Chapter 059 The Prime Minister is coming

The two bosses negotiated, and the meeting went very smoothly. At this meeting, of course, Yang Weizhi's position will not be immediately adjusted, and although the secretary of the municipal party committee of a prefecture-level city -- and an important prefecture-level city -- although it is a matter of deliberation and decision by the provincial party committee, it must also be reported to the Central Organization Department and approved by it. If the "Ministry of Officials" does not nod, how can a huge "prefect" position be easily changed?

Although the conversation between Secretary Xiang Yang and Governor Wang Kun was actually very short, the Standing Committee members naturally had their own means, and they all knew the results of the discussion between the two bosses just now before the meeting ended: Yang Weizhi was decided, and the Xiao Department would definitely choose someone to make up for it. So what to do next, these old officialdoms who are about to become human spirits naturally have their own plans.

Regarding the lack of Governor Wang Kun to get the secretary of the Liangxi Municipal Party Committee, although Xiao Chen was happy, he was also faintly worried. The strength of the Xiao family in Jiangdong is quite strong, but Liang Xi has never been in the hands of the Xiao family, the three main support points of the Xiao family in Jiangdong are the provincial capital Jinning, Wucheng in southern Jiangsu and Pengcheng in northern Jiangsu, and Liang Xi has always been mainly operated by other factions, far from it, in the past seven or eight years, it has always been in the hands of the Oriental faction, and Secretary Xiangyang is a member of the Oriental faction. Strictly speaking, Xiao Lao has the grace to support the Oriental faction, but the Xiao faction itself is a special faction, in terms of personnel composition, although the elders of the Xiao faction are everywhere, but many second-generation cadres are born in the Laojing faction, so the Xiao faction and the Laojing faction are a little disconnected - or this sentence cannot be described, because Xiao Zheng, the second-generation leader of the Xiao faction, and Xiao Chen, who is one of the third generations, are both from the Laojing faction.

And because Xiao Lao himself is a native of Dongfang City, he has huge energy in Dongfang City and Jiangdong and other provinces, in these provinces, cities and regions, there are a large number of Xiao cadres and generals, and these high-level leaders have their own people, so the power of the Xiao Department can only be described as huge in these areas, as for how big it is, I am afraid that Xiao Department himself can't judge. At the same time, Xiao Lao worked in the Northeast during the Liberation War, and later the Party Central Committee commented on Xiao Lao's three major historical achievements in the Northeast when it said: "After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huaxia lost no time in marching into the Northeast, passing through the Northeast, and fighting a decisive battle in the Northeast, making the Northeast the first region in the country to be fully liberated, which greatly accelerated the process of victory in the War of Liberation. This brilliant victory is undoubtedly the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Chinese people. As a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and one of the members of the Standing Committee of the Northeast Bureau, Comrade Xiao Fei participated in leading and commanding the Northeast Liberation War from beginning to end. His contributions are manifold, but his outstanding contributions that had a significant impact on the overall situation of the Northeast Liberation War are mainly manifested in the following three aspects: systematically putting forward the idea of establishing a consolidated Northeast Base Area, and establishing the North Manchurian Revolutionary Base Area; persist in the struggle in South Manchuria, and reverse the tide of the war in which the enemy in the northeast attacked and defended us; Solve the economic difficulties of the Northeast Base Areas and unify the Northeast Financial and Economic ...... To sum up, from September 1945 to July 1949, Comrade Xiao Fei spent nearly four years in Northeast China, holding many hats, strategizing in many ways, and making outstanding contributions. In particular, on major issues such as the construction of base areas that have a bearing on the survival of the party, government, and army in Northeast China, and the persistence of South Manchuria, and the economic and economic affairs of Northeast China, he was farsighted, courageous, and insightful, and closely integrated theory and practice, and promoted the process of victory in the Northeast Liberation War and had a major impact on the national liberation war under the complex situation of rapid changes. Comrade Xiao Fei's great achievements in the Northeast Liberation War will surely shine with the sun and the moon and shine for thousands of years. ”

