Chapter 97. White Dolphin

     Li Yaolin knew at a glance that the other party was not coming for her. After checking the companies under the name of Wenhua Group, she found that there was an energy technology company that specialized in the research and production of mobile energy products.

     Its industrial park is in Shenzhen, but since Wenhua Group invested 50 billion yuan in Yóushì to build a “new urbanization” integrating culture, tourism and urbanization, it wanted to move the industry to the Yóushì.

     Now there is another hydrogen energy company, and the site selection wants to be near the new tourist attraction that Wenhua Group wants to develop. Isn’t this a challenge to Wenhua Group?

     Xingzhou Island is the “fish in the pond” that was affected by the “fire in the city gate”.

     “Mr. Li, what should we do with our protected area?” After receiving this news, Cen Yingda discussed countermeasures with Li Yaolin with a headache.

     Although Yóushì officials want to vigorously protect wild protected animals living in the waters of Xingzhou Island, hydrogen energy involves the new energy industry chain of Yóushì after all, and no one can guarantee whether the officials will sacrifice part of the ecological environment for the sake of economy.

     Li Yaolin comforted him and said, “Wenhua Group has not made any move, so we don’t have to worry too much.”

     The little mermaid found out that the Romantic Sea House Group was behind this. When the Hydrogen Energy Company was investigating which place in Biwan District was the most suitable for building an industrial park, it once included the vacant land on the side of Biwan Port near the Romantic Sea House Resort in its investigation.

     Because the Romantic Sea House Group spent 115 million yuan to buy 200 acres of land around it at the end of last year to build a marine tourism town, the group was worried that the industrial park would affect the project, so it protested, and at the same time used the various advantages of Liantou Port to persuade the other party to turn its attention to the vicinity of Liantou Port, resulting in today’s result.

     To put it bluntly, this is a contest between Wenhua Group and Romantic Sea House, as well as more energy companies.

     At that time, Wenhua Group’s travel company developed Biwan Tourism Island, the coast around Yanling, and invested in the construction of Yuhai Park and Mangrove Wetland Special Protection Area. The transportation of these scenic spots is more convenient than that of Romantic Sea House, and the product homogeneity is too serious, so tourists often choose Yuhai Park, which has a longer development history.

     Therefore, the development of Romantic Sea House has always lagged behind. Now there is a dark horse, Xingzhou Island. How can they accept it?

     Nowadays, the competition between Wenhua Group and Romantic Sea House is becoming more and more intense.

     Speaking of the site selection of the hydrogen energy industrial park, it is true that this matter will have a certain impact on Xingzhou Island, but with the system, the impact of this pollution is limited. The worst case is that the daily operating costs collected by the system will increase.

     As for Jiahai, she has no plans to participate in the development for the time being, so the most anxious party is Wenhua Group.

     Li Yaolin said: “I will go to the city to give feedback. There is really no other way. I have promised to let the wild animals live here in peace, even if it means increasing the cost of pollution control, I will fulfill my promise. “

     Cen Yingda suddenly felt a little moved. Other businessmen talk like farts. In the face of interests, any promise can be violated, but what Li Yaolin said made him feel that she regarded Xingzhou Island as her home and the turtles and dugongs as her family.

     People who truly love nature and protect the ecological environment are never those who can only talk.

     He said: “We will also try our best.”

     “Well, the province also supports you to actively apply for a national-level protected area. I believe that there are many people who do not want the hydrogen energy industrial park to be established in Liantou Port.”

     Li Yaolin’s words provided ideas for Cen Yingda.

     When the city held a relevant meeting on the landing of hydrogen energy to listen to opinions from various parties, Li Yaolin raised objections from the perspective of tourism developers.

     Cen Yingda, as a staff member of the protected area management station, also expressed opposition. Not only that, he also submitted a number of research materials from the Ocean University to show that the current water quality in the protected area is the result of the hard work of Xingzhou Island.

     Once the hydrogen energy industrial park is built in Liantou Port, these efforts will be in vain unless the industrial park can invest the same cost in pollution control.

