When I came to Sichuan Province to investigate, I basically kept an eye on the cotton textiles here, so except for Chen Maoxiang and Li Guotai, who were very concerned about this, most of the other Hong Kong business delegations were just going through the motions.

However, Hu Xiang was very attentive to the inspection of Sichuan Province, and his focus was not on various factories, but on infrastructure roads.

In Sichuan Province in the late 70s, there were very few public roads in the province, except for shipping from the Yangtze River waters in the mountain city, there was only one road that could go north out of Sichuan, that is, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway.

This highway was built in the Republic of China, and after many renovations, it can be regarded as opening up a national highway that can go north out of Sichuan.

Sichuan-Shaanxi National Highway from Sichuan Chengdu through Mianyang, Jiange, Zhaohua to Guangyuan north to Shaanxi. The highway is in the south of the Qipan Pass for the Sichuan border, and the north of the Qipan Pass is the Shaanxi border.

The road is surrounded by mountains and rivers, but it is dangerous but beautiful, and the road passes through many historical places. For example, the Buddhist grottoes of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Guangyuan Thousand Buddha Cliffs, can still be seen at a glance when driving on the old Sichuan-Shaanxi Road, and there is also the Jianmen Pass, which is also the only place on the Sichuan-Shaanxi Road.

It seems that there are a lot of beautiful scenery to enjoy all the way, but in fact, this national highway is too dangerous, not only to climb over several mountains, many on the verge of cliffs, tiger's mouth, the narrowest part of the road is only about three or four meters wide, if you fall from the highest place, it is definitely a life and death.

It is precisely because this road is too difficult and dangerous that the economy of Sichuan Province is very low in the whole country at this time.

Therefore, Hu Xiang is very interested in the infrastructure roads in Sichuan Province, and his Hopewell Industry has been engaged in infrastructure projects, and the road out of Sichuan Province is too difficult, so he thought about whether he could cooperate with the local government to develop a new national highway.

"Mr. Hu, the construction of roads is not an overnight thing. ”

Chairman Liang also wants to cooperate with Hu Xiang on this infrastructure project, but building a road for such a large project is not something that can be completed in one or two years.

Hu Xiang said: "I know this, road construction is not something that can be completed in a short time. It's just that I inspected several cities in Sichuan Province and found that they are not short of products, but only a good road that can transport goods out of Sichuan Province. ”

"It seems that Mr. Hu has seen it very thoroughly. Although Chairman Liang is not from Sichuan Province, he is also well aware of the disadvantages of Sichuan Province, so he admires Hong Kong businessmen like Hu Xiang who are willing to cooperate in infrastructure and road construction.

He thought for a while and said, "That's it, Mr. Hu, I'll report to the above, and I'm not sure if a new road can be built." ”

"Then I'm sorry for you, President Liang. ”

"Yes, Mr. Hu can consider the development of tens of millions of people in Sichuan Province, and we should be grateful. ”

Hu Xiang's idea of building a road in Sichuan Province is nothing more than a road like "if you want to be rich, build a road first", and the person who put forward this sentence was a leader of Sichuan Province in the future.

It seems that the thoughts of capable people always coincide.

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That night, during dinner, when Hu Xiang and Huo Guantai were chatting and said the project they wanted to cooperate with, Huo Yaowen couldn't help but look at Hu Xiang in dismay, "President Hu wants to build a new road out of Sichuan?"

"Yes, that's an idea. Hu Xiang nodded.

"I think there is a road out of the river. ”

Huo Yaowen thought about it, and when he talked to Director Liu about transporting goods out of Sichuan a few days ago, he drew out the detailed transportation road, in addition to the Yangtze River water transportation, there is also a highway to the north. And Director Liu promised that before the end of this year, the dinosaur model will be made and shipped to Hong Kong.

"There is a Sichuan-Shaanxi highway out of Sichuan, but the road is too difficult. Hu Xiang shook his head, he had seen some photos of that road before, cliffs and tiger mouths abounded, it was hard to imagine that there would be a driver who would dare to drive a big truck on this road.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to repair. Huo Guantai frowned.

"If it's easy to repair, I won't be involved. Hu Xiang laughed, he himself is a top student in the Department of Civil Engineering of Princeton University in the United States, and naturally knows how difficult it is to build roads in a mountainous area like Sichuan Province.

