1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 361 Thousands of threads above and a needle below (2)

In different periods, the assessment plans and specific indicators for the party and government leadership teams in various regions are different.

Although the emphasis and details are different, in general, after the reform and opening up, the assessment contents of various places are basically concentrated on the three categories of [economic development], [social development], and [social evaluation].

Obviously, Qilu, which has always wanted to leverage its locational advantages to achieve industrial upgrading and economic take-off, has more complicated assessment criteria for the party and government leadership teams at the city, county, and township levels than its brother provinces in the central and western regions, with as many as 31 items.

Although refined assessment is a good thing for promoting economic construction and social development in various regions of Shandong, for old industrial areas like Dezhou where the ecology is gradually solidifying, such complicated assessment details are not really friendly.

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But Yang Mo seemed like an outsider who had no idea of ​​the difficulties involved. He pointed at the data on the file with a worried look on his face:

"In terms of economic development, Dezhou ranked 13th in GDP last year, dropping one place compared to the year before... If the ranking continues to drop like this, it will affect the confidence of foreign investors and make it more difficult for our Dahua Company to attract investment!"

"However, last year's fiscal revenue was not bad, ranking 9th, as high as 23.67 billion yuan, which fully proves that the old industrial zone still has a solid foundation... But we are all people in the system, and we all know that it is customary for local governments to ask companies to pay taxes for the first quarter of the next year in advance, so this data has to be inflated... But it doesn't matter. Dahua Company has no request for financial support from Dezhou now, so this item has no impact."

"Next, although Dezhou's GDP ranks 13th, its comprehensive score for business environment ranks 15th, 22.45 points behind Qingdao, which has the highest score... This is indeed a huge challenge for our Dahua Company to carry out its next work! Executive Director Ye should be very clear about the sensitivity of foreign investors to the business environment... Although Dahua Industrial Park has obtained green channels for various convenient policies and the public security environment is guaranteed, it is impossible for all projects to be implemented in Dahua Industrial Park... We can't afford such a heavy burden!"

"Last year, the total income of farmers was not satisfactory. It just barely achieved the 10% growth rate set the year before... Although I know that the rural areas in Dezhou are basically mainly engaged in staple food planting, and the cash crops are only cotton and watermelon, and the grain price is adjusted appropriately after consultation between the Statistics Bureau and the Agricultural Committee every year, a 10% growth rate is actually good. After all, I know that if the target is set too high, it will be detrimental to the assessment in the second year... But the rural market is a very important grassroots underwriting market in Dahua Company's future planning. The amount of disposable income in the hands of the people is directly related to whether Dahua Company's future package plan can be smoothly implemented."

"There are also industrial added value and township enterprise added value. The industrial added value is okay, but the data for township enterprise added value last year reached -5.6%... Although it is mainly because the country is rectifying the private economy and the public skin and private bones, the lack of sufficient grassroots backbone is also not conducive to the implementation of Dahua Company's future plans and stimulating the investment desire of foreign investors."

"As for social evaluation, Dezhou ranked 9th last year, but the difference between the highest and lowest scores of participating units in the region was only 3.1 points... This data is a bit hard to describe!"

"In addition, in terms of social development, Dezhou ranked 11th last year, which is a medium level, but all six participating units in the region scored full marks, with a gap of 6... This, this, this... Sigh! The business environment is a very complex thing. How can these data dispel the concerns of foreign investors?"

"also……"

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Seeing Yang Mo spend a full fifteen minutes expressing his concerns about 31 of the 14 assessment indicators with a heavy face, Ye Tao's eyelids twitched.

I say that’s enough. What’s the situation in Texas? Didn’t you investigate before you settled there last year?
Why didn’t I realize that you are so good at thinking around?

If you have any requests, just say them directly. You think I have no respect by saying that the situation in Texas is bad in front of me, a general manager?
However, they are all smart people, and Ye Tao could naturally see that the reason why this guy talked a lot like a fool was not to show off to him that he could understand the data... In fact, any cadre above the deputy section level in the system could see the tricks in this evaluation form.

The reason why this guy complained a lot like a nagging woman, and every sentence was about "the next step of Dahua Company's work" was actually because he wanted to take the initiative and wait for him to speak.

To be honest, the greasy young man in front of him is named Yang Mo, and the "next work of Dahua Company" implied in his words is very important to their DZ City. If it were someone else, Ye Tao would have kicked him out long ago.

Thinking of this, Ye Tao pondered for a moment: "Mr. Yang, the business environment is indeed a very important issue. Let's put it this way... The industrial land on the east side of Dahua Industrial Park has not been developed. It is about 300 acres."

