Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 358: Leading the Way (Subscribe)
In March 1978, the most prosperous street in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, used to be a vegetable market. After it was acquired by the Causeway Bay Automobile Group, it began to be transformed.

Next door is the large factory of Causeway Bay Motors Group, and over here is a bustling shopping mall.

There is a huge square at the entrance of a crowded shopping mall, and many people pass by here every day.

There are many shops on both sides of the mall, including dessert shops, snack and barbecue restaurants, fast food restaurants, etc., too numerous to count. Anyway, it is almost forming a snack street.

On the other side are very luxurious luxury brand stores, and a large number of internationally famous stores can be found here.

There is a tunnel here that leads to the Kowloon Peninsula on the other side, so a large number of cars pass through here every day, making this road very busy.

Just today, a relatively ordinary day in March, a video of a beautiful place suddenly appeared on the big screen of Causeway Bay Shopping Mall.

It was a cherry blossom tunnel, incredibly beautiful.

"Oh, are the cherry blossoms in full bloom? Doesn't that mean we can go to Kimura for a visit?"

When many people saw cherry blossoms, they thought of Kimura first, but soon they were attracted by the TV screen.

Because the cherry blossom tunnel in Beijiang City is really beautiful.

"Where is this place? Why are their cherry blossoms so beautiful?"

March is the season for appreciating cherry blossoms. The aerial photo of the cherry blossom tunnel in Beijiang City is indeed very beautiful.

Many people were immediately attracted after seeing it. The most important thing is that you can take a ferry north from the Central Pier or Star Ferry Pier without any problem at all.

Most people in Hong Kong have no problem taking a boat and don’t get seasick or anything like that.

So it would be great if you could get there by boat.

In addition to taking a boat, there is also taking a plane, but there is currently no train.

Zhao Mancang has already started planning for this matter.

After all, Beijiang City is located deep inland. If the transportation is not good, it will be difficult to attract tourists even if the scenery is beautiful.

What's more, in addition to the scenery, there are other key factors that attract tourists.

For example, the film and television city!

There are two major film and television cities in Beijiang City. For many film and television practitioners in Hong Kong Island, going to Beijiang City is a daily necessity.

Therefore, more convenient transportation and more transportation options are inevitable.

In today's era, most people choose cheap means of transportation, and taking a boat is indeed a very good means of transportation.

However, it would be even more perfect if there were trains, or even high-speed trains.

As for taking a plane, haha, that is the choice of rich people.

In addition to film and television practitioners, there are other key points, such as museums, job opportunities in Beijiang City, coming back to visit relatives, etc.

In short, what Beijiang City can do is to improve all public transportation as much as possible, make it bigger and stronger, siphon the surrounding population, and develop rapidly.

The end of the year is almost here, so by the time the December meeting is held and reform and opening up are officially launched, Beijiang City will probably have even fewer opportunities.

After all, no matter how awesome Beijiang City is, it's probably hard to compare with the provincial capital, Baiyun City, right?

Baiyun City has been a gathering place for merchants since ancient times. It is the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. The famous Thirteen Factories are located in Baiyun City. How can Beijiang City compare with others?

So, be one step ahead and be ahead at every step.

At the very least, it must develop rapidly, and the population size should not be too far behind Baiyun City.

In the history of the original time and space, the small fishing village of Futian almost failed to develop. If it were not for the city of Qiecheng's own destruction, otherwise, a large number of people would not have gone to the small fishing village of Futian.

In the conference room of the municipal government office building in Beijiang City, Zhao Mancang sat in a seat next to him and listened.

Hong Xuanji and his team are discussing the construction of a national highway connecting Beijiang City to two northern provinces, especially regarding the investment, as they have been undecided.

It's mainly a matter of wrangling. They hope that Jiangxi and Hunan provinces can contribute more money and manpower, but they don't seem to have much money and are not very willing to contribute.

They have plenty of people, but they are not willing to pay.

After listening to this, Zhao Mancang suddenly said:

"Alright, everyone, stop arguing. It's the cherry blossom tunnel's tourist season, and there aren't many visitors right now. Even though this is the first year, I don't have high expectations, but you still need to do your jobs well, especially over the next few years. And you must emphasize this clearly to your subordinates."

"Serving the people well is what you, as officials, should do."

"There's no need to discuss this much with Hunan Province. We, Beijiang City, will be responsible for the highway investment, but they must provide manpower. This doesn't mean they can do it for free; we can pay them."

"But we also have a condition. That is, they cannot stop those young people from settling in our Beijiang City in the future. Secondly."

"In addition to the national highway, I plan to build three more expressways. One will run from Beijiang City to Jiangcheng, the second will run from Beijiang City to Bayi City, and the last will run to Hong Kong Island."

"Yes, you heard it right. We will also build a highway from Beijiang City to Hong Kong Island."

Hong Xuanji, Lu Shengwen, Li Dawei and others were all dumbfounded. The construction of three expressways at the same time would put a huge financial pressure on the city of Beijiang.

However, money is not a difficult thing for Zhao Mancang.

Because Zhao Mancang knew very well that the highway from Baiyun City to Beijiang City had been built, and the next step would definitely be other highways.

National and provincial roads must be built, otherwise no one would want to come to Beijiang City.

What a city needs most for its development is population.

If there is no one, everything is out of the question.

Only when transportation is convenient will a large number of talents appear in the city. Otherwise, even if the outside world knows about the existence of Beijiang City, they will not come because of inconvenient transportation.

Just like many people know that New York is the world's largest city, but not everyone in the world goes there, because transportation to New York is really inconvenient and the cost of flying is too high.

If we take a boat, it will take too long.

The Beijiang City is actually the same for all parts of the country.

