Zhang Liben finally arrived, and he inevitably greeted him warmly.

The former secretary of the Political and Legal Committee has always been quite optimistic about Lu Weimin, but Lu Weimin's rapid rise still surprised him.

After more than five years of working time, he took the post of secretary of the county party committee, even if he joined the party in college, even if he was amazing in ability, even if he stepped on the leading secretary, which is beyond the reach of others, but it still makes people feel incredible.

Lu Weimin's impression of Zhang Liben is also quite good, he also knows that when he was in Nantan, Zhang Liben once wanted to go to the Political and Legal Committee, although he was not willing to work in the Political and Legal Committee, although this idea did not become a reality, but he was still very grateful to Zhang Liben for his attention.

Take Songzhou can take two roads, one is to take Changzhou to Songzhou, the distance is about 340 kilometers, Changsong Highway is the earliest secondary road, 120 kilometers, the road condition is very good, one and a half hours can be reached, now it is said to be renovated and expanded into a first-class pavement.

There is also a road to Songzhou, that is, to take the Fulin Highway, through Yishan to Songzhou, 280 kilometers, but now the Fulin Highway has just begun to build, this road is just an idea, if you take Luomen to Songzhou, the distance will increase a lot, not to mention, the road condition is not very good, it is not cost-effective, so you can only choose to take Changzhou.

Lu Weimin drove Jishu fast and steady, although he didn't have much time to drive now, but the feeling was still very good, and the three of them had a lot of topics along the way, and they were in a happy mood, and the original boring itinerary passed by in a flash.

At 4:50 punctual through Changzhou on time on the Changsong Highway, the Changsong Highway traffic flow is very large, but the road condition is excellent, although many places are nominally secondary pavement, in fact, it has been extended to four lanes, the traffic facilities are complete, and the county town along the road has bypassed the urban area, so there is not much obstacle all the way.

Lu Weimin basically kept the speed between 90 and 100 kilometers per hour, slightly faster, but slightly reduced the speed when the traffic was more dense. But fortunately, it was basically smooth.

It was exactly a quarter past six when I entered the city of Songzhou. There were still fifteen minutes before the car slowed down, and the three of them had time to look at the second largest city in Changjiang Province.

It is said that Songzhou is the second largest city in Changjiang not only because Songzhou has the second largest population in the province, second only to Changzhou, but because the urban area and urban population of Songzhou are also much larger than other cities in the province, and it is also one of the nineteen larger cities determined by the State Council, which was approved by the State Council in July 92. Together with Zibo, Handan, and Benxi, it has become a larger city.

Songzhou is also the earliest prefecture-level city established in Changjiang Province since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the development rate of urban population and urban area far exceeded other cities in the province before the mid-eighties, and it was not until the late eighties that it was gradually caught up by Kunhu and Qingxi, which are cities with rapid economic development, but even now Songzhou's urban population and urban area are still more than Kunhu and Qingxi, but in terms of economic aggregate, it has been left behind by Kunhu and Qingxi, these rising stars. It was even surpassed by Guiping and Yishan, who were little brothers who were not worth mentioning before.

However, the innate arrogance of the people of Songzhou still makes them disdain to compare Guiping and Yishan with these hillbillies, and even Kunhu and Qingxi, cities whose economic aggregates have left Songzhou far behind, they also look down on them, and seem to feel that in Changjiang, except for Changzhou and Songzhou, who dare to say that they are big city people, the others are not worth mentioning.

Of course, there is still a lot of envy and jealousy behind the arrogance and self-esteem, after all, the total GDP of Kunhu has exceeded that of Songzhou by two times, and the GDP of Qingxi is also close to twice that of Songzhou. The disposable income of urban residents and the per capita income of rural people have far exceeded that of Songzhou. Whether it is Kunhu or Qingxi, the population is only a little more than two-thirds of that of Songzhou.

Such a huge contrast makes Songzhou people feel inferior deep in their hearts, but at the same time, they also make them look extraordinarily arrogant on the surface. It is also particularly sensitive when it comes to comparisons with Kunhu and Qingxi.

Especially when the new license plate of the car is renewed, it is said that it has also made a lot of waves for who will occupy this Chang B license plate.

Kunhu believes that they are the second most well-deserved in the province, whether it is GDP or fiscal revenue, or the per capita income of residents are far beyond other cities, they deserve to obtain the license of Chang B, and cited examples such as Guangdong B Shenzhen, Sichuan B Chongqing, etc.

The reaction of Songzhou is more intense, they strongly oppose the arrangement of license plate order according to economic strength, and put forward the history of the establishment of prefecture-level cities to sort, that history is eternal, and the level of economic development only represents a moment, you must know that in the seventies and eighties Songzhou economic strength is the second in the province, but in the late eighties it gradually fell, and Songzhou can also revive its strength in the future.