     The other party’s representative asked how much it would cost.

    Li Yaolin then hung out the total operating cost expenditure that had been rationalized provided by the system.

     Among all the projects related to the sea, the operating cost of the white beach is 10,000 yuan per day, the sea fishing ground needs 7,000 yuan a day, the diving base needs 8,000 yuan, the green proliferation area needs 5,000 yuan, and the sailing and windsurfing base currently needs 3,000 yuan.

     Although the operating cost of the no-fishing zone is only 100 yuan, its use of the sea is different. If it is simply to deal with pollution, the cost of such a large sea area will be at least 20 times higher.

     In a year, the cost of pollution control and restoration of the marine ecological environment is 12.775 million yuan, and this amount will be spent every year in the future. If the pollution problem becomes more serious, the cost will only increase and not decrease.

     Everyone was silent.

     A large factory uses waste gas and wastewater to treat pollution equipment, which costs 3 million yuan, and the operation of the equipment will cost an additional 1 million yuan per year.

     They thought that the pollution control cost of 4 million yuan was already high, but they didn’t expect that Xingzhou Island was really rich, investing more than 12 million yuan a year to control marine pollution!

     This has not yet included the “pollution control” costs of the projects on the island, and the total cost will be more than this.

     It was only then that everyone realized how rich Li Yaolin was.

     “I have spent a huge amount of money to control marine pollution, restore the ecological environment, develop tourism, and improve the coastal tourism brand image of Yóushì. The results are obvious to all. It is not reasonable to build a factory with high pollution near Xingzhou Island at this time?” Li Yaolin said.

     The leaders of the relevant departments looked at each other. This year, the advanced enterprise in Yóushì for pollution control must be Xingzhou Island. As a model of pollution control, her opinion cannot be ignored.

     In the end, not only Li Yaolin and Wenhua Group, but also nearby villagers and real estate developers came out to oppose the construction of factories nearby.

     On the other side of Liantou Port is Baoren Bay, where many farmers live. Who knows whether the sewage discharged from this industrial park producing hydrogen batteries will cause various problems for their aquatic products?

     Liantou Port is only three or four kilometers away from the buildings of several major real estate developers. As long as the buildings are located downwind, the exhaust gas emitted will affect the residents.

     There are many objections, but this industrial plan was completed in April last year. Yóushì will never give up this industry, so the energy group can only choose another location.

 

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     Although Romantic Sea House Company blocked the process of Wenhua Group to develop Liantou Port, it also scared off Xingzhou Island.

     They believed that Xingzhou Island did not cooperate with Wenhua Group because it felt excluded and was afraid and retreated.

      But it is still very regrettable that the hydrogen energy industrial park could not be located in Liantou Port, because if there is no factory settled in, Jiahai can be developed into a tourist attraction by other tourism companies at any time to compete with their scenic spots.

     Soon, they received another message from Xingzhou Island.

     “Xingzhou Island spent more than 20 million to build an underwater hotel? What a joke, is it so easy to build an underwater hotel? Li Yaolin just wants to release a concept to make money!” Yu Fan said angrily.

     It is a common practice in many industries to spread rumors to increase stock prices or to create momentum before starting construction. For example, the group company of Romantic Sea House had spread rumors and started the groundbreaking ceremony two years before it won the 200-acre land. In fact, there was no progress until the end of last year when the land was won.

     The project has not started yet because the funds have not been in place, so they are worried that Wenhua Group and Xingzhou Island will jointly develop the sea and get ahead of them. Then they will fall behind again, so they are so anxious to deal with Wenhua Group and Xingzhou Island.

     Because this is the case in the industry, Yu Fan also believes that Xingzhou Island only proposed to build an underwater hotel to prepare some funds, and even to deceive investors.

     A shareholder of Romantic Sea House said: “I think you have been too proud recently. If you pay attention to the official website, you will know that the approval procedures have been passed, and the announcement has been posted for several days. The public announcement period is almost over!”

     Yu Fan was confused and said: “Even if it is announced, it does not mean that construction will start immediately!”

