My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 382: Just Ask If You Want to Do It

The next day, the electromechanical experts met with the technicians from the Shangzhou Machinery Factory who had traveled to Japan with them and began to study the production of various equipment for separating SOD enzyme from hemoglobin.

Biotechnology experts collected blood from the nearby slaughterhouse for testing and analysis.

When Wei Dong was sent to the office in the Beijiaochang Industrial Park, Ding Haifeng and the others found it hard to believe.

The so-called industrial park currently consists of a sanitary napkin factory, a factory under construction, the remaining glass factory, a free market, and three collectively funded buildings under construction.

There's also this temporary "illegal" two-story office building.

Even the food factory on the other side of the river doesn't belong to this side.

When Wei Dong arrived, he pointed to the area equidistant map hanging on the wall of the park office and said that he wanted to delineate a plot of land of about 100,000 square meters and develop it into 30 small square blocks!
Do they all have this idea of ​​dividing the river into separate districts and establishing independent cities?

The current urban area of ​​Shangzhou City covers only 800,000 to 900,000 square meters, which is the result of hundreds of years of prosperous development.

A scale of 100,000 square meters is already beyond the reach of many small county towns.

It's been months since I last saw you. Boss, what unclean thing did you eat to be talking nonsense?

But anyone involved with the system knows that Wei Dong was instructed to report to his former superior as soon as he arrived in Shangzhou yesterday evening.

Many departments testified that the conversation went very well, and in the end, the old leader saw them off to the building entrance, giving them instructions, which made many people who were craning their necks envious and gossipy.

As a result, the Beijiaochang Industrial Park has become an increasingly popular destination for many people trying to join the Rocket Force.

Instead of distributing the photo collection at this time, Wei Dong wanted to avoid confusing everyone and making them more likely to have unrealistic fantasies about this prosperous future.

The plan is simply: "Old Ding and I previously surveyed this old riverside road. So, the final plan is to start from the free market, the bridge we're standing on, and extend along the river for about 500 meters, including the sanitary napkin factory, the glass factory, the new factory area, and the housing development area across the street, to a block about 200 meters wide. We'll plan the distribution of commercial centers, residential buildings, factories, schools, hospitals..."

These people, including Ding Haifeng, were definitely like old ladies touching an electric shock, their heads tingling from the vibration.

This is no longer an industrial park, nor is it just an experimental management committee.

It's clearly a new city with all the essentials.

Everyone here should at least be a district head or bureau chief or something similar?

Moreover, wouldn't the funds for developing this new city be a huge windfall...?

Wait, I've never heard of such a government allocation.

Where does the money come from?
In fact, Wei Dong also benefited from having the ability to see into the heavens, and knew about the subsequent urban development of Shangzhou, especially the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir area and urbanization. He knew that each new district should become prosperous along this area.

That's right, it's exactly the small house by the river where the sound of the waves still lingers.

Thinking about building a new urban area suddenly reminded Wei Dongcai of the major issue of reservoir area relocation.

No matter how much I try to drive change, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam will surely continue unwaveringly.

Only by utilizing the narrowness of the Three Gorges to build a dam across the river could we control the Yangtze River floods and ensure the safety of the middle and lower reaches.

Not to mention the power generation brought by the super dam, the several life-or-death floods in the middle and lower reaches of the river made it impossible for this dam to be built despite all difficulties.

However, once a lake is formed in the high gorge, the river level in this area will inevitably rise by 100 meters, and then the layout of many cities along the river will have to change.

All the riverside towns along the Three Gorges will be relocated and reorganized in this unprecedented mega-project.

In fact, since the 1950s and 1960s, relevant departments have been conducting immigration pilot programs in these riverside areas.

The technical problems of the dam itself do not involve the thorny issue of resettling millions of people.

Wei Dong certainly remembered that the new district of Shangzhou after its transformation was built along the "T" intersection next to the stone bridge at Beijiaochang.

One way leads to the city center via the bridge, the other along the river to the new district, and only by following the small river vertically can one return to the countryside of their hometown county.

Last night, Wei Dong could only think about this enormous change.

Without hesitation, I immediately chose to create a profile in the direction of Yanjiang New City and start this new map.

The reason is that this place can provide as many resettled people as possible from the reservoir area.

In Shangzhou, a city with a population of seven to eight million, more than one million people were displaced from the submerged towns and villages during this massive migration.

The majority of the population was absorbed and expanded from several counties in Shangzhou.

Hundreds of thousands of people still left their homes, and the burden was shared by provinces across the country.

In an era when families were already relatively poor, this was a last resort.

However, this led to many families leaving their homes and never returning, a tragic separation. This is different from those who actively seek life changes by studying in big cities or working in coastal areas; those forced to leave are often farmers with extremely strong ties to their homeland.

It's a mega-project that attracts worldwide attention for the country, but it's a very practical matter for immigrants.

Wei Dong knew that there were cases of organized relocations from Shandong to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he spent his whole life longing to return to his hometown.

