My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 381 What to do if you're always number one?
It was precisely the industrial park and free market that Wei Dong brought that were featured in a special report on TV, attracting a flood of visitors from all over the country to Shangzhou.

This gave the old leader a unique perspective on observing the national situation: "Who do you think loves building houses the most, farmers or workers?"

After thinking for a moment, Wei Dong had an answer: "Farmers, every family has a homestead. Even if workers wanted a house, they wouldn't have a place to build it. Now that I have some money, many people are advising me to go back to my hometown and build a house..."

It is said that Li Erfeng's family renovated their house.

The old leader nodded: "I've observed that farmers build houses as soon as they make money. This is the case all over the country. But this kind of rural housing construction consumes a lot of resources and then there are none left. The already meager resources are like a cup of water poured into sandy soil; they simply can't produce any grain."

This angle surprised Wei Dong; it was an angle he hadn't even considered with his supernatural vision.

The saying "farmers should have their land, and residents should have their houses" is true, but in practice, it's a different story.

Just like the household responsibility system, which was a prominent policy in history, it only enjoyed its moment of glory for a few years.

Without the infrastructure capacity to work together to maintain supporting water conservancy projects, farmland output will soon decline. In addition, with the trend of going out to work, the abandonment rate is very high, at least in the mountainous areas of eastern Sichuan that he is familiar with.

But they never expected that each farmer repairing their own house would have such a negative impact.

"It seems... that's really the case. Every household is building, as if all the construction materials have been dispersed to the countryside, without participating in the socialized rolling consumption? Commercial housing doesn't seem to be like that."

The former leaders were also learning and improving by absorbing information from all directions through this reformed industrial park.

“A worried expert once told me that this is called non-productive investment. In the 1970s, it accounted for 20%, but in the last two years it has soared to 40%. Consumption can drive production, but our current economic structure cannot support it. At this stage, we need to concentrate limited resources on production investment. That’s why your factory is so important.”

The difference between spending one million to build a factory with an annual output value of tens of millions and splitting the cost into houses for a hundred farmers, resulting in no social return, is indeed enormous.

The old leader then showed the photos of the dormitory buildings that Wei Dong had taken: "The same problem arises when state-owned factories and mines expand the scale of housing construction for their employees. This is equivalent to further depleting industrial revenue without increasing output. Moreover, in order to meet the needs of reform and opening up and to ensure that everyone lives a better life, the country has to increase investment in basic industries such as energy and transportation, which leads to a further expansion of investment in various regions."

He even counted on his fingers as he spoke: "Our own supply is insufficient. In order to support the rapid development of industry and consumption, we can only import more than planned. The scale of foreign exchange has plummeted from US$12 billion last summer to only US$2 billion now. This was revealed to me by a leader of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs."

Simply put, it's a model where the state bears all the costs. Without income, consumption keeps increasing, and the country's resources can be completely depleted.

This finally made Wei Dong understand why the real estate business had to be launched at this critical juncture.

It's like a mother raising a bunch of kids, earning dowries, and building houses. If the kids are still lying around, lazy, and slacking off, the mother will eventually collapse from exhaustion and be unable to continue.

As the largest sector in this sector, real estate naturally became the primary focus of reform.

As a result, he inadvertently assisted a real estate development company in Jiangzhou in the first "corporate-sponsored purchase" to help employees obtain loans for home purchases, which became a groundbreaking move.

Then, they raised funds from the entire community in Shangzhou to build houses.

Ironically, the industrial park and free market attracted inspections and research from all over the country. They happened to come and see the collective real estate under construction and took the book back with them.

Last summer, Lao Qi and his team at Zhuan'ertai put forward a special feature to promote Shangzhou's reform measures.

The six months or so that Shangzhou became a "celebrity city" was a period of dramatic and complex struggles surrounding real estate reform.

No wonder those people in Jiangzhou were so focused on that "fundraising dormitory building" at the zoo a few days ago!
That was the first company-built housing complex in Jiangzhou, a new model of housing reform. I completely misjudged the key points.

"So that's why you're suggesting I build and sell a lot of commercial housing during this period?"

The problem is that real estate is also considered a scarce commodity in this era. Since bicycles and televisions can be purchased privately, why can't real estate, which can be mass-produced and sold, be the same?

As long as the land still belongs to the state, cement boxes are considered commodities.

If this line of thinking had been clarified earlier, Wei Dong's response to Jiangzhou City from the zoo would have been different.

But it is clear that the title of pioneer of real estate reform has been placed on Shangzhou's head.

Moreover, Shangzhou wasn't really after the empty title of pioneer; he was just setting an example for the whole country: "Yes, Xiaodong, you work hard to build the commercial housing in the industrial park well, and build it in the beautiful way you learned. As long as it's for the country and the people, I'll take full responsibility."

Looking at the expectant old man, Wei Dong, who could say to Jiangzhou City that he was just a figurehead and helped without contributing anything, couldn't bring himself to say it here.

