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Chapter 695: Picking Star Building

After the test of the raging **, the Chinese people's psychological resistance to sudden infectious diseases has been greatly enhanced. Although there has been news that h5n1 avian influenza appeared in Hong Kong, the 2003 Mid-Star World Conference still returned to the host city of Hong Kong Sky Star City. However, in order to take care of many old customers of the company and show the on-site operation performance of more group products, this conference still used Hainan Boao and Yangpu as branch venues.

When the conference opened, almost all the guests present were amazed at the towering figure of the world's tallest building, Zhaixing Tower, which rose from the former Kai Tak Airport location and soared into the sky. After all, if you want to see its top floor, you need to tilt your neck to the point where your hat falls off on your head. This is not all the feelings you usually feel when you watch an ordinary skyscraper.

Yang Xing just returned from Dubai. The Dubai Tower, which was built there, is full of mystery. The difference is that the Zhaixing Tower has been widely promoted since its construction, is the world's number one since its construction. The World Conference held at its feet every year has attracted the attention of the whole world. Many people attending this conference watched Zhaixing Tower grow taller year by year. However, the visual experience this year is the strongest, because after years of construction, the main structure of the building has been completed, and the scaffolding and tarpaulin wrapped around the exterior wall has been removed, and only some of the interior decoration work has not been completed. It is expected that during next year's World Conference, the audience will be able to enter the building directly to enjoy the style of the world's tallest building.

When Yang Xing rode onto the rostrum of the venue in a car, the first thing he said was the many advantages of the huge building behind it. However, the guests and reporters present were obviously more interested in the car Yang Xing rode this time. After all, at the opening of the World Conference, what kind of strange transportation Yang Xing took was almost the verge of the underground gambling company. He drove a rotorcraft, drove a submersible, and also stepped on the Segway Hot Wheels to board the stage. There is no reason this time he just took a sedan with an ordinary appearance. If it was a new energy sedan, it was leftovers that were not in line with Yang Xing's usual habit of being unique and making the opening ceremony of the World Conference shine. Everyone present speculated that there must be another mystery inside the car.

Soon everyone discovered that Yang Xing opened the door and got off the car from the right. Although the driving wheel of the Hong Kong sedan is on the right, this car is in line with the traffic habits of most countries in the world where the driving position is on the left. In other words, Yang Xing is actually sitting in the passenger seat. Could it be that this car is driven remotely or even unmanned?

Unmanned driving technology is the most cutting-edge technology today, and the US side is the number one promoter. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the US drone allows an operator in a Nevada base to cross half of the earth to command drones to launch missiles with just a move of his finger. It destroys all objects in the camera's field of view, and has zero casualties for high-tech war personnel. Its more efficient features have attracted countless military powers to follow the trend and imitate.

As the leader in unmanned driving, the United States certainly wants to transform the advantages of air drones into a multiplier for ground combat. The U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research and Planning Agency set up a million-dollar prize in the first "Challenge" competition held this year, and invited the whole world to develop unmanned cars that can drive independently in various environments. The farther the distance, the fewer the faults there will be. Experts in the field of automatic engineering around the world are eager to try, and now Zhongxing Group has come out the finished product. Most of the audiences in the audience are regular customers who have participated in the World Conference. They know that the car that Yang Xing can ride in is at least very mature. It seems that Zhongxing's R&D vision is still sharp!

Before Yang Xing could announce the end of the opening ceremony, many people flocked to the conference information desk and asked for detailed information about this driverless car. Zhongxing Group was also prepared for this and provided exquisite prints and field experimental video displays about the car, so that everyone could have a sneak peek.

This car, called Smart, uses "Star Wars" intelligent software and various sensing devices, including cameras, radar sensors and laser equipment. The control platform can achieve 360-degree all-round sensing. The radar sensor on the roof can scan the environment within a radius of about 100 meters. The sensor behind the car can evaluate the location of the car. The on-board computer can "understand" traffic lights through the camera, identify sidewalks and obstacles, etc., and simulate the human intelligence to respond correctly to the corresponding traffic conditions.

It is very different from many of its predecessors' driverless cars. It is more essentially different from the car in "007 Crisis Tomorrow" that depends on James Bond's remote control with a mobile phone. It knows how to judge the impact of the surrounding environment on the vehicle's driving and makes corresponding actions. This is also because Yang Xing is sitting in the passenger seat. He is just a passenger when driving, and all driving activities are made by "smart". Strictly speaking, it is a robot that looks like a car. It uses various sensors of the entire vehicle to obtain external information, and responds through the computer inside the car and the huge Zhongxing data network connected behind it. It is much smarter and more sensitive than the driverless cars that could only rely on on in-car computers to make judgments.

