My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 842 Thanks
So the next morning, a meeting was held to discuss the matter, but by the afternoon, the various departments in Jiangzhou who wanted Wei Dong to attend a symposium in the city were disappointed to find no one there.

Early in the morning, Wei Dong had Hong Tiancheng select about ten key production workers from the factory area. There were about ten positions each from the garment factory, sanitary napkin factory, construction team, electronics factory, and even logistics and auto repair shops.

The group of several dozen people were selected from those who had rarely traveled and were hardworking and reliable. Led by Lao Geng's wife, they took a passenger ship to Shanghai for a river cruise and business trip.

Wei Dong suggested that the newspaper's photographer join the tour group so that he could take some photos of Shangzhou New City and the scenery of Kuimen.

He then led the editor-in-chief and reporters on a tour of the electronics building, and waited for Lao Huang from the software company to gather a team to fly directly to Shanghai with them.

They left at noon.

At this stage, whether it's the level of support, industrial foundation, strategic foresight, or even the scale of universities, Shanghai is far superior to Jiangzhou.

After the flight landed, Wu Shengyun arrived with seven or eight cars to greet them and headed straight to the nearby international community and electronics industrial park.

Even though many surrounding areas are still rural areas with fields and river channels, countless new scenes have emerged.

Even other real estate development companies in Shanghai are far ahead of other parts of the country in terms of initiative.

Around the international community, numerous construction sites have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and the forest-like landscape filled with tower cranes prompted the reporter to snap photos frequently.

The most advanced were still Wei Dong and his pioneers.

The streets of the "new Chinese-style international community" are beginning to take shape, but this is not a simple community construction project, nor is it about selling off a few buildings as soon as possible.

Instead, it needs to be developed into a community-scale project with commercial streets, residential areas, and landscaped parks before it can truly shine.

In contrast to the mainland where buildings of eight stories or more were previously considered new, the fact that a high-rise building can now be constructed is a testament to housing reform across the country, a situation that is tantamount to being ahead of the curve.

When Wei Dong drove a minivan with about ten seats to introduce the company to the reporters and Lao Huang, they all praised the foresight of the Shanghai leaders.

The concept of this international community was already finalized when he arrived, but no one could do it, and they were debating whether to spend a huge sum of money to find Hong Kong and Taiwan to do it.

Direction is the most important strategic key.

As for implementation, it's just a technical detail.

Then, the entire international community under construction pales in comparison to the electronics industrial park.

This positioning is even more prominent in the international community, but it is also in the stage where various electronics industries in Shanghai are cobbled together, and they are not very internationally leading, and are desperately trying to attract manufacturers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan to set up shop.

The various parts of the computer industry driven by Apple's contract manufacturers include CRT and monitor factories developed by vacuum electronics factories.

This laid the foundation for the entire scale and situation.

The park features neat and beautiful modern factory buildings and has been greened for one or two years, resulting in a pleasant environment.

It is far superior to Jiangzhou Economic Development Zone, which was originally the first development zone in the country to be established as a result of economic system reform.

Ultimately, under Wei Dong's management, the Dongsheng factory area still retained the strong atmosphere of a large state-owned factory, and even had a bit of the feel of a landlord's fortress.

This, along with the adjacent Hong Kong Businessmen Industrial Park and Xishan Electronics Cluster, is one of only three top performers in Jiangzhou Economic Development Zone.

All of them belong to the Dongsheng Group.

Other Jiangzhou businesses simply can't keep up.

However, in Shanghai, apart from a few companies affiliated with Apple, other Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Japanese companies have begun to flock there.

At least when the convoy passed through five-star hotels and commercial centers, there was a dense flow of people dressed in distinctly foreign, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan attire.

Wei Dong also saw that "Colorful KTV" had already put up a sign for "trial operation and special offers".

He encouraged Dong Xueqing to take the children and Lamu Zhuoma out to play, otherwise Fengchu would bury himself in the folding computer unless he spoke to him affectionately.

Isn't it bad for your eyes to be on the bus?

They were sent in along with two Taoist nuns.

Wei Dong then pretended to be an expert and helped Dong Xueqing order a bunch of food and drinks at the small supermarket next to the counter. Dong Xueqing immediately grinned mischievously.

It's like they're saying you still claim you didn't sing or dance, aren't you just giving yourself away?

Tell Weidong to run away quickly.

I really need to focus on leg training from now on.

He's finally starting to show some consideration for his wife, but that's only because Qin Yuye forced him to grow up too fast.

Modern electronics factories are often huge, cleanroom spaces hundreds of meters long, where you can only walk around and look around once you're inside.

Assembly plants, monitor factories, picture tube factories, motherboard factories...

The entire walk would be at least several kilometers.

Let Wei Dong lead the reporters and Lao Huang to introduce them one by one.

Jiangzhou is also doing this, but it's hard to reach the level of Shanghai. There are simply too many electronics companies in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai that can switch production and provide skilled workers. They also have unparalleled advantages in equipment relocation and installation.

The occasional presence of foreign engineers also alleviated the discomfort of the Beijing Cherokee, where one had to guard against falling into class struggle.

The software company staff immediately rushed into the contract manufacturing plant's software building, where they were guided by personnel sent from the Xishan Industrial Cluster to investigate and learn about the completely different and advanced model of the "joint venture" enterprise.

Wei Dong then led the reporter on a tour of the various sections.

