Chapter 1458: Chapter 572 Huge Expenses_3

Besides these, Dream Island also carries out a vast amount of charitable work within China, investing over 100 billion Dream Coins annually. Fortunately, these charitable activities are all managed by Dream Island and are channeled entirely into China’s welfare, aiding numerous Chinese people in need.

Every year, the funds allocated to Yang Qi’s laboratory by Dream Island are astronomical. For example, last year, they invested over 10 trillion Dream Coins. It is with such substantial financial backing that Dream Island’s technology can achieve leapfrog development, keeping it at the forefront of the world.

For the long-term development of Dream Island, a complete educational system from kindergarten to university has been perfected. Many schools have sprung up on Dream Island, and numerous top education experts have been recruited from China to teach the children of Dream Island’s employees. Dream Island heavily invests in education primarily upfront; once the schools are operational, their running costs are not very high.

Originally, there would have been another significant expense for Dream Island–medical costs. However, Dream Island is continuously benefitted from the rich Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi that seeps from deep underground in the Dreamland Cave World, resulting in very few illnesses among the residents. Despite having established a systematic medical unit, these facilities rarely see patients and do business poorly, saving Dream Island a substantial amount of funds.

Besides these regular expenditures, Dream Island also purchases a significant amount of products and materials from around the world to ensure the normal life necessities of the entire island. However, being at the cutting edge of high-tech products, the goods they purchase are primarily raw materials and daily necessities.

Given Dream Island’s vast size and an additional 3000 square kilometers of new land to develop, the cost for purchases last year reached 20 trillion Dream Coins, equivalent to 14 trillion US Dollars.

Therefore, in this financial report, Dream Island’s total expenditures for the past year were 56 trillion Dream Coins, which is 37340 billion US Dollars. Including the previous total profits, Dream Island’s net surplus for the year was 171529 trillion Dream Coins or 514587 billion RMB, 114353 billion US Dollars.

With such a massive surplus, Yan Fei now has more resources for the development of the Dreamland Cave World. With this new development underway, comprehensive development on the external parts of Dream Island was temporarily halted. Due to the existence of nuclear weapons in the outside world, Dream Island is always at risk of destruction by enemy nuclear attacks. Therefore, it is arguably more prudent to invest in building the Dreamland Cave World, where no one can easily enter; even if the outside world were obliterated, the people living within the Dreamland Cave World would still thrive.

It is because of this significant shift in developmental goals that Lu Pingping has begun acquiring all kinds of resources worldwide, aiming to convert all the surplus cash in hand into resources. Dream Island’s purchase of resources from other nations also helps balance the massive trade deficits with these countries, preventing any unified boycotts due to unsightly economic practices.

Dream Island’s grand purchasing plan has officially commenced. Although not many resources have been acquired yet, all countries have been mobilized; given enough time, all the world’s resources will be delivered to Dream Island and then transferred to the Dreamland Cave World, becoming the foundation of its development.