Because of this reason, Xiao Lao has always had a greater influence on the three northeastern provinces, after the move, Xiao Lao gradually returned to the post of the party and state leaders, because the move Luàn lost a large number of experienced and capable cadres, the Party Central Committee enabled a large number of young cadres, and many of these young cadres were promoted and reused by Xiao Lao in the Northeast in the past, because Xiao Lao served as the first secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the second director of the Central Advisory Committee, this group of cadres grew very fast, Now they have long since become one of the main political forces in the Northeast. Having said that, if this is not the case, Hou Gutao and Hou Lao may not be able to rest assured that Hou Dong will go to Beizhu to work hard. Hou Lao's energy is not in the Northeast, but he hopes to train his son, but he is afraid that his son will lose confidence because of his defeat, so he chose the Northeast, because in case Hou Dongxiang can't kill a bloody way, there are also Xiao Lao's old subordinates in the Northeast who secretly help, and it is not a problem to retreat, but he didn't tell Hou Dongxiang about this at the beginning, but Hou Dongxiang at this moment has long been able to understand his father's hard work.

The strength of the Xiao system naturally exists in other provinces, regions, and cities, but it is not as strong as East China and Northeast China, which is also one of the reasons why Xiao Chen was thrown to Xiaonan for exercise at the beginning, but after his results, he was transferred to Wucheng to recuperate. In Xiaonan, it is to exercise Xiao Chen's means and ability, and to lay a good foundation for qualifications. After being transferred to Wucheng, it means that the upper echelons of the Xiao family have officially recognized him, in order to protect the seeds, so let him go to Wucheng, one of the key places in Jiangdong to cultivate, the benefits of Wu Cheng are obvious, in the main hall level, which is easy to cause accidents (not only referring to **), let Xiao Chen be in a situation that his own faction can control to protect him, this is the mind of the upper echelons of the Xiao family, not to mention that the prospects of Wucheng are promising, Xiao Chen's ability is optimistic, the two are optimistic about the combination, and they can also borrow each other's east wind, isn't it wonderful?

It's just that although the strength of the Jiangdong Xiao faction is strong, after all, it is the best world, and no faction can cover the sky somewhere. The Oriental faction now holds the authority of the central government, and Xiao Lao not only began to gradually delegate power a long time ago, but now it seems that he does not want to restrict the actions of the Oriental faction, which is the reason why Secretary Xiang Yang can come to Jiangdong, otherwise how can the secretary of Jiangdong let other factions get involved? And Liangxi, an important economic city that has never been included in the Xiao family, is the first important local weight in the hands of Secretary Xiangyang, but it didn't take long for Governor Wang Kun to take advantage of this blue-green algae incident to cut off his right-hand man.

But Secretary Xiang knows very well that the Oriental faction, no matter up or down, is actually a little scared of Xiao Lao in his heart, don't look at the old man who doesn't care about anything now, and he also replies "agree with the opinions of the central government" when he has something to report to him, but even if the central government really doesn't dare not ask Xiao Lao what he means when dealing with some major matters, even if Xiao Lao almost always just says lightly "The central government just looks at it", and he doesn't dare to save this "process"! Back then, Zheng Lao "casually walked around and had a look" and made several speeches, but the direction of the national wind changed all of a sudden! Although Xiao Lao is not as much as Zheng Lao in front of the stage, he is really not a little weaker than Zheng Lao in terms of qualifications and connections in the party, and if his old man is really unhappy, he doesn't need to tour the south, he will come to Dongfang City to speak a few times, but I am afraid that the capital will have to quickly hold high the great banner of Comrade Xiao Fei's theory. Now it is fortunate that Xiao Lao is low-key, and now he is dedicated to delegating power to take care of the heavens, although there are some tentative actions in the capital, but where does the amplitude dare to be big? This is also one of the reasons why Secretary Xiang was able to deal with Wang Kun's fierce counterattack calmly.

However, now that the secretary of the Liangxi Municipal Party Committee wants to replace him with someone from the Xiao family, Xiao Chen feels that it is a little difficult. Wu Cheng and Liang Xi are not so harmonious!

