Once the lid is opened, both sides move particularly quickly.

The next day, Wang Yunqing, secretary of Pingjiang Municipal Party Committee, rushed to Donghua to attend the regional cooperation symposium; although it was just an informal visit, many tones were determined.

The Pingjiang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will soon discuss the decision to coordinate the development of Qingsha Yanjiang Industrial Park and Meixi New District on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait at the economic work conference in early July.

This is the fastest thing that the Pingjiang Municipal Party Committee can make a decision.

The core part of the linkage development is the Tangzha District and Qingsha County governments. In the Qingsha County Yanjiang Industrial Park, a total of ten square kilometers of industrial land was divided into two phases to build the Meixi-Qingsha Metallurgical Industrial Park. The governments of both regions will provide sufficient resources to promote the implementation of the Fengli Tudu Board project in this metallurgical industrial park as soon as possible.

In the next five years, in addition to land transfer income and local tax rebates, Tangzha District also promised to invest 500 million yuan in the construction of supporting infrastructure such as land leveling, road gardening, water supply and drainage, power supply, and riverside docks, to build standard factory buildings and office space for rent.

The Tangzha District Party Committee and the District Government also passed the resolution on related matters at the same time and submitted it to the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for approval.

At the same time, the Pingjiang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government adopted financial innovation to promote the reform and expansion of Pingjiang City Commercial Bank, allowing Donghuacheng Commercial Bank and Yexin Bank to invest in holding a total of 20% of Pingjiang City Commercial Bank, and allowing foreign banks Berkeley and BNP Paribas to invest in holding a total of 10% of Pingjiang City Commercial Bank.

In addition to injecting 400 million yuan of capital into Pingjiang City Commercial Bank, the four banks will also jointly provide Fengli Group with a total project loan of 1.5 billion yuan to promote the construction of the Tuduban project with an annual output of 1 million tons in Meixi-Qingsha Metallurgical Industrial Park.

Since when Donghua City Commercial Bank was established, foreign banks and Yexin Bank participated in the stakes, and management was on the right track.

The Donghua Municipal Government indirectly held state-owned equity through municipal state-owned enterprises was controlled at about 30% from the beginning, but the market did not participate in the subsequent capital increase and share expansion, and the equity dropped to about 15%. At this time, it was hard to say that the city commercial bank competed for control with Mei Gang.

Therefore, the approval of the relevant financial cooperation agreement, Donghua City Commercial Bank only needs to report to the municipal government, without obtaining approval from the municipal party committee and government.

The cooperation agreement between Xinpu Port and Pingjiang Port was also signed in late July.

Pingjiang did not have deep-water seaport resources. In the past, the import and export trade of commodities in Pingjiang City was mostly distributed through Zhenhai Port five or six hundred kilometers away.

In addition to the connection between river-sea transport and significantly reducing the distribution voyage, Xinpu Port and Pingjiang Port will also adopt a similar form to the joint construction of Meixi-Qingsha Metallurgical Industrial Park. The two parties will jointly invest to establish a joint venture port investment and development company, and set a two-kilometer coastline resource south of the Iron and Coal Terminal to invest in the construction of new berths. This will expand the total scale of Xinpu Port, and also allow Pingjiang localities to share the huge benefits brought by the development of Xinpu Port. In this way, Pingjiang Port Department will also have more motivation to promote the distribution of bulk commodities in Pingjiang City through Xinpu Port.

The cooperation in the Huaihai Bay area is mainly concentrated in Donghua and Pingjiang. The specific framework of cooperation is under the responsibility of Guo Chengze, Chen Bing and others involved in districts and counties and cities. At the top, Xu Pei puts cooperation under the framework of the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone Development Leading Group. Although Chen Baoqi, as the secretary of the Donghua Municipal Party Committee, was unable to move in, and he had no way to interfere. He could only watch one cooperation framework agreement after another, and flew past him.

The Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government soon heard voices supporting regional cooperation. Although no formal resolution was issued in a short period of time, in mid-August, on the list of provincial-level cadres promotion and adjustments of the Organization Department of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, Wei Nanhui, Secretary of the Qingsha County Party Committee, was officially promoted to serve as deputy mayor of Pingjiang Municipal Government.

Although it is still one step away from the true ideal situation, as a member of the Standing Committee of the Pingjiang Municipal Party Committee and the Secretary of the Qingsha County Party Committee, compared with the beginning of the year when the throne of the county party committee secretary could not be maintained, Wei Nanhui took a solid step in his career, and at the same time completely extinguished Song Hongqi's hope of presiding over the work of important districts and counties.

After the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone development plan was approved by the State Council, the development leading group was established afterwards was officially established by the Huaihai Provincial Editorial Committee. In order to promote regional cooperation and to put regional cooperation under the framework of the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone Development Leading Group, Xu Pei promoted the passage of a resolution in the Provincial Standing Committee in mid-August to establish a Huaihai Bay Regional Cooperation Coordination Group, inviting Wang Yunqing, Wei Nanhui and other officials from Jiangdong Province to participate.

With the cooperation of Shen Huai, the Huai-Tianjin-Transportation Project was also earlier placed under the Huaihai Bay regional cooperation framework for promotion.

In order to promote the start of construction of Lanjiang Expressway, Xu Pei, Wang Yunqing, Wu Haifeng and Shen Huai, who is invisible, all advocate the special registration and establishment of Lanjiang Expressway Co., Ltd. in addition to the Provincial Expressway Group.

In the draft plan, the registered capital of Lanjiang Expressway Group will reach 1 billion yuan, and the Huaihai Government Construction Fund will be led by the Huaihai Government Construction Fund. The three municipal governments of Lanshan, Donghua, Pingjiang, and the expressway groups of Jiangdong and Huaihai provinces will each contribute 100 million yuan. The subsequent construction funds will be mainly supported by the Huaihai Government Construction Fund and related banks. After completion, the operating rights of Lanjiang Expressway will be owned by the group company for 25 years.

The Lanjiang Expressway is completed and will connect to the expressway network in Jiangdong Province to the south; and in Xiapu, as long as more than 200 million yuan is invested and a 20-kilometer branch expressway is introduced to the Xudong Expressway to the east.

In addition to further strengthening the core position of Xinpu Port in the Huaihai Bay intermarine transportation system, this is of great significance to the subsequent development of Xinjin Port.

Judging from the direct competition in the career of individuals alone, Zhao Qiuhua never hopes that the Huaihai Bay regional cooperation under Xu Pei can achieve too big, too strong, too dazzling momentum, nor does he hope that so many work can achieve breakthrough progress in a short period of time.

Chen Baoqi, Yu Chengzhen, Gao Yang, Ge Yongqiu, Han Shouchun and others, as well as within the Shengang, can generally remain consistent with Zhao Qiuhua, but the status of Rongxin Group and Zhao Qiuhua within the Hu faction is equal. Whether to sacrifice the interests of Rongxin Group in Xinjin Port to ensure that Zhao Qiuhua's status in Huaihai is not overly excluded by Xu Pei, the voices made by Rongxin Group are a bit mixed.

Rongxin Group invested huge amounts of money in Xinjin to participate in the construction of Xinjin Steel, Xinjin Port and other projects,

It hopes to build Xinjin Port into the most core industrial base of Rongxin Group in China. At the same time, in addition to leading the construction of the Binjiang business district in Qinjiang District in Xucheng, Rongxin Real Estate also invested huge amounts of money in Donghua to develop large-scale comprehensive real estate, and they had too many things to plan.

Even if the construction of Lanjiang Expressway does not start, the project of Xudong Expressway extending eastward to Xinpu Port will start construction within the year; once the Xudong Railway duplex project is completed, the advantages of Xinpu Port will be completely determined.

It is extremely difficult for Xinjin Port to surpass Xinpu Port, but as Rongxin Group's domestic industrial base, Xinjin Port is currently the most urgent thing to connect with Xudong Expressway and Xudong Railway first, so that there will be greater development potential in the future, rather than just the production base of the joint venture steel plant of the Provincial Steel and Rongxin Group.