On-site staff introduced that the "smart" sedan has a safety record of 100,000 kilometers. It uses cameras, radar sensors and laser rangefinders to "see" other vehicles, and uses detailed maps to navigate. The information collected by ordinary people manually driving vehicles is very huge. Most car accidents occur when processing and converting this information. Zhongxing Data Center relies on its huge data processing capabilities to minimize this risk. In a sense, this is a major achievement of the Internet of Things emphasized by Yang Xing.

By passing products like "Smart" at this conference, Zhongxing Group not only instilled the definition of the Internet of Things to every audience member, but also tried to control the formulation of standards for the three major technologies of the Internet of Things. At the opening ceremony, Yang Xing almost did not introduce this "Smart" sedan. He believed that "a single-handed experience is better than a single person". If the audience rides it in person, the effect of personal experience will be better.

At the opening ceremony, he focused on the advantages of the huge star-picking tower behind him. The exterior of this skyscraper looks very much like the Heavenly Palace in ancient Chinese mythology. It is composed of several towering facades of buildings, and is dotted with Chinese-style bridge-eaves. Its design is inspired by the Golden-topped Hall on the famous Taoist mountain Wudang Mountain. It even has several waterfalls and courtyards that flow down. The water steam is steaming and clouds are stormy. Looking from a distance, facing the sunrise on the sea and the bright moon sinking west. It really has a bit of the artistic conception of a beautiful place on the sea and the fairy mountain on the sea.

The interior of this building with a blue-black and ancient appearance is filled with high-tech. The entire building has more than 200 floors, and the top floor has a temperature difference of several degrees between the ground. The floor area of ​​up to 400,000 square meters is divided by Zhongxing Group headquarters, luxury apartments, hotels, offices, business suites, entertainment and fitness facilities, and shops. Although the hotel designed by Armani himself is not as luxurious as the luxury of the Abu Dhabi Palace Hotel, the throne of the world's tallest hotel cannot escape. Yang Xing, who is deeply impressed by the luxury of the Palace Hotel this time, plans to add a budget. Even if he can't catch up with the Palace Hotel, it will surpass the Dubai Sailing Hotel.

The building has 60 elevators, the world's largest transportation length, and are installed in different areas of the tower. Visitors, residents, office workers, and hotel guests use different elevators. The partner Hitachi Group also uses an extremely novel capsule elevator technology, which is not only the fastest and highest elevator in the world. At the same time, in order to ensure that users can directly reach any floor, multiple elevators can not only run up and down, but also follow specially made tracks that look a bit like roller coasters moving forward, back and left and right. The entire elevator is like a capsule, which can transport passengers inside to designated locations as soon as possible.

As Zhongxing’s headquarters, convenient and smooth communication and security are essential. When the building is still under construction, nearly 1,000 kilometers of optical cables and various sensors were laid in the cement. The bottom of the building is tens of meters deep into the seabed, equipped with state-of-the-art and inexplicable vaults and secret rooms, as well as generator sets that provide a city’s electricity and a huge data center.

It is equipped with supercomputers that can rank among the top ten operating speeds in the world. The seawater is introduced into the cooling through pipes made of granite. It is the "brain" of the entire building. With internal wireless communication terminals such as Wimax and 3g, the building itself is a huge data terminal and network node, ensuring that even if the external power is cut off for 72 hours, the building's external information and equipment operation will not be affected.

The blue-gray exterior of the building is actually covered with a layer of solar panels, and a wind turbine is also installed on the top of the building. Under the control of the information center, the solar panels and fans will automatically switch according to weather conditions and introduce fresh air into the building. At the same time, the exterior walls and structure of the building are much thicker than ordinary skyscrapers. This is not only to prevent attacks like "911", but also to ensure environmental protection and insulation.

The specially designed air duct is coated with anti-fouling self-cleaning ability material on the surface. It can be based on the switches of the building's smart center and a certain reflective light device. Even inside the building, it can feel sunlight and breeze. This not only prevents the building users from being suppressed by the enclosed environment, but also greatly reduces the power consumption of the building. It is hailed by the United Nations as a model of high-tech human settlements. Zhaixing Building won the United Nations Gold Award before it was completed.

Of course, high technology requires high investment support. The original budget of 3 billion US dollars was not enough. Yang Xing also wanted to build all hotels, shopping malls and apartments into the world's top level, and the additional investment was probably no less than 1 billion. The benefit was that Yang Xing used satellite pictures and multimedia animation demonstration building to rise up on the ground on the spot, which made the audience exclaim from time to time. When the tickets for the opening ceremony of the building next year were auctioned to the world through the online platform, the bidders were very enthusiastic, and finally the sky-high price of 1,000 US dollars was swept away.
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