Chapter 220 The Beginning and End of Urban Disease Prevention and Control

Back in 1950, the first meeting of the New Year.

"Is the plan we have now wasteful? All cities and settlements with a population of more than 100,000 people should build supporting common ditches, eight-lane arterial roads, and six-lane ordinary streets? Even if our industrial output exceeds the agricultural output value by 5 times, we can't waste it like this! Liu Xin felt sorry for the 20 billion treasury bonds that had just arrived and was going to be spent before it was hot, and showed that he knew that the long-term returns were huge and did not agree, and he was determined to delay until death.

"I don't talk nonsense, I voted directly, as the proposer, vote first, and everyone can press the voting machine." Lee Ki didn't talk nonsense, and went straight through the process to start voting, and as long as three-quarters of the votes in the Senate passed, the bill would be implemented.

"I object, I haven't fully discussed it for 1 hour, why did this 20 billion super budget start voting, do you want to ignore the budget review law?" Bai Jia put on a vindication face.

Qian Jin smiled, "Hypocrisy, who doesn't know that you are afraid that after the bill is passed, it will occupy your diplomatic budget, this year's fiscal growth rate is enough for your expansion, don't worry, I can't starve you." ”

"Well, let's vote! I don't care." Bai Jia immediately withdrew. It was hard to see an ally who could support him to save money, but he saw Bai Jia immediately retract his angry jumping feet after meeting his requirements.

"The industrialized cities we want to build must not make the same mistakes as in the past, and the excessive concentration of resources is the root cause of uneven regional development in the process of industrialization. At the heart of industrialization is urbanization. There can be no industrialization without urbanization. What we want is not speed, nor endless chimneys, we want good and saving. Good is comprehensive, environmentally friendly, durable, and has a far-sighted vision and planning. The province is a profitable project like Gonggonggou, and more projects such as the common ditch should be launched, and similar to the renovation of the old city should be as little as possible. The size of cities should be limited to less than 1 million people, the emergence of megacities should be prevented, and the development of satellite cities and small and medium-sized towns is the royal way to resolve the gap between urban and rural areas.

Why was New China, which was almost no different from an agricultural country, able to quickly enter industrialization after the Soviet Union's aid to China and establish an industrial system that could even build satellites and atomic bombs? The result of the rapid development in the following decades could not provide a market that could accommodate the capacity of this system? It is the result of imbalance, the result of wasting money on endless infrastructure and technology introductions and not consuming it.

Liu is the most shrewd, he is not willing to spend money on these municipal projects, but he just wants to integrate these unprecedented resources and authority under the banner of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau. Rather than giving it to local government officials who don't have the foresight and the big picture. That's right, Lao Liu! Li Ji not only broke Liu Xin's idea, but also found a step for him.

"Yes, it is impossible for us to start these municipal projects scattered in hundreds of cities from scratch to foot, and it is impossible for our construction groups and local companies that contract municipal projects to swallow such a huge cake at the same time. Simply divide a part of it, and the surplus after the construction of the income after the repayment of principal and interest will be transferred to the name of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau, and the handling and management authority of the problem will also be handed over to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau.

You have to give some valuable assets to this department! The good point of the municipal project with stable but low profits is that 'the conscience of the city, the merit of the present and the benefit of the future'. If it doesn't sound good, it's a junk asset with no profit. But junk assets are also assets, and they can still be counted as collateral on the balance sheet, and in order not to affect the credit of the imperial government, we can't make the government's assets too small and too low in valuation! Bai Jia seconded.

The central point of the meeting was to establish a rational urbanization plan, but the traversal always liked to crook the means and ends of throwing money at it.

"We don't have the need to create an economic crisis, although there have been rubber stock bubbles and crises under our control in the past, but this time there is no need to create a real estate bubble again, we only create a crisis to hit the old people of the former dynasty and those careerists and gatekeepers who are lurking in the opposition. The conclusion that there will be a bubble in urbanization this time is not a trap that you want to deliberately lead us into, old money! Sun Chang asked, pointing to the bubble warning page of the urbanization plan report.

