In the remote outskirts of Xinjing County, about thirty kilometers from the Industrial Park, an area roughly ten kilometers across had been leveled.
The site was fairly isolated. Not only did no major roads pass through it, but very few people lived there.
Ever since it had been designated before the New Year as the site of Phantom Immortal Technology's first Geothermal Power Station, the place had become a hive of activity.
The first task had been negotiating compensation for the land acquisition.
The locals had never imagined that their homes would be demolished for development. The hefty compensation payments were a windfall straight out of the blue.
As a result, the compensation negotiations went very smoothly. Everything was settled in just two or three days.
The rest was straightforward. All kinds of construction machinery moved in, and before the fourth day of the first lunar month, every house had been leveled. All the trees within the construction zone had also been felled in accordance with the plans supplied by the Illusion Immortal Technology Company.
That day, the manager of Phantom Immortal Technology's geothermal power project held a simple handover ceremony with the Xinjing County government. It was the Spring Festival, after all; making it too elaborate would only have been a nuisance.
Once the land had been handed over, more than a dozen large trucks carrying various pieces of equipment entered the site.
Interview crews from CCTV and Provincial Satellite TV arrived as well.
These crews had not simply been brought in for a one-off interview. They were to stay on-site and film the construction process, then turn the footage into a documentary special to be broadcast on CCTV-1.
No other company in the country had ever received such an honor.
The interview crews had originally hoped Shen Bing