Freshwater from Lake Baikal

Just like what the netizens and investment analysts said, managing the desert was an investment with no return. Only saints or imbeciles would be willing to do so.

Commercial investment value was zero? Chen Jin was obviously no fool. He had conducted sufficient research beforehand, as well as simulations on the computer.

Commonly, these were the few main expenditures on managing desert land: 

First would be the labor cost for flattening the desert land and the construction of roads and irrigation facilities totaling at about 2000 dollars per mu. Secondly would be the cost of purchasing seedlings, fertilizers, and agriculture machinery at around 1500 dollars per mu. Lastly would be water. Every mu of land would need more than a hundred tons of irrigation annually. The expenditure on the water for each mu of land would be at least a thousand dollars every year.