"Not really. The root cause of the crisis is not us, but the inherent demand for the liquidity of surplus capital. Unless you implement a planned economy and use all surplus capital for the consumption of means of production to achieve absolute balance, there will always be a part of the surplus capital in the economy controlled by the capitalists who will stop on the account and cannot be consumed, resulting in a gap in the total purchasing power of society and the total production capacity of society. This gap is the root of all crises and cannot be closed by installments and the injection of liquidity into the virtual economy. What's wrong with us directing this surplus purchasing power to buy municipal construction bonds and government bonds? If you guide it well, you will have immeasurable merit, and if you don't guide it well, it will only lead the surplus purchasing power into the field of productive investment but into the bubble and evaporate. Qian Jin pointed out the stakes of the crisis.

"I don't care, making it so big all at once will definitely lead to a liquidity crunch, a lot of deposits and idle funds are sucked up by this plan, how can there be no deflation in the market? We have to sell these bonds slowly in batches, anyway, the municipal project is not started at the same time and all the project money is paid at the same time, there is always a charter to pay according to the schedule. We can't go in and out all at once, and we're going to collapse the economy. ”

"Seconded!" Gao Jing was the first to jump out in favor without any suspense.

"According to what Yang Wenhui said, this batch of 20 billion projects will be raised in 36 months, and the completion will be paid in batches according to the five-year plan, and the time difference between the two years is enough for us to create 2 billion wealth out of thin air." Liu Xin, who got into the money eye, also expressed his support.

"Isn't it too extravagant for us to vigorously develop public transportation and carry out the planning of land for the construction of inter-city light rail before the steam age is popular?"

"You don't always have to jump so hard, okay? Wang Xinyu fell asleep. Let's make a quick decision, anyway, we are discussing the 20 billion that city has more points, and there are fewer points. Leave the details to the land resources and planning experts. Otherwise, why raise these people! ……

A few hours later, the crowd gathered at the steam bath suite at Lee Ki's house and had a buffet. Discuss which of the family and relatives and friends will come forward to handle these lucrative projects and financial operations.

A few days later, an inconspicuous announcement of the issuance of treasury bonds and municipal construction bonds was printed in the corners of various newspapers, and the vast number of new aristocrats with great powers crossed the sea to obtain the winning bids for the corresponding municipal construction projects in various places.

After another three days, the first batch of bonds with a total value of 2 billion yuan was snapped up by many domestic partners who knew the news in advance and held a large number of remaining capital and did not have the courage to go out, and the interest was pressed by a 10 times subscription multiple to a historical ultra-low interest rate of 2% per year.

A new round of construction began in various ancient cities, and most of the ancient city walls were demolished, leaving only a small number of them as observation decks and monuments. A large number of shantytowns and traffic barriers were removed, and the zipper roads in various cities came to an end, and various supporting water and sewerage networks, sewage, gas, and reserved electrification route networks were installed in the world's first common ditches.

Because of the common ditch, all kinds of pipelines are concentrated in one tunnel. It eliminates the cobwebs laid by the communication, power and other systems over the city and the electric poles and high-voltage towers erected on the ground, which avoids the repeated excavation of the road surface, reduces the maintenance cost of the road surface, and ensures the full play of road traffic functions. At the same time, the ancillary facilities of the road are concentrated in the common ditch, so that the underground space of the road is comprehensively utilized, and a large amount of valuable urban ground space is freed up. Enhance the efficient use of road space. And it can beautify the urban environment and create a good living environment for citizens.

The most important thing in the municipal engineering project is the common ditch of these approved designs, technology is not a problem, funding is not a problem, the only problem is the problem of management, although these projects have been set to the highest level of the newly formed Imperial Municipal Engineering Group through the operation and management, but the talent gap has reached an outrageous level, just like other through the original and created a series of unprecedented emerging industries. There are no experienced seniors who can pass on this new thing, and it is all up to graduates of various architectural and public facility management majors who have traveled through the unknown prophets to apply what they have learned. While groping for lessons and theories, I learned.

It was already three years later when the traversal received the new cross-river bridge planning atlas submitted by the Imperial Hydraulic Design Institute. The first cross-river bridge appeared on the bank of the Nanjing River, the clear height of the bridge was controlled at more than 32 meters, and the deep-water channel in the center was enough to pass the 10,000-ton ship during the wet season. The benefits of the master plan are thus apparent, putting an end to the tragedy of the bridge being wasted by the brain-dead design of the golden waterway and the port throughput caused by the low clear height and insufficient clear width of the main span.

