Chapter 747: Secretary of the New Provincial Party Committee

At the all-party meeting held in Yanjing in mid-to-early November, Shen Huai could not make up for the excitement.

The political ranks of the Song family, He Xianghuai, Song Qiaosheng, Dai Chengguo and others remained unchanged, and Cheng Wenguang was also officially elected as a member of the Zhongyāng Committee, becoming the upstart of this all-party meeting.

On the side of Huaihai Province, Tian Jiageng and Zhao Qiuhua have not changed, and Xu Pei was also unexpectedly elected as an alternate member of Zhongyāng.

After the end of the all-party meeting, Xu Pei served as deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the Xucheng Municipal Party Committee as scheduled, and Tian Jiageng was immediately transferred out of Huaihai, and the person who replaced Tian Jiageng to Huaihai as the provincial secretary was Zhong Limin, who was transferred from Hubei Province.

Zhong Limin, as an official who grew up in Hubei Province, did not have a very clear factional choice in Zhongyāng, and was regarded as a political figure with a neutral position, but the previous secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee was already the peak of his life.

No one supports Zhong Limin to go one step further and run for Politburo membership or even higher political positions, but Zhongyāng's top brass also knows that the existence of such a neutral official is also conducive to balancing and buffering some sharp and prominent contradictions.

In short, it is not harmful for anyone to let an official like Zhong Limin rotate between positions at the same level until retirement.

Neither the Hu or the Ji Jing department did not want the waters in Huaihai Province to become muddy, so Zhong Limin's personality was not very strong, his political and economic policy stance was relatively conservative, and there was no strong support in Zhongyāng, and there was no official with a neutral position in Zhongyāng to make the transition to Huaihai Province as the secretary of the provincial party committee, which became a choice that all parties were willing to accept.

The personnel changes of the Huaihai Provincial Party Committee also appeared dull and silent.

Before Zihua Industrial officially announced its private placement plan and suspended trading, its stock price soared by two times, and Xu Pei and Zhao Moshi did not take any action when it came to Zihua Industrial's suspension of trading in the securities market.

However, if Xu Pei does not trouble Zhao Qiuhua and Hu Lin in this matter, it will not do Mei Gang any harm, and Xu Pei jumping out to sabotage Zihua Industrial's additional issuance plan will not do Mei Gang any good - Shen Huai is not anxious, he just watches the show.

Moreover, in this matter, Xu Pei did not make any movement for the time being, and Shen Huai did not feel strange.

Although Zhong Limin is not very strong and his personality is relatively conservative, he is also the secretary of the provincial party committee, and it is impossible for Xu Pei to act rashly when Zhong Limin gets off the car.

Moreover, Guo Chengze has not officially succeeded Gao Tianhe in Donghua to fully preside over the work of the municipal government, and Xu Pei will sabotage the additional issuance plan of Zihua Industry at this time, so he must be prepared for the strong resistance of Zhao Qiuhua and others in Guo Chengze's appointment.

Even if Zihua Industrial's additional issuance plan is thrown out now, there will be a review period of up to three months. If Xu Pei can master the excellent materials, even if he delays until the last moment, it will not be too late - Shen Huai has the patience to wait for the good show to play.

In terms of the intricate internal relationship between Meigang and Huaineng Group, and regardless of Sun Qiyi's personal attitude, the top management of Evergreen Group is reluctant to let investment in China turn into complex political speculation.

Sun Qishan did not come forward again, but other senior members of the board of directors visited and inspected Huaihai Province in early December, and expressed to Shen Huai, Ye Xuanfeng, and the senior management of Yexin Bank and others that they would adjust their willingness and ideas to adjust their investment business in China.

In the future, Evergreen Group will continue to consolidate its diversified investment business in China and East Asia, and while establishing its China headquarters in Xinpu Port, it has also made it clear that its investment in China will mainly focus on investment in the fields of electronics manufacturing, finance, hotel and commercial real estate operations.

As the Xinpu electronic manufacturing base of Evergreen Group to transfer the production capacity of electronic information products in Thailand, Malaysia and other countries, after the project was launched, the construction of the first phase of the plant was completed in less than four months, and the equipment installation and commissioning were completed in seven months, and the trial production stage was carried out.

Since the basic salary of the domestic electronics industry is only three to one-fifth of that of Thailand and Malaysia, after the completion of the first phase of the Xinpu electronics manufacturing base, the human resource cost alone is expected to save nearly 10 million US dollars for the Evergreen Group every year.

In view of the rapid growth of the emerging electronic information products market in China, Evergreen Group has also decided to continue to further close its electronics factories in Thailand, Malaysia and even Singapore, and at the same time start the construction of the second phase of the project with a larger scale of investment and a total of 10,000 employees in Sinpo.

In the entire electronic information industry chain, Evergreen Group is still in the downstream manufacturing end at this time, and the technical content is not very high, mainly relying on the advantages of scale and low labor cost to make profits.

However, Evergreen Group also recognizes that the electronic information industry is an important pole of global economic growth in the future, and has also invested in the establishment of a technology research institute in Xinpu to track the international advanced electronic information manufacturing technology and process.

