Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 340, Garden City

As one of the important tributaries of the Pearl River, the water flow of the Beijiang River is still very considerable.

If a hydropower station is built here and water is intercepted and stored, it will play a very good role in the development of the local economy.

Through water transportation, the Beijiang City will have one more transportation hub, the other being the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway Line.

With two major transportation hubs, railways and waterways, the economic development advantages of Beijiang City have already emerged, but this is not enough.

"Comrade Mancang, if you were really asked to choose Beijiang City, which direction would you choose?"

The leaders were very curious. Beijiang City seemed very good, but it did not seem like it could develop well.

In fact, the leaders hoped that Zhao Mancang would choose a coastal city. Even if it was not places like the City of Hundred Islands or Qiecheng, there were other cities such as Xiadao. These were all coastal cities with very convenient transportation.

As for Beijiang City, it was originally a county town. Although it has a large area, it can be upgraded to a prefecture-level city.

But it is a county town after all, and there are mountains everywhere.

Beijiang City is surrounded by mountains. If you want to build a highway, you either have to take a detour or build a tunnel.

Just look at the Beijing-Guangzhou railway and you will know that in this section of the road in Beijiang City, there are tunnels every few days.

How to develop the economy when there are many mountains and little land?
What kind of economy should be developed to enable it to rise rapidly?

Zhao Mancang was thinking for a while before he said:

"First, I will invest in the construction of two large-scale film and television bases here. One will include most of the ancient Chinese city walls, palaces and other buildings."

"The other is a film and television base for various scenes such as modern, futuristic and science fiction. These two bases are built in Yuwan Town and Qingxi Town. These two places are relatively open and are also next to the Beijiang River."

"Second, I will build a large international airport in Longjing Town. In the early stage, it will be mainly a cargo airport with a passenger airport as a supplement. Later, the two will be reversed."

"The third is to invest in basic industries like hotels, hydropower stations, and cement plants. Of course, all of these heavily polluting enterprises will be equipped with advanced pollution treatment equipment to prevent them from polluting the local environment."

"And the most important point is that companies like cement factories must be located somewhere else in Beijiang City, and certainly not within 20 kilometers of Beijiang City."

The entire Beijiang City is very large, covering an area of ​​5634 square kilometers.

You should know that the area of ​​Qiecheng is only 3900 square kilometers, and the area of ​​the City of Hundred Islands is only 1653 square kilometers.

So it is very large, and even though there are many mountains and little land, there is no need to worry that it really has no possibility of development.

In fact, if it is really developed, it will be able to create several top Asian or even global companies.

Take the cement plant for example. There are many mountains and little land here, so it can bring out greater advantages.

What Beijiang City lacks the least is mountains, and the raw materials for cement factories are actually mines. By blowing up these mines, they will get the raw materials for cement factories.

After blowing up those mountains, it will become flat land, which can be connected to more plains.

Upon hearing this, the leader nodded silently.

It was also the first time for them to discover the small city of Beijiang City. Due to its awkward geographical location, it has always been neglected, but it seems to have very good advantages.

"Beijiang City also has many advantages. It's very close to places like Futian Fishing Village and Baiyun City. If it's positioned as a tourist city or a flower city, it can accommodate tourists from places like Futian Fishing Village."

"Beijiang City's geographical location seems awkward and unfavorable, but if it is well planned, its development will be absolutely astonishing. However, this will require 10 to 20 years of hard work and massive capital investment."

"Even in the future, it may siphon off development talent and population from other cities."

Zhao Mancang said lightly.

The reason why he chose this place was naturally because he had his own selfish motives.

Since his leader didn't allow him to choose other cities such as Shanghai so that he could complete the task faster, he could only choose Beijiang City.

First, he knew this place very well, after all, he lived here in his previous life.

Secondly, in the history of the original time and space, the cement factories in Beijiang City were indeed unique in Asia. At its peak, there were more than one hundred cement factories in the entire Beijiang City.

