My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 380 Unexpected, but reasonable

Therefore, the first thing to do was to have Wei Dong take the complete set of SOD data and agreements for animal blood extraction to visit the old leader to report on the work.

Despite his extensive interactions with Jiangzhou City, his participation in various grand events in Beijing, and his affiliation with the Ministry of Machinery Industry, he did not underestimate or neglect this prefecture-level city, especially since he was an old leader who might be retiring soon.

Deep down, the old leader still dared to take action against You Qili, a reform pioneer who had already been met and spoken by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to prevent him from resorting to drastic measures and causing trouble.

Wei Dong was quite impressed by this person's impartial attitude.

It's obvious that, 300 kilometers away, Shangzhou City was unaware of the zoo craze, float parade, and fireworks that caused a sensation throughout the city on May Day.

They were completely unaware that foreign businessmen had arrived by private jet for an inspection.

She mainly observed Wei Dong's clothes and complexion: "You've become much more fashionable. I thought you weren't coming back to Shangzhou."

Wei Dong first handed over a large stack of sorted and developed photos: "Before the Spring Festival, I went to the plateau border area. The reporter from Sunshine Daily who interviewed me in Shangzhou before is a county leader there. We are assisting him in transporting yak meat out of the country. The equipment is a vacuum machine made by Shangzhou Machinery Factory. In March and April, we will sell this high-altitude yak meat to Japan at a high price, hoping to improve the situation that is being maintained by subsidies."

This topic was completely unexpected for the old leader, who was so surprised that he took out his reading glasses and started looking through the photos.

Especially when he saw the photo of Rang Weidong and Yu Songhai together, he laughed out loud: "Well, he should know this feeling of walking on thin ice now that he's in charge of a region. Good, very good!"

The comment was somewhat sarcastic and gloating.

Behind them was Wagyu beef, neatly sliced ​​and plated in the Tanaka restaurant. The first batch of yak meat hadn't even arrived in Shanghai yet, and the master chef was processing his passport and visa.

Qin Yuye's product promotional photos at the time, which looked quite professional, still conveyed a sense of value.

Let Wei Dong explain: "The cattle butchers hired at high salaries to the border areas of the plateau are the experts from the Shangzhou slaughterhouse. Now, their wages are paid by a company in Japan. Beef in the Shangzhou market costs about 1.2 yuan per kilogram. They only dare to put three or four pieces in beef noodles, which is considered a luxury. The cost of transporting yak meat from the plateau is nearly 10 yuan, so it is difficult to consume in the inland market. Now, it is sent to Tokyo and sold for 100 yuan per kilogram. Do you think they are still just simple porters?"

Shangzhou has a tradition of exporting sausage casings and pig bristles to Europe, so it doesn't resist socialist products being enjoyed by capitalists like some other places.

The old leader, upon hearing this, indeed scratched his head: "So profitable!"

Then he couldn't help but criticize himself: "I'm tempted by profit, I'm tempted by profit, I can't let profit blind me..."

He didn't care at all about Wei Dong's joke about how business was just about being a porter.

But as he flipped through the photos to the later ones of horseback riding competitions, jeans workshops, and sanitary napkin factories, he slowly nodded and said, "The people all have a strong desire to live better lives. Poverty cannot be a source of pride, right?"

Two years ago, when Wei Donglai was asked to emphasize that being poor was a shameful thing, he remained noncommittal.

Now we can finally turn the corner.

Wei Dong pointed across the small coffee table next to the sofa and said, "Those are jeans being sold at the border trade port. They sell very well. We don't aim to make a lot of money, but they demonstrate that we can export better products to surrounding foreign regions, which has a significant impact on the border."

It was almost forty years later, during the pandemic, that police stations frequently went to various places to assist security personnel with population checks, revealing a fact that was not well known to the public at the time.

At that time, the mainland had become a paradise for illegal immigrants from neighboring countries.

Just as some people are still trying to circulate in the United States, several border areas have become major hotspots for influx from neighboring countries. These undocumented immigrants have naturally made the epidemic prevention work riddled with problems.

This also reflects the changing perceptions of national strength and the surrounding region.

The life that later generations have taken for granted is actually a height that is difficult for those around them to reach and look up to.

At this moment, there are still various troubles at the border. After thinking about it for a moment, the old leader nodded emphatically: "Yes, you should indeed assist more in this work. If there is anything Shangzhou can do to help, we will do our duty."

This is the breadth of vision and open-mindedness of the older generation. They may find it difficult to understand and adapt to new things, but they are absolutely unambiguous when it comes to matters of principle.

Wei Dong then produced the technical data on SOD's animal blood extraction method: "I'll keep a copy for you as a souvenir, to see if this SOD bioengineering project will help the people of Shangzhou escape poverty, and also to allow the city to monitor whether this project is for personal gain or truly brings about change..."

Extracting SOD, a highly sophisticated protease from corn, requires extensive corn processing equipment. Since SOD is merely a byproduct, consuming large quantities of corn for this enzyme would be counterproductive, resulting in a massive and complex project. Blood products, on the other hand, are much simpler and more direct, primarily because Shangzhou has a large supply of inexpensive pig blood.