The construction of Lanjiang Expressway is started. Rongxin Group can connect the expressway networks of Xinjin Port and Jiangdong and Huaihai provinces without paying a penny. How could Rongxin Group be willing to compete for the position of Zhao Qiuhua and Xu Pei for personal rank and ignore these interests completely?

If Zhao Qiuhua had a bright future in his career, he might indeed have bet on him. However, Zhao Qiuhua's performance in Huaihai in the past few years can only be described as unsatisfactory. There are also people within the Hu faction that prefer to exchange for more practical benefits first.

And in the province, the voice is even simpler.

In the past, the scale of Lanjiang Expressway construction was planned to rely mainly on the provincial government's financial allocations to build.

After the completion of the Lanjiang Expressway, it will mainly benefit the two cities of Donghua and Lanshan. With such a tight infrastructure funding, how could the other eleven prefecture-level cities in the province agree that the province will tilt such large construction funds to Donghua and Lanshan?

Now, there is no need for provincial financial allocations. Lanjiang Expressway is carried out under the framework of Huaihai Bay regional cooperation. The main funds are funded by the Huaihai Government Construction Fund and the governments of the beneficiaries. Apart from being jealous, the other eleven cities naturally have no reason to go to the province to make trouble.

The biggest resistance before was eliminated at once; the resistance was eliminated, and the driving force became more dazzling.

The construction of a cross-river bridge at the Zhujiangkou, Pingjiang and Donghua will truly achieve rapid geographical connection, making it more convenient for commodity trade in southern counties and cities such as Pingjiang. Transportation is distributed through Xinpu Port, laying a solid hardware foundation for regional cooperation between the two places. The significance is naturally needless to say.

When it comes to building the Lanjiang Expressway, Donghua City Finance only needs to allocate 100 million yuan of funds. Chen Baoqi and Yu Chengzhen were reluctant. How could they say the word "no" in the city?

Lanshan City, in the northern section of Lanjiang Highway, has connections with other cities in Huaihai Province, mainly blocked by Yushan, and appears to be very edged. The most convenient thing on land is to connect with Donghua.

After the strong rise of Donghua's economy, especially the completion of the Haifang Highway and the construction of the Lanshan section of the Jinghai Highway started, Lanshan City was also affected by a certain radiation effect, and its economic development improved a bit, but it was far from being strong.

Lanshan has been in a marginalized position for a long time, with no expressways, railways, and the ability to build large deep-water harbors. At this time, it has fallen into one of the poorest cities in Huaihai Province, and the status quo is urgently needed to be improved.

The construction of Lanjiang Expressway requires the Lanjiang Municipal Government to undertake a capital contribution of 100 million yuan, which exceeds the financial capacity of Lanshan City. However, when hearing that Lanjiang Expressway is about to start construction, Lanshan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Pang Yunsong at the work meeting of the Huaihai Bay Regional Cooperation Coordination Group in early September, he patted his chest and said that he would smash the pot and sell the money without delay when needed.

This is a completely good thing of "if you miss this village, there will be no such store". Everyone knows in their hearts that without the Huaihai Government Construction Fund, the Lanjiang Expressway may not have been able to start construction for ten years.

The coordination meeting went smoothly, and everyone was very active, and the meeting was soon over. Wang Yunqing, Wei Nanhui and others were going to rush back to Pingjiang overnight, and Chen Huai broke up with them in the parking building in front of Baiyi Pavilion, Provincial Ying Hotel.

When Chen Huai went to the province for a meeting, he would reunite with Cheng Yi, so naturally he would not ask Du Jian or Wang Weicheng and others to follow him. As soon as he drove out of the gate of the hotel, Li Gu called:

"Old Pang wants to treat you to dinner tonight. See his posture, but I don't want you to refuse."

Pang Yunsong was earlier the deputy director of the Provincial Economic Commission and former secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Tian Jiageng was transferred to Lanshan as executive vice mayor in Huaihaili.