In the history of the original time and space, it was just an ordinary town with six cement factories.

In that era, Zhao Mancang still remembers that the men in his village, including his father at the time, were all workers in the cement factory.

The most famous cement factories in Beijiang City include Taiwan Cement, Longshan, Nanshan, Yingcheng, Hongxing, Jiulong, etc. At that time, even large cement factories like Conch Cement were not ranked among them.

However, their development was different later on, and many cement factories went bankrupt, leaving only a few cement factories such as Taiwan Cement and Conch Cement.

Moreover, these companies are very famous in Asia and are among the top cement factories in terms of shipment volume.

This is just the original time and space. In this time and space, once Zhao Mancang intervenes, the development of the cement plant in Beijiang City will naturally take off like a rocket, and the speed will be so fast that it will only make people stunned.

After all, as Zhao Mancang had just said, with the investment in the two film and television bases, their demand for building materials such as cement will definitely be very high.

What's more, the development of Beijiang City itself definitely requires a lot of construction materials such as cement, sand, etc.

Therefore, once Zhao Mancang decides to invest in Beijiang City and develop this county town, projects such as hydropower plants and cement plants will inevitably take the lead.

"If that's the case, what plans do you have for tourist cities? How can you attract tourists to come and visit?"

The question raised by the leader is very simple, that is, there must be sustained attraction. Otherwise, for tourists, once there is nothing new about it, they will certainly not come again.

On the other hand, if the tourism industry in this place is seriously homogenized, it will also be a very serious blow to the local tourism ecology.

Zhao Mancang nodded and said:

"This is just a rough plan, not a mature idea, so I'll just talk about it briefly."

"For tourists, visiting a place is definitely for its beautiful scenery or cultural environment. Beijiang City certainly doesn't seem to have any advantages now, but its current shortcomings are actually its advantages."

"The city of Beijiang is like a blank sheet of paper. I can paint according to my own ideas and create the look I want."

"We don't need to worry about the old city for now. We can build a new city around it, completely according to my own ideas about urban planning." Beijiang City is located near the Tropic of Cancer. The temperature here is warm and humid all year round. It is not an exaggeration to call it a flower city.

Therefore, when building a new city, the construction of roads can be based on the garden cities in Southeast Asia.

Various different buildings can appear here at will, and many different flowers, plants and trees are planted on the roadside.

There are yellow trumpet trees, redbuds, kapok flowers, as well as common dragon boat flowers, frangipani, etc., as well as different flowers on the park roadsides, such as champagne roses, tulips, violets, lilies, orchids, etc. in each season.

They may be extremely expensive flowers in many other places, but in the city of Beijiang, they are just small flowers on the roadside that can be seen everywhere.

Zhao Mancang can invest in several flower planting bases, plant and cultivate flowers from the surrounding towns and villages, and then replace them on the main roads and streets of Beijiang City every once in a while.

Perhaps this requires a huge investment, but if it can attract tourists to visit, this investment will have been recovered long ago.

The clean and tidy roadsides and the flower city that looks like a fairy tale world, just this point alone will make the leaders yearn for it after hearing about it.

"Also, I will plan every town specifically. After every winter, I will renovate all the farmland and plant rapeseed. By February or March of the following year, this will become a beautiful rapeseed flower scenic area."

"I will arrange for different towns to plant rapeseed at intervals. Some towns will plant rapeseed first, while others will plant rapeseed later. From early January to March, the entire Beijiang City will be filled with rapeseed flower bases, attracting photography enthusiasts and tourists from all over the country to visit."

"In addition, I will build a beautiful asphalt road near these rapeseed flowers so that many tourists can stop and view the rapeseed flowers at any time and enjoy the scenery for free."

When the leaders heard this, they were immediately confused: How can we make money then?
Zhao Mancang suddenly laughed:
"It's definitely not just about collecting entrance fees. How much money can they make? When they come here, they definitely need food, drinks, and a place to stay, right? We just need the government to properly manage the hygiene and other aspects of these hotels and restaurants, and prevent them from running into negative issues like overcharging or being unsanitary. If we all work together to maintain this kind of tourism ecosystem, then why worry about tourists not coming?"