In fact, if you want to say that Wucheng and Liangxi, on the vast territory of China, there may never be a second pair of cities, like "them", they are out of the same door, and the blood is deep; It may be impossible to find a second pair of cities, fighting openly and secretly like "them", you chase me. These two cities, both located in the southern part of Jiangdong Province and popularly known as the birthplace of the "Southern Jiangsu Model", were too close to each other for resources when the nationwide competition for cities kicked off. With the improvement of people's cognitive level, this kind of competition has gradually penetrated into various aspects that can be contested, such as politics, economy, and culture.

Jiangdong Province naturally does not want the internal friction of the two "pearls", they want the light emitted by these two pearls to cover the cities of other provinces, instead of covering their own eyes. On January 18, 2001, the "Wuliangyan Metropolitan Area Plan" was verified by experts, and then submitted to Jiangdong Province and the Government Council for approval, and officially began to be implemented. "Ten years of sharpening a sword", people hope that the Wuliangyan area can put an end to disorderly competition and structural similarity, and truly complement each other's advantages and develop together. But in fact, whether it is Xiao Chen or Yang Weishi, they all know that the real competition has just begun.

Liangxi in history has been brilliant several times. The two major transportation developments have established Liangxi's status as the economic center of the Yangtze River Delta. After the establishment of New China, the development of Liangxi has been rapid and has become one of the leaders of Chinese cities.

But Liangxi's aura gradually began to fade in the late 20th century. "Rich and dirty" – the criticism of the leaders of the Government Council seems to predict the city's decline. First, the exposure of the extraordinarily large illegal fund-raising case involving the central government's nerves, followed by the gradual development of Liangxi's "southern Jiangsu model", and then the stagnation of the economy. Although Liangxi's GDP exceeded 100 billion yuan in 1998, it can be described as brilliant, but when it woke up, the status of "frontrunner" has been replaced by emerging cities such as Wucheng and Ning Bō (probably not written, the real name appears). The grim situation is laid out in front of people through a set of data: in 1995, the difference between the GDP of Liangxi and Wucheng was only 14.2 billion yuan, but by 2000, the difference had widened to 40 billion yuan; What's worse is that since 1995, Liangxi's export-oriented economy has been sluggish, and the use of foreign capital and import and export have been sluggish, which has greatly affected the stamina of economic development, making Wucheng's comparative advantage in the export-oriented economy transform into an absolute advantage over Liangxi. It is an indisputable fact that Liangxi's urban strength has declined.

In the face of competition between cities, the positioning and function of Liangxi City were not clear until the end of the 20th century. Liangxi's function as an economic center is being encroached upon by other surrounding cities. Liangxi's backwardness is not only in the economy, but also in all aspects of the city.

Why did an advanced city become a backward region overnight? How fragile is the status of a city, even the slightest mistake and delay can make the city fail to turn over for years, ten years, or even forever. In 1992, when Lee Kuan Yew, then Singapore's prime minister, was conquered by the mayor of Wu City, Teo Xinsheng's fluent English and far-reaching vision, it was destined that the city would catch up with a reborn development opportunity - the era of "suit and tie" would completely replace the era of "straw sandals and cigarette pouches".

In fact, compared with Liangxi, Wucheng has a unique advantage.

The location advantage is the first "trump card" of Wucheng. Wucheng is close to Dongfang, China's largest modern city, just as the special districts of Lingnan, Pengcheng and Làng, are both close to Hong Kong. Wucheng falls within the 100-kilometer metropolitan area of the East, and when the development of Pudong and the large-scale investment of foreign capital in China were launched, Wucheng became a stepping stone and a big rear for foreign investment in the East. In 1992, when Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew went to Wucheng to negotiate the address of the industrial park, he took a car from the east and actually bumped for more than three hours. The long journey can be said to be the biggest taboo for the modern electronic information industry of "one inch of light, one inch of gold". Singapore can no longer move the location of the park west, let alone Liangxi, which is 40 kilometres away. As a result, a modern industrial park took root in the east of Wucheng and completely changed Wucheng's position in the Yangtze River Delta.

