In the early morning, the residents of Shikumen got up early as usual, bought three or two fried breads, went to work, took a walk, and met each other.

But in this tranquility, everyone is indescribable. When old neighbors meet, they will talk in a low voice, and when they get together, they will exchange various gossips. Often, hearing some news can arouse the attention of many people.

They were looking forward to it, they were excited. In this spring, every household in the old alley was talking about the renovation of Shikumen.

At seven or eight o'clock, many college students suddenly came to the streets and alleys. The residents were already familiar with these people. They were college students who worked part-time at the Tongda University Architecture College. They saw them posting notices on the wall, which immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"Let's take a look, this is the government's notice!" After several students left, everyone immediately gathered up.

"What are you saying above?" asked an old man.

Someone read the above content quickly with his eyes and said, "This is the government that we will not allow us to buy and sell houses privately, nor will we build them privately. Those who buy and sell houses privately will not admit it!"

"How can I count the prefabricated house I built before?"

"No, probably not counting!"

"Oh, my second son and daughter-in-law are still living in the prefabricated house. What should I do?"

"Yes, you can't drive people to the streets, right?"

Everyone was talking, and some people were worried that the houses they built did not count and wanted to go to the municipal government to ask for an explanation, but the residents didn't know who to look for. Besides, everyone knew that it was really not good to build privately and they had no confidence in reasoning with the government.

Some old people looked at the black and white notice and sighed: "Oh, I really want to move, and I don't know where the developer asked us to move."

Lin Qiangsheng held a meeting with the municipal government and the municipal party committee for several days, explaining to the leaders how to resettle these more than 2,000 families and more than 8,000 residents.

This relocation project alone costs RMB 500 million, and the project team will build a housing project in the Yandang Road area. Lin Johnson has assured the municipal party committee and government that the resettlement of more than 2,000 households will be successfully completed and there will be no problems.

The design of the housing project has begun. There are still hundreds of households in the Yandang Road area to be demolished. The unified planning will be carried out. The demolition will be carried out at the end of April. During the project, residents in the Yandang Road area will receive a monthly rental subsidy of 100 yuan.

After the news was revealed, it blew into the ears of the residents of Shikumen like the wind. It was said by word of mouth that the residents speculated that the address of the relocation might be there. Some people had already gone there to check it first. The news brought back confirmed the rumors that some staff had already started to measure the land.

The Xintiandi project gradually emerged, and the TV media also reported it one after another. This huge construction project immediately became a big news that the people of the city were concerned about.

Nearly a month later, one day in mid-April, Lin Johnson came to SAIC again and met Director Qiu Ke.

He visited the construction of the factory. Dongxing Group invested US$20 million to renovate the original factory in SAIC and launched a car production line, including stamping, welding, coating, and assembly lines, with the ability to produce 30,000 cars annually.

There were many Dongxing employees at the scene doing equipment debugging, and SAIC's original 1,300 workers assisted and conducted simple training.

The Shanghai brand sedan has been completely discontinued and the factory has been given to a new joint venture. Its discontinuation means that the SAIC brand, which has been around for nearly 20 years, officially withdrawing from the historical stage five years in advance.

Qiu Ke said to Lin Johnson: "The production line is expected to be debugged in one week. We studied the technology of this production line and found that it is not inferior to the Germans at all. Our entire factory is looking forward to it. Similarly, the city is also paying attention to our new automobile project!"

The contract details of this joint venture automobile company are copied from the Poussan project, but the biggest change is that there are no spare parts purchased from foreign trade. Dongxing will be fully responsible for its spare parts supply. In the automobile projects jointly developed by both parties, Dongxing will also try pure domestic spare parts for the first time, with a domestic production rate of 100%.

Lin Johnson looked at the workers who were watching carefully on the scene. Dongxing's employees were inspecting and debugging the equipment. SAIC equipped each person with ten apprentices. If it weren't for the fact that there were too many people in the workshop, Director Qiu Ke would have really been able to stuff all 1,300 people in.