"I will submit the topic to the organization at the team meeting on Monday to see if we can discuss approving this industrial land for you to carry out the second phase of construction."

At this point, Ye Tao looked at Yang Mo deeply and said, "In view of the positive impact that Dahua has had on Dezhou's economic development and employment in the past, I plan to propose to the team that in addition to providing strong support in terms of land acquisition, water and electricity facilities, and opening up a convenient policy green channel for this industrial land... we will also have further discussions on whether Dahua should obtain industrial development funds, and provide a tax exemption of two and a reduction of three to help Dahua settle the increasing number of foreign investment partners."

Ye Tao’s words were very clear.

Haven’t you always been talking about the problems with the business environment?

I admit that changing the business environment of the entire DZ city is an arduous and complex systematic project. Not to mention me, even if a team of five works together, it is not certain that we can overcome various objective difficulties and solve this problem in the short term.

Since it is unlikely to solve this problem in the short term, how about I take the initiative to help you expand the Dahua Industrial Park to accommodate those foreign investors and build factories for them?

That's your territory. Not only is the public security guaranteed, but there is also a specially established green channel for administrative affairs. By building a factory in your Dahua Industrial Park, you can avoid business environment problems to the greatest extent, right?
Upon hearing this, Yang Mo looked at Ye Tao in surprise... This executive is also a ruthless person!
The country has two high-voltage lines in attracting investment:
First, land cannot be given away for free in various ways, that is, land transfer fees cannot be reduced or exempted;

Second, there is no tax reduction, exemption or refund for enterprises that wish to invest locally.

However, in actual governance, especially in underdeveloped areas such as the central and western regions, all investment promotion projects have made breakthroughs in these two aspects. Some land transfer fees are exempted completely, some are halved, and taxes are generally exempted for two years and reduced for three years, that is, exempted for two years and reduced by half for three years.

Of course, strictly speaking, Qi and Lu at that time were not underdeveloped regions, so both the country and the province were quite strict with the competent authorities of various cities and counties in this regard.

Therefore, unless one is a ruthless person or the situation is special, one will find another way and be flexible to achieve his goal.

Just like the land transfer fee that Ye Tao just hinted at, since the policy stipulates that no reduction or exemption is allowed, then the method of collecting first and returning later should be adopted... That is, the bidding and auctioning procedures are carried out in accordance with regulations, and after the land is auctioned to the investment enterprise, the enterprise pays the corresponding land transfer fee to the competent authority in accordance with regulations, regardless of whether the enterprise really pays the money itself or the government lends money privately to the enterprise to pay, but the money must be reflected in the account; then, the government will use financial measures to return the money to the enterprise in the name of supporting the industrial development fund, so in fact, it is equivalent to the enterprise obtaining the land for free.

The same goes for taxes, which are collected first and then returned. Sometimes, in order to attract companies to settle down, local governments not only reduce or exempt land transfer fees and taxes, but also subsidize tens of millions of fixed asset investment funds - that is, Dahua Company is not short of money, and it is an asset management company. The only large-scale industrial project under its name is the platform-based commercial demonstration zone, which does not belong to the industrial category. Otherwise, Ye Tao might have mentioned this aspect.

Damn, who said that the leaders in Qilu are all conservative?

With such courage, such steps and such determination, it would be a waste if he didn't go to the Special Administrative Region to be a pioneer!
Sensing Ye Tao's straightforward attitude, Yang Mo laughed: "Director Ye, I just said that Dahua Industrial Park cannot accommodate so many projects."

"It's not a matter of area, but some of these projects require the construction of food processing plants, some require the construction of pharmaceutical plants, some require the construction of parts processing plants, and some even require the construction of semiconductor component production plants and high-tech biological enterprises in the future... Factories in different industries have different requirements for geographical conditions, and the degree of environmental pollution they produce is also different."

"Let alone other things, even if it's for the sake of traffic flow in those three commercial streets, I can't plan all the projects into Dahua Industrial Park."

This is a very objective question. Anyone who has a little knowledge of the manufacturing industry knows that Yang Mo is not lying.

But Ye Tao's attention was attracted by another word.

Will there be semiconductor component manufacturers and high-tech biological enterprises in the future?
This is……

Sure enough, the reason why this guy chose Texas as his settlement was because he was attracted by Texas’ industrial base, and then he planned to upgrade the industry through market-driven means, and ultimately continuously expand profits and social influence!

