Chapter 241 Build roads first if you want to get rich
In the conference hall of the Jingchu Provincial People's Congress, applause rang like a tide. Everyone was applauding the idea of President Du Zhongyuan for the township industrial park just now. Only Liang An was in a bad mood.
Why is this happening? How could Chairman Du agree with the rural local boss? Didn’t he praise me just now? Why did he turn around and support the township industrial park?
Liang An felt unable to understand, and the applause in the venue was even more harsh to him at this time, as if he was not applauding, but hitting him in the face one after another. As for what he said before, he was more like a clown who kept showing off his sensationalism. No matter how hard he performed, he could only make everyone laugh in the end.
"Since Chairman Du said so, it seems that I am not considering it well, and I still need to strengthen my own ideas."
Liang An left this sentence and hurriedly ended his speech. In fact, his speech against Zhou Ming was only a small part of his speech, but the reason for Du Zhongyuan made him no longer know how to continue.
After Liang An, other representatives also spoke in sequence. With Liang An, the pig jade in front, they naturally understood the direction, so they all praised the township industrial park as a good idea that could drive rural economic development, which made Liang An feel that his face was being slapped by these people one after another.
At 11:30 noon, the meeting ended, and Liang An hurriedly left the venue. He was afraid that Zhou Ming would come back to find him. If Zhou Ming said a few more words to him, he would really have no shame to continue the meeting here.
Zhou Ming and Liang An arranged seats very close. He looked at Liang An's hurriedly leaving back and couldn't help but shake his head, sighing that this guy was thinking too much. He had long passed the age of youth and energy, and was not interested in competing with him for this tone.
Regardless of this young master who was very enigmatic, Zhou Ming packed up his own materials and was about to leave, but at this time, Governor Xiong's secretary Wu Shiping suddenly came over and said that Chairman Du wanted to invite him to have lunch together.
Zhou Ming followed Wu Shiping to the provincial party committee guesthouse. As the president of the country, Du Zhongyuan must have the best private room. When Zhou Ming came over, Du Zhongyuan, provincial party secretary Jiang Wen and governor Xiong Qingping were already sitting here. Seeing Zhou Ming coming in, Du Zhongyuan waved to him and asked Zhou Ming to sit on his side. Zhou Ming was a little embarrassed and said, "Isn't this good?"
Du Zhongyuan waved his hand and said, "It's okay, this is not a formal occasion, we just have a meal in private, so there is no need to pay attention to it."
Jiang Wen and Xiong Qingping next to him also agreed with Du Zhongyuan that this was the case, and helped persuade Zhou Ming to let go and not be so restrained.
The three leaders said this, and of course Zhou Ming sat down without being pretentious. Zhou Ming first thanked Du Zhongyuan: "Thanks Chairman Du for supporting me just now."
"I am not supporting you, I am supporting your idea of a township industrial park," Du Zhongyuan corrected, "Actually you are right. Our country is too poor. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the whole country was destroyed. We have built a new China on a ruin. Now, reform and opening up are not much better. The rural economy is also affected by the past policies. If we do not take some methods, it will be at least twenty years later to let the countryside develop itself."
In fact, rural township industrial parks had ideas as early as 99 years ago. Du Zhongyuan probably wouldn't have thought that the country's economy would develop so quickly in the future, and Zhou Ming would not compare with Du Zhongyuan in recent years.
Du Zhongyuan did not look forward to the future too much. Under the influence of Mr. Yang, Du Zhongyuan's style was also very pragmatic. Du Zhongyuan asked Zhou Ming: "What are your plans for the township industrial park?"
"The next step is to attract investment," said Zhou Ming.
The idea of investment promotion made Du Zhongyuan and the other two lit up their eyes. Of course, it was not because of the novelty of this term. In fact, in feudal society more than a hundred years ago, some people had already proposed the concept of investment promotion. Although investment promotion was interrupted for a period of time due to various reasons, the concept of investment promotion was later proposed with the progress of reform and opening up. Nanjiang, a special economic zone, was actually established to attract investment.
It’s just surprising that investment promotion is generally targeted at coastal special zones like Nanjiang, and most of them are also attracting foreign companies. Why do you also need investment promotion in a township industrial park in the mainland?
Faced with Du Zhongyuan and others' doubts, Zhou Ming explained: "Chairman Du, it is definitely unreasonable to have only 760 industrial parks. Most people in an industrial park are still farming, right? Chairman Du, you also know that rural areas are poor, so it is not realistic to let us really set up many enterprises there. If you want to build this industrial park as soon as possible, you can only take the path of attracting investment and bring in funds to invest and build factories in our places."
