Of course, Sha Zhengyang knew how much shock his suggestion would cause in the province, but he didn't care.

For him, the more shocking the plans and proposals, the more he can prove his correctness, and he needs this accumulation of political capital.

And the kind of unsung solutions that lock up like drawers or lackluster suggestions are the most meaningless.

At present, the highway in the province is Hanjia Expressway, which is also the best benefit at present, and it is the Hanwan Expressway that will be completed and opened to traffic, which is predicted to be profitable within five years, and it is already relatively satisfactory as far as the highway in the inland area is concerned.

Moreover, this is still a static assessment, in fact, with the continuous acceleration of economic development in various places and the explosion of private car growth in the future, this profit possibility will be further accelerated, and the profitability rate will also have a lot of room to rise.

The other is the Hanzhaofu Expressway, which has been approved by the National Development and Planning Commission.

The distance of this highway is not long, the terrain of the area passed is relatively flat, the cost is not high, but along the line is the most developed city in Hanchuan Province, and many of the districts and counties are the top ten counties in the province, so from the economic point of view, this highway even exceeds the Hanjia Expressway and Hanwan Expressway.

It's just that because the national road from Handu to Fugang via Zhaoyang has always been in good condition, this highway is placed after Hanjia Expressway and Hanwan Expressway.

In contrast, the economic value of the Hanwu Expressway and the Hanqin Expressway is somewhat uncertain, and there is a peculiarity here, that is, from Wuyang and Qindu to Handu, there are more heavy vehicles, that is, cars that pull coal, and these cars will not take the highway in the future.

Wuyang and Qin are the most important petrochemical and coal bases in Hanchuan Province, and the coal produced in both places is mainly transported to other cities in the province, and even a considerable part of it is to be shipped directly to Jiazhou.

Therefore, for the Hanqin Expressway and the Hanwu Expressway, the highway toll standard and the future two non-toll national highways and provincial road conditions, and even the future coal price and other factors restrict whether a huge group of traffic in the future will enter the Han-Wuhan-Qin two expressways, which also determines the profitability of these two expressways in the future.

And there are also some uncertainties here, that is, government policies may also have a great impact on whether these freight vehicles enter the highway, in the vast majority of coal vehicles are overloaded, if the government departments strengthen the punishment of provincial and national highways overloading, it is easy to "squeeze" these coal trucks on the highway to pay.

In addition to these two expressways that are not very sure of the future, there is also a highway that is not good from the current prospects, but it may be good in the future, and at the same time it will be beneficial to the development of the Handong area - Jiawan Expressway.

Hanjia Expressway - Jiawan Expressway - Hanwan Expressway, these three expressways form a golden triangle, basically covering the original hinterland of Hanchuan Province.

These three cities in addition to the Han capital close to 10 million people, Jiazhou and Wanzhou are more than 10 million people, now although Jiazhou is directly under the central government, but its economic ties with Hanchuan Province is still quite close, and Wanzhou although there are 10 million people, but its industrialization and urbanization progress is far worse than Handu and Jiazhou, contains great potential.

In Sha Zhengyang's view, although the Duyi Expressway project is the most undesirable from an economic point of view, in order to achieve the balanced development of the future economy of Hanchuan Province, even if it puts aside the political significance, this road is the most important to be repaired.

This highway that runs diagonally through the hinterland of Hanchuan Province can greatly open the door to the mountainous areas of the hinterland of Hanchuan Province, so that the labor force and all kinds of resources can be fully liberated and developed, and the completion of this road can at least make the impact of GDP growth in these eight or nine districts and counties from Anxiang to Puchi to Wuling area in the future may be 2 to 5 percentage points, or even higher!

At present, the population of Wuling area is close to half of the population of Handu, but its total GDP is only 5% of that of Handu, which means that the per capita GDP of Handu has reached more than 10 times that of Wuling area, such a huge disparity is undoubtedly unacceptable.

Similarly, the population of the Puchi area is only more than one-third of that of Handu, but its total GDP is less than 10% of that of Handu, and its per capita GDP is only one-eighth of that of Handu.

It can be said that the hinterland and mountainous areas of Hanchuan Province in these two regions have greatly pulled the per capita GDP of the entire Hanchuan Province back, which is also the main reason why Sha Zhengyang proposed to the province to break through the traffic bottleneck and completely release the economic vitality of the Anxiang-Puchi-Wuling region, which can be supported by the main leaders of the province.

Even if there may be incomprehension from all sides, and there may even be some so-called political risks, the strategic determination of Zhou and Wang is enough to ensure that this plan can get the full support of the provincial party committee.