Policy advantage is Wucheng's second advantage. It cannot be denied that Wucheng's advanced park experience embodies the wisdom of local residents and officials. But without the full support of the state, it would have been impossible for the industrial park in Wucheng to develop so well. When Lee Kuan Yew established the Singapore Industrial Park in Kure, Kure was in a different position than other regions. Although it is only a prefecture-level city, it has the economic authority equivalent to that of a city with separate planning, and the Singapore Industrial Park at the beginning of its establishment enjoyed the treatment of a special zone. Wucheng has also become one of the few cities that can affect the central government. When the well-known industrial park was contradictory, the top management of Huaxia did not hesitate to assure Singapore that it would fully support the development of Wucheng Industrial Park. It is precisely because of such a policy that Wucheng was able to "smile proudly" because of such a policy that Wucheng was finally able to "smile proudly".

Compared with Liangxi, in addition to cultural history, Wucheng has the most obvious advantages in the park's economy. Many people said in a joking tone that Wu Cheng was "a trick first, eat all over the world". The advantages of the park economy benefit from the advantages of location and policy, which can be said to be interlocking.

In the second year, more and more places from all over the country came to Wucheng to inspect and study, and it was ridiculed that 2001 was the year of "national study of Wucheng", whether it was economic construction, urban planning, or clean government construction...... It seems that all of a sudden, Wu Cheng can be used as a national model. Wu Cheng's strength in just six years is indeed like a phoenix bathing in fire, soaring straight into the sky. Her gorgeous "feather máo" made even Dongfang, who has always regarded himself as the boss, a little jealous. In 2000, according to the statistics of the state audit department, Wucheng's GDP reached the sixth place. The attraction of foreign investment reached 7.2 billion US dollars, which is only 100 million less than that of the East. But Xiao Chen knew in his heart that a strong economy does not mean that Wucheng is already a city strongman. The strength of a city also depends on its function as a radial and agglomeration of the city. In this regard, the current Wucheng is still in its infancy.

Others may forget this fact, but Xiao Chen always reminds himself that the enviable economic indicators included in Wucheng are actually the "Great Wucheng" that includes five county-level cities. Lucheng, Songling, Haiyu, Zhanggang, and Hucang, the five county-level cities that are thriving, as long as there is one less, Wucheng's ranking will be greatly regressed. In 2000, 67%, 60% and 50% of Wucheng's GDP, foreign investment attraction and self-operated export volume were created by county-level cities under management, while the corresponding proportions in Liangxi were 42%, 34% and 25% respectively. Therefore, Xiao Chen even, in fact, Wu Cheng did not get rid of the situation of "small horses and big carts" as the outside world thinks. Lucheng, Haiyu, and Zhanggang do not seem to be satisfied with economic affluence, and they either want to be upgraded to prefecture-level cities, or they want to get rid of the influence of Wucheng. In Xiao Chen's mind, in the future, southern Jiangsu is likely to become a pilot for the reform of China's administrative divisions, which way will be adopted? It's still unknown. But what is certain is that with the increase in the strength of the subordinate county-level cities, neither Wucheng nor Liangxi can stop their centrifugal pace. This is another metamorphosis of the urban system, and in the future, southern Jiangsu will inevitably produce new central cities like Wucheng, Liangxi, and Yanling, and the competition of the city will not be a "group" competition, but boil down to the competition of the central city. Will Wu Cheng be able to stand out from the crowd at that time? Still an undecided answer.

As for the statement about the "Wuliangyan metropolitan area" put forward by Jiangdong Province at the beginning of this year, Xiao Chen and Yang Weizhi immediately thought of the same question in their hearts after they knew about it: Who is the center?

Of the three major metropolitan areas proposed by Jiangdong Province, the other two are named after the central city, but the Ngo Liangyan metropolitan area is a problem for experts and officials. The promulgation of the "Wuliangyan Metropolitan Area Plan" is to solve many problems in southern Jiangsu.

Speaking of which, the citizens of Yanling don't care much about the question of who is the center, because Yanling has the weakest position in the metropolitan area, and they are already satisfied with just hoping that Yanling can stabilize in the first echelon; Wu Cheng is silent about the question of who is the center, not indisputable, but in his heart he feels that Wucheng is naturally the center of the metropolitan area. On the contrary, the people of Liangxi, who are in the geographical center of the metropolitan area, think more about this problem and plan more. Liang Xi has lost a lot of opportunities, and if he doesn't seize this opportunity, he will be completely outdated.

