"What do you want to do up there?" Hu Wenhai stared at Secretary Lu with blazing eyes, took a deep breath and asked: "A large ministry that concentrates transportation, railways and postal services, I am afraid that the influence of this scale in the central government will be very huge......

"What the chief means is that he wants to push for the separation of government and business, and once the Ministry of Transport is established, it will divest the current corporate part and transform it into a regulatory and policy-making role. ”

Hu Wenhai suddenly waved his hand, interrupted Secretary Lu's explanation, shook his head and said: "Secretary Lu, we are also old acquaintances, do we still need this kind of temptation in the style of conversation? What kind of character am I, you should know clearly, stop going around the bend!"

"This ......"

Secretary Lu smiled awkwardly and nodded slightly.

What kind of character Hu Wenhai is, he has already had an entire library of analysis materials. When talking to him, the best strategy is to get straight to the point and be honest. Going around in circles and playing dumb riddles, Hu Wenhai never minds really taking the superficial article as a fact, and when the time comes, it will be seen who can't eat and walk around......

Secretary Lu said that once the Ministry of Communications was established, the separation of government and enterprises was transformed into an administrative agency. But it's like the political reform of China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, can it be cut off from the relationship with the Maritime Safety Administration and other old six machine departments, and it can really not be affected by the higher-level regulatory departments?

Once the Ministry of Transport is established, it will immediately become the third largest ministry at present. The first two don't need to ask, they must be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. What, the Ministry of Finance has a different opinion? Come on, let's calculate whether there is more money in the treasury or more money running on the railroad tracks.

As long as the National Development and Reform Commission does not appear, the third position of the Ministry of Transport will be unshakable.

In 1991, how much pressure did we face to build such a large ministry, and what kind of political risks did we take?

The No. 2 leader behind Secretary Lu, if he wants to push this idea, he must have an overall consideration. Just to promote the separation of government and enterprises, there are a hundred methods, why do you need to develop a tail stable shelling and armor-piercing bullet in order to kill pigs?

"Chief...... There are some considerations. ”

Secretary Lu nodded with difficulty, and turned his head to look at Comrade Hu Shengli who was sitting in the distance: "This consideration has something to do with Mr. Hu's uncle Hu Shengli. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

What Hu Shengli did, of course Hu Wenhai knew. As the general manager of Dongfeng Express, Hu Shengli has indeed achieved quite brilliant results. Starting from contracting commuter carriages, a giant in the logistics industry has emerged from Bohai Province in recent years.

Nowadays, Dongfeng Group's layout in Bohai Province has begun to take shape, and through the completion of the three logistics centers of Dagang, Shengjing and Xiucheng, it has played an increasingly important role in the economic development of Bohai Province.

What the country wants to build is the Bohai Rim Economic Belt, not the Bohai Rim Economic Fortress. Before Dongfeng Express played a role, important enterprises in Bohai Province were mainly located in several large cities. Heavy industry enterprises are mainly distributed in Shengjing, the electronics industry and new economy in Xiucheng, Dagang's chemical industry and port, and Niuzhuang's coal-iron complex.

Judging from the data and charts, it is indeed the formation of the Bohai Rim Economic Belt. But in reality, this economic belt is not a necklace strung with pearls, but just a few dazzling transfer balls tied to a red string.

The resulting problems are not negligible, the concentration of large enterprises has led to a shortage of urban land, resources, energy, environment, population, education, health, land prices, public services, water, etc., and several large cities are facing serious survival and economic pressure.

On the other hand, other cities in Bohai Province have serious blood-sucking problems. Talent is concentrated in big cities, capital is concentrated in big cities, and even electricity is the first to ensure that big cities are the first to be ensured.

As a result, the problem is quite serious in several low-ranking cities in Bohai Province.

How serious is it? Because of its rapid development, Xiucheng has had a terrible siphon effect on the surrounding labor force. A large number of young people go to Xiucheng to work, so that young people in their twenties are easily not seen on the streets of Fuxin and Chaoyang. Even if the young people left behind have a good income, the number of peers is insufficient, and even falling in love has become a problem.

Talent is one thing, and capital is also fleeing from these regions in large numbers. As the earliest energy industrial base established in New China at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fuxin has been digging coal for decades, and it is actually impossible to be without money. But in the nineties, when coal mines began to dry up, the city was ready to transform.

