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Chapter 146: Drawing a Pie for the Mayor (Subscription Request)

“A deep-water port terminal with an annual throughput of 1000 million containers?”

"On the coast of Vancouver?"

After these words were spoken, the mayor of Wen and Secretary Lin present at the scene showed some astonishment.

As top leaders in Vancouver, these two have a detailed understanding of the city's overall situation.

How many people are there in the city, what is the annual GDP of each district and county, what is the employment situation, including how many universities there are, and important infrastructure such as bus stations, railway stations, airports, and docks, these are all basic lessons that every local leader must master before taking office.

Deep-water port terminals capable of loading and unloading containers, as proposed by Chen Jue, are not absent from this planning map. Instead, the three core port areas of Yueqing Bay Port Area, Zhuangyuanao, and Xiaomen Island have jointly built an important national hub port, the 'Wenzhou Port'.

Wenzhou Port has a total of 206 productive berths, with a cargo throughput of 7052 million tons per year.

However, most of the goods transported by sea are bulk cargoes such as iron ore and coal, which are essential production raw materials for the Vancouver area.

Container business that actually involves commercial import and export accounts for only a small part of the throughput.

Take the Zhuangyuanao container terminal as an example. The original design intention was to achieve an annual throughput of 500 million TEUs, but after years of planning, it barely broke through one million TEUs.

For a large coastal city with a golden coastline and developed light manufacturing industry, this is an unsatisfactory result.

Because the shipping business of the deep-water port terminal, that is, the higher the annual throughput data, the greater its impact on the economy of the entire city.

Take the Yangshan Port in Shanghai as an example. As the world's largest port, its annual throughput has exceeded 2023 million containers in 2500, creating an average annual import and export volume of US$2200 billion.

Every year, Yangshan Port can contribute 362.51 billion yuan in GDP to Jiangsu and Zhejiang just by relying on the supporting logistics transportation, industrial chain, supply chain, special comprehensive bonded zone import and export business, etc.

You know, this is just the result of Jiangsu and Zhejiang taking a small share and leasing the Yangshan Islands in Shengsi County to Shanghai for operation.

The GDP generated around Yangshan Port is estimated to reach 4400 billion per year, and the bulk of it is divided up by Shanghai.

This shows how huge the GDP benefits will be once the container business reaches a certain scale.

In comparison, the throughput of the Port of Vancouver that year barely broke through 100 million TEUs, which was not even a fraction of what others could handle!
At this time, if someone proposed to build a super-large container terminal with an annual throughput of tens of millions of containers in the coastal area of ​​Vancouver, no local leader would not be tempted by this obvious political achievement.

"Mayor, what do you think would happen if this port was located at the mouth of the Feiyun River in Rui County?" Seeing the expressions of the two leaders change from astonishment to more interest, Chen Jue stood up and walked to the side of the map and started to draw a picture with his mouth.

Of course, he not only painted this pie for the two Wenzhou leaders, but also almost painted it for himself by Rui County Deputy Mayor Wang.

After seeing the incredible prefabricated infrastructure technology of the Rubik's Cube Factory, Wang Delong has fantasized more than once about building a deep-water port at the mouth of the Feiyun River.

"Mr. Chen, don't make such a joke! How can you build a super-large deep-water port just by saying so?"

"Your original intention of developing the economy for your hometown is good, but this level of infrastructure business is not something that Cube Technology can touch." Secretary Lin shook his head and spoke first to stop him.

He wanted to interrupt Chen Jue's fantastic idea.

After all, as leaders of the city of Vancouver, both Secretary Lin and the mayor have extremely limited time and their daily schedules are very busy.

Not only do you have to handle official business, but you also have to go out for inspections frequently.

It is very precious that he can spare some time to receive Chen Jue, a small business owner.

How can we deviate from the original topic and talk about this unrealistic deep-water port dream like we are doing now!
"It's alright, Xiaolin, let the young people express their opinions more."

"Although the economy of Vancouver is stable and improving, the construction of the city cluster is still slow, and it needs new impetus and vitality to stimulate it." The mayor of Vancouver laughed beside him. After seeing the incredible anti-typhoon live broadcast of Cube Technology, he paid more attention to and was more interested in Chen Jue. Because he was also looking forward to the emergence of a new unicorn enterprise in the area under his jurisdiction.

“Thank you, Mayor!”

Seeing that the leader had spoken, Chen Jue became a little bolder in showing off.

He first circled the tidal flat where the Rubik's Cube factory was located on the planning map.

Then, the 3D simulation video of laying the foundation for the muddy tidal flats was brought out, and with the modified super engineering ship as the entry point, a technical feasibility picture of the rapid construction of a deep-water port terminal was drawn up for the two leaders.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Chen!"

"You said that the construction of this deep-water port terminal can be completed within one year at the earliest?!" Upon hearing this incredible speed of infrastructure construction, the mayor became a little restless.

You know, the City of Vancouver is not lying down and not wanting to build such a large-scale container terminal.

But due to geographical factors, industrial supporting facilities, and most importantly, the limitations of advance layout planning from above, it is impossible to invest in container terminals on a large scale.

Take the two light rail lines S1 and S2 in Vancouver mentioned earlier. Vancouver became rich so early and has been calling for building a subway for decades.

As a result, it took all the time from the PC era when the domestic Internet was just emerging to the current smartphone era before the construction of two light rail lines on remote routes was reluctantly approved.

The construction of a large deep-water port requires a larger investment than building a subway, but the payback period is slower.

National-level infrastructure projects like this are often not decided by a local leader alone, but must be reported to higher authorities for approval.

Take Yangshan Port as an example. It was planned and laid out in 1995, but it was not until 2002 that it was officially built in four phases.

During this period, the total investment reached 700 billion yuan, and it took more than 20 years of continuous improvement to create the Chinese miracle of the world's first port today.

If the Vancouver Port Authority were to take charge of the project, it is unclear whether the project could be carried out smoothly or whether there would be sufficient reserve funds to support it.

Just over 20 years is enough to drive away all the leaders here, big and small.

This unpredictable time cost factor has become the biggest obstacle to the port project!
So when hearing Chen Jue’s big promise that such a large-scale container terminal could be completed within one year, no Vancouver leader could remain unmoved!
"If there are sufficient funds and materials, it may not even take a year." Chen Jue patted his chest and guaranteed.

Unexpectedly, after listening to Chen Jue's confident speech, the mayor couldn't help but pour a bucket of cold water on him: "Mr. Chen, your original intention is good. But to be honest, I am not optimistic about placing such a deep-water port project in Rui County."

Chen Jue's face changed when he heard this: "Why?"

The mayor sighed quietly: "Because even if we build the super port you imagined, our city of Vancouver does not have such a large import and export volume!"

After that, the mayor took the information displayed on the PAD handed to him by Secretary Lin and continued to explain: "Yangshan Port can rely on containers because the surrounding area of ​​Shanghai has the most developed water, rail and land transportation. It can deliver goods to the Yangtze River Delta region at the lowest cost."

"The development of Ningshi Zhoushan Port was initially based on the import and storage of large quantities of oil and natural gas. The Rizhao Port you mentioned was based on the import and export of large quantities of grain."

"There is also the well-developed Guangshi Port in the south, which has been developed since ancient times by importing and exporting textiles and porcelain."

"What about Vancouver? What industry can support the tens of millions of TEUs of container business?"

As soon as this question was raised, Chen Jue immediately grinned: "Mayor! Have you forgotten our city of Vancouver's other name in the past? The capital of small commodity manufacturing!"

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