Liangxi has been the industrial center and commercial center of southern Jiangsu since modern times, and is also in the central hub of the "well" shaped transportation network in southern Jiangsu, and its function as a central city is stronger than that of Wucheng. How Liangxi can maintain its absolute superiority, make its relative advantages stronger, and make its weak links not weaker has become the key to whether Liangxi can reverse its disadvantage in the competition of the central cities of the "Wuliangyan Metropolitan Area".

The absolute advantage of Liangxi is that it has been an important transportation hub since ancient times. Especially in modern times, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the "one vertical and one horizontal" skeleton, have established Liangxi's status as a distribution center for domestic and foreign commodities in the southeast region. The role of the "setter" is becoming more and more obvious: goods from the East continue to flow from Liangxi to all parts of the country, and the raw materials urgently needed by the East are also transported to the East through Liangxi. In the 90s of the 20th century, the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Liangcheng Expressway, Xinchang Railway and the Yangtze River Bridge were built one after another, making Liangxi an important node of China's transportation network. It can be said that railways, highways, and waterways all meet in Liangxi. But as a transportation hub, Liangxi still has a heart problem: that is, Liangxi's air transportation is still a weakness. With the resumption of Shuofang Airport to the Jinning Military Region, Liangxi, the only airport, is about to lose its function. In the urban system plan submitted by Jiangdong Province to the Administrative Council for approval, experts chose the location of the long-term trunk airport in the north of Liangxi. The new airport is located in Liangxi, which is definitely a new opportunity for Liangxi to accelerate its development.

However, as soon as the news of the new airport was exposed, the two cities around Liangxi became nervous. Yanling announced that it would step up the modernization of Benniu Airport, while Wu Cheng politely announced in an inconspicuous corner of the official report that he wanted to build an airport that would participate in domestic flights and take into account Singapore's routes. With three international airports within a radius of 200 kilometres, wouldn't one more be a repeat of the mistakes of the Pearl River Delta?

When both Yanling and Wucheng showed their intention to compete for the airport, it was impossible for Liangxi to build the airport obediently on the timetable of Jiangdong Province. Wujing Yangtze River Bridge is about to be built, the function of Liangxi transportation hub is bound to weaken, but Liangxi and Wucheng in the traffic competition is like the "second generation" and "first generation" competition, with strength, how Liangxi to maintain this "absolute advantage", seize the opportunity, from the "second generation" to the "third generation", the advantages of large transportation into the cornerstone of the development of the logistics industry, but also depends on their own vision and courage.

In the "Wuliangyan Metropolitan Area Plan", Liangxi is positioned as a "lakeside ecological city", which is a great hope for the future of Liangxi and a major variable in the development of Liangxi. Of the four cities around Taihu Lake, none of them is as close to Taihu Lake as Liangxi, and none of them are as concentrated as Liangxi Lake's rich ecological and tourism resources. Taihu Lake is about to become another battlefield, and this battle is between Liangxi and Wucheng, and Yanling is about to bid farewell to Taihu Lake, because the "Wuliangyan Metropolitan Area Plan" has clearly stated that the administrative divisions of Yanling and Liangxi will be adjusted to ensure the development of Liangxi along Taihu Lake. After Liang Xi was ignorant, he finally re-understood the essence of the city; However, Liangxi has a wide area along Taihu Lake, but Wucheng owns 70% of the surface of Taihu Lake, so Wucheng is ambitious to turn Taihu Lake into the same "sī property" as Wucheng Garden.

