After the reception dinner, Shen Huai, Xiong Wenbin and others also went to the hotel to talk about things with Yao Ronghua.

The preparation of the Xinpu Refinery Project has been organized in the form of a feasibility study for two and a half months.

In addition to the problem of funding, the State Council is also aware of the tendency of overheating domestic economic investment, and the approval of large-scale industrial projects has begun to tighten.

Almost all of the examination and approval power for relatively large-scale local refining and chemical and local iron and steel projects has been transferred from the provinces and municipalities to the State Development Planning Commission, not to mention that Xinpu Refining & Chemical intends to directly refine 3 million tons of crude oil, and there is no way to bypass the approval of the State Planning Commission.

Zhunan Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. increased from 500,000 tons to 1 million tons, and the review and reporting procedures were added only after the start of construction. This time, the State Planning Commission did not crack down, and in the final analysis, it was the Department of Planning and Economics that took care of Tian Jiageng and Xu Pei's face.

On the Xinpu refining and chemical project, Shen Huai did not dare to take risks.

Xu Pei is clearly opposed to Xinpu now engaging in large-scale refining, and there are many people in the Song family who want to see a good show here, if Xinpu Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd. gets on the bus first and then makes up the ticket, and if he can't get the approval, he will start construction first, and if he is beaten by the State Planning Commission, he will beg his grandfather to sue his grandmother and he will not find a way.

Now we can only say that we can dredge up the relationship through various channels so that the preparatory work can be promoted.

"By the way, according to ordinary officials, the achievements of economic construction in Meixi and Xinpu in the past few years are already quite dazzling," Yao Ronghua asked with a smile, "Shen Huai, you have a more urgent mood to do things." If I hadn't been paying attention to this side all the time, just reading the report, I would have thought that the investment in Xinpu and Meixi was overheated and there was a risk of derailment. Therefore, the head office has reduced the scale of lending here and carried out risk control, and I have no way to defend you......"

"......," Shen Huai pondered for a while and said, "Various data have been released one after another, and Donghua's GDP has reached 40 billion yuan in the ninth six years, more than doubling in three years, which is not fast. However, if we want to count the per capita GDP, Donghua's per capita GDP in '96 can catch up with the national per capita level of 5,800 yuan. On a national scale, it has been 18 years since the reform and reform, and the total economic output has increased by nearly 20 times. However, even the total economic output, which has increased by nearly 20 times, is still only one-tenth of that of the United States and a little more than one-seventh of Japan......

Shen Huai sighed lightly and said: "Meigang has just issued a regulation, which is to limit the overtime hours of employees and control that employees cannot work 60 hours a week. I talked to foreign managers about this, and they thought it was incredible. Workers in London and Birmingham are fighting for fewer hours, 35 hours a week is too much, how can Chinese workers be like this? What they don't understand is that the Chinese are really poor. Although a few people think that it is a matter of course to open their mouths to be fed, most people still understand in their hearts: the gap is so big, what can you do if you don't work hard?"

"Scared of poverty?" Yao Ronghua couldn't help but shake his head and laugh when he heard this word come out of Shen Huai's mouth, thinking that Shen Huai's childhood was not so lucky, but since he was a teenager, he definitely has nothing to do with this word.

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Coming out of the hotel, Shen Huai also said goodbye to Xiong Wenbin and went back to Xiapu with Chen Bing.

Although Chen Bing has long left Xiapu to work, and his wife and children have also gone to the city to work and study, his hometown is in Xiapu, and his father, mother, and brothers and sisters are all in Xiapu, and he occasionally goes back to his hometown to stay for a night or two.

In the car, Shen Huai talked to Chen Bing about the reconstruction and expansion of the Jinghai Highway: "Only by reconstructing the Jinghai Highway as a high-grade highway can it be possible to accelerate the development of the coastal industrial belt......

The construction of the Yanjiang Expressway mentions the concept of the industrial belt along the Yangtze River, focusing on the development and construction of Meixi New Area and Xipizha Industrial Park.

For Donghua City, this is obviously a relatively thin horizontal line, and the main economic development can only radiate to Tangzha District and Xicheng District, lacking depth.

Shen Huai, Xiong Wenbin and others are now mentioning the coastal industrial belt because they want to take Xinpu Port as the leader and radiate along the Huaihai Bay to the two counties of Xinjin and Zaotang in the north, so as to strengthen the depth of Donghua's economic development.

However, in order to develop the industrial belt, a large amount of infrastructure is needed to support it.

On the one hand, the industrial belt along the Yangtze River is to speed up the construction of ports along the north bank of the Zhu River, and at the same time, the expressway along the river and the Meipu Highway have been completed, and the construction of the eastern extension of the Xudong Railway has also begun, which has almost pulled out the horizontal traffic framework of Donghua.

But when it comes to longitudinal traffic, it's much weaker.

At present, only the Haiphong Highway in Xiapu County is under construction, and the road width is only 14 meters, which is far from enough to support the longitudinal traffic network.

Previously, Jinghai Highway was the main traffic artery connecting Zaotang, Xinjin and Xiapu counties, and it was already a little overwhelmed at this time.

However, the scale of investment in large-scale deep-water seaports is even larger, and it is not at all something that Xinjin and Zaotang can afford at this time; the so-called coastal railways can only be planned for a long time.

