My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 844 Is this okay?
Of course, major shareholders are still entitled to inspect the renovation site.

Qin Zhiming didn't even go inside to take a look.

They were all stunned.

The Citibank hotel tycoon, who had been living a life of plenty for many years, did the exact opposite of what Rang Weidong did.

All historical traces inside the old buildings were restored to their original state as much as possible.

The black and white parquet stone flooring in the People's Hotel, which hadn't been well maintained for decades, was quite worn and had to be completely replaced.

Wu Shengyun, like a treacherous official, said that his own family could provide it.

The arrogant foreign designer claimed that he had already ordered the same stone from Italy.

The super bar counter, several tens of meters long, is a wooden carved cabinet with an imposing stone-covered surface. Having served as a restaurant counter with a sign prohibiting assault on customers for many years, it must have undergone some renovations.

Then we'll find the original blueprints of the building's previous renovations in Da Ying and renovate it.

As for the more than ten-meter-high atrium, the carved pillars, the crystal chandeliers, everything is being meticulously restored.

Everywhere you look, there are foreign artisans with a craftsman's spirit.

The renovation company sent people, but they weren't allowed to do anything; they were just to watch from the sidelines.

So all the people Lao Zhang left here could only take photos and keep records.

Qin Zhiming was a little uneasy: "Was it too rude of me to renovate the upper floors of Building No. 5 and destroy the historical record?"

Wei Dong had already figured it out: "Damn, that old man said he was going to invest 100 million US dollars in this hotel, but the lion's share of it is all going abroad. All the money has been earned by these foreign experts and overseas raw materials. What's left here is just a pile of handicrafts that they can price however they want."

Wu Shengyun was eager to try: "Should we report to the city and demand that they switch to our materials supply?"

No need for that. Wei Dong pulled the stunned Erwa's mother away: "This is like paying tuition for a class. You can use this trick to deal with local governments later. Investment and construction are all done by yourself. You can set the price and make it whatever you want. That's how you make a profit. Make sure everything is agreed upon beforehand so there won't be any problems later. That's the trick I'm learning."

He still has the confidence to do so even 30 or 40 years from now. What is a hotel? The key is to learn the essence of it.

Wu Shengyun knelt down in reverence, his expression one of genuine admiration, as if he were kneeling and bowing in worship at a construction site covered in foam for protection.

Wei Dong kicked him away, telling him to go to Pengzhen to learn about highway work or something similar as soon as possible.

Qin Zhiming lived in one of the guest rooms on the terrace of the tea restaurant on the seventh floor of Building 5, which was quite prestigious.

Wu Shengyun tattled that he had found an artsy young woman to live with.

Let Wei Dong secretly laugh so he doesn't get caught.

But thinking back, my husband and I still don't have a marriage certificate.

So we can't stay in a hotel outside, we'll just go back to that old house.

That house was originally a compensation payment from Xu Rao. Now, the first floor is occupied by a clothing company with dozens of employees working there. The guest rooms and study on the second floor have been converted into department offices, and many people stay there at night.

The Taoist priests could only share a guest room, mainly sleeping in the main hall, so Wei Dong brought his son along as well.

Dong Xueqing, however, enthusiastically brought her girlfriends to stay in Qin Yuye's master bedroom in the attic. They opened up the outrageously large wardrobe of the Hong Kong girl, tried on each item, and played around until late at night. They even called the other side of the ocean to say that they had picked out some items.

Qin Yuye was so angry that Wei Dong woke her up early in the morning: "How could she do this! She just takes my things without asking. My second aunt never goes into my first aunt's room!"

Wei Dong, yawning impatiently, said, "Why bother distinguishing them so clearly? Just buy another one!"

Qin Yuye didn't care about a few clothes at all: "How long are you going to stay in Shanghai?"

Wei Dong estimated: "It's almost mid-September, about a month. We just need to get this place in order before the Pingjing meeting in late September. I'm also looking forward to watching the Asian Basketball Championship at the end of October. I haven't seen how this training is going."

Qin Yuye urged, "Fly back this weekend and I'll go back to Hong Kong too, then we'll go back to Shanghai together... Bring some more clothes, there are new styles coming out in Beverly Hills."

"Bullshit, I'm here to make my stance clear. If you're only going to work sporadically, then your attitude is wrong. Just do what you're supposed to do and be careful." Wei Dong hurriedly hung up the phone.

Qin Yuye was rolling his eyes over there.

Indeed, having Wei Dong in Shanghai meant he was constantly on the go.

I quickly washed my face early in the morning, not wanting to disturb the mother and her two children who were still sleeping.

He took the Taoist priest with him and drove to Pudong, while the driver picked up the reporter.

Since landing yesterday, he has been checking the progress of each part without stopping.

There's no progress to be made, so what's there to discuss?

Even in places like Shanghai, the only way to get from the Bund to Pudong on the other side by car is by ferry, similar to Shangzhou.

The only underwater tunnel is quite far from here.