He nodded slowly: "Give me some buffer time. I've started construction in several places, and I can't afford to run into financial difficulties. I also don't want to take money from the public to conduct experiments. Let's take it one step at a time."

However, he really didn't expect his senior's eagerness: "We need to hurry, the situation is very serious, we must come up with the best example as soon as possible, I will mobilize... municipal government departments and various units to participate in this housing reform and construction."

Have you taken the first step in exploring each type of housing project yourself, from "corporate-funded housing", "private enterprise self-built housing", "unit-funded housing", "socially funded housing", and "civil servant-funded housing"?
Well, they even closed the first deal at the first national housing purchase fair for citizens themselves. Is it really necessary to be so boastful?

This reminds me of the Jiangzhou real estate fair. After adding half a page of advertising during the May Day holiday, the entire market was sold out within the three-day break. Apart from a very small number of newly wealthy individual business owners, the main buyers were government officials.

Speaking of these prefecture-level cities and county towns, the civil servants who have stable government jobs, especially many of whom have their families working for the government, are among the wealthiest people in these small places. They are what people later referred to online as Brahmins.

Most of these expenses are not borne by a single family; relatives and parents are also well-off.

Coupled with a keen understanding of policies, they have a much stronger eye for taking action.

By taking the first bite of the crab, they have clearly laid a solid foundation for their future advantages.

However, at this stage, they are probably the only ones who can truly support the housing reform and construction.

I can't have it all, and this is something that's too far in the future for me to consider.

So he left the Shangzhou compound and sent Weidong straight to the post office, and asked his wife to arrange for experts from the Jiangzhou Architectural Design Institute to come over the next day to work with relevant units in Shangzhou to prepare for the overall planning and construction of the small blocks in the Shangzhou Industrial Park.

Dong Xueying then had her younger sister act as the microphone, and Fengchu's hoarse voice, filled with helplessness as she had to take on the job, was also transmitted through the telephone line.

He let Wei Dong laugh and scold him before hanging up the phone.

After coming out, Shi Tou had quietly followed us from across the street to this side, squatting under the utility pole by the roadside playing with stones. Everyone would just think of him as an inconspicuous child who was not on guard.

He jumped up and asked, "Should we call someone to bring the car over?"

That double-cab van was left in Shangzhou, and it was usually reserved for Ding Haifeng's use.

Wei Dong shook his head, put his arm around his younger brother, and walked together along the street as night fell, heading towards the North Parade Ground.

It's only a kilometer or two.

As you walk through the familiar yet unfamiliar streets of this prefecture-level city and onto the stone bridge, you can already see the brightly lit glass buildings of the food factory busily in production, while the eight-story building next to it is nearing completion.

Although it was ranked low in priority among the previous projects, it started construction earliest, mainly because the food factory itself has a gross profit of about 400,000 to 500,000 yuan per month, so it has not completely stopped.

It now looks like we can simply complete the project and put it into use.

The SOD workshop for blood products will be located here for now; there's no need to build a separate facility. Instead, the funds can be allocated to the construction of the new neighborhood.

As these adjustments and choices swirled in my mind, I saw the bustling free market ahead.

Night markets, food stalls, roadside vendors, and basketball courts have become essential parts of the nightlife for the thousands of employees in the adjacent area, especially the sanitary napkin factory.

As soon as Wei Dong walked in, he was recognized, and everyone enthusiastically pulled him to participate in the basketball game.

He quietly took the gun from his waist holster and gave it to Shi Tou. Wei Dong, itching to fight, sneaked in and had a great time. They left around 10 o'clock, still feeling unsatisfied.

However, Shi Tou actually bought a few skewers of food from a nearby barbecue stall and brought them with him: "Lamu will definitely like them; the taste is different from Jiangzhou's."

Wei Dong suddenly felt a little ashamed!
He has never had the mindset to take the initiative to do anything romantic for his wife. Is he less thoughtful than a ten-year-old?
The stone was done with such skill and ease that it was obvious he had done this many times before.

What kind of educational methods does your Shen family use?

Sure enough, when the two looked around, the three collectively funded buildings under construction overnight were nearing completion. They then observed the canteen, bathhouse, and sanitation and greenery along the sanitary napkin factory before strolling back to their riverside house through the back door.

Ram, who is usually very quiet and mostly invisible, smiled broadly like a crescent moon when she saw the barbecue food that Stone brought out.

I quickly found some bowls and plates for my older brother, and even added a jar of rice wine, arranging them quite nicely.

I held a small bunch myself and happily shared it with my sister.

It's obvious that the two of them don't have as many problems as the Dong sisters!
If only I had a brother... I do have one, but I can't put all the burden on my brother.

Finding himself missing his wife again, Wei Dong urged the newly arrived experts to have a few drinks and discuss his plan to temporarily build the SOD workshop and food factory together as soon as possible.

Because this place is definitely going to become a huge construction site.

This small house by the river, in particular, reminded Wei Dong and his descendants of a momentous event that would attract worldwide attention!

(End of this chapter)