Transformation requires capital investment, and I thought that the city had a strong foundation and could deal with it calmly. But after an investigation, he was dumbfounded, and most of the family funds he had saved for decades had been eaten and wiped clean by Xiucheng. The money obtained from digging coal is invested in Fuxin, and it may earn hundreds of yuan in rent a year. However, if you take it to Xiucheng to buy a house, you can earn tens of thousands of yuan in housing price difference even if it is empty for a year.

Even the "bosses" who have made money in the counties and cities below would rather take a two- or three-hour car ride to Xiucheng to spend money.

A similar situation is also manifested in Shengjing and Dagang. In addition to Niuzhuang, because of the project of Gangcheng Group and the port project, it has shown a prosperous scene. Away from the coast, other cities in Bohai Province are facing these problems.

If we consider it purely from the perspective of political performance, the construction of this Bohai Economic Belt will be enough for more than ten years.

However, as Hu Wenhai desperately gave the country a windfall of tens of billions of dollars, the above naturally had a different mind. In this world, there has never been enough money, how can there be a reason to worry about money not being able to spend it, right?

To truly build the Bohai Rim Economic Belt into a pearl necklace, Dongfeng Express has made the No. 2 chief see a hope and a feasible model.

Because of Dongfeng Express, factories do not have to be built in big cities. And the scope of radiation that can be radiated by big cities has also greatly expanded. The policies taken out by small cities can be attractive enough to large enterprises, and there is no need to worry about the connection between upstream and downstream industries.

Energy and resources are transported more flexibly, and smaller cities don't have to worry about not being able to expand their power generation. Transportation and consumption are more convenient, and small cities can also create their own urban style, specializing in a certain consumption segment.

In order to realize this model, it is an inevitable choice to continue to deepen the concept of "transportation system" under the model of Dongfeng Express.

Expansion of rail capacity to solve the problem of long-distance transportation. Provincial and national highways are optimized to solve the transportation needs within 100 kilometers. Logistics centers, express delivery and public transportation make up for the shortcomings of the last mile.

The new transportation system must give full play to the respective advantages of each transportation, and be able to build transportation into a close system, connecting railways, highways, water transportation and air transportation. Under such demand, it is obvious that the collaboration of multiple departments in the past can no longer meet the requirements.

In fact, if all parties are to continue to grow from an early age, the result will definitely be a serious conflict of interest within the transportation department. Railways and high-speed railways collide, high-speed railways collide with airplanes, and water transport and heavy-haul railways compete. In the case of being managed by different departments, Toto will be caught in all kinds of ramps and vicious attacks.

Only a unified transport ministry can have sufficient authority to coordinate the cooperation of all parties.

There is the integration of the Ministry of Transport, the healthy competition of the transportation enterprises separated from the government and enterprises below, and finally the integration of the entire system by Dongfeng Express, which is the result of the discussion between the second chief behind Secretary Lu and the current central leaders.

However, the above was still worried about how the Ministry of Transport would operate if it was established, and was carefully laying out and investigating the problem. As a result, at this time, the important leaders of various sections under the Ministry of Railways gathered in Baiyinhua for inspection and meeting. Then, immediately after that, the news that the Ministry of Railways was going to issue 100 billion corporate bonds was revealed......

The Ministry of Railways has money, a contingent, and has always been the son of the central authorities, so of course it is the only choice for forming the backbone of the Ministry of Transport. The previous minister of railways, the current deputy director of the Planning Commission, and the director of the Taiwan Affairs Office, have become the only candidates for the future minister of transport.

As for China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, the money is there, but unfortunately the domestic influence is insufficient. The General Administration of Maritime Affairs and Civil Aviation, the groups of Air China, AVIC and AVIC, and the road administration companies of the Ministry of Communications in various places, those who have money have no influence, and those who have influence have no money, and they simply cannot compete with the Ministry of Railways, which has a huge amount of capital.

The whip that Hu Wenhai drew at the Ministry of Railways can be regarded as preventing the spinning top of the Ministry of Transport from operating in a rapid and violent manner.

Hu Wenhai is not entirely aware of the twists and turns behind this, but he is not unheard of.

