Women's Street is two or three hundred meters apart from the electronic commerce street under construction and Pengyue Lianshang Building. It is said to be a street, but it is actually an alley with asphalt pavement. The shops along the street mainly operate mid- and low-end women's clothing and supplies. Over time, it has become the "Women's Street" that has been widely circulated, and its previous name is rarely known.

Women's Street is not long, only 500 or 600 meters from south to north, and there are old houses along the street. In the 1980s, it became the main gathering place for women's clothing stores in the city. In addition to women's clothing stores, there are also many restaurants that have a variety of flavors and characteristics.

Chen Huai, Yang Haipeng and Chen Tong had a simple meal and chatted, so he naturally wouldn't go to the top floor of Tianheng Building or Shangxi Garden. He found a more exquisite restaurant on Women's Street, which was comfortable and freehand, and was close to the market.

In Yang Haipeng's words, watching beautiful women walking around the streets are more suitable for wine than any scenery.

When they walked to the second floor of Xisi Restaurant, Chen Huai and the others saw that there was an empty booth next to the window. They walked over and sat down, and looked at the abortion of people shopping downstairs. They were indeed mainly young women.

In April, the weather is warming up, and many girls start to wear long skirts and thin shirts. They are graceful and light in shape. They are really better than seeing beautiful waitresses in Shangxi Garden.

However, in addition to the crowds that went shopping at night, there were also several staff members of the city's land acquisition office who were posting promotional slogans along the street. According to the city's work arrangement, Women's Street should be demolished this year.

The restaurant where Chen Huai, Yang Haipeng and Chen Tong are very famous in the city, with good dishes and affordable prices. Just when we were dining, there were not many empty seats on the second floor.

Chen Tong saw the staff of the Municipal Land Acquisition Office posting promotional slogans along the street, sighed and said, "This alley is more worthy of preservation than Meixi Old Street. If it is really demolished, it would be a pity..."

The old city of Donghua in its early years was generally formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was in the land of Beibin, Cuihu, with a square shape, about four or five square kilometers.

The old city walls had long disappeared, and the moat formed by the water of the Cuihu Lake was still there, and it has become the most important scenic spot outside the old city.

Almost along Renmin Zhong Road, there are a small number of historical relics such as bells and drum towers, academies, and Confucian Temples. This is the absolute commercial center of Donghua. In addition to gathering the main commercial and financial industries of Donghua City, municipal agencies are also mainly concentrated in this area.

The old city is affiliated with Tangzha District in administrative planning, but the city has always directly mastered this core commercial area. Taxation, land acquisition and transfer income, and included in municipal finance, planning, urban construction, investment and urban appearance management, are also decoupled from Tangzha District and have nothing to do with Tangzha District.

The renovation project of the old city business district and the development of Xipizha industry are two things that Chen Baoqi took charge after taking office. The renovation of the e-commerce street, Hubin Road, and Pengyue Lianshang Building that started last year are all within the scope of the renovation of the business district in the city center.

On the Meigang Group side, Xiong Wenbin also proposed the planning and construction principle of "preserving the old style and developing a new city" to the city, hoping to retain several complete old streets and alleys in the city center to preserve historical appearances. However, when the new urban planning draft was released, Xiong Wenbin's suggestion was not adopted.

Chen Baoqi and the others still advocated that except for the key cultural relics and buildings, the rest should be demolished, and the land should be freed up to develop the business district economy.

Chen Huai did not strongly oppose Chen Baoqi and his “full demolition” plan. Although he was a pity, he also knew that some of the current real difficulties in Donghua City were there. He told Chen Tong: "Unless this area is frozen and not renovated, it will be difficult to talk about retaining..."

"Hey, Chen Huaijun is eating here too?"

Chen Huai listened to Wen Huai's greetings and turned around. Yamazaki Nobuo's head suddenly poked out from behind the neighboring booth and watched him say hello.

As the plenipotent representative of Fuji ironmaking in Donghua, Yamazaki Nobuo also wants to be a powerful figure in Donghua.

In addition to the previous 300,000-ton electric furnace steel project, Fuji Iron Manufacturing and Changqing Group, the new electric furnace steel project of the Provincial Steel Group will reach one million tons. The project construction progress is no slower than that of Xinpu Steel Plant, and the main body will be completed soon.

Chen Huai hadn't met Yamazaki Nobuo for a while, and he didn't expect that he would hang out in this restaurant to have dinner with his friends.

The one sitting opposite Nobuo Yamazaki was a young man and a handsome man and a pretty man; the man looked like a twenty-year-old man, who was about to be young as Chen Huai.

Chen Huai and the others came upstairs to pay attention to the young couple, but Yamazaki Nobuo sat behind their backs and did not meet each other.

The relationship between them must not be harmonious, but they are all people who need shame. It is necessary to greet them coldly after meeting them - Chen Huai also stood up to greet: "What a coincidence, Mr. Yamazaki is here too..." Yang Haipeng and Chen Tong could not sit down, stood up and smiled, which was considered a greeting.

"This Yamada Jun is the vice president of Yamada Bank's Ningbo Company. He has long admired Chen Huaijun. He met today and had the opportunity..." Nobuo Yamazaki introduced the young man sitting opposite him to Chen Huai.

"Yamachi Yasuda also asks County Mayor Chen to take care of him." Yasuchi Yasuda stood up and said a very Chinese-style polite word.

Chen Huai had long heard of Yasuda Tomoe Yasuda and knew that he was the main representative of Yasuda chaebol in China, but he did not expect that the young man in front of him was Yasuda Tomoe Yasuda.