"Okay, Zhengyang, I know you're very busy, and I know you're under a lot of pressure, but it's not right, you can put your mind on this work of our Handu, eliminate all interference, if there is any gossip outside, you can push it on my head, just say that you are now fully engaged in a comprehensive plan around the construction of communication infrastructure in Handu. ”

Mao Xiangdong stood on the steps of the newly completed telecommunications building in the Economic Development Zone with his hands behind his back, and the building could be completely completed in one month, and when it came to the construction of the telecommunications backbone network in Handu in the future, Handu was in intensive communication with the Ministry of Information Industry.

In this area, the advantages of Handu as a sub-provincial city are revealed, they can bypass some of the constraints of the province, and directly connect with the Ministry of Information Industry, in some specific policies and programs, and even the two sides can coordinate and promote it.

"Secretary Mao, your courage is big enough, if it were me, I wouldn't dare. Sha Zhengyang accompanied Mao Xiangdong to stand on the steps, looking at the telecommunications square in front, which is already located at the very edge of the Economic Development Zone, and then to the west, it is the boundary of Longtan District.

"You don't pat yourself there, if you sit in my position, I'm afraid that the action will be stronger, right?" Mao Xiangdong took a deep breath, "Sometimes when you are in this position, you have to be responsible for the cadres and masses of one party, and be responsible for the development of a place, and you have to bear the risks and responsibilities that you should bear.

Sha Zhengyang nodded silently, in fact, he was also helping Mao Xiangdong change history.

If the history of ADSL in China has not changed, it will only start construction in Shanghai and Shenzhen next year, and it will not be until the beginning of 2000 that there will be a real commercial ADSL broadband operation, which is the so-called Internet surfing, and now the vast majority of Chinese Internet users still have to struggle to use the dial-up Internet that can not be dropped at any time and cannot accept phone calls at the same time to enjoy the life of netizens.

From this point of view, he still admires Mao Xiangdong quite a lot.

On geographical location and economic strength, Handu is at least ranked around 10 in the country, last year's GDP of Handu was more than 90 billion, only slightly higher than Wuxi, barely standing 10th, Shanghai, Yanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Suzhou, which one is stronger than Handu in any aspect, so to take the lead in opening ADSL in the country, what does it mean to eat this bite of crab, even Sha Zhengyang himself is not easy to say.

As Sha Zhengyang and Mao Xiangdong discussed, the current status of Handu as a provincial capital, in so many provincial capitals and sub-provincial cities in the country, is probably in a position that does not slip away, if you continue to maintain this step-by-step way, there is a high probability that it will slowly withdraw from the top ten, and if the development is still smooth, it may remain before the top fifteen.

In other words, if there are no special circumstances, the future positioning of Handu is to hover between the 10th and 15th largest cities in the country.

This seems to be a very realistic and safe situation, no matter which secretary and mayor comes, such a result seems to be acceptable, not that we don't work hard, but that the competition is too fierce.

But for Mao Xiangdong, he didn't want such an outcome.

In 90 years, how could there have been a position in Shenzhen in the national urban GDP rankings? But seven years have passed, Shenzhen has been ranked fifth, and in the same 90 years, Shenyang has been ranked seventh, but seven years have passed, and there is no position in Shenyang in the first 10 miles, this is the cruel reality, if you don't move forward, you can only retreat.

Handu's current situation is in such an embarrassing state, on the threshold of the top 10, if you don't pay attention to it, you will fall, and once you work hard, you can even rush into the top 5, it depends on how you work hard.

Mao Xiangdong also admitted that Shenzhen's model is not replicable, the bridgehead of reform and opening up, leading the world in the atmosphere, this halo effect brought by the attention of thousands of plants and the atmosphere of reform and opening up, so that the country's talents are rushing to Shenzhen, so Shenzhen can jump to the fifth place in the country in just 7 years, what about Handu?

Mao Xiangdong believes that Shenzhen's model cannot be replicated, but Handu also has many advantages and conditions that Shenzhen does not have.

First of all, the development of Shenzhen will face the homogeneous competition of Guangzhou, and too close to each other will definitely make the two tigers fight;

The second is the lack of traditional industries in Shenzhen as the foundation, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage, the advantage is that there are not so many fetters, drawing on a blank paper, the disadvantage is the lack of industrial support, which will inevitably be restricted, and Handu has a strong foundation in the traditional manufacturing industry, which has the development support from the talent and technical reserves;

The third is that Shenzhen has no foundation in education and scientific research, which is the biggest confidence of Handu, a city that lacks education and scientific research background, it is difficult to achieve long-term sustainable development, of course, Mao Xiangdong does not know that the future of Shenzhen seems to have subverted this rule.