     The other party laughed and said: “How much time and effort does it take for a project to go from initial planning to formal application for project establishment? This underwater hotel project must have been planned a long time ago, and these projects require so much investment that there is no spare money to develop the sea. I think Li Yaolin did not intend to develop the sea with Wenhua Group. You guys are overreacting.”

     Everyone was speechless. It sounds like it is indeed their problem.

     The boss of Romantic Sea House suddenly said: “No, even if she had no intention of reaching out to the coast, it is a fact that Xingzhou Island has snatched away tourists, right? When the underwater hotel is built, more tourists will flock to Xingzhou Island. At that time, what can we use to compete with it?”

     The shareholder said: “That’s not the case. Before the development of Xingzhou Island, whether it is us or Yuhai Park, the source of customers mainly comes from the urban area and Biwan District. It is Xingzhou Island that promotes tourists from other places and provinces to travel to Youshi. Because of Xingzhou Island, although our reputation is a little worse, we have also attracted many more tourists from other places…”

     Someone confronted this shareholder: “Why do you always support Xingzhou Island? You are so optimistic about Xingzhou Island, why don’t you invest in Xingzhou Island?”

     The shareholder said: “I want to, but it’s a pity that Xingzhou Island does not need investment.”

     The two sides fought verbally, and a meeting almost turned into a vegetable market.

     The boss of Romantic Sea House came out to mediate the dispute. The two sides finally calmed down and continued to discuss countermeasures.

     The assistant brought them another bad news: “White dolphins and Chinese white dolphins appeared!”

     Before they even reacted to what Chinese white dolphins were, Yu Fan subconsciously asked: “Where are they?”

     The assistant was silent for a moment and said with difficulty: “Xingzhou Island, just made the news.”

     Now all shareholders didn’t want to attend the meeting. They all took out their mobile phones to read the news. Sure enough, the headline of the Oil Market Daily Multimedia Digital Newspaper was: Chinese white dolphins appeared in the waters of Xingzhou Island!

     The subtitle was: After the sea turtles and dugongs, another national first-level key protected wild animal will “settle” in the reserve!

 

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     The appearance of the Chinese white dolphin was after the construction of the underwater hotel began. When Wan Min’s students finished checking the green turtles and were about to move them back to the beach, they suddenly saw a gray-white figure with skin color and body shape different from the dugongs appearing in the dugong group.

     They thought they were seeing things wrong, but a tourist who had been observing the dugong in the Mermaid Square also noticed something unusual and shouted, “Dolphin, is that a dolphin?”

     The students were shocked. To tourists, this gray-white creature with a dorsal fin is a dolphin, but they knew that a dolphin with such characteristics is a Chinese white dolphin!^[1]Though it is usually called Chinese white dolphin, it is not really WHITE. Chinese white dolphin is grey and spotty when it is younger. Its spots would be faded and colour would be changed to pink … Continue reading

     It was the first time they saw a Chinese white dolphin with their own eyes. They were so excited that they didn’t know how to react for a while.

     Finally, someone reacted and said, “Lao Xiong, go tell the teacher. A Lan, you stay here with me and watch.”

     Wan Min was notified and came over. Long Feng, Cen Yingda, Captain Pan and others received the news and rushed over. The news media were also alarmed by the tourists and called to go to the island to collect news materials.

     Li Yaolin still finished her work slowly and came over slowly. When Wan Min told her that there might be two Chinese white dolphins in the waters of Xingzhou Island, she was not surprised at all, after all, the housekeeper had reminded her long ago.

     The gray-white Chinese white dolphin found by the students is a sub-adult between juvenile and adult, about seven years old. The other one was found far away, and its pink skin showed that it was an adult Chinese white dolphin.

     Cen Yingda asked: “Island owner, do you have a way to get the other Chinese white dolphin to come over?”

     Long Feng, Wan Min and others also looked at her expectantly. 

     Her ability to interact with dugongs left a deep impression on everyone, so everyone thought that she might also be able to make Chinese white dolphins so close to her.

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     She said: “Let me try!”