In addition, when talking about the development of the Yangtze River Delta, we have to mention Dongfang City, which is the leader of the development of the Yangtze River Delta, and properly handling the relationship with the East is bound to be the prerequisite for Wucheng and Liangxi to accelerate their development. Xiao Chen knows very well that it is basically impossible for Wucheng to replace the East, so this year Wucheng clearly pointed out that it will become the sub-center of the East, not only to "complement" the East economically and develop in a dislocated way, but also to put forward a new idea of "working in the East and living in Wucheng". Wucheng will become the Houhuā Garden of the Great Eastern, a treasure place for successful people in the East to continue to start businesses and ordinary residents to live in peace. Liang Xi also proposed to integrate with the East in terms of economy, culture and tourism, form an alliance to support the East as an international economic, financial and shipping center, and make up for the lack of functions of the East city. This year, after the news that Dongfang proposed to bid for the "World Expo" came out, it actually caused a lot of sensation in Liangxi, which is 128 kilometers away, because Liangxi hopes to take this opportunity to become a branch venue of the "Oriental World Expo".

Although the development of central and northern Jiangsu started later than that of southern Jiangsu, with the completion and opening of a series of bridges on the Yangtze River, the barrier of the moat will no longer be a nightmare for the development of central and northern Jiangsu. At present, Liangxi and Hailing, which are across the river, have established a joint development committee to seek common development plans along the river; After the completion of the construction of the Wujing Yangtze River Bridge, Wucheng and Jinghai will also jointly develop along the river.

However, how to deal with the relationship between the two cities of Wucheng and Liangxi is indeed a headache. This point was easy to say when Yang Weizhi, an Oriental cadre, was in charge of Liangxi, competition is competition, everyone rides a donkey to read the record book, and each relies on his ability. But now if Liang Xi is replaced by Xiao's own person, it will be a little troublesome.

In the past, the competition between Wucheng and Liangxi was not very obvious, because the two cities had different positioning and economic development levels. Since the development of Pudong, with the rapid economic development of the Yangtze River Delta region, the two cities have generated considerable competition because of the similarity of urban functions and industrial structure. When a foreign-funded project is often discussed in one city, another city will be moved, on the one hand, it will mobilize overseas compatriots to actively lobby; On the other hand, it is necessary to put forward more preferential policies and more thoughtful services, and to snatch the project from others at the expense of local fiscal revenue. As a result, the investment promotion teams of the two cities often meet unexpectedly at the door of large foreign companies.

In the new century, people are talking about the division of labor. This year, Jiangdong Province's "Wuliangyan Metropolitan Area Plan" also proposed that Wucheng, Liangxi, and Yanling should be divided into labor and cooperate and complement each other's advantages as major cities in China's manufacturing industry. It all sounds very reasonable, you are a full-time producer of hard disks and floppy drives, I produce monitors, mice, and keyboards, and he is responsible for assembling, which is well organized and complementary, but in fact, it can't be implemented at all. The industries of Wucheng and Liangxi have not yet developed to the stage of complementing each other's advantages, so how can they be expected to cooperate? If we plan the industrial layout of each city "ahead" now, it will be the behavior of overstepping the bounds, and everyone knows the end of pulling out the seedlings and helping them.

At the last symposium on regional development in southern Jiangsu held in Jiangdong Province, Xiang Yang, secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, made an "authoritative" definition and interpretation of the urban positioning of Wucheng and Liangxi. "Wu Cheng...... Strive to become an important global information equipment manufacturing base,...... Build a tourism and vacation base with a beautiful ecological environment. "Liangxi...... It is necessary to build a regional first-class communication hub,...... To build an important modern manufacturing base in the Yangtze River Delta...... Build a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad. The modernization research report of Jiangdong Province has clarified the "responsibilities" of the two cities: economic center, tourist city, and transportation hub. As a result, people are surprised to find that in the 21st century, the urban positioning of the two cities is exactly the same. In this way, Liangxi and Wucheng will have more fierce competition in the future - for funds, projects, technology, talents, and influence, which is an inevitable trend.

Let's start with the fight for funds. In the future, the second overall development of the Singapore Industrial Park alone will cost 180 billion yuan; And Liangxi, in order to catch up with the pace of Wucheng's development, must have sufficient funds to back it up. Foreign capital, as a highly dynamic resource, will undoubtedly become the object of contention between the two cities. This year, Liangxi City's unprecedented investment promotion activities have achieved unprecedented results, and Wucheng feels that it has never been threatened, although it cannot match Wucheng in terms of amount, but if this momentum continues, it is very likely to promote a series of complete sets of large-scale projects to settle in Liangxi. However, the recent cyanobacteria incident in Taihu Lake has had a certain impact on the image of Liangxi, and Wu Cheng can rest assured a little.