In an instant, he figured out why Yang Mo brought out the evaluation results of Dezhou last year and kept emphasizing the business environment. Only by optimizing the business environment in Dezhou can Yang Mo rely on his wild ideas to continuously lure investors and talents from other places to come here;

Only if Dahua's commercial demonstration zone continuously attracts investment and releases projects can they form a sufficient comprehensive volume and then form an internal economic cycle and a small ecological system like a super-large state-owned enterprise;
At that point, only by continuously creating sufficient benefits can we ensure that the entities that build the circular system will not fall apart, and increase Yang Mo's business appeal and social influence exponentially.

Among them, various high-value-added high-tech products are the key to the success of this package plan... Only high-tech products can guarantee sufficient profits.

After realizing that both parties' needs actually coincided, Ye Tao took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "So what does Mr. Yang think...?"

Yang Mo looked at him with a smile: "A monk with a crooked mouth is good at chanting sutras... For old industrial areas like Dezhou, the proportion of state transfer payments has been increasing year by year. Dahua Company does not need Dezhou to step on the high-voltage line and find ways to exempt us from land transfer fees and taxes, but it can give us certain support in other aspects, and then work together to optimize Dezhou's business environment and create opportunities for Dezhou's future county-level land upgrading."

The so-called "increasing proportion of national transfer payments" simply means that the proportion of financial transfusions from the state to old industrial areas like Texas is increasing year by year. This is almost the current situation of all old industrial areas. It is not shameful, but it is very helpless.

Ye Tao frowned and said, "Boss Yang, if your mouth is too crooked when you recite the sutra, you will be easily scolded."

Yang Mo looked at him steadily: "Although the current security environment in DZ City is not that bad, it is not very good either. To put it bluntly, the public's self-consciousness is still there, but the police force is obviously a bit behind... I think it should not be difficult to add 500 auxiliary police and traffic police without increasing the establishment, right? This can also be regarded as an advance preparation for Dezhou to be promoted to a prefecture-level city in the future!"

Expand auxiliary police and traffic police without increasing establishment?

Ye Tao then understood why the other party visited him first instead of going directly to the monitor and deputy monitor.

At present, there is no deputy mayor in the public security system and traffic police of DZ City, so the weight of these two systems is not that important. As for matters like adding auxiliary positions, the key lies in whether he, the executive director, can allocate sufficient financial budget... For many "small things", it is actually more direct and effective to ask him, the executive director, for help.

But it was obvious that Yang Mo's suggestion was just an appetizer to test his attitude. A mere 500 auxiliary positions were not enough for him to go through so much trouble.

He nodded immediately: "As long as it is not a formal establishment, adding 500 temporary positions is not a big problem... But I want to know, what arrangements does Mr. Yang have for these 500 positions?"

Yang Mo smiled and said, "I won't hide it from Executive Ye. I am under a lot of pressure from Dongying, so I plan to set up a labor dispatch company. Through third-party dispatch, I will divert some qualified people from the waiting workers there to become auxiliary police officers in Dezhou, and then improve the local social security... After all, there are some things that your local system is not easy to handle directly, but these auxiliary police officers who have transferred from the front line of the Dongying oil system don't have so many concerns."

Ye Tao naturally knew the subtleties involved, and was just a little curious at the moment: "The salary and benefits of a temporary position like this are much lower than those of a regular employee... Will the employees in Dongying be willing?"

Yang Mo said nonchalantly, "Although local and central enterprises are not subordinate to each other, they are all in the same system after all. As long as Dezhou can successfully upgrade from a county to a prefecture, even auxiliary police officers in temporary positions can naturally get formal positions. For them who are contract workers, why would they not want to?"

"Besides, although the salary issue is a problem for the time being, it is not unsolvable and will not cause any major problems. People have spiritual pursuits in addition to material pursuits... As members of a central enterprise, the salaries of ordinary shop assistants in Momo Baizha and Momo Baichao are not actually high, but why are they so motivated?"

Thinking of the ordinary shop assistants he saw in the Momo Baichao store during the inspection, who seemed to be full of energy, Ye Tao nodded with understanding: "Okay, I will discuss this topic at the meeting."

Seeing that the test had received positive feedback, Yang Mo breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "In addition, whenever the competent authorities in Dezhou get orders from outside, they all adopt the method of internal designated digestion... Although I know that this is to help local companies and prevent them from starving to death, it is undeniable that this kind of behavior of rotting in the pot will make external investors feel that there is no meat to eat, and those companies that are assigned orders often cannot deliver satisfactory results."

"So, I have a half-baked suggestion... Can we adopt the form of open bidding to allow external companies to participate in the competition for these orders?"

As soon as the words came out, Ye Tao's face changed: "Boss Yang, this is unrealistic! Your proposal will encounter too much resistance!"