In fact, if Pengzhen weren't so close to Hong Kong, with its chip factory in the Western District and Singapore even closer, Lin Wangfu would have wanted to locate his sound card factory, speaker factory, and newly built headphone factory in Shanghai. The supporting electronics industry and the quality of its workforce here now far surpass those of Pengzhen.

The two reporters were also greatly shocked by what they saw.

Wu Shengyun took over and arranged for the two of them to stay at a hotel here that night. He would come back tomorrow to pick them up and start a new tourism project in Pudong.

Wei Dongcai then took two Taoist priests to fetch his wife and children.

As expected, it was Lamu and Zhuoma who were playing with the two children, while Dong Xueqing set up her folding laptop, plugged it in, and continued working.

But the Taoist nun then told Wei Dong the good news: "The two sisters sing beautifully! They have such a great style..."

The two of them were even secretly clapping and tapping their feet on the side.

Wei Dong's interest was piqued: "Want to sing it for us?"

The two sisters weren't shy at all. Zhuoma immediately stood next to her older sister, struck a pose, and leaned forward to report to Wei Dong: "This is the only song we found that we can sing..."

Lamu announced in a clear and resonant voice: "We will be performing 'Shanghai Beach' for you!"

Dong Xueqing casually closed the folding screen and admired it with a smile.

Anyway, if Wei Dong comes, she won't do any work.

To Wei Dong's utter astonishment, the two of them weren't singing the song as it was broadcast on TV at all; they only borrowed some of the melody and lyrics.

They sang and danced in unison, without even using a microphone, using that kind of folk song style that sounded like they were practicing their vocals!

Wei Dong was dumbfounded.

I can somewhat understand why so many emperors in ancient times indulged in the pleasures of singing girls and dancers.

Her best friend genuinely wanted to dance for him, her face beaming with a slightly exaggerated but heartfelt smile, and her dance moves were a distinctive ethnic style.

Wei Dong couldn't describe it, but it was strangely beautiful.

Quickly clap along to the beat.

The Taoist priests and nuns became loyal spectators and even swayed along with them.

The two of them got even more excited, singing and dancing with great enthusiasm, radiating more joy than ever before.

Dong Xueqing proudly explained, "I usually like to sing and dance at home. This machine is great, so I bought a set for them to play with. I can sing along too."

Before Wei Dong could think much about it, he readily agreed.

After Wu Shengyun made the arrangements, they returned to the city together.

In the most prosperous metropolis in China, and on the most beautiful Bund, there is a building owned by the family.

This is quite a show of power.

Dong Xueqing, who had been to Shanghai before, was also captivated by the sights. She took photos of the glass pyramid computer store, the three budget and business hotels that had opened for business, and the huge O'Nia advertising building on the opposite bank.

However, she would always slyly chuckle at the child's father from the passenger seat, her eyes clearly saying, "Not bad, your mistress has taken good care of things here."

This made Wei Dong, who was originally discussing work with Wu Shengyun, a little distracted.

The problem of not having mobile communication persisted. While Wei Dong was in Pingjing, Wu Shengyun was still surveying the northern section of the Grand Canal.

Now we have to give a helpless result: "Many places have experienced water shortages, soil erosion, over-exploitation, and diversion of waterways. It is unlikely that we can use waterways to complete our various transportation tasks in the northern section, and even the car transfer between Beijing and Tianjin cannot be done."

Wei Dong nodded and said, "Then let's try to get help in building the Beijing-Tianjin Expressway. I've already heard a lot of doubts since I started in Guangzhou. Is it worth spending billions to build an expressway? It's worth building a model expressway around Beijing as well."

The purpose is to create a model for large-scale infrastructure construction.

This always proved to be the most effective direction for reform in hindsight.

It is essentially an enlarged version of the Qutang Gorge cableway. The large-scale construction has driven the development of villages along the route, expanded infrastructure capabilities, and boosted the development of related industries.

Moreover, more highways can stimulate the development of the automotive industry.

Wu Shengyun didn't even bother to explain how being the head of a shipping company was unrelated to the highway. He immediately agreed, saying, "I'll finish up here and then go to Pengzhen Yuezhou's highway company to learn."

Wei Dong smiled and told him to train more helpers: "Pick people from universities, those in highways, shipping, oh, and stone. Hong Kong has already hired a professional firm to design the Hong Kong Basketball Arena. We want to build a top-notch building with a temple-like atmosphere. We'll use the trick you used in the White House. So, take some people with you this time to take a look and figure out how to export the stone from the southwest region to Hong Kong once construction starts. That's how you make money."

Wu Shengyun was moved to tears: "Thank you for your guidance, brother. I will definitely work hard."

It was probably after seeing his posture that Lhamo Drolma felt we should learn from him.

What's more, in his own shopping mall on the first floor of Building 5, Wei Dong happily bought beautiful clothes for his wife, daughter, and two girlfriends, and even sportswear and shoes for the Taoist priest and nun.

These two wanted to give back in some way.

When they arrived at Qin Zhiming's restaurant for dinner, they saw a jazz band playing and a singer performing at the table.

The two of them couldn't sit still and suggested, "Let's sing and dance for our eldest brother."

Wei Dong could tell that the girls who came at the age of thirteen or fourteen were almost three years old and were about to grow up and start to have their own ideas.

Good thing.

(End of this chapter)