To be honest, in the slightly closer provinces of Jiangxi and Hunan, even though transportation is inconvenient, many people will still carry large and small bags to work in Beijiang City in order to make money.

But if it is a little further away from the city of Jiang, or even places like Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, it is all Shankara, and transportation is very inconvenient, and they don’t even know Beijiang City. So building a road is a must.

However, in the short term, what Zhao Mancang can do is to open up transportation with several surrounding provinces and siphon off the surrounding population.

After all, reform and opening up is about to begin, and a large number of migrant workers will soon appear.

"In addition to the expressway, I have also submitted a plan to build a railway from our Beijiang City to Guiyang in the northwest."

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, everyone's expression changed again, and this time they were even more surprised.

They didn't know what the railway would look like this time because it was a trial-operated high-speed rail standard railway.

The speed of the train on the high-speed railway is over 150 kilometers per hour.

If this plan is followed, once the line is built and opened to traffic, it will inevitably siphon off a large number of people from Guiyang.

As for other places along the way, most of the population may have gone to Beijiang City to work and make a fortune.

Zhao Mancang has submitted the plan, but it is not yet known whether it will be approved by the higher authorities.

Judging from the current situation, the possibility of passing is still very high.

"All of you, go and carry out the orders. You must get these things done. Whether Beijiang City can develop rapidly in the next few years and reach a population of over three million depends on you."

When they heard what Zhao Mancang said, Hong Xuanji and the others' faces changed drastically.

A population of three million is definitely a huge pressure for the city of Beijiang.

Even with the addition of film and television cities, tourist population, construction sites, etc., the city of Beijiang now seems to have exceeded the one million mark.

But it will be very difficult to continue to break through the three million population mark.

From 1974 to the present 1978, the population size has grown from tens of thousands to the current million.

To be honest, if it weren't for the hydropower plant, Meiziba Airport, toy and clothing factories and other large factories, with so many medium and large-scale projects, it would be impossible to reach the one million mark.

And reaching the population mark of three million is even more difficult.

It seems that a large amount of investment is really needed, otherwise we will not be able to retain so many people.

A toy factory employs at most 50,000 to 60,000 people, and several clothing factories and clothing wholesale cities employ at most 30,000 to 40,000 people.

There are also large factories such as Conch Cement Plant, which have a number of workers ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Hydropower plants, airports, docks, steel mills, thermal power plants, etc., also do not have a large number of workers.

So a large number of labor-intensive enterprises are the real key.

Zhao Mancang certainly knew this, so he was already prepared. The automobile manufacturing plant mentioned before, as well as the machinery manufacturing plant, electric bicycle manufacturing plant, battery factory, computer manufacturing plant, etc. that will soon be settled in Beijiang City.

Especially the computer manufacturing plant, which is a large factory. Zhao Mancang estimates that it will need to recruit at least 100,000 workers.

Because it is used to produce a large number of computer components, as well as chip factories, etc.

In short, such large factories are all labor-intensive enterprises, and they are large factories that were brought in to address the lack of a large population in Beijiang City.

Time flies, and it is May in a blink of an eye.

Just over a month after the cherry blossom tunnel was built, the Beijiang City has a new beautiful scenery.

But this time it was not because of advertising, but because of word of mouth.

In the two film and television studios in Beijiang City, many film and television practitioners brought the beautiful scenery of Beijiang City back to Hong Kong Island when traveling between Hong Kong Island and Beijiang City.

There are photos and videos as examples. I don’t know how, but this scene was played in a TV series promotion program, and then the director of this TV series and others took the initiative to promote the scenery of Beijiang City.

Beautiful!

"You may not know this, but we work in Beijiang City, and they change the flowers on the streets every two weeks, almost overnight."

Generally speaking, most flowers only last for about half a month, such as lotus, peach blossom, camellia, tulip and other flowers, which all have a flowering period of half a month.

Of course, plants like roses and orchids have a longer flowering period.

Even so, the central avenue in Beijiang City is basically changed every two weeks.

That's a 7.2-kilometer-long road. They changed it so easily. They're so rich.

No matter whether people in Beijiang City are rich or not, since there are beautiful scenery and people like to see the sea of ​​flowers, they can go and have a look.

To be honest, Beijiang City has done very well in this regard.

"In May, the flowers that bloom are peonies. According to the locals, peonies are the flower god of May. Because the shape of the flowers is similar to that of peonies, they are very beautiful."

"And the peony flower is rich in color, including white, pink, red, purple and many other colors. Here, everyone, look at the big screen, this is the photo we took at that time."

As the director spoke, a photo was played on the big screen behind him, and the host and the audience in the recording hall all exclaimed in surprise.

There are also many flowers blooming in May, including peonies, roses, irises, hydrangeas, bougainvilleas, roses, peonies and other flowers.

Especially the peony, which is the king of flowers and has extremely high ornamental value.

But such flowers are placed casually on the roadside, just like wild flowers on the roadside.

These photos not only have flowers, but also the protagonists, handsome men and beautiful women. Who doesn’t like them?
"Didn't anyone steal it?"

The host asked a question, and the director immediately said:

"How could anyone steal them? This road is not only patrolled by police, but also by many tourists. Everyone is very self-disciplined, so no one stole the flowers."

"What about stealing at night?"

"Not really. If you want to buy flowers, there are many flower shops near Central Avenue. Flowers are very cheap. You can buy a flower for 50 cents, and a packaged bouquet is only two or three dollars."

For high-paid directors and others, fifty cents and two or three dollars are certainly not expensive, and may even be very cheap.

But for many local people in Beijiang City, two or three yuan is still quite expensive.

The average monthly salary in Beijiang City is over 90 yuan, which is very high nationwide.

why?
(End of this chapter)