In order to promote the work of the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone, Xu Pei was more concerned about Pang Yunsong. Pang Yunsong rose rapidly in Lanshan and served as the Secretary of the Lanshan Municipal Party Committee at the beginning of the year. He had a good personal relationship with Li Gu.

"Secretary Pang's chest sounded at the meeting. This person hasn't finished yet. He wouldn't say that Lanshan couldn't even make up the 100 million yuan?" Cheng Yi was already waiting for him to drive over to pick up the phone. Chen Huai really didn't want to go to Pang Yunsong's dinner, so he asked Li Gu clearly on the phone.

"It can be collected by force, but Lanshan's funds are tight. If you raise 100 million yuan to fill the construction of Lanjiang Expressway, Lanshan will delay many other work," Li Gu said on the phone. "In order to raise construction funds, Lao Pang has already made an entrusted stake within the Lanshan party and government system. For one hundred million yuan, he has to borrow a month's salary from the administration, career and faculty and staff of all Lanshan City to raise it. He is afraid that the man below will make his rebellion."

After Pang Yunsong arrived in Lanshan, he was "notorious" to raise funds. During his years as mayor, administrative and professional staff and primary and secondary school teachers in Lanshan City could only receive ten months of salary every year.

Lanshan City's finances are too weak and the channels for external financing are also very narrow. After the local banking institutions in Lanshan City are squeezed out, they can only focus on the salary of financial support personnel to build bridges and conduct infrastructure construction.

The wages of administrative staff and faculty and staff in Lanshan are low and have been repeatedly forced to levy. They are also complaining, and the province has repeatedly criticized this matter.

In fact, the 100 million yuan investment in the initial construction of Lanjiang Expressway is not less than Lanshan’s 100 million yuan, but the next nearly 3 billion yuan of construction funds will mainly rely on bank loans. Pulling Lanshan in will help you gain loan resources in the future.

The Lanjiang Expressway project itself has very poor returns. Even if it is established with 25 years of operation rights, it is difficult to predict whether it can guarantee the capital in the end. Chen Huai tried his best to start this project, mainly paying attention to the completion of Lanjiang Expressway, which has a much higher overall benefit to the promotion of local economic development than the project itself.

This project with high comprehensive social benefits and poor operating benefits can only be invested by local governments and pure state-owned enterprises. After the Lanjiang Expressway is completed, Lanshan City will benefit a lot, so everyone naturally hopes that Lanshan will bear some responsibility.

Chen Huai understood the urgency of Lanshan's hope of building a highway, so Pang Yunsong slapped his chest at the meeting, for fear that he would hesitate and drag it back. However, after the meeting, Pang Yunsong was able to put down his airs and wanted to invite him to have dinner through Li Gu. It seemed that it would be difficult for Lanshan to take out the money.

"I've made an appointment with someone tonight. I'm afraid I can't go to Secretary Pang's appointment," Chen Huai thought for a while and said, "The problem of Lanshan City's investment is not without solutions. Lanshan City can contact CNOOC to see if CNOOC is interested in investing."

"How could CNOOC be interested in participating in highway construction?" Li Gu was quite puzzled. CNOOC failed to successfully list in Hong Kong in 1997, and now even the funds for its main business expansion are extremely tight. At this time, it is not willing to enter other infrastructure fields, not to mention that the Lanjiang Expressway project itself may have limited returns.

"If the gas station along the Lanjiang Expressway is tied to CNOOC, do you think they are interested in getting in?" Chen Huai asked.

Li Gu didn't expect that Chen Huai had this idea.

Eight gas stations and service areas will be built along the Lanjiang Expressway, which may not be considered a big deal, but the key is that Lanjiang Expressway will be a link to the major artery of the coastal expressway in the future. CNOOC has acquired the franchise of eight gas stations along the route by investing in the construction of Lanjiang Expressway. This will be of great benefit to CNOOC's future oil sales network.

"If this is the case, Lanjiang Expressway only allowed CNOOC to invest 100 million yuan. Isn't it a little too little?" Li Gu asked.