After several twists and turns, Songzhou still got his wish to get the license number of Chang B, but whether it is Kunhu or Qingxi people, they all laugh at Songzhou, the sick man of Changjiang without exception.

Although Songzhou won the license number of Chang B, other cities did not follow the order of the establishment of the city, but basically sorted according to the economic strength, Kunhu deserved to win Chang C, and Qingxi also won Chang D.

The urban area of Songzhou is indeed very large, but the three of them all noticed that the urban area of Songzhou is not very well planned, with a mixture of old houses and new buildings, a large number of urban villages and Soviet-style red brick buildings intermingled together, and the streets are sometimes new and spacious urban main roads, sometimes suddenly narrowed into narrow roads that can only accommodate three cars in parallel, and from time to time you can see broken road sections, sewage overflowing, garbage everywhere.

"Lao Zhang, you haven't been to Songzhou for a few years?" Xu Xiaochun asked casually as he wandered the streets outside the window.

"It's been a few years, 90 years, and I often come here for more than eight years, and at that time I thought that Songzhou was a real big city, and it was not much better than Changzhou, so why does it look a little worse than Fengzhou now?" Zhang Liben frowned, "This urban construction planning is very bad, Songcheng District is an old urban area, but it is not so dilapidated to this extent, right? Municipal construction is like it has never been carried out." ”

"Well, if you want to say that it is prosperous and lively, it is much stronger here than Fengzhou, you look at the flow of people on the street, in the cold weather of Fengzhou, there are few people on the street for a long time, you look at the people in Songzhou, there are people everywhere, it is worthy of the old city. Xu Xiaochun nodded, "The urban population of Songzhou is much larger than that of other cities, and the permanent population of the urban area is six or seven hundred thousand, right?"

"Songzhou No. 1 Spinning and No. 2 Spinning, Songzhou No. 1 Knitting Factory, Songzhou No. 4 Knitting Factory, Songzhou Towel and Bed Sheet Factory, Songzhou Silk Factory, and Songzhou Textile Equipment Factory, with these few big factories that were smash hits in the 80s, laid the foundation of Songzhou's Changjiang Textile Industrial Base. But it seems that these enterprises are not very good now, facing huge business difficulties, my wife's hometown is Songzhou Shanghe County, the mother-in-law and two sisters are in Songzhou, one in the fourth knitting factory, one in the silk factory, now the benefits are not good, take the basic living expenses, several children in the family are not employed, some in the street stalls, some in Changzhou to help people work, life is not good. ”

One sentence outlined the situation in Songzhou, and there was also an indescribable loneliness in Zhang Liben's tone, " Quite at the beginning when my wife found me, I was still in my hometown commune to the director of the Revolutionary Committee as a correspondent, my wife is a supply and marketing cooperative, their family is resolutely opposed, especially her two aunts have to introduce her in Songzhou, married to Songzhou, said to find me unproductive, is a toad wants to eat swan meat, Nantan is a poor countryside, don't want to mix up for the rest of your life, last year her two aunts came to Nantan, talking about the difficulties at home now, my mother-in-law is there chattering, my wife ruthlessly gave the two aunts one of them 600 yuan, the two aunts went back with a smile, it is said that when I meet people, I will say good things about me, but my mother-in-law was so distressed that she blamed her daughter for not having a plan and being a loser. ”

Zhang Liben's words made Lu Weimin and Xu Xiaochun laugh, Nantan's economic development in the past two years has not been bad, with Zhang Liben as the deputy secretary of the county party committee, the annual income must be 10,000 or 20,000, and more than 1,000 yuan can be given out but the "shame" of eating swan meat in the past can be washed away, which is indeed worth it.

But after laughing, several people also realized the bitterness behind this, Songzhou people are known for their good faces, mixed into this part, especially the rural relatives who looked down on Nantan in the past, bowed their heads, and it also shows that the economic development here has indeed encountered a big problem.

"It seems that Secretary Shang and Secretary An are not so good here, Songzhou is such a big city, the urban population is so large, the economic development can not get up, and the pressure is not small, but in a place like this traditional industry in trouble, it is not only facing economic development problems, but also huge pressure on social stability and employment, these problems are intertwined, and whoever wants to solve these problems is not so simple. ”

Lu Weimin's words made Zhang Liben sigh again, "Xiaochun, for the people, do you know that it is said that the most developed industry in Songzhou is? Hmph, they all say that it is the entertainment industry, entertainment cities, nightclubs are everywhere, one is more high-end than the other, there are more escort ladies inside, and a considerable part of them are the children of the workers of these sluggish enterprises. I held a meeting in the province last year when I was the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and the people over there in Kunhu joked quite viciously, saying that Songzhou weishenme has been fighting for this license plate Chang B prefix, because they have nothing to show off there, only a woman's cunt is left, so the B prefix is the signboard of Songzhou, called Chang B - prostitute cunt, I don't know how the people here in Songzhou listen to it. ”

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