Returning wealthy individuals develop their hometowns and become rich in the 1980s

West of Lianzhai Village, the thirty-four mu of wasteland that once connected to the village road has now been filled with sand and gravel brought in by hand tractors, creating a gravel road that can be traversed by hand tractors.

In the middle of the gravel road, the villagers of Lianzhai Village spent a whole morning building an archway out of bamboo, with the words "Guangdong Lianzhai Industrial Park" written on a large square of red paper.

The Jiefang trucks borrowed from Nanshan County are constantly transporting sand and gravel to fill the wasteland. In the swampy and muddy areas, excavators are constantly scooping out the silt, and the Jiefang trucks are hauling it away one truckload after another.

At the foot of the mountain was the place where Lianzhai Village had piled up silt. Tian Chulian listened to the opinions of the village elders and used the dredged silt as fertilizer, piling it up at the foot of the mountain. Then he organized the women of the village to carry it up the mountain and irrigate the collective orchard in the mountain.

Chen Dong and Chen Zaiguang, both wearing straw hats, were looking at blueprints with Dai Weiguo, the director of the Nanshan County Urban Construction Bureau. Dai Weiguo pointed to the wasteland not far away and said to Chen Dong, who was holding the blueprints, "Mr. Chen, after we have completely filled and buried that area, we can start pouring the foundation."

Chen Dong nodded and asked Dai Weiguo, "Director Dai, the blueprints provided by your Urban Construction Bureau are for a single-story tin-roofed factory building, but I'm not very satisfied with the dormitory building."

"Mr. Chen, if you have any complaints, please feel free to let us know, and we can make changes immediately," Dai Weiguo said with a smile.

"You designed less than six floors for the factory dormitory building, and the area is too small. I require at least twelve floors, and the area needs to be expanded by at least another hundred square meters."

"This dormitory building is meant to meet the accommodation needs of all employees in the entire factory area in the future," Chen Dong said, pointing to the blueprints. "Moreover, your blueprints do not include space for installing elevators, and the kitchens in each room can be removed. On the contrary, the bathrooms must be added."

Chen Dong's ideas differed from the design proposed by the Urban Construction Bureau. The design proposed by the Urban Construction Bureau was still based on outdated concepts from that era, while Chen Dong wanted to build a model similar to the future America apartment housing.

With a communal dining hall available, Chen Dong felt it unnecessary to build a small kitchen for each room in the dormitory building, which would take up the already limited space and make the bathrooms in each room feel cramped.

Furthermore, the dormitory building has pre-installed kitchens and other equipment that can generate open flames and smoke, which is not conducive to the fire smoke sprinkler system that Chen Dong wants to install, posing a significant safety hazard.

As for the cafeteria food being unpalatable, if the employees want to cook for themselves in their rooms and still find it unpalatable, they should directly report it to the factory management!

Instead of making yourself suffer because the food is bad, why not just report them and make things difficult for those chefs who deliberately cook bad food!

If the food cooked is not tasty, it is a waste of company resources and should be severely punished!

Dai Weiguo looked at the blueprints, then at Chen Dong, and asked, "Mr. Chen, do you mean you plan to install elevators in this dormitory building in the future?"

"Yes, and it has two elevators. Is there a problem?"

Dai Weiguo quickly shook his head and said no, you have too much money to burn. I just followed Secretary Lin Deying's instructions to come and design blueprints for your Guangdong Company. You can change it however you want, you rich man.

Even if it's just one elevator per household, I have no objection, as long as you're satisfied!

"And why are these rooms you designed so varied in size? Some are less than 20 square meters, while others are over 50 square meters. What's the purpose of this?"

Seeing that Chen Dong really didn't understand, Chen Zaiguang, who was listening nearby, said to him, "Dongzi, in the future, our company's employees will definitely include both married and single people. In terms of room allocation, the couples' rooms will definitely be larger, and some will even have children. Too small a room won't be enough."

Chen Zaiguang's workplace, the Water Transport Bureau, had its own dormitory-style housing system, which was mainly allocated to cadres and married employees. When Chen Zaiguang joined the company, all the dormitory-style housing had already been allocated, so he could only be assigned to a bungalow not far from the Water Transport Bureau.

Even though it's a bungalow, Chen Zaiguang is currently living in a one-bedroom apartment. He approves of the plan proposed by the Urban Construction Bureau. In the future, when the employees of Guangdong Company move in, single people will definitely not be allocated those large suites.

You can't expect a couple with a child to live in a tiny room of just over 20 square meters, can you? After reviewing the city construction bureau's drawings, Chen Zaiguang thought it was feasible.

Moreover, the room, which is more than 20 square meters, is not meant for one person to live in, but is designed to be divided into bunk beds for three or four people.

Chen Dong shook his head and said, "How about this, Director Dai, we'll design all four floors as single rooms, and each room can be divided into two small bedrooms and a small living room. What do you think?"

Chen Zaiguang frowned and asked, "Wouldn't that be too wasteful of space, Dongzi? If you really intend to have a room for each person, why not plan the entire floor into individual cubicles, with one person living in each cubicle? That would save the extra small living room and create many more rooms."

Chen Dong still followed America's principles in handling affairs. America valued personal privacy; even if someone lived in a small cubicle, that cubicle was their personal private space and would not be shared with others.

In China, however, communal sleeping arrangements are commonplace, and there is no particular emphasis on private space. It is normal for three or four people to share a room, and sometimes even five or six people share a room. In the summer, if someone has smelly feet, they can stink the whole room with the smell of their shoes.

Moreover, in order to save on air conditioning costs in dormitories during the summer, some factories in China usually have four or five people squeeze into one room to share the electricity costs. If you use too much, they will deduct money from your salary.

They are even more heartless than those capitalists in America. Moreover, none of the dormitory rooms have toilets. Sometimes there is only one public toilet on the entire floor. When it is time to take a shower after get off work, there is no water heater. By the time you run the hot water, it has cooled down, and you can't even go in to shower.

Chen Dong shook his head and said, "If it's designed like this, what about the bathroom in each room?"

Chen Zaiguang didn't understand why Chen Dong was so insistent on reserving a bathroom for each room. He had never slept in the dormitories of those factories and didn't know the hardship of an entire floor of people sharing a single bathroom.

Chen Dong had never experienced it either, but based on his experience in America, he believed that at the very least, a room should have a bathroom that could be used freely, which was the minimum requirement.