When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

However, Steward Wu is still the steward.

He quickly regained his composure and an idea came to him.

"Besides the 15% discount, we can offer some other terms."

"For example, there are tax issues, and there are also some tasks before land leveling, such as access to water, electricity, roads, and utilities."

"In recent years, Galaxy Technology has been developing very well in Tangdu, which fully demonstrates the good cooperation between our two parties."

"As for your company's proposal of working from home and a four-and-a-half-day work week, I am very supportive of it."

"If this kind of work efficiency is higher, I think with the young master as a clear example, many companies will follow suit and learn from him."

"We don't yet know how much space your company needs in Tangdu City?"

Unless something major changes, Wang Donglai naturally doesn't want to leave Tangdu City and go to other cities.

So when he heard Manager Wu ask this question, he thought for a moment and said, "At present, I only have a general idea. It is impossible to popularize employee dormitories, and some management personnel also need better accommodation conditions."

"So, for the first phase, let's ask for 200 acres of land!"

Manager Wu immediately showed a hint of shock.

"The first phase, two hundred acres?"

This is already quite a large scale; according to market building calculations, it would be at least forty buildings.

Even if Galaxy Technology were to be more conscientious and improve the green environment, it should only be around twenty buildings.

The building has 30 floors, with eight or six rooms on each floor.

Each apartment starts at around 100 square meters.

All in all, the twenty buildings can solve the accommodation problem for at least a thousand people.

This is still the most lenient offer.

If we build more buildings and make the rooms smaller, we can completely solve the accommodation problem for more employees.

Not to mention that it can also arrange accommodation for multiple people.

However, Manager Wu glanced at Wang Donglai and did not believe that Wang Donglai would do such a thing.

"If there's a first phase, there will be a second phase. It seems Mr. Wang wants every Galaxy Technology employee to live in your company's dormitory?"

Manager Wu asked, half-jokingly and half-probingly.

"That's impossible. Galaxy Technology's benefits are indeed good, but that doesn't mean we have to solve everything for our employees."

"Providing dormitory accommodation is a benefit and is not universally applicable."

"Of course, in addition to these, we will also build some high-quality housing, which will be given to outstanding employees at internal prices or as a benefit."

Wang Dong said confidently.

"That's quite an ambitious plan. Is President Wang planning to roll it out nationwide, or is Tangdu just a pilot program for now?" Manager Wu asked.

"Currently, the pilot program will likely only be conducted in a few places, including Tangdu, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai."

"As for other cities, we will decide based on the situation."

“If the conditions are right, we might buy the entire residential area and redevelop it into our project.”

Providing dormitories and apartments for employees was not an idea that Wang Donglai came up with on a whim.

Although housing subsidies had already been provided to all employees beforehand.

However, this thing isn't very effective.

After providing housing subsidies to its employees, some unscrupulous landlords raised rents for Galaxy Technology's employees as well.

This point has been mentioned many times on the company's internal platform.

At the same time, many employees said they could forgo the housing subsidy and wanted the company to handle their accommodation arrangements.

Previously, Wang Donglai had not chosen to do this.

Now that a four-and-a-half-day work week and working from home have been implemented, it is only natural to introduce employee dormitory and housing allocation.

Manager Wu's purpose in calling Wang Donglai over for a talk was naturally not limited to these things.

"I heard that Mr. Wang has written several articles about economic development models, sharing his thoughts."

"Moreover, the higher-ups highly agree with President Wang's ideas."

"I didn't quite believe it when I first heard the news, but after reading the articles written by Mr. Wang, I was completely convinced."

"So, the reason I invited Mr. Wang here today is that there is something I need Mr. Wang's help to figure out."

"Tangdu City has relied on your company's development in recent years, and its economic model has improved somewhat, but two short years is still a bit too short."

"Tangdu is also a provincial capital city, the core of education and medical care in the five northwestern provinces, and has considerable resources, but they have not been utilized."

"Since Mr. Wang has been able to develop Galaxy Technology to this extent, I wonder if he could prescribe a remedy for Tangdu City."