"I don't interfere in this matter, so how do I talk about Lanshan City?" Chen Huai said.

"Why didn't you take the initiative to contact CNOOC?" Li Gu asked curiously.

"When we first built Xinpu Refining and Chemical Corporation, we invited CNOOC to cooperate. Petrochemical Corporation and Petroleum Corporation had great opinions on us. I am now learning to do things in a low-key manner." Chen Huai said.

Li Gu heard it on the other end of the phone and laughed and said, "Okay, since Lanshan can't even take out 100 million, this evil man naturally has to be done by Lao Pang. Maybe he can build two projects from CNOOC Oil Dora to Lanshan. Okay, you go to your dinner, but do you have time to meet him in the evening?"

"Okay, you can handle Secretary Pang and the others, and we will contact you by phone." Chen Huai said.

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Chen Huai drove to the provincial pedestrian, and Cheng Yi was already looking at each other in front of the provincial pedestrian building.

Cheng Yi was wearing a simple plain long skirt, standing on the steps with her long hair casually clamped with an amber hairpin. Her white and tender face looked extremely soft under the setting sun. When she saw Chen Huai driving over, she waved her hand excitedly.

"How about we eat Western food today?" Chen Huai asked.

"..." Cheng Yi reached out and touched Chen Huai's forehead, and asked in surprise, "It's nothing wrong, why did you suddenly remember to eat Western food?"

If someone else had been born abroad for many years, he would not be too reluctant to Western food, but Chen Huai never liked Western food. Cheng Yi was surprised by this. Today, he was a little strange to see him taking the initiative to eat Western food.

"I thought you would be very excited," Chen Huai saw that Cheng Yi was not excited, but also suspected that he had any problems today, and said as if he was defeated, "I still want to take you to Kiddki and look at your face again?"

"I knew you were not at ease," Cheng Yi smiled and asked, "Why, there is still something to do tonight?"

"Li Gu made an appointment to meet and discuss things in the evening, but he wouldn't be able to get rid of it for a while," Chen Huai took out two movie tickets from the dashboard and said, "The movie will start at seven o'clock. Time is a bit tight. We can only go to KFC for dinner..."

When Cheng Yi saw Chen Huai take out two tickets for "Notting Hill" movie starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, she said excitedly: "I thought you didn't have time, so I made an appointment with my colleagues to go and watch it on Saturday; it seems that I'm going to have a good time for them."

Although it was not a weekend, Xinshi Street was still crowded.

The urban area has a population of three to four million, and the core commercial area is less than two square kilometers, so it is naturally crowded. There are not many cinemas in Xinshi Street, which is forcing European and American movies to be introduced for release, and there are crowds inside and outside the cinema.

Fortunately, Shen Huai expected this situation and asked someone to buy the movie tickets in advance during the meeting at the Provincial Welcoming Hotel in the afternoon. He just queued up in a long queue in the KFC store, and he still had a table with a couple of college students to find the seat.

When the movie was about to end, Li Gu sent a text message and asked where the people of Chen Huai were.

Chen Huai thought it was still early, so he asked Li Gu to meet at the cafe next to the cinema. He and Cheng Yi walked over from the cinema first and ordered coffee to drink it first.

"You didn't have a coordination meeting together in the afternoon. You can't talk about anything in the afternoon. What would Li Gu talk to you alone in the evening?" Cheng Yi asked.

"Maybe Xu Pei had something inconvenient to talk to me directly, so Li Gu asked me to meet alone?" Chen Huai guessed.

"Talk about your transfer?" Cheng Yi asked uncertainly.

"It should be," said Chen Huai, "all conditions are ripe. Xu Pei is still at his position as governor. He doesn't want to have any trouble. He should sit down and share some benefits for us first. Xu Pei can't hide his face, nor can he be sure how big our appetite is. Let Li Gu talk to me about it. Actually, I just thought, if I could be transferred to the province for three or five years and do nothing, it would be great. Otherwise, let's give birth to the child?"
To be continued...