Yoshi Yasuda's Mandarin is quite good, and he wears a feeling of a wealthy young man in China. He saw that he had worked in China for two or three years and had a very good integration. When Chen Huai went upstairs just now, he met this kid, but he didn't expect that he was a Japanese.

Chen Huai glanced at the girl beside Tomoe Yasuda again - as a member of the Yasuda chaebol, it would not surprise people how beautiful the girls around Tomoe Yasuda are. They looked just twenty-two or three years old, and there was a pure atmosphere on their faces.

Chen Huai nodded to Tomoe Yasuda and said, "President Yasuda is polite."

"It's a rare encounter. I want to invite County Mayor Chen to have a meal together. Is it convenient?" asked Tomoe Yasuda.

"It should be our friendship as a landlord..." Chen Huai was also annoyed to contact Nobuo Yamazaki and Tomoma Yamada, but Tomoma Yamada took the initiative to invite him. He didn't want to turn his head downstairs, and it would be even more awkward to sit in the table with a cold face.

Chen Huai and the others had not started ordering food yet, and Nobuo Yamazaki had already served the dishes, but they didn't eat for long.

Yasuda Tomoe insisted that the waiter remove all the dishes and wine that had been transported by chopsticks, and asked Chen Huai, Yang Haipeng, and Chen Tong to their booth.

After sitting down, Chen Huai learned that the girl next to Tomoe Yasuda was also a Japanese named Shinozakizawa. She looks quite similar to a popular Japanese actress. She does not have a particularly ostentatious beauty, but gives people a sense of softness that penetrates their hearts and lungs.

Shinozakizawa's Chinese is not very good. Chen Huai sat down. She looked at Chen Huai and talked to Tomoe Yasuda in Japanese and said, "You said he is a Chinese government official. Ask him, why did the government demolish this street? Isn't it a pity to do this?"

Yasuda Tomoe looked at Chen Huai, smiled inexplicably, and said to Shinozakizawa: "Prince Chen knows Japanese, you can ask him directly..."

"I'm sorry, I was too presumptuous just now." Shinozakizawa did not receive any prior reminders from Nobuo Yamazaki and Tomoe Yamada, so he talked to Tomoe Yamada in a casual manner, which was also arguing about other people's right and wrong behind the scenes. He was busy apologizing now.

Chen Huai glanced at Nobuo Yamazaki and saw that the look in his eyes was a little gloomy, probably the old negotiations were happening.

"Miss Shinozaki, you are polite..." Chen Huai had no intention of talking about the issue of demolition and land acquisition with Shinozaki. After a brief greeting, he did not continue.

Yasuda Tomoe Yasuda did not mean to let Chen Huai go easily and said, "By the way, County Magistrate Chen and Mr. Chen Tong just talked about the demolition of this alley. As an outsider, I also think that you Chinese officials don't cherish what they have passed down from their ancestors..."

Although Chen Huai was really sorry to have to be demolished, he did not like Tomoma Yasuda's tit-for-tat questioning, and believed that Japanese rich lady like Shinozaki Yama could not understand what local financial difficulties were. He said calmly: "The inheritance of our culture emphasizes an invisible and qualitative. Necessary historical relics need to be protected. Once there is a conflict with people's livelihood and need to be chosen, we will choose to lean towards the latter. Now, there are no fewer officials and entrepreneurs in Japan who are so pragmatic."

Of course, it is hard to satisfy Shinozakizawa's answer, but she no longer takes the initiative to speak at this time.

Yoshima Yasuda just smiled and handed the words in his mouth. Just handed them over, and entanglement became unwise.

Chen Huai looked out the window and felt complicated.

There are unique reasons why Meixi Old Town can be preserved and successfully commercialized in his hands:

First, Meixi had not yet undergone a thorough public housing reform at that time. Most of the buildings on both sides of Meixi Old Town were assets of the town, and were nominally rented for residents to live in; second, Meixi Old Town had not yet shown any commercial value at that time. People lived in it and were slim and dark, and it was difficult for even a small car to drive in. The expropriation and resettlement work could be carried out more easily, and the resettlement compensation cost was also low.

When Meixi Old Town was renovated, the town easily levies all the properties along the street, and after the renovation, commercial land was renovated for sale or rental operation.

Even though the town did not make any profits directly from it, there was no subsidy funding in it. The surrounding environment was greatly improved, and commercial tax revenues were greatly increased, creating a large number of jobs.

Nowadays, most of the buildings along the street are outdated. After the public housing reform, the property rights are distributed to residents, and the collection work becomes complicated and cumbersome.

At the same time, the street has been fully developed for commercial development. Since the late 1980s, shops have been opened to operate women's clothing, and the rent is getting higher and higher every year, which also means that the collection cost of buildings along the street is extremely high.

Now if you only repair the old and do not increase the area after the renovation, and cannot obtain sufficient renovation compensation from the added area, in addition to the high compensation to the owners and merchants, the city also needs to pay a lot of repair funds.

The renovation of old-style brick and wood buildings is extremely costly, even several times higher than overturning and rebuilding small brick and concrete buildings. How can the city have such a lot of financial resources to subsidize this?

In the current situation, either this area is locked and not renovated. When the local finances are sufficiently abundant in the future, they don’t care about the subsidy of 300 million yuan. If it is necessary to renovate now, it can only be said to be demolished. Only from the high commercial land transfer fee can you obtain a large amount of funds for demolition compensation and environmental transformation.
Chapter completed!