Hearing Shen Huai mention that he wanted to build the Jinghai Highway, Chen Bing could only smile bitterly and only said one word: "Money." ”

The expressway along the river cost 200 million yuan for less than 10 kilometers, and the 40 kilometers of the Meipu highway cost 400 million yuan -- the Jinghai Highway will be rebuilt into a high-grade highway, 90 kilometers, and it will not be possible to get it without 10 billion yuan.

Du Jian, who was sitting in the passenger seat in the same car, turned around and said: "Xinjin County can't even get the money to raise the Haiphong Highway, let alone the Jinghai Highway." By the way, Xinjin County is going to hold a county-level economic joint promotion meeting tomorrow, and Secretary Chen can't get over it?"

"Lao Chen, let's go over together," Shen Huai said, "You should have also received an invitation, right? Secretary Wang of Xinjin said that he was a comrade-in-arms with you. ”

When I was in Xiapu, there were two projects that Wang Yiping snatched naked. At that time, he didn't expect that his comrades-in-arms wouldn't be too ugly when they saw each other in the future, but now he remembered that my comrade-in-arms was here, so get rid of his dick. Chen Bing was angry when he mentioned his old grudge with Wang Yiping.

"Okay, okay, you, the deputy mayor, still can't lack the votes of Xinjin," Shen Huai said with a smile, "Now Chen and Yu are piling up resources in Xicheng District, causing other districts and counties to complain, we don't win people's hearts at this time, how long will we stay?"

Hearing Shen Huai mention this, Chen Bing couldn't help but sigh.

Compared with the economic growth rate, the growth rate of Donghua's fiscal revenue and expenditure is higher.

In addition to the infrastructure investment of state-owned investment and financing platforms such as the Meixi Development Group, the Municipal Port Investment Group, the Beijing Investment Group, and the Xinpu Development Group, the total financial expenditure of the city's three districts and seven counties in 96 years reached 2 billion yuan.

The total fiscal expenditure is 2 billion yuan, but the distribution of 2 billion yuan among various districts and counties is extremely uneven.

Tangzha District has the highest financial expenditure, in addition to the investment of Meixi Development Group, the final account expenditure reached 500 million.

Xiapu County is planning to open the Xinpu Development Group, with a financial expenditure of more than 300 million.

Tangzha District has a high fiscal revenue, and in addition to so many expenses, it has also contributed an additional 200 million yuan to the municipal finance. Xiapu County implemented a large package, did not contribute much to the municipal finance, and the expenditure was also self-supporting, and the gap was to think about its own problems, and did not let the city subsidize a penny.

The problem lies in Xicheng District, Xicheng District's fiscal revenue in 96 years is less than 200 million, but the expenditure is as high as 400 million, second only to Tangzha District, and the gap is made up by the municipal finance.

In addition, the city's investment in infrastructure in Xicheng District through the Municipal Port Investment Group led by Han Shouchun has also reached 300 million.

With such a large amount of financial and infrastructure funds smashed, coupled with the start of projects such as Baohe Shipyard, the development speed of Xicheng District in 96 years even exceeded that of Tangzha District, but how could other districts and counties be convinced?

Chen Baoqi, Gao Tianhe, and Yu Chengzhen proposed that the current development of the industrial belt along the Yangtze River is the core of Donghua's work, and other districts and counties should make more efforts if they want to develop.

On the one hand, Chen Baoqi regards the development of Xicheng District as his personal achievement project, and on the other hand, it also involves deep-seated factors such as economic competition between urban areas and counties, and between counties.

Chen Bing was in charge of Xiapu and Wang Yiping was in charge of Xinjin, although the two were comrades-in-arms, but they were not soft on each other's feet and grabbed projects, so they accumulated a lot of old grievances, in the final analysis, it was the result of the promotion of county economic competition.

The economy of the three districts and seven counties is in charge, the finance and taxation are at the forefront, and the main indicators have been at the bottom for two consecutive years in the assessment, and the secretaries and county magistrates may be removed at any time.

Under such pressure, the competition in the county economy became cruel after the 90s.

While stimulating the rapid growth of the county's economy, the negative effects brought by this are gradually becoming obvious.

The phenomenon of fraud at the grass-roots level has increased, and sometimes they even do not borrow money to fill in the financial and tax figures; when attracting investment, they are even more muddy, and no matter how polluted the project is, no matter how bad the production and safety environment is, the localities will also lead them back.

Shen Huai naturally will not limit his attention to the county competition between Xiapu and Xinjin and Zaotang counties, and he and Xiong Wenbin proposed the concept of the coastal zone, which naturally includes Xinjin and Zaotang counties.

On a larger scale, the economic belt along the Yangtze River in Huaihai Province should include cities and counties along the Zhu River, such as Huaixi, Xucheng, Xinyi, and Donghua, and the coastal economic belt should include the area around the Huai Bay north of Xinpu.

It's just that it's easy to put up a concept, but it's not easy to make a result.

The construction of the Xiapu County section of the Haiphong Highway started as scheduled after the year, but the Xinjin County section of about 40 kilometers has not moved. The city said that it would subsidize 20 million yuan, but it did not take the money out, and only agreed to use Xinjin County's financial contribution in 97 years, but in fact it wanted Xinjin County to completely raise 60 million yuan for road construction.

The total financial expenditure of Xinjin County in 96 years was only 140 million yuan, and the investment in road transportation infrastructure in all townships and counties was only 20 million.

Wang Yiping, secretary of the Xinjin County Party Committee, in the name of a county-level joint economic promotion conference, invited Shen Huai and Chen Bing to come over tomorrow, and to put it bluntly, he still raised funds for the Haiphong Highway.