Evergreen Group has risen to the rise of Western Europe, but it has also been investing in the Asia-Pacific region for 20 years and has considerable influence. The northward shift of the investment focus of Evergreen Group has also affected a number of Southeast Asian electronics manufacturers, especially investors in the supporting industrial chain, who are actively following Evergreen Group to the north.

Even if key projects such as Xinpu Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. and Evergreen Group's electronic manufacturing base are excluded, Xiapu County's achievements in attracting investment in 97 years are still dazzling, and more than 100 million U.S. dollars of foreign investment has been introduced in the fields of clothing, home textiles, electronics, metallurgy, machinery, real estate development, and hotel catering.

For Meigang, in addition to the completion and operation of the Xinpu Steel Plant in 97 years, the construction of the Jihe Port Comprehensive Terminal and the Iron and Steel Logistics and Processing Park Project was officially launched, which means that Meigang has risen from the previous introduction of industrial capital to a new level of industrial capital output.

The new level of Meigang is a huge worry in the steel industry.

In the early 90s, Yanjing Steel's production capacity exceeded 8 million tons.

After Yanjing entered the 90s, the environmental and air pollution problems became increasingly acute, and began to restrict the development of heavy industry in the surrounding areas. As a result, Yanjing Iron and Steel's further expansion plans have stalled, and in recent years, it has lost its position as the largest steel conglomerate in China.

Over the years, Yanjing Iron and Steel has been torn between expanding the outer area of the old plant in Shijingshan District of Yanjing and relocating the new plant to another place.

After the plan to expand the old plant was completely rejected by the State Council recently, Yanjing Iron and Steel could only take the road of relocation if it wanted to further expand its production capacity.

However, even if it is to relocate and build a new plant in another place, Yanjing Iron and Steel has several plans, and it also sent people to Jihe to inspect the conditions for building a port and a factory at the beginning. In the same period, Yanjing Iron and Steel was included in the alternative address, as well as Jinhai, Luancheng, and Rizhao in Lu Province.

These local governments are also very aware of how much a steel plant with a production capacity of about three or four million tons will contribute to the development of local industries, the scale of local employment, and the growth of fiscal and tax revenues.

As long as there is hope, these places are actively contacting Yanjing Iron and Steel, and they are doing everything possible to strive for Yanjing Iron and Steel's relocation and new plant to settle in the past.

Compared with other places, the Jihe River has no advantages in terms of port construction, geology, transportation, and industrial resources.

However, as far as the development of the enterprise is concerned, all the factors together may not be as important as the market factor.

It is not that Yanjing Iron and Steel has not seen the possibility of large-scale penetration of the North China steel market through the low-cost transportation system formed by the Jihe Port and Jinnan Railway Network after the completion of the Jihe Port and Jinnan Line Railway.

It's just that before encountering a real threat, most companies are inevitably slow to react and lack enough decisive judgment. As a state-owned central enterprise, Yanjing Iron and Steel has an inflated internal bureaucracy, and the disadvantages in this regard are more serious.

However, no matter how serious the bureaucracy is, no matter how sluggish it is, after Meigang took over the continuation of the construction of the Jihe Port Coal Conveying Terminal and the construction of a large-scale steel logistics and processing park project in Jihe, Yangang also deeply felt the real threat from Meigang.

Not only Yangang, but also Luangang, the largest industrial enterprise in Hebei Province, also deeply felt the "malice" of Meigang's unkindness; many local officials in Hebei Province also worried that the arrival of the new governor Cheng Wenguang would help the Song faction erode local interests.

The North China steel market, with an annual demand of more than 2,000 tons, is the traditional territory of Yangang and Luangang, and the two steel companies account for more than 60% of the North China steel market, and most of the others are divided by local small and medium-sized steel enterprises.

This year, the external economic situation is extremely poor, and the country is also in a state of contraction, resulting in a sharp reduction in the supply and demand gap of the domestic steel market.

As a result, among the alternative addresses for Yangang's relocation to the new plant, Jihe immediately rose from the bottom of the ranking to the first.

After confirming that Penghai Group had signed a project agreement with Jihe County and paid for the land, Yangang immediately dispatched a high-level working group to conduct contact negotiations with the governments of Hebei Province, Shimen and Qinghe to discuss the relocation of the new plant and the Shimen Iron and Steel Logistics and Processing Park project.

Cheng Wenguang originally hoped that Luangang, Yangang, Meigang and Shimen Local Iron and Steel Group and other enterprises would jointly inject capital into the construction of the steel logistics and processing park project in Shimen City, but Luangang and Shimen Iron and Steel Group were worried that Cheng Wenguang would have a tendency to benefit Meigang.

Shimen Iron and Steel Logistics and Processing Park Project, with a preliminary planned investment of 1 billion.

This project is a big project for Shimen City, which is relatively lagging behind in development, but it is not much difficult for Luangang, which is the first industrial group in Hebei Province, and Jinxin Rongxin, who is behind Shimen Iron and Steel Group.

Cheng Wenguang could only "reluctantly" agree to the requirements of the local forces, and no longer insisted on Meigang's participation in the Shimen Iron and Steel Logistics and Processing Park project.