This is essentially a covert preparation for immigration and expansion outside the city center...

In the past, even this idea of ​​building new urban areas in Shangzhou City to absorb immigrants would have been very difficult to realize.

The tax authorities are certainly well aware of this.

Shangzhou experienced a dramatic increase in population from over 100,000 in the urban area to 900,000 during this transformation!

But this place can't provide job opportunities for hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

Shangzhou itself is full of impoverished counties, and it simply cannot support so many rural people who have suddenly moved to the city.

This is also the biggest reason why it took forty years to barely lift everyone out of poverty.

They forcibly absorbed hundreds of thousands of farmers.

The shift from sanitary napkin factories to corn bioengineering seems like a perfect match, greatly boosting local industrial development.

This means that it can absorb a large amount of labor.

In short, no one could tell that sitting by the river last night was causing Wei Dong a great deal of turmoil in his heart.

It was only after the river reminded him of the impending 100-meter rise in water level that he became determined to develop the entire Shangzhou area.

Indeed, it was very easy to completely dispel his wife's fussiness.

Now, like a primary or secondary school teacher, he casually sketches the riverside on the wall or blackboard with chalk: "Take these three collectively funded buildings as an example. Each block is roughly 60 meters by 30 meters. The specific distribution will be confirmed by architects and urban planning experts. What we need to do is fully support the construction work and make this a beautiful home that all the people of Shangzhou City would be willing to relocate to..."

Jiang Yong, the deputy director of the industrial park with a background in taxation, spoke with difficulty: "If the city moves here... what about the old city area? Will it be vacated?"

I wouldn't even dare to imagine it; such a thing is impossible.

Tens of thousands of people moved?

But for Rang Weidong, who had seen 600,000 to 700,000 people move, it was only natural: "Only by clearing out the old city can we carry out renovations. Beijiaochang Urban Development Co., Ltd. must occupy the main front line in this battle!"

If the management committee of the industrial park is the party and government management department, then the urban development company is the specific commercial operation entity. Wei Dong only held the nominal position of office director in the management committee, but served as the chairman of the urban development company. Then Lao Xing, who was in charge of liaising with various functional departments, was the vice president.

When Wei Dong mentioned this, he was referring to him: "This is a real estate company that will receive a lot of investment in the future. If everyone here can work hard and build this beautiful new city, I, Wei Dong, can guarantee that you will become a millionaire, enjoy your retirement, and become the founder of this new city that will be remembered forever. But if you succumb to temptation even once, and are caught embezzling, accepting bribes, or engaging in favoritism and fraud, and are tricked into going down the path of illegality and crime, you will be forever engraved on this monument of shame."

Apart from Wei Dong, the other six people would never believe it when they heard about the millionaire.

You say yes?
But along the way, we have witnessed how many things went from impossible to possible, and how something that was once ridiculed as marginalized has become highly sought after.

Ding Haifeng was the clearest and most resolute, taking the lead: "I will be responsible for supervising the various aspects of the Industrial Park Management Committee and the Urban Development Company. Wei Dong will also be responsible for many tasks outside the park, so there are some legal and regulatory constraints. I will play the bad guy, and I can guarantee that I will absolutely obey the command and dispatch of the Industrial Park."

Wei Dong trusted him the most: "Old Ding's wife works in management at the food factory. If either of them gets into trouble, it will affect his wife. So I believe that they have a very good relationship and will definitely remind and supervise each other. We are about to enter a huge explosive phase. I don't dare to describe the future to you in a way that is too exciting, for fear of scaring you."

Finally, Lao Tian, ​​the director of the industrial park, asked, "Where will such a large amount of construction funding come from? This area is so big, I imagine it must have cost at least several hundred million yuan."

He was a staff member from the Finance Bureau.

Everyone immediately felt it was too exciting, talking about billions so casually!
This unit used to only appear when calculating the national population.

Now it's even going to be integrated into our work.

Wei Dong nodded: "The initial estimate is no less than two billion... because this is a construction project that will last for more than ten years."

The next ten years seem to be a decade of soaring prices. What is worth four or five hundred million now is estimated to be close to two billion in ten years, and even more in another ten or twenty years.

Together with Ding Haifeng, they both gasped, then calmed down considerably: "Thank goodness, the ten-year construction period didn't drive anyone crazy."

"The main issue is funding. Where does the funding come from?"

Wei Dong roughly drew a small block on the blackboard: "Planning experts will help us identify which areas are residential and which are factory areas. This year, the SOD cosmetics factory, which extracts hemoglobin, will be completed here along with the sanitary napkin factory. Next year, we'll try to add a health product factory, and the year after, we'll see if the first phase of the corn bioengineering factory can be completed. These factories will be the main force in the construction of the industrial park, but the biggest force will still come from the people who have raised funds to build houses..."

In fact, from this point onwards, the characteristics of transfer-style real estate were already beginning to take shape.

Although this guy keeps saying he's not in the real estate business, has never studied architecture, and has no appreciation for art.

It all comes down to having seen a lot.

(End of this chapter)