little nervous when facing the boss of Jiahe.

At first, when he knew that Golden Harvest had asked him to shoot an aerial documentary, he agreed without much hesitation.

In film and television creation, drones are still a new thing, but Shahai Agriculture and Animal Husbandry are widely used in the documentary "Million Forests".

Now, Golden Harvest wants to make a more ambitious documentary: aerial photography of China.

Just by hearing the name, he knew that this project was extraordinary. Moreover, on the way to Beijing, he heard Fu Qiuyan say that the boss of Jiahe had already established connections with the Propaganda Department and CCTV.

This made him even more convinced that this project was huge.

If you take a good picture, you can eat it for the rest of your life.

Guo Yang was also looking at Yu Le, a normal young man in his 30s with side bangs. There was nothing special about him.

After pondering for a while, Guo Yang started asking questions directly.

"If we take the topic of aerial photography of China, it involves 34 provincial-level administrative regions, and there are all kinds of stories to tell. If it were you, what would you choose to tell? How would you tell it?"

This is a question that Guo Yang thought deeply about last night.

Chinese civilization is so grand, and each province has its own cultural history and human stories. There are so many themes to choose from for filming that it is difficult to choose.

It’s not that easy to take a good photo.

Guo Yang has later documentaries as a reference. By using this question in a preliminary interview, he can see the level of a director, or whether he is suitable for the project.

Yu Le was also a little surprised that Guo Yang could ask such a profound question.

Aerial photography is larger and has a stronger artistic conception than the "full picture" of traditional imaging methods, but most of the time it is only used to explain the environment and it is difficult to perform a narrative function.

What to say? How to say it?
For a documentary series, every episode can be a headache.

But he was also prepared.

Yu Le thought for a moment and said, "I currently have three core ideas for creation. The first is the change of the subject of the image, the second is the macro dimension of the individual story, and the third is the complementarity of audio-visual elements."

Guo Yang raised his eyebrows. What a mess. "Please put it in simple terms."

Yu Le smiled and said: “This requires going back to the analysis of aerial photography itself. The object of aerial photography is the earth, and the most obvious thing is the geographical features, so the earth is one of the main subjects of the image;

Most areas have human activities, so people are another major theme.

Different geographical environments have created different living habits for people in different regions, which has a strong sense of symbolism, and the people are shaped by the land and water they live in.

For example, the Hehuang Valley in Qinghai and the eastern part of Longnan Province are both on the Loess Plateau, but due to different climates, their farming methods are also different; the Yangtze River Delta and the Lijiang River in Guangxi Province are both connected by water, and the hills and karst landforms have also created different living habits;

In addition, human transformation of mountains, rivers and land is the most drastic and accounts for the largest proportion, such as energy and ancient buildings in Shanxi Province, and the Three Gorges Dam in Hubei Province.

The above are the changes in the subject of the image: the earth and life. "

This time, Guo Yang recalled it carefully and nodded. This kid is still quite capable.

Next, Yu Le talked about the macro dimension of individual stories.

The general idea is to use a varying number of independent stories to make up each route, highlighting time and fate.

By this time, Guo Yang had already accepted Yu Le.

After he finished talking about the third point about the complementarity of audio-visual elements, Guo Yang no longer had any doubts.

Elements such as pictures, dubbing, music, and sound effects are also the key to the success of aerial photography of China.

Yu Le has the documentary level to be able to make these two points in a short period of time.

But Guo Yang thought for a while and said, "In addition to the earth and people, other life can also be one of the themes of the image."

Yu Le seemed to be thinking about something.

"For example, no-man's land." Guo Yang pondered, "For example, the Hoh Xil in Qinghai accounts for 32% of Qinghai's area. It is impossible to ignore it. Although it is an uninhabited area, it does not hinder other life from surviving here. Because of the high altitude, the wild animals here have to develop unique plateau survival skills."

Guo Yang recalled his experience in Yeniugou during the Chinese New Year.

"For example, the wild yaks on the plateau have grown very thick tracheas to adapt to the low oxygen levels on the plateau. Each time they take a deep breath, it is enough to meet the body's needs.
There are also salt lakes in the Qaidam Basin. Each salt pool has different colors. This is the different performance of Dunaliella salina in salt water of different concentrations. When the salinity is high, Dunaliella salina appears red, and when the salinity is low, Dunaliella salina maintains its original green color.
There are also plants in different regions that are extremely unique...