Du Zhongyuan nodded: "To enrich the industrial park, attracting investment is indeed a way, but as far as I know, you don't seem to have any advantages."
"Chairman Du, I think the advantage depends on our own discovery and creation," said Zhou Ming. "This will be mentioned in my later National People's Congress report. I hope to set up an investment promotion bureau in the industrial park or the government to be responsible for investment promotion. In addition, the local government can also provide appropriate policies and tax incentives, and I believe it is still very attractive."
“That’s great!”
Du Zhongyuan slapped the table happily, then turned to Jiang Wen and Xiong Qingping and said, "The ideas proposed by Comrade Zhou Ming are very good. I think they are worth discussing. We can do experiments in Nanhui Industrial Park first. If it is proved successful, then I think it can be promoted to the whole province and even the whole country. Maybe it will become a template for the future township economy!"
Du Zhongyuan's reaction surprised Zhou Ming, because what Zhou Ming said was actually the common guidelines adopted by cities and counties in later generations in order to develop local economies, and various development zones and various investment promotions, even poor counties, had to build one.
It is precisely because it is too common that Zhou Ming has no feelings. However, thinking about the policy of this kind of development zone was summarized by the country after so many years of exploration. Now he suddenly proposed it. Although there is only one approximation, it can also make people shine.
Especially Zhou Ming’s industrial park is not on the coast, but is the mainland’s own conditions to attract investment, which means even greater.
Facing Du Zhongyuan's words, Jiang Wen and Xiong Qingping both agreed and told their secretary to record it. Zhou Ming asked again: "Chairman Du, Secretary Jiang and Governor Xiong, I still have an opinion, I wonder if I can say it?"
Du Zhongyuan smiled and pointed at Zhou Ming and said, "You little comrade, you are just too sensible. I said that today we are just having a meal. It is very personal. You can say whatever you want, let go of your courage and don't have any scruples."
Jiang Wen and Xiong Qingping also advised Zhou Ming to be bolder, and then Zhou Ming said: "If you want to develop the economy, I think one thing is very important, that is transportation. I have a deep understanding of this!"
Zhou Ming sighed and said, "During the Chinese New Year, Chairman Du and two leaders, you all knew that my Babao porridge was very popular in the four major cities. At that time, many stores sold out and many phone calls were called to the factory. I was anxious to ship the goods, but the transportation problem was too big, and it was even more difficult during the Chinese New Year."
"Even I hate this, let alone other bosses who come to invest, so," Zhou Ming finally said, "I think it's the saying, if you want to be rich, you must first build roads. If there is no well-connected transportation network, I think economic development is difficult."
Listening to Zhou Ming's words, Du Zhongyuan and the other two suddenly fell into silence. After a while, Du Zhongyuan said: "If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Your statement is very correct. In fact, when the Central Committee established Nanjiang as a special economic zone, it also considered this issue and wanted to solve it. But there is no way. Our country is too poor and can't afford to pay at all!"
"If you pay attention to the news frequently, you should also know that our country has started to build highways a few years ago, but except for a highway on the coast that is about to be completed, other places are repaired and stopped, waiting for money to start construction." Du Zhongyuan said.
To be honest, Zhou Ming only heard about this situation in the past, and at the same time he was reborn, so he didn't feel that strong about this era.
Later generations, the central government could easily spend hundreds of millions of yuan. It was not too difficult to build a highway or a high-speed rail or something, but that was later generations. In the era when the tax sharing system was not even implemented, the central government was really poor, so the first highway in China started construction and was completed after more than six years of construction. Not only did it have technical reasons, but more importantly, it was that it had no money.
It seems that I can only be a hero that has been despised by all ages.
Zhou Ming said this in his heart, and then said to Du Zhongyuan: "Actually, Chairman Du, it is not that difficult to make money for road construction. We can use the road to maintain the road."
Du Zhongyuan said in surprise: "Tell me carefully."
"First of all, roads like those in industrial parks are relatively simple to build. Whether they are drawn from corporate taxes or levy from corporate rent, it is fine, but the key is to connect these highways between cities."
Du Zhongyuan couldn't help but nodded in agreement, and Zhou Ming continued: "Since the country cannot afford money, it can openly bidding to the whole society and let other companies pay for construction!"
Chapter completed!