Manager Wu was not being modest or exaggerating when he said that.

Because of Wang Donglai and Galaxy Technology, Tangdu City abandoned the land-based revenue model and instead relied on real estate to drive the economy.

While it can rely solely on high-tech development and has seen some growth, it is still far from meeting the demands of land-based revenue.

That's why Steward Wu spoke up to test the waters.

Wang Dong glanced at Steward Wu and immediately understood what Steward Wu was thinking.

"Boss, judging from what you're saying, you must have read the articles I wrote before."

"How should I put it, Tangdu City is quite good compared to other inland cities. It's a provincial capital with a rich historical and cultural heritage."

"However, it won't be very beneficial for the development of Galaxy Technology."

“In recent years, coastal cities have been inviting Galaxy Technology to move its headquarters away from us.”

"But we never thought of it that way."

"Because Tangdu City has been very supportive of us from the beginning, we wouldn't have done something like that."

"Give a peach in return for a precious jade."

"Therefore, we also secured factory construction opportunities for BYD and CATL for Tangdu City."

"More importantly, we have established a semiconductor industry chain development zone in Tangdu City."

"The lithography factory pilot plant has passed the verification, and the lithography factory is currently under construction. Once it is officially put into production..."

"I believe that with the enormous advantages of the lithography factory, the economic development model of the entire Tangdu City will be immediately changed."

"At that time, wafer fabs, LCD factories, and other related industries will gather here."

“The number of jobs absorbed by each large factory is a huge number.” “It won’t be long; we’ll have results once the lithography factory is operational.”

Upon hearing Wang Donglai's words, Steward Wu shook his head.

"Mr. Wang, I sincerely want to ask you for advice and also want to hear about your company's in-depth development plan."

"Only by understanding your company's strategic development plan can we better cooperate with you."

Manager Wu could also guess that Wang Donglai was holding back in his words because he didn't know him very well.

So, he just spoke frankly and directly.

Upon hearing what Steward Wu said, Wang Donglai paused for a moment.

"Boss, this is actually not an easy question to answer."

"Speaking of transportation, not only in Tangdu, but in the entire Qin Province, it's not very good, far inferior to the South."

"Even when labor-intensive industries in the Yangtze River Delta industrial belt are transferred to the inland areas, they all develop along the Yangtze River towards Anhui and Jiangxi provinces."

“Upstream from Jiangxi Province, Hubei Province has a geographical advantage, being located in the heart of China with a large population. Further upstream, Sichuan Province also has a considerable population base, resulting in substantial endogenous economic growth.”

"As for us, we have a small population, no transportation, and even the development of our provincial capital, Tangdu City, is abnormal."

"The development of Tangdu City is a result of the collective bloodshed of the entire Qin Province."

"To break this curse, we must overcome several challenges."

"That is the direction for the development of Tangdu City."

"This point is undoubtedly related to the high-tech industry."

"Including but not limited to aerospace, semiconductors, biomedicine, and energy."

"And these are precisely the main businesses of Galaxy Technology."

"The reason why coastal areas were able to develop is because they relied on water transport, which was cheap and allowed them to access the entire Western market."

"Tangdu City is located inland, and its natural environment is not as good as that of the coastal areas, but it is not without its problems."

“We can go further west to Central Asia and other regions.”

"Although these places are not well developed, they can still bring us huge benefits."

"For example, their resources, their market."

"Furthermore, I can boast without any modesty that as long as Galaxy Technology exists in Tangdu City, Tangdu City's development will not be bad."

"As long as Changqing Liquid and other products are still available, capital from all over the world will flow here."

Manager Wu nodded in agreement, knowing that Wang Donglai was now starting to speak his mind.

"Mr. Wang, could you elaborate?"

"After all, Mr. Wang is a native of Qin Province, so he must also hope to see his hometown develop better."

Manager Wu smiled and asked Wang Donglai to continue.

Wang Donglai was not intimidated and immediately spoke up, saying, "Actually, I have already mentioned this in my previous article about the economic transformation of Tangdu City."