Let's talk about contention projects. Wu Cheng himself said that if he wanted to build a "transportation hub", he would inevitably build expressways, ports and even trunk airports. Liangxi is an "officially planned" transportation hub, and roads, ports, and airports will also be built. Local planning is completely subordinated to the maximization of local interests, while national planning is fixed and limited, and how to make national planning more beneficial to oneself depends entirely on the ability of local officials. Xiao Chen naturally has a lot of political resources in his hands, but the Oriental faction now has more advantages in the central government, and it could have been able to compete well, but now that Yang Wei is replaced, Xiao Chen and the other Xiao cadre who accepted Liang Xi will fight or not?

Then there is the competition for technology. Liangxi has more products and technologies with independent intellectual property rights than Wucheng. Some of the products of Liangxi Industry can already compete face-to-face with large foreign enterprises on the international stage. Although the new districts and parks in Wucheng are home to a large number of high-tech enterprises, most of them are simple assembly and processing. Xiao Chen also saw this after coming to Wucheng, and vigorously urged foreign-funded enterprises to set up R&D centers in Wucheng, such as Xinlan, and began to support local private enterprises to actively create new technologies.

The last key is to compete for talent. Wu Cheng proposed to establish a graduate student city and build Wucheng into the preferred entrepreneurial base for "returnees", which was also one of the reasons why Xiao Chen went to Wucheng University alone last time to "hang out"; Liangxi plans to integrate higher education resources, set up a university town, cultivate a base for the transformation of university science and technology into productivity, and provide preferential settlement policies and material support for experts and scholars at home and abroad...... This competition, what a jī fierce!

The economy of Wucheng can be summarized into two points under Xiao Chensī: one is the take-off of the export-oriented economy; The second is the development of the county economy. In the future, Wucheng will no longer be able to rely on its subordinate county-level cities for food, and the Singapore Industrial Park and New District have become the biggest driving force for the development of Wucheng. At the end of the 20th century, the two golden wings of Wucheng New District and Singapore Industrial Park drove the take-off of the ancient city. 81 of the world's top 500 large enterprises have settled in Wucheng, which is known as Asia's new "world factory". In Wucheng's GDP in 2000, foreign trade exports accounted for 58%. In the 21st century, Wucheng has put forward the new goal of taking the lead in integrating with international standards and integrating into the international economy. In the face of the influx of foreign capital, some people are intoxicated, and some people see hidden worries from it, Xiao Chen knows the characteristics of foreign capital: foreign capital is flocking today, and it will flock out tomorrow. So some people from Wucheng who were as discerning as Xiao Chen began to make their own calculations.

Tracing the history of the development of Wucheng's export-oriented economy, we can see a clear line, that is, policymakers have always upheld the principle that it must not become an "enclave" where foreign capital flies back and forth. However, the experience of the "Asian Tigers" proves that once a place is saturated with foreign capital and the level of labor prices rises, it will inevitably lead to foreign capital looking for a new platform for low drops. Wu Cheng naturally couldn't escape from this strange circle. Wucheng's political officials have always been interested in their own Wucheng New District, and their attitude towards the Singapore Industrial Park has always been hot and cold, seemingly intimate but deliberately keeping a distance, which is why.

Not only Xiao Chen himself, but the whole Wucheng is definitely not willing to be just a foreign-funded "big workshop", and Wucheng wants to become a veritable "industrial emerging city". So the spark of "independent development" began to ignite. This year, under the impetus of Xiao Chen, political officials went to Jiangnan and entered Lingnan, with the purpose of examining how to develop thriving private enterprises; The government officials also went to the capital and went to Beizhu to investigate how to get rid of the predicament of state-owned enterprises; Wucheng also began to ask foreign businessmen who came to invest to use Wucheng as a laboratory for technology development and establish a combination of "production, learning, and research". After thinking about it, Wu Cheng clearly pointed out: Attracting foreign capital is not the goal, but the purpose is to realize the adjustment and upgrading of the domestic economic structure. The idea of "foreign for Chinese use" has reappeared.