"According to the current progress, the first batch of mass-produced cars that will be put into the market will be assembled in June. Dongxing will first transport spare parts of 600 cars to allow employees to conduct actual car training."

Qiu Ke asked: "Mr. Lin, what model do we want to produce?"

Lin Johnson: "You try to assemble the Daewoo Blue Sky first. I have already thought of the new brand. Come and take a look."

Qiu Ke asked in surprise: "I also know that Daewoo Blue Sky sedan is not made by Xingtai Daewoo Automobile Company, a subsidiary of Dongxing. How do we produce it?"

Lin Johnson had already taken out a trademark design drawing from his bag and said, "Yes, it's just a brand that is produced by SAIC. Many foreign manufacturers do this. It is produced by two factories under one model, and it has two brands."

Qiu Ke took the drawings and expanded them to see the brand of the new car. The whole is blue, as fancy as the star-striped flag, with a line of pinyin on it and a Chinese annotation next to it, and silently said: "Shenhua, what does this mean?"

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and said, "Yes, it's Shenhua. This trademark is a new car brand. This joint venture car factory also uses this brand. I know that in recent years, the selection of Shanghai Flowers has attracted many citizens. It is a good thing for ordinary people to actively participate. The concept of city flowers for colleagues should also be deeply rooted in their body and mind. I think the word Shenhua will be easy for the people to accept it."

Qiu Ke smiled and nodded and said, "Shenhua, this word is good. Shanghai Flower has been decided, it is magnolia. Shenhua, this word is well used, and the people will definitely welcome it!"

He had no objection to the trademark styling. The only thing he was confused about was that Lin Johnson actually asked them to produce a model that other manufacturers were manufacturing.

Qiu Ke said very seriously: "Mr. Lin, our two joint ventures in one factory are already at the forefront. We will take other manufacturers' models to produce them directly, but just change the brand. Is this really OK?"

Lin Johnson nodded and said, "I think SAIC will use Daewoo Blue Sky model for training first. After two or three months, you will be able to produce new cars. How about this?"

Qiu Ke asked in surprise: "Has the new model been designed?"

Lin Qiang-Chengsheng was embarrassed and said, "Not yet, but I already have an idea. For me, the model design is very fast. The difficult thing is the system matching. It takes some time. You can try it with the Blue Sky model first."

Qiu Ke nodded and said, "Then I suggest that the new trademark not be activated first, and wait until the new car is produced and when to use this trademark. Now it is useless. It will be bad if the public opinion is bad!"

Lin Johnson: "Okay, when I go back to Bincheng, I will try my best to speed up the design of the new car."

Qiu Ke pointed to the trademark picture and said, "I'll leave this."

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and said, "Okay, it doesn't matter, I have registered a trademark anyway."

Qiu Ke smiled and shook his head. He had just thought of this problem, but he didn't expect that Lin Johnson had already done it.

Lu Qidao followed Lin Qiang-Chengsheng's advice and set up a resident consultation point on Taicang Road, Huangpi South Road, Madang Road, and Zhong Road to preach demolition policies to the public and answer questions.

This measure has had a good effect, allowing confused residents to understand and have more understanding of the Xintiandi renovation project.

The project team promoted the compensation policy to the public. The area of ​​each household will be counted. Divided by the total number of households to obtain an average value. The development company will compensate each household for a property area of ​​5,070 square meters. The real benefits have dispelled the residents' doubts.

All kinds of gossips circulating among the people have been proven to be unreliable. The development company not only costs money, but also gives away the house area for free. The huge benefits make the people very excited.

During this period, the living conditions of Shanghai residents were very bad. It was very common for many families of three and five to squeeze into small houses of more than ten square meters.

When the people learned that each household's new house could reach more than 100 square meters, their happy expressions were beyond words, and the work of the project team was immediately simpler and the statistics work began immediately. To be continued.

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Chapter completed!