After hearing only a brief explanation, the old leader burst into laughter: "It's practically tailor-made for Shangzhou! Excellent! Absolutely excellent!"

He also pointed to the TV: "I heard you mention this SOD baby cream. I've been watching the ads every day. I heard it sells very well. Where should we use it? Should we make a face cream like this too?"

Even though he's an old man with a face full of wrinkles, he can't help but wipe his face, as if he'd take the lead in promoting it as long as it goes into production and sells well!
Wei Dong laughed: "The first step is to industrialize the production of SOD, separate and purify the finished product. The second step is to import equipment from Hong Kong to make skin care products of many categories, such as eye cream, face cream, freckle removal, and whitening. After adding SOD, we will sell them nationwide. In fact, Pingjing Cream Factory has done a favor for us at this point. As long as the market recognizes the addition of SOD, it will sell well. After this step, the third step is to make health supplements and nutritional water, which will fit in with the final corn bioengineering, and completely help Shangzhou build a big industry."

The old leader stopped smiling and listened attentively, giving you his final advice: "You must be careful and meticulous. Even the slightest mistake in the process could cause a lot of suffering for the masses. So never harm the masses for personal gain. This is my last piece of advice to you."

Wei Dong also agreed seriously and continued to look through the photos. During his inspection in Hong Kong, he learned that Shangzhou was also a mountain city built along the river, and its geological features were very similar to those of Jiangzhou and Hong Kong, with irregular urban areas of varying heights.

This is the last batch of documents that was compiled and filed with Jiangzhou City.

The complete materials are being studied and discussed by many departments, including urban construction, real estate development, and planning.

What Wei Dong emphasized was the Tokyo part: "The urban construction in Hong Kong has been summarized in textual materials, which I have attached here. Shangzhou can learn from it, focusing on the small-scale street construction in Tokyo. I plan to apply it to the planning of Jiangzhou Economic Development Zone. If it is indeed good, and if the funds can be recovered, we can also try it in Beijiaochang Industrial Park."

This is quite complete and detailed: photos of the city taken from the Tokyo Tower, pictures taken while walking through the streets, the planning site that Jiangzhou is now leveling for the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Research Center, more than forty block plans produced by the design institute, the first building, Xishan Building, and the dormitory buildings of various research institutes two or three blocks away.

There are even architectural design institutes that create hand-drawn renderings and paper model photos for the planning and construction of this new type of urban area.

Cherishing and repeatedly looking through these photos, the former leader couldn't help but exclaim with longing, "They're so beautiful! If Shangzhou could be built like this, it would be my lifelong wish."

Wei Dong was very confident: "Yes, we will build it even better than this. Jiangzhou has already started a housing fair, and we have also invested in the construction of these buildings. We will take it one step at a time. Fortunately, you reminded me last year to avoid taking out loans as much as possible. I was dealing with several banks in the city around New Year's Day, wasn't I..."

At the time, the trick of pressing for loans and then desperately trying to recover them after the Spring Festival made Wei Dong too lazy to report it.

Now it's even used as a joke, a way of proving that the old leader had a keen eye for talent.

The old leader, however, showed no pride; his expression grew increasingly grim: "It's fair to say that if Shangzhou hadn't had the buffer of the Beijiaochang Industrial Park and the foreign trade business on West Second Street, the losses would have been much greater..."

Then, in the past two years, due to the lack of marketization, fertilizer prices have started to rise. Farmers are reluctant to buy fertilizer and have even begun to leave the land on a large scale to work elsewhere. The feedback from various counties now indicates that grain production will definitely decrease this year.

For this generation that has experienced food famine, the vigilance against such a reduction in production will be extremely high!
And it is precisely because colleagues from all over the country come to Shangzhou for inspection that this place receives inspection teams from various counties and cities.

While they may not be very familiar with Jiangzhou, which is just a stone's throw away, the old leader could clearly perceive the situation in various places just by sitting in his office.

With his extensive experience, he gave a conclusion that even Wei Dong, with his extraordinary insight, could hardly have imagined: "These two years will definitely lead to a certain reduction in agricultural production. I think the problem lies in this house construction."

Hearing this, Wei Dong was so startled that he thought his old leader was going to put the brakes on real estate development in Shangzhou.

Unexpectedly, he then said, "I hope that in the next two years, you will do your best to build and sell houses according to this plan to help Shangzhou overcome this crisis!"

When Jiangzhou people subtly inquired about real estate near the zoo, Wei Dong was completely unaware of their true motives.

He thought it was either because they were cautious and didn't want to take risks in real estate, or because someone wanted to profit from the situation.

Actually, none of those are true!
The seemingly most conservative old leader of Shangzhou, such a backward and obscure leader, gave him such radical advice!

Moreover, the conclusions and requirements seem contradictory.

It almost broke Wei Dong's back.

crooked?!

why?
(End of this chapter)