In the competition of export-oriented economy, Liangxi is temporarily at a disadvantage, partly because it is taking a different path. In 2000, Liangxi's foreign trade exports accounted for only 22% of GDP, reflecting the huge gap between the city's economic internationalization and Wucheng's. In the new century, Liang Xi put forward the slogan of vigorously developing an export-oriented economy. Four cities in China have become models and catch-up goals for Liangxi to learn in the new century:

Liangxi wants to build its own urban environment as beautiful as Beizhu. In 2001, the party and government delegation of Liangxi City visited Beizhu, and the officials were all amazed by the urban construction of Beizhu. The people of Beizhu told Yang Weizhi, secretary of the Liangxi Municipal Party Committee: "The beautiful Beizhu was demolished. So Liangxi opened up three huge green squares in the center of the city, which were the beginning of learning from Beizhu.

Liangxi wants to build its own brand-name enterprises as much as the Yellow Sea. Liangxi has not yet had a company with a turnover of more than 10 billion yuan, and although Huanghai's GDP is less than that of Liangxi, it has well-known companies such as Haier and Shuangxing. At the beginning of 2001, Liangxi Municipal Government formulated a strategic plan to cultivate large enterprises, which will cultivate large enterprises that can participate in international competition and lead the domestic market in Liangxi.

Liangxi wants to build its own development zone into a first-class park that rivals the Wucheng Singapore Industrial Park. Although the comprehensive strength of Liangxi's new district is among the best in the country, it is not commensurate with Liangxi's urban status in terms of scale and efficiency. Liangxi's self-operated exports are only 1/3 of Wucheng's, and the contracted foreign capital is only 1/6 of Wucheng's, which greatly restricts Liangxi's competitiveness in the export-oriented economy. At the beginning of 2001, Liangxi New Area announced that it would start a second business, expanding the scale of the existing new area to 50 square kilometers, and the annual investment amount would increase by 40% over the previous year.

Liangxi wants to cultivate its own private enterprises to be as strong as Wenzhou's. Liangxi is one of the birthplaces of China's private enterprises, and the vigorous township enterprises and collective economy used to be a beautiful scenery in Liangxi, supporting the "economic half of the sky" in Liangxi. However, under the economic situation of the new century, Liangxi's private economy has gradually stagnated, and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises has also been difficult. To this end, Liangxi twice convened the "Thousand People Conference" to deploy the development of private enterprises, completely emancipate the mind, and encourage privatization. Although in Xiao Chen's view, the Wenzhou model may be more dangerous than the southern Jiangsu model, Yang Weizhi's actions in Liangxi show that in fact, the secretary of the municipal party committee is by no means a mediocre talent, and Xiao Chen even feels that he is not focusing on these things, so he does not feel that "a little blue-green algae" is a big deal, so in the end there is such a big mistake.

But in any case, the key now is who is the center of this Wu Liangyan economic circle, and who can become the core of this world-renowned economic circle, this is what Xiao Chen must care about! The contest between Wu Cheng and Liang Xi is starting on a new one. At this moment, Governor Wang Kun took Liang Xi into his arms, whether this move was good or bad, even a person like Xiao Chen, who was quite decisive, was a little hesitant and suspicious.

At this time, the meeting had come to an end, and all he said was something that was insignificant to Xiao Chen, and he was weighing the gains and losses of this accident in an all-round way in his mind, but he suddenly saw Xiang Shushen move, took out his mobile phone and looked at it in the audience, and then his face tightened, and he suddenly stood up and walked outside the venue.

Xiao Chen's heart moved, what phone call is so important?

Secretary Xiangyang's call is not long or short, about four or five minutes, after he hung up the phone, he walked back with a serious face, his face was a little heavy, Governor Wang Kun glanced at him, hesitated, and finally did not ask for an exit, but Secretary Xiangyang sat down and opened his own mouth, and whispered to Governor Wang Kun: "The prime minister is coming to inspect Taihu Lake and Liangxi." ”

Wang Kun's heart sank, Premier Hong is coming, this time ...... But some don't know whether it's a blessing or a curse.