Ordos City

The next frontier would be integrating more renewables while keeping the system reliable and flexible.

Maybe picking up on this idea of what China can build, Jeremy, I'll turn to you because you recently published a piece building on this idea of China maxing and instead interpreting it as this idea of Ordos maxing, referring to a region of Inner Mongolia and basically this idea that China is very much investing in an all of the above energy strategy.

So putting this in the context of AI and data centers, you know, how well can China's grid actually transport electricity from both clean and other sources to where it's needed? What does that mean, for instance, as China moves more data centers to Western provinces, but most of the compute is still needed along the eastern coast of China?

Thank you for mentioning the piece.

Two other groups had risen up to become just as formidable as the Khitan Liao.

These were the Jurchens in Manchuria and the Tanguts of the western Xia, mostly around Ningxia, the Ordos region of Inner Mongolia, parts of Shanxi, Qinghai, easternmost Xinjiang, and most important of all, the Hexi corridor of Gansu.

And in a famous story, which, you know, showed just what kind of a guy Ouyang Xiu was, He really wanted to get a chance to get a posting out west to participate in this war.

I guess he had great military aspirations or something.

I wasn't calling it a very pleasant experience, but it's definitely also four to five hours of traveling.

But now I don't think a lot of people would choose coaches if they're still traveling between Hohhot and Ordos because we have other options.

Sure, I mean, there was a point in time where those long bus trips, yes, we look back at them now and we think, gosh, Why was that our number one choice? Well, because it was the number one choice.

The deputy general manager of a local bus transportation group in the northwest part of the country talked about this and said that road passenger transport was growing steadily, maybe up to 2013 or so, because as the economy developed and road infrastructure improved, long distance bus trips increased.

So that is why that people, including people from the United Nations, from FAO, are so deeply moved by her own determination And a lot of people also try to, touched by her determination, and try to join her efforts into planting trees.

I've seen young people coming from the United States, coming from all over the world, go to Mawusu in Ordos in Mongolia, and at least to learn a little bit, some technology, some efforts, some techniques she's developed over the years.

But what's been really, really moving is happened this year, actually, very recent.

It comes from an American history teacher called Reynolds Sokolsky.

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That was good enough for Kangxi, who announced that, on October 14th, 1696, he would set out from the capital on a hunting expedition to the Ordos.

Yet in this, the object was not actually to capture or kill the rogue Jungar Khan, a feat still impossible as his specific whereabouts were still unknown.

Rather, this was going to be a parade of sorts.

Twenty days' supplies were distributed.

On the next day, the emperor measured the breadth of the river with his Jesuit surveying instruments, reporting that the grass there was so high you can't see the horses.

A week later, he crossed the frozen Yellow River with his supply trains and entered the Ordos region." From Wangjin, General Fiongu made report that Jungar efforts to raid enemy grain stores had not succeeded, leading to most of the supplies being burned in the attempt and insufficient grain to feed Galdan's rebel troops throughout the region.

Now, the Khan's only hope of resupplying his men before they starved to death or deserted him must be to attack Hami.