Secretary Lu pondered for a moment, and decided to reveal the chief's thoughts to Hu Wenhai and Pan, so as to save the lord from continuing to cause some big troubles that could not be cleaned up......

"Here's the thing, after quite careful investigation and research, the central government believes that Dongfeng Express's model is very successful. ”

Secretary Lu considered the words and said cautiously: "Dongfeng Express is no longer a tertiary enterprise under the Shengjing Bureau, but has been fully acquired by the Ministry of Finance and has become a state-owned enterprise directly under the central government. Comrade Hu Shengli was hired as the deputy general manager of Dongfeng Logistics, and this time I came, I will invite Comrade Hu Shengli to Beijing to take office. ”

The drum does not need a heavy hammer, Hu Wenhai raised his eyebrows, and from Secretary Lu's simple words, he realized how the central government's strategy to set up the Ministry of Transportation was considered.

Can Hu Wenhai not know what is the situation of this model of Dongfeng Express? The urbanization process in Northeast China is very early, and the urbanization rate exceeded 50 percent in the 70s.

Coupled with Hu Wenhai's tossing up and down in recent years, the counties and cities below Bohai Province are even more of an image of "premature baldness".

Although the economy is developing rapidly and the country's strength is rising, it is even more desolate and withered outside the big cities. A large number of laborers from the countryside have moved to the cities, and various social problems have begun to emerge, which makes people have to pay attention to it.

However, after Dongfeng Express extended its tentacles to the bottom, these counties and cities immediately burst into life!

In Fuxin, for example, the city was still worried about the depletion of coal resources. However, when Dongfeng Express Logistics Center signed a cooperation agreement with Qinghemen under Fuxin in 1988, it was no longer what it used to be.

Hu Shengli took advantage of the channel advantages of Dongfeng Express and introduced a strong and highly credible hardware manufacturer from Japan.

By 1991, after four years of construction. With its abundant forestry resources, Fuxin has built a world-class "shovel" production base in Qinghemen.

The steel produced from the cattle farm is transported here by rail. Combined with the local forestry resources, the shovels produced are transported to Xiucheng by road and directly loaded to the sea. In the past four years, with this logistics route, as well as loans from the Bank of Japan, machine tools and production lines produced by Shengjing, Fuxin's shovel production capacity has experienced an explosive growth.

By 1991, Qinghemen's shovels not only supplied local and domestic demand, but were even exported to the world, accounting for one-fifth of the market capacity in the international market.

With this booster, the Fuxin City Government is already planning a woodcut production base in Zhangwu and a cushion production base in Xinqiu.

To tell the truth, Fuxin, a shovel production base, can make such a big result in such a "tun" industry, and it really breaks through the glasses of many people. This kind of road of vigorously producing miracles and brutally developing productive forces is still somewhat new to the Chinese.

Good guys, a raged county and city, producing one product can get a fraction of the output of the international market, and in the 80s, I am afraid that it will not be ridiculed as a daydream and lose its mind.

Through the analysis of this case, the central government quickly realized the role of the concept of transportation and logistics. Without Dongfeng Express's logistics supporting services and transportation system division of labor, Fuxin will not be able to get out of this road.

But after Fuxin has gone through this road, can other places not think about it? Even if the shovel is enough, but the production of screwdrivers, wrenches, hammers, and tape measures is probably also very useful, right?

One Qinghe Gate can get one-fifth, so build three or five more Qinghe Gates, isn't it......

It is with this understanding that Dongfeng Express was renamed Dongfeng Logistics, and then acquired by the Ministry of Finance and directly under the central government.

Dongfeng Logistics' initial plan is to transform the transportation and logistics system of the entire Bohai Rim Industrial Belt, that is, Bohai Province, Hebei Province and Shandong Province, as well as the entire North China Plain.

Expand railway capacity, repair and radically change the capacity of national and provincial highways, and build logistics centers. Rail and port intermodal, airport and train station combined, commuter subway and real estate, that's a big article to do!

In order to do a good job in this article, it is necessary to have a Ministry of Transport that can mobilize the entire transportation system! The General Administration of Railways, civil aviation, maritime affairs, and highways must all follow its baton and weave a transportation network that covers every corner of the land in China!