Miscellaneous Notes on Traveling to Hong Kong (7) Talk about water and electricity in Hong Kong.

As a modern metropolis, Hong Kong is one of the international financial centers. Electricity consumption and safety are the highlights of urban construction.

Few people know that Hong Kong is the safest city in the world, with 99.99% electricity security. For this safety index, nearly 50% of its installed power generation capacity has been placed redundantly for a long time, only to meet the safety transaction needs of its international financial center. It is precisely because of this that Hong Kong can become a vanity fair where capitals from all countries compete for wisdom and courage.

Brilliant lights at night are a great sight in Hong Kong. However, if you look closely, you will find that the night lighting and viewing lights in Hong Kong are actually very stingy. First of all, the grand office building is not lit every day in Dou Xiu! For the safety of foggy days, all the outdoor lights are on.

Residential buildings and street lamps in Hong Kong are all LED lights, and the brightness is not very great. Energy saving and environmental protection!

The two major power companies in Hong Kong are privately owned, namely China Light and Power Company and HEC Power Company. The boss of the former is a Jewish family that has accumulated in Hongkong for a hundred years, while the boss of the latter is Li Ka-shing.

Hong Kong's own Lamma Island natural gas and wind power station provides stable electricity for Hong Kong Island, and Shenzhen Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station also delivers a steady stream of clean energy to Hong Kong's New Territories and Kowloon, but there is no ever-burning lamp in Hong Kong. The light sources in many places can be described as "shabby".

In order to use electricity in Hong Kong, in addition to Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station, natural gas produced by offshore gas fields near Hainan in the mainland has been continuously transported to Hong Kong power station for power generation through submarine pipelines for 20 years. The power grid of China Southern Power Company and the laying of special lines for supplying power to Hong Kong provide technical support and raw material guarantee for power generation and electricity consumption in Hong Kong.

Twenty years after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, with the strong support of the mainland, a power generation energy structure combining wind power, gas power (natural gas power generation) and coal power has been formed. Fully meet the power demand of international financial centers.

This management principle fully embodies the government's functional orientation in the market economy. To put it bluntly, it is "small government governs big market", and the government that can solve the market only has "supervision". And it is really supervision.

Except water.

Water use in Hong Kong also has its own characteristics, that is, it depends on rainwater and Dongjiang water. In other words, most of the drinking water in Hong Kong comes from Dongjiang Reservoir in Guangdong. A small part comes from the purification of rainwater collected.

The sources of residential water, drinking water and flushing water in Hong Kong are separate. There are regular announcements to clean the water storage tank! I pay attention to the cycle, about three months.

The flushing tank of the bathroom I use should also be cleaned regularly, otherwise the muddy water will precipitate and taste great! The main reason is that the water used for flushing toilets is salt water (seawater), and residents use salt water free of charge.

Every time I post a notice to clean the drinking water tank, I will tell the housekeeping staff to pay attention to water use and put a few pots of yellow water every time before I see the clear water. It can be seen that the water storage tank is really cleaned.

The water department should also regularly check the water supply pipes and valves. In addition to preventing the loss of precious water, another important reason is whether the trace elements decomposed by pipeline and valve materials exceed the standard at tropical high temperature.

Dongjiang people have sacrificed a lot to ensure that Hong Kong compatriots eat clean water. Environmental protection and soil and water conservation are bottomless pits where money is ignored and benefits are invisible.

Apart from the price, this water is just like giving it away for free.

In the past century, the Hong Kong government has spent a lot of money looking for water and experimenting with seawater desalination, but all of them have achieved results. Desalinated seawater can only be used to flush toilets.

Drinking water in Hong Kong is not a burden for individuals. But it is not cheap for Dongjiang people and the country. Therefore, Hong Kong people should also be careful and not waste.

Draft, this is people's livelihood. The pricing of tap water in Hong Kong is equivalent to the national policy. The mother of the motherland did not abandon this child who has been wandering outside for a hundred years, and loved her as always, and did not let her get into trouble because of drinking water.

When I was a child, I read a text "People Digging Wells while Drinking Water", which was about the Red Army digging wells for the common people. Hong Kong people should also remember the care and love of our compatriots in the motherland!

Because fresh water is precious in Hong Kong, rainwater collection brought by abundant rainfall has become a major project of the Water Supplies Department and is normalized. According to the data, all rainwater collection designs in Hong Kong adopt gravity flow collection, that is, they flow from high places to low places and are stored in ponds. This saves a lot of engineering costs. It shows the smart and pragmatic style of Hong Kong people.

A friend asked me why there are so many green barren hills in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Listen to my explanation. Look at this rainwater collection map. Is the answer yes? This is a great event in Hong Kong. Once the long-distance water supply is different, it will take several days to ensure the drinking water for 7 million people by this rainwater collection pool and the old pond.

Finally, talk about qi.

Hong Kong's energy mainly depends on fossil fuels and nuclear energy to meet the needs of power generation, transportation and cooking. As Hong Kong has no energy deposits, all the energy used is imported, including coal, fuel oil and natural gas. According to statistics a few years ago, 78% of raw coal for gas production was purchased from Indonesia. Natural gas comes from offshore natural gas field energy exploited by CNOOC near Hainan Island.

China Gas Company uses natural gas and petroleum as raw materials to produce gas.

More than 98% of the gas in Hong Kong is produced by Tai Po Plant, and the rest is produced by Matoujiao Plant.

Gas is a clean, safe and reliable fuel, and its raw materials include oil and natural gas. At the same time, landfill biogas is used as hot fuel to heat the fuel. You can see the composition ratio from the figure below.

Hong Kong's gas raw materials are imported, so the price is also determined by the market economy. Careful Hong Kong people strongly recommend cooking with electricity. You can save a lot of money.

In fact, the number of roads on the mainland is the same. My friend who lives in Beijing uses electricity to keep warm in winter. She is a construction engineer, who turns on the heating appliances at midnight regularly, because the electricity bill was cheap at that time!

In Hong Kong, as in the Mainland, there are special meter readers for gas pricing, and most of them are middle-aged men. According to friends, meter readers don't accept women because they prevent their work from being harassed. Think about the women in mainland China who come to do this job every time. Who dares to interfere in her work?

Residential energy consumption in Hong Kong accounts for 265,438+0% of the total energy consumption, which is not a small proportion (note: energy consumption includes electricity and gas).

Commercial energy consumption in Hong Kong accounts for 42% of the total energy consumption, which is twice that of residential buildings. Traffic energy consumption accounts for 38% of the total energy consumption. These two items add up to 80%, which shows that Hong Kong is not only a consumer city, but also a production city.

Therefore, according to the energy consumption to evaluate Hong Kong's GDP, Hong Kong's contribution should be qualified.

Hong Kong's economic development depends entirely on the purchase and import of energy and raw materials, with the support of the mainland accounting for a large proportion. Hong Kong's development cannot be separated from the motherland.