"The rapeseed flowers we plant are meant to be used for oil extraction, so there will be no waste."

“You can say it’s killing two birds with one stone.”

The mountains and fields are covered with extremely beautiful rapeseed flowers. Such scenery is extremely attractive to tourists.

After listening to Zhao Mancang's statement, the leaders nodded one after another.

It seems that there is really something going on.

"Besides using the Flower City as a platform to attract tourists, are there any other means?"

"Of course!" Zhao Mancang nodded.
"In addition to the two large film and television bases I mentioned earlier, I will also contact Hollywood later to bring the dinosaur theme park project here and place it in Beijiang City."

hiss!
The leaders gasped in surprise as they recalled the 2 billion US dollars they had invested in Hong Kong Island to build the world's first dinosaur theme park.

What virtue and ability does the city of Beijiang have?

But before 1949, what merit and power did Hong Kong Island have?
"Comrade Mancang, can you really pull off a major project like a dinosaur theme park? And with such a large investment, when will you be able to recoup the costs?"

Hearing the leader's question, Zhao Mancang calmly analyzed:

"Leader, whether this project can be implemented in Beijiang City actually depends on subsequent development. If the tourist city I just mentioned cannot be developed, then everything is out of the question."

The entire Beijiang City seems to be very large, but the plain area is not large because there are too many mountains in the area.

Moreover, many towns are separated by layers of mountains, so if you want to develop, you must find a way.

"So, we'll talk about the dinosaur theme park project later. I'll talk about other plans later."

Zhao Mancang was not so confident about the development of Beijiang City, but he did have a lot of ideas.

Gourmet food is the second development strategy.

In the original time and space history, why did cities like Baiyun City and Hong Kong Island develop so well?

In addition to their respective historical or cultural reasons, food is definitely a major attraction.

Zhao Mancang is very knowledgeable about food, especially various kinds of fruits. A place like Beijiang City is very suitable for developing such a modern agricultural city.

With film and television entertainment as the foundation, tourism, industry and other industries as the main economic development entities, supplemented by major industries such as hotels and restaurants, and the addition of other industries such as technology, the Beijiang City will definitely be able to develop.

After listening to Zhao Mancang's words, the leaders nodded.

But he didn't agree immediately.

Just because Beijiang City seems perfect compared to other coastal cities, the measures Zhao Mancang mentioned can be copied and pasted to other cities, and even achieve better development.

On the other hand, Beijiang City is a mountainous area and may become a flood interception site during peak flood periods in the future.

As the provincial capital, Baiyun City downstream will definitely be able to develop and will not be surpassed by Beijiang City. That is inevitable.

In this case, once a flood disaster occurs, the city of Beijiang can only try its best to intercept the flood and not let the flood discharge and destroy the Baiyun City downstream.

In addition, because it is mountainous, the shortcomings of Beijiang City are too obvious.

Therefore, we must do relevant investigations and then see how to choose when the time comes.

After coming out of Lingjing Hutong, Zhao Mancang didn't think about this matter too much.

No matter which city is developed, if it can get his support, it will surely reach the peak.

Even the original shortcomings such as more mountains and fewer plains are actually not a problem.

This year is already 1974. According to the historical development trajectory of the original time and space, as the Watergate incident continues to ferment, Richard Milhouse will inevitably leave the White House soon.

Once Richard Milhouse leaves, his replacement, Deputy Squad Leader Gerald Rudolph, will hit the ground running once he takes office.

This man's actions will trigger a series of major events.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang must keep an eye on this matter. At the same time, some other people have also begun to gain momentum, and the so-called Star Wars plan is about to start.

Many things will happen in the next period of time, and Zhao Mancang must keep an eye on them.

(End of this chapter)