Animals, microorganisms, and plants are all living creatures on earth. Using them as a carrier, we can see that every piece of land has a completely different character.

The magic of life is also what attracts audiences.”

After listening to this, Yu Le showed an expression of sincere conviction.

This is not only an acknowledgement of his shooting philosophy, but also an admiration for the examples given by Guo Yang.

If one can talk about the various peculiarities of life off the top of his head, he must either be extremely knowledgeable or have seen them with his own eyes.

Yu Le is more inclined to the latter.

Because Jiahe also has the Tianjing Qilian project, he also knows that Jiahe also has many investments in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

However, Guo Yang actually has both. In order to cultivate new varieties, he has unknowingly absorbed countless knowledge about animals and plants.

Therefore, I have more respect for all kinds of life in nature.

The more Guo Yang talked with Yu Le, the more he felt that this person was to his liking.

"Boss, it's almost time to set off." Luo Xiu knocked on the door and reminded.

"Okay." Guo Yang replied, then turned around and shook hands with Yu Le. "Director Yu, that's it for today. I'll need you to take care of this project in the future."

Yu Le understood what was meant. It was very likely that he would be given the position of chief director, and he would also have a considerable say in the role of episode director.

This made him look very happy.

"Mr. Guo, don't worry. I will complete this project even if it means risking my life."

When going to the Propaganda Department, Guo Yang brought Fu Qiuyan with him. When they arrived at the door, after a round of notifications, Guo Yang finally saw Zhao Chengyi.

In addition, Jiao Ning, the director of YangTV, and Jin Wei, the director of the documentary channel, were also there.

Facing two vice-ministerial level leaders, Guo Yang has become accustomed to it and behaves neither arrogantly nor servilely.

Liu Deshu from Sinochem and Ning Gaoning from Guoliang, both of whom are also at the vice-ministerial level, can also speak eloquently about them.

And because the leader had given a heads up, although Zhao Chengyi and Jiao Ning had some complaints, they did not make things difficult for him.

Jinwei had previously rejected "Aerial China" because of his collaboration with the BBC on "Beautiful China", but now he had no choice but to accept it.

Moreover, Guo Yang promised that all the investment for this documentary would be provided by Golden Harvest, and he only needed the help of CCTV and the Propaganda Department for coordination. If the effect was good, they would also have made an indispensable contribution.

Zhao Chengyi and Jiao Ning were somewhat curious about the fuss over a documentary.

After a while of greeting, Zhao Chengyi asked the question in his mind.

“Why would Golden Harvest want to make such a documentary?”

"At first, I just wanted to promote Jiahe's consumer-grade drones." Guo Yang pondered, "But during the preparation of the project, my drone team told me a piece of news, which made Jiahe want to make this documentary even better, so they sought help from CCTV and the military."

Zhao Chengyi asked: "What news?"

"There is also a company in the US that is making a documentary called Aerial Photography of America. They want to use high-tech high-definition aerial photography to show the historical splendor of each state in the US, and some of the equipment is also Jiahe's drones."

"What history does America have?"

"I heard they are filming Alcatraz prison recently."

This is not something Guo Yang made up; it really exists. When he learned from the DJI team that the Americans were also filming "Aerial Photography of America", his brain froze for a moment.

He had never seen this documentary in his previous life, nor had he even heard of it.

Yet it happened.

Therefore, Guo Yang also suspected that the reason why CCTV filmed "Aerial China" in its previous life was because it was inspired by "Aerial America"?

He thinks this is quite possible.

That is why when Zhao Chengyi asked, he directly brought up the Americans.

"Ha, that's all they have."

Guo Yang smiled and said, "So, Jiahe wants to compete with it. China is a vast country with eternal rivers, rising like the sun and as constant as the moon. Every time the aerial photography of China focuses on a province, it will be a perfect display of Chinese civilization.

The documentary allows the audience to discover the confidence and calmness of traveling through time and space, listen to the deep sound waves of the mountains and rivers, and collect the most beautiful side of each of our hometowns, thus completing a dialogue about the ancient and modern Chinese civilization in cultural confidence. "

(End of this chapter)