Even in Jiangzhou, two bridges span the three banks, and the two Taoist priests sitting in the back felt a great sense of difference. Wei Dong had to explain: "Jiangzhou is a mountain city, with high mountains on both sides. Building bridges underneath allows boats to pass without any problems. But look here, it's basically level with the water. If the bridges are too low, boats can't pass. If they're too high, the approach bridges on both sides have to be a long way. In some foreign countries, they can lift the bridge planks to let boats pass. But look how busy this river is, you can forget about lowering the bridge planks. So the best solution is to build an underwater tunnel. They're building one over there, right? It should be finished in two or three years."

Both Taoist priests from Qingcheng Mountain exclaimed that only by coming out and seeing for themselves could they realize how much the changes had taken place.

It's impressive that Wei Dong didn't mention any future changes.

However, the current Pudong X Building is sufficient to support the enormous changes in Shanghai.

Last year's progress was okay. The piling and excavation work had reached the tenth or twentieth floor frame, and we even had a major campaign to complete one floor in a few days.

This year, however, the pace has clearly slowed down.

The building is only about forty stories high and has been topped out so far, but it's just a huge empty shell, a concrete frame that lets in the wind from all sides.

The main reason, ostensibly, is that since the beginning of the year, people have been being transferred to the luxury hotel on the Bund across the strait to carry out construction on the guest room building.

In addition, the international community, the electronics industrial park, and even several buildings invested by Hong Kong businessmen around the X Building are all drawing a large number of construction workers from scattered locations.

So, the speed naturally slowed down.

The core reason is that finishing so early is pointless.

Otherwise, Wei Dong could recruit an almost unlimited number of migrant workers from Shangzhou to join the construction company.

Without a bridge or an underwater tunnel, relying solely on ferries and car ferries to get to work on the other side is just ridiculous.

Therefore, Wei Dong now only regards the semi-finished building as an "advertising tower".

It was deliberately designed to be slightly angled towards the Bund, with two sides that can display the signboard.

"Onia Cosmetics: Beauty Every Day," "Aix: Exploring All Possibilities for the Future."

Looking from the opposite bank, it appears as if a flagpole has been erected on a flat playground, with large characters hanging on it, leaving all tourists and locals in awe.

After getting off the ferry and driving up to them, you'll find that each character, which looks three or four stories high, is actually just painted wooden blocks tied to a frame!
Large characters are formed by assembling small wooden blocks like mosaic tiles.

After all, with such a high and large area, even slogans can be blown away in one night.

Wei Dong was mainly there to see the changes in Pudong.

The area is all low-rise, densely packed, and cluttered factory areas. Beyond the riverside section, the streets and paths still retain the atmosphere of a rural commune.

View and photograph the construction progress and status of the construction companies in your own building and several surrounding buildings.

Then we turned around and went to the shipyard here, and took some photos of the container ship that already had a keel.

Then, driving more than 20 kilometers to the automobile industrial park, you've pretty much covered the entire Shanghai city area, from the Pudong North Block to the Pudong South Block.

Along the way, he also taught the two Taoist priests how to take photos for record-keeping: "Since they're all following me all over the country, I might as well record as much of the process as possible. These things are very useful for my work."

The Taoist priests, who were already actively learning to drive, quickly took out their X-ray cameras and said "okay."

Upon arriving at the Dodge Motors industrial area, Wei Dong almost choked with laughter.

Is this the big scene that Lao Geng and Lao Cheng were talking about?
A month or two is insignificant for the construction of an industrial park involving the entire automobile industry chain, and it's impossible to create any grand scene in such a short time.

Even if it's completed by next month, nothing will be produced.

As a result, the two factory directors and the commander of the Third Front project simply concentrated all the machinery and equipment to level the land, clearing out more than three million square meters of planned land, and then planting bamboo poles to make fences according to the factory area!
The area was already flat; the main task was to fill in all the ditches and canals, clear away the weeds and trees, and expose the reddish soil. The scale was quite astonishing.

The so-called two-million-square-meter international community actually occupies less than half the area shown here.

Because it is a residential area with a large number of buildings, even if the green area and landscaped streets take up a lot of space, it still does not require too much land.

Industrial park construction means a dense cluster of various factory buildings.

Various supporting factories, such as those for axles, stamping, seats, instruments, molds, paint, glass, motors, and die casting, have sprung up. This is just the production area. There are also supporting residential areas, mid-rise and high-rise apartments, and even villas, which are located in the new automobile city two or three kilometers away.

Then, surprisingly, they leveled over a million square meters of land and planted bamboo poles on it.

When Wei Dong drove his Honda along the two huge, newly leveled plots of land, he was completely dumbfounded.

Compared to when he visited a little over a month ago and saw a state of near ruin with little to no change, the current situation is much clearer.

Even the civil engineering work currently underway only covers a very small portion of each side, at least letting people know how large this area is. To gradually fill these plots, even a few hundred shipping containers wouldn't be enough.

But what is the meaning of those bamboo poles?

Finally, they arrived at a farmhouse courtyard. In the office with two signs hanging on it, "Preparatory Office of Chrysler (Sino-foreign joint venture) Dodge Automobile Manufacturing Corporation" and "Construction Command of Jiangzhou Urban Construction Group Shanghai Automobile Industrial Park", Lao Geng and Lao Cheng, who were busy with meetings and arrangements, greeted the boss.

Faced with this question, the two seasoned veterans replied confidently: "The flagpole is the one that holds high the banner of reform and opening up!"

Does this work too?
(End of this chapter)