"To develop high-tech industries, Tangdu must rely on its three major advantages: scientific and educational resources, military industrial heritage, and geographical location and transportation, and build a three-in-one industrial ecosystem of 'hard technology + soft connectivity + new intelligent manufacturing'."

"The first point is to solidify the foundation of hard technology and build a semiconductor and integrated circuit industry cluster."

"In this regard, there are already lithography factories and factories like BYD under construction, which can be considered as taking the first step, but this is far from enough."

“We must also build new flash memory chip factories, wafer fabs, and so on, and their production capacity should not be less than 20 percent of the national total.”

"Some supporting industries, such as sputtering targets, silicon wafers, and high-purity gases, also need local enterprises to achieve domestic substitution."

"Of course, this issue will be largely resolved once the lithography factory is established."

"The second point is the aerospace and military industry integration cluster."

"In this regard, we have completed the exchange and supply of drone technology, as well as the transformation of aerospace rocket engine technology, and established Galaxy Aerospace."

"But that's far from enough."

"A single flower does not make spring, but a hundred flowers blooming together make a garden full of spring."

"The shift of the Northwest Institute of Nonferrous Metals' titanium alloy materials and the Aerospace Computing Institute's avionics system towards new energy vehicles and industrial robots is actually a very good entry point."

"I think the leaders are well aware of the development of new energy vehicles and can see the achievements."

"If we take advantage of this opportunity and develop Tangdu City into an important production base for new energy vehicles, the economic impact will be absolutely astonishing."

"The third point is the cluster of photonic and quantum technologies."

"We are among the first batch of quantum computing centers in China, and currently only Tangdu, Beijing, and Luzhou have them."

"Furthermore, Galaxy Technology is quite confident in this technology, so we have a significant advantage over other cities in developing this technology."

"Since the city has decided to rebuild a higher-level ultra-high voltage power transmission network in conjunction with the power grid for the construction of the lithography factory, we can take this opportunity to upgrade the entire power grid of Tangdu City."

"Because, after Tangdu City, the biggest power consumers are not only the lithography factory, but also, for example, the quantum computing platform."

"The fourth point is the cluster of biomedicine and medical devices."

"We will build an AI imaging diagnostic platform for the 'National Medical Center' to integrate the medical resources of the entire Qin Province and then use technological means to improve the medical level throughout the province."

"Tangdu has so many universities; we can make full use of them."

“Galaxy Technology previously promoted the implementation of industry-academia-research collaborations with universities, and the results were quite good. However, if the government were to take the lead, the results would be even better.”

"The specific approach is also very simple: patents from universities and research institutes can be divided into paid licensing and equity sharing models."

“For some startups that are dedicated to researching high-tech technologies, special funds should be provided to support them. In this regard, it would be best to set up a hard technology development fund to provide targeted support.”

"Another aspect is to attract high-end talent from around the world. For example, we offer a five million yuan settlement bonus and housing allocation to top talents, and we can also arrange jobs for their relatives."

"As for the external market I just mentioned, we can also expand international channels, upgrade the Chang'an train, and launch 'chip trains' or 'lithium battery trains' and so on."

"In addition to the land-based Silk Road, the construction of the air Silk Road is also urgent. We need to expand the routes and open all-cargo routes directly to New Gold Mountain and Great Britain."

"Finally, there are measures to stimulate the consumer market."

"That's very simple."

"The integration of culture, tourism and technology combines some of Tangdu's distinctive tourism projects with high-tech technologies, such as AR holographic performances and blockchain digital collectibles."

"In my view, Tangdu's hope lies in being able to use Tangdu's cultural torch to ignite the trillion-level technological treasure trove dormant in the laboratory, turning hard technology from 'Western attraction' into 'Western firepower'."

As Wang Donglai spoke, Steward Wu pondered and took notes.

These words truly opened up Manager Wu's mind.

This also gave him a deeper understanding and planning for the development of Tangdu City. (End of Chapter)