     Seeing the Chinese white dolphin wandering in the distance, and vaguely sensing its uneasiness, Li Yaolin walked to the reef and called the sub-adult Chinese white dolphin over.

     The sub-adult came over with its new friend, the dugong cub. Li Yaolin touched the dugong cub’s head. The sub-adult raised its upper body and wanted to get close to Li Yaolin. She also touched it and whispered, “Tell your mother we won’t hurt it.”

     The sub-adult seemed to understand. It turned and swam towards the adult. After a while, both Chinese white dolphins came over.

     Although everyone hoped that Li Yaolin would do this, they were still shocked when they saw that she could really communicate with Chinese white dolphins.

     Wan Min’s students secretly muttered privately: “In fact, the island owner is some kind of marine creature that has become a spirit through cultivation, or maybe she studied “sea animal language” in college? I don’t know which university I can go to for further study, I want to change my major. “

     “Definitely not, because spirits are not allowed after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.”

     “…”

     The results of the examination of the Chinese white dolphin made Wan Min and others angry, sad, and very surprised.

     They finally understood why the sub-adult dared to come here to move around, while the adult stayed far away. It was not because it did not like the environment here, but because it had been injured before – there were many scars on its body, which were initially judged to be the scars left by the struggle after being dragged by the fishing net. Although the wounds have healed, the experience probably left it with psychological trauma, so it is afraid of ships and dare not easily go ashore.

     In addition, they unexpectedly discovered that it was pregnant. It was probably because it was worried that human activities would harm its children, so it stayed far away, but in the end it chose to trust the island owner and came here.

     Its estimated due date is August. If they have not left by then, the reserve must be on high alert to ensure that it can give birth smoothly.

 

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     As soon as the news was broadcast, the forum was also very lively:

     Original poster: “Three kinds of first-class national protected wild animals have chosen the waters of Xingzhou Island. It is unreasonable not to upgrade the marine reserve to national level. Funny.jpg”

     1L: “Ahhh, Xingzhou Island is really an animal paradise! I am a local of Youshi and I have never been there. How many memories have I missed? Tears o(╥﹏╥)o!”

     2L: “Now you may not be able to buy a ticket if you want to go! Fortunately, I have been there, although it was two months ago, but I still want to go again. I beg the island owner to release more quotas for landing on the island!”

     3L: “Green turtles, leatherback turtles, dugongs, and now two Chinese White dolphins, why don’t we guess what other marine animals will appear on Xingzhou Island in the future!”

     4L: “I hope to see whales!”

     5L: “The Chinese white dolphin is a member of the family of dolphins in the order Cetacea!”

     4L replied to 5L: “I don’t care, I hope the big family of the ocean can add killer whales, killer whales are so cute, I love them so much!”

     6L: “Killer whales, they are the kings of the sea, more ferocious than sharks, sharks can only become food when facing them, and they rarely act alone, once they appear, they are a whole family, dugongs and Chinese white dolphins are not enough for them to eat, are you sure you want to see killer whales?”

     4L: “…”

     Forget it, just pretend she didn’t say anything!

     7L: “By the way, the news said that these two white dolphins are mother and son. How do you know for sure?”

     8L: “Because white dolphins are not social animals, usually juveniles and sub-adults live with their mothers before they reach adulthood. If the mother white dolphin can successfully give birth to a baby white dolphin, it will be a family of three.”

     9L: “Fortunately, the industrial park is not located in Liantou Port, otherwise these animals will suffer.”

 

     Li Yaolin closed the forum and said: “I said that the appearance of the Chinese white dolphin is because the sea god ancestors can’t bear to see me being bullied, so they sent me to support me, and you still said I was self-indulgent.”

     Little mermaid: “…”

     The island owner asked again: “Can you send a less ferocious killer whale next time? I also think killer whales are cute.”

     Little mermaid: “If the island owner doesn’t mind that the group of tuna that have been raised with great difficulty to three or four hundred kilograms are eaten up…”

     Island owner: “!!!”

     Tomorrow, I will put up a sign saying “Killer whales and sharks are not allowed to enter”!