As mentioned earlier, for a long time, the domestic market was mainly composed of B+G. Even after the reform and opening up, it became B+G+C. Due to the low urbanization rate, the C-end market was just a small and inconspicuous segment. The main channels for the consumption of goods were still state-owned enterprises and local authorities.

This is true for commodities and also for various commercial orders. You know, over the years, whether it is foreign trade orders or production orders from other brother provinces, the biggest salesmen are the cadres of the local competent authority's Bureau of Commerce and various departments.

Think about it, in an old industrial area like Dezhou, nearly 40% of the large production orders now come from the competent authorities. How big is the scale! ?
Moreover, unlike in later generations, in such old industrial areas where state-owned enterprises account for more than 90%, every state-owned enterprise is the darling of the competent authority. Taking the orders that have been brought back to the society for open bidding, you can imagine the difficulties and obstacles involved... Don't forget, the country is rectifying the private economy and the public skin and private bones. If you do this, won't you give people a handle to criticize you?

Seeing this, Yang Mo shook his head and said, "I think Executive Ye probably misunderstood. I am not suggesting that Dezhou put all the production orders that have been returned to the public for bidding... In fact, some sensitive heavy industrial orders are not suitable for public bidding at the moment. Just release some light industrial orders."

"In fact, most of the companies that have invested in projects in Texas are still in the stage of building factories, and they do not have the ability to participate in the bidding for the time being... To put it bluntly, this is nothing more than a statement of attitude, with more symbolic significance than practical significance. In fact, most of the successful bidders are still local state-owned enterprises, but the positive impact of this approach is predictable."

At this point, Yang Mo pursed his lips and said, "So, if Dezhou now puts those non-sensitive light industrial orders up for public bidding, the only additional competitors for those local enterprises will be the hundreds of large and small tertiary industry units under the name of Dahua Company... Since Dezhou intends to upgrade the county, then the necessary structure must be brought out, and economic vitality must be increased... Why, even for Dahua Company, an enterprise that has made certain contributions to the local economy, DZ City is unwilling to give our subordinate tertiary industry units a fair chance to compete... Do you think that after knowing this, investors from other places will still have the confidence to gather in Dezhou?"

Ye Tao suddenly felt a cool feeling on his forehead.

Damn, if you just divide the cake among the hundreds of tertiary industry units under your name, it won’t be a big deal. But if you open up the loophole of social bidding, it will be a big trouble!

However, he knew clearly that Yang Mo's trip was not really to beg for food from those hundreds of tertiary industry units. Yang Mo's personnel file was in the drilling company, and those hundreds of tertiary industry units were all under the name of Dongying. As long as he completed the task of Dahua Company, he didn't care about the life and death of those tertiary industry units!

He knew very well that the reason why Yang Mo wanted to open this gap was really to plan for the future of the commercial demonstration zone. Without a steady stream of investors, the scale and influence of the commercial demonstration zone would be limited.

Therefore, Yang Mo's tentative suggestion is actually very serious. If it is rejected, for long-term considerations, Dahua Company may really move!

After hesitating for five full seconds, Ye Tao nodded stiffly: "Boss Yang, I can't answer you about this right now. How about this? On Monday, I will bring this up as an important topic for discussion at the meeting... I will try my best to help you, but the organization's decision is not something I can decide on my own."

Seeing this, Yang Mo nodded with a serious expression: "Then I will wait for the news from Executive Director Ye... Well, since Executive Director Ye wants to discuss this matter on Monday, if it's not too much trouble, why not bring up the other things at the same time."

As he spoke, Yang Mo took out another document from his bag: "Last year, the added value of township enterprises in DZ City fell to -5.6%, which caused considerable trouble for the implementation of projects by foreign investors and also increased their investment and operating costs to a certain extent. Since Executive Ye is willing to have a serious discussion on the business environment and the fair bidding of hundreds of tertiary industry units under Dahua Company at the meeting, why not discuss the issue of supporting backbone enterprises in the grassroots market at the same time..."

"In a word, whether it is for the grand plan of upgrading Dezhou to a prefecture-level city or for the smooth development of Dahua Company's future work, both of us must work together to build up this momentum from the inside out!"

Ye Tao was shocked when he heard this.

Build momentum from the inside out! ?
Oh my god, I know it’s a big move just by listening to it!
And it’s a big move that involves countless troubles!
Yang Mo looked at him with a smile.

There are thousands of threads above and one needle below. This is an era where there are small changes every year and big changes every three years.

But no matter how many ideas there are, no matter how novel they are, they must be implemented in practice. Therefore, I will take advantage of this special coupling period to drag you, the executive who connects the "eye of the needle", into the water and shift the established facts of DZ City's financial budget and manpower in a certain direction...

Wouldn't I be a fool then?
(End of this chapter)