"It's not a question of whether the road is good or not, it's a question of whether there is money or not. ”

Although Huo Yaowen is younger than Hu Xiang and Huo Guantai and has less experience, he is very aware of the development of the motherland in later generations, and the national road has not been completed until after 2000.

It's not that it can't be repaired, but there is no money to repair it.

This is different from the high-speed can also rely on a long period of time to collect the cost, the national highway is generally not across the province, there is no need to pay, so the cost of road repair is naturally paid by the state.

Now that the motherland is in ruins, there is a shortage of money for development, where is there so much money to build roads.

In fact, as Huo Yaowen said, when the group was about to leave for Shaanxi Province the next day, President Liang found Hu Xiang alone and talked to him about the road construction.

This also made Hu Xiang feel regretful.

It also indirectly contributed to him waiting until after the reform and opening up, and in the 80s, he cooperated with the mainland to build the country's first expressway, the Hujia Expressway.

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After arriving in Shaanxi Province, the delegation followed the local leaders as scheduled and continued to visit and inspect the factory.

Huo Yaowen followed President Liang and went to the excavation site of the Terracotta Warriors.

At this time, the excavated terracotta warriors and horses were still squatting in the mud pit, and a large number of archaeologists were also scattered around, who carefully used various tools to clean up the soil on the terracotta warriors.

"How about Huo Sheng, it's not much different from what you imagined. ”

President Liang looked at Huo Yaowen with a smile, he had been chasing Huo Yaowen for several days in order to explore the mysteries underground.

"Well, it's a little different from what I imagined. Of course Huo Yaowen wouldn't say that these are basically the same as what he has seen in his later life, right? At most, there is a little more dirt on his body, and he has not completely cleaned it up.

"It's a pity, actually. President Liang suddenly sighed and said: "I first heard from the archaeological team that when it was excavated, the appearance was very bright, but it volatilized naturally after it was unearthed. ”

"It's a bit of a pity. Huo Yaowen nodded, he also knew about it, but it wouldn't work if he didn't excavate it, on the one hand, the terracotta warriors and horses themselves had been exposed, and secondly, the excavation would be of great help to the history and archaeology of the Qin Dynasty.

After seeing the Terracotta Warriors, Huo Yaowen, Chairman Liang and a few entourages took the car back to Xi'an City and joined the delegation.

The factory that came to Xi'an this time is still a textile factory, the first textile printing and dyeing factory in Northwest China.

That's right, before and after, I went to six or seven cities all over the country, and basically every city I went to must visit and inspect the textile factory.

This is not to say that it is necessary to inspect the textile mills, but because the textile industry accounts for a very high proportion of the national factories, and in the earliest "First Five-Year Plan", the textile mills are the country's major industries.

Not to mention far away, Xi'an, the city where Guanghuo Yaowen is now located, during the "First Five-Year Plan" period, it has built the first printing and dyeing factory in the northwest and a number of large state-owned textile enterprises such as the third, fourth, fifth and sixth factories of the Northwest National Cotton Factory, and now Xi'an has become the largest textile industrial base in the northwest and one of the textile centers in the country.

Xi'an, the thousand-year-old capital, is known as the "textile city", which can imagine the importance of the textile industry in Xi'an at this time!

After all, although the technical content of the domestic textile industry is not very high at this time, it is better to have a large output and sufficient raw materials, as long as you find someone to design some clothing that meets the aesthetics of foreigners, with the labor and resources of the mainland, it is difficult to make money.

"Yimou, look!"

In the production workshop of the No. 6 Cotton Spinning Factory, a young man in his twenties suddenly pointed to a group of people who walked in not far away: "That group of people seems to be the Hong Kong Island compatriots inspection group mentioned in the factory some time ago." ”

Yimou wiped the sweat from his forehead, put down the work at hand, looked at the group of people, and said, "Okay, work hard, don't wait for the team leader to be scolded again." ”

"Scolding is scolding, I don't want to do it for a long time, I recently review my homework every day at home, just to take the college entrance examination in a month!"

In mid-September, a major event caused a sensation throughout the country, that is, the college entrance examination will be resumed in November this year, and countless young people in their twenties and thirties are all looking forward to the arrival of November.

"College entrance examination. "Yimou's vision is like a bastard, and I don't know what to think about in my heart.

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