Liu Lang and his family walked around the morning market for an hour, ate a meal of tofu brain, and left with a bag of vegetables.

The atmosphere of the New Year began to brew in the morning, Liu Lang's mother, second aunt, third aunt and several other women began to prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the "guys" who cooked at home were complete, what rice cookers, electric frying spoons, range hoods were everything, and the Liu family was also the first batch of people in Fucheng to use gas stoves, no longer because of cooking to make a room of smoke as before.

When it was almost noon, the old friends of the Liu family began to come up, and there were more than a dozen people, don't look at Liu Lang's "unattainable" now, but Liu Lang's grandfather and father do not have a little shelf, and they often move around with their old neighbors, of course, after moving, the relationship with the current neighbors is also very close, and they come to Liu's house to sit if they have nothing to do.

At lunchtime, Liu Lang set up two tables to entertain guests, everyone ate and drank while chatting about the world is not lively, the most said is the changes in Fucheng this year, this change is visible to the naked eye, the income of the people has also improved to a certain extent, especially the small shops and small restaurants that can be seen everywhere, this phenomenon indicates that the service industry has taken root in Fucheng, and the developed service industry means that the economy of this region is very good.

In fact, the large-scale infrastructure construction and the construction of residential areas have driven the economy of Fucheng, not to mention that real estate is the fastest means to drive the economy, yes, the number of cement market and steel market in Fucheng is also growing at a rapid rate.

Of course, today's Fucheng has embarked on the road of transformation, and the key to transformation lies in the problem of tens of thousands of employees of the Mining Bureau.

A Fucheng Mining Bureau has nearly 100,000 employees and an annual output of 6 million tons of coal, but in fact coal production has been declining in recent years, and five years ago it could have produced close to 8 million tons.

Six million tons is not a lot, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the mining value of this coal mine has become smaller and smaller.

Ordinary people don't care, they don't think much about the future, anyway, there is coal, there is coal and there is wages, I just have to work, but as a decision-maker, you can't just focus on the immediate interests, they have to look at least ten years later.

If the coal continues to be mined at its current capacity, there will be no coal to be mined in the open pit within five years.

It's not that coal mines can't extract coal, but that the cost is getting higher and higher, and the cost of mining is completely different from being at the surface of the coal seam.

You must know that the cost of coal is already very high, technology is on the one hand, mainly labor costs, an open-pit mine to feed tens of thousands of people, which is not comparable with foreign coal mines that use modern technology to carry out mining, people of the same scale of large mines may only be 1,800 people, this cost alone is not much less.

Labor costs are already high, and now mining is becoming more and more difficult, so it can be said that if there is no change, then the open-pit mine will become a "dynamite barrel" in five years.

This situation is not only realized by Song Lifeng, but also by other leaders in Fucheng City, everyone is like pressing a big stone in their hearts, if this problem is not solved, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Five years ago, when the North Industries Group was established in Fucheng, Liu Lang had raised this issue with Song Lifeng, and Song Lifeng had no good way at that time, after all, there were tens of thousands of people! They must not be forced to find another way out.

Five years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Fucheng has had another situation, and the service industry has developed vigorously, which is undoubtedly an important direction.

In fact, there is no need for Song Lifeng to come forward to call for many enterprises to engage in a variety of operations, the original staff canteen contracted to build a restaurant, the original staff bath contracted to open to the outside world, and some people who have seen the world have contracted the staff club to open a song hall and dance hall.

Liu Lang knew that a workers' club of the Mining Bureau was contracted by a person named He Liwei, and then introduced karaoke, which was very popular in the capital, and it was very popular for a while.

This is all good news, because these industries are able to absorb workers, which in turn reduces business costs.

At the end of last year, Song Lifeng gave Liu Lang a set of data, that is, the mining bureau has seen a decline in costs, which is simply an incredible situation, the reason is that more than 2,000 employees have gone to engage in a variety of operations, because it is a contracting nature, so the mining bureau no longer pays them wages, which reduces the cost.

You must know that these people are all voluntary, why would they rather give up their salary of more than 300 yuan a month to do contracting? Isn't it because they can make more money by doing contracting?

This is good news, if this continues, then more people will join them, and Fucheng's economy does allow them to do so.

Song Lifeng and the municipal government have begun to gradually guide these people, not only in the catering industry, but also in optical stores, watch stores, etc., in short, with the development of the economy, all industries have a lot to do.

Of course, the tertiary industry is only one aspect of the key development of Fucheng, and as a special industrial zone, industry is the industry that should be vigorously supported.

Although Fucheng is a city that made a fortune because of coal, the industrial level is not low, after all, the coal industry relies on the industrial base, what machinery factories, machine tool factories and other enterprises are many, and the industrial base is better than the big cities in the south.

In recent years, the rapid rise of North Industries Group, but also in urgent need of downstream industries, North Industries Group has formed a scale around more than a dozen enterprises, such as the Jinling Machine Tool Fucheng Branch, when it was established only three or four people, two years have passed, the company has more than 20 people, they provide semi-finished bearing parts for North Industries Group, last year's output value also exceeded 700,000 yuan, and employee wages exceeded 500 yuan per month, which is much higher than the staff wages of the head office.

There is also Shencheng No. 4 Machinery Factory, which also provides semi-finished materials for the North Industries Group, and last year's output value exceeded 800,000 yuan, as for those who bought the factory according to the "Fucheng model", although the development is not as good as these two enterprises, but it is not what it used to be, and those who are shareholders have already become 10,000 yuan households, the most outstanding is the factory director named Hou Changfa, whose "worth" is more than 100,000 yuan, and he is a veritable rich man.

Fools can see that it is really possible to get rich by following the NORINCO Group, and in the five years since the establishment of the NORINCO Group, no one or any enterprise that has followed him has lost money, and everyone has "made a fortune."

In fact, many people have already seen it, otherwise there would not be so many screw factories and screw hat factories in Fucheng, and the customers of these factories are Hou Changfa and their enterprises, and this kind of spontaneous behavior is a portrayal of the market economy.

Song Lifeng just wants to fill in the "fire" again, and this fire will be "burned" to those big enterprises, what machine tool factories, pressure vessel factories, what are you still doing like fools? Why don't you hurry up and keep up? If you can't keep up, there really will be no chance.

It just so happens that Liu Lang has started the CNC machine tool project, and a large number of downstream industries have emerged, which these enterprises can afford, even if they cannot directly provide semi-finished parts to the North Industries Group, then go down to "swim".

In a word, after five years of development in Fucheng, the situation has been different from that time, many industries are thriving, and the transformation on this basis is much more difficult than back then, and it is much easier.

Of course, the key is to see the leadership of Song Lifeng, this is a tough battle that must be won, once successful, then not only Fucheng income, the entire country will also have a good model of similar enterprises, this is the most critical.