Zhao Shouzhong, who was a poet of great poetry, shamelessly plagiarized Taizu's poems at the inauguration ceremony of the bridge, and emphasized that in the next 30 years, 100 bridges will be built on the main stream of the Yangtze River, which is more than 3,000 kilometers navigable. The many officials who attended the ceremony and the bosses involved in the construction who heard the news were once again shocked by the wealth and magnificence of the empire. A cross-river bridge with a cost of more than 10 million is enough to go down in history, 100 that is a huge investment of more than 1 billion yuan, that is, to build a large city with a population of 1 million at the capital level out of thin air is almost enough (projects with considerable profitability can be loaned and paid in installments, and the bridge fee can be received every year The bridge project alone must operate for 10 years The mandatory requirement to return the cost has made countless profit-seeking contractors retreat, and other municipal engineering projects, compared to other manufacturing and commercial projects, The meager profits of municipal projects are really chicken, and they can only be managed under the name of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau. ）

In fact, it is more economical to spend money to do a good job in infrastructure and supporting facilities construction than to spend money when there is a problem, and it is not necessary to wait until the economic scale develops to the time when the ferry can not handle it, and the benefits of building first are great, such as accumulating experience (the earlier the construction, the stronger the technology accumulation), reducing the cost (mainly the cost of land acquisition, materials and labor are small), and extending the life of the facility (to meet the requirements). For example, when the era of overload comes, it will be used for one year earlier than the construction of the subway), improve the value of surrounding real estate (and the surrounding housing prices will rise after the subway is built), accelerate economic development (reduce transportation costs, improve logistics efficiency), and have a significant effect on the overall competitiveness of the whole city.

Although these municipal projects are not profitable, this is only a superficial phenomenon. Just like the education business that doesn't seem to make money, the income is snowballing in the later stage. According to statistics, for every one yuan invested in these public service facilities, the benefit of increasing income and reducing expenditure for each resident within the effective radiation range can reach 0.5 yuan per year. Taking the common ditch as an example, a section of the common ditch with a cost of 20 million yuan can be operated for 100 years with very low operation and maintenance costs after completion, and the repeated construction expenses saved during the period are as high as 10 billion. Even if it costs 30 million to maintain for 100 years, this investment has 4% compound interest. Compound interest for 100 years is a terrible number, and if the income is used to support the maintenance fee, the calculation is even more exaggerated. Compound interest increased by more than 6%.

Of course, the actual situation is not like this, with the development of the economy, the more expensive it is in the later stage, and it costs 100 yuan to dig a trench when it is on the stone road. It costs 200 yuan to lay cement. It is 1000 to dig up the concrete pavement again, and it may be 5000 to dig a trench after the asphalt pavement is paved, and the more obvious the effect of saving money in the later stage.

The losses caused by environmental pollution and construction accidents are even more considerable, knowing that any pipe digging can cause the interruption of a certain public service or important network in the entire neighborhood or even the urban area, and this kind of loss is difficult to calculate.

For example, the losses caused by traffic congestion are even more difficult to calculate, and one hour of traffic jam per day is equivalent to the loss of an hour of work or rest time for passengers on a road, which can add up to thousands of man-hours lost. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of man-hours are lost in a year, which is a disaster for society. If a road is blocked. If a car has an important person or someone with an important task is delayed, the damage caused by it can cause tens of thousands of losses.

If the congestion of a road is not controlled, it is equivalent to a social loss of tens of millions of yuan a year. As productivity and wages per capita increase, these losses will grow larger and larger, and if they are not generated, the benefits will be repeated, and the wealth generated by compounding over time will be even more staggering.

Urbanization is a kind of social growth, and children grow up, there will be all kinds of diseases and crises, through the public is not Bian Que, but insight into the future of Bian Que's big brother, naturally to control in advance, in order to promote the development of the empire at the highest speed, through the public will strive to eliminate any obstacles, all planning is to strive to be fast and good, never care about the cost and quantity of the project, completely throw more and the province aside, the pursuit is a more advanced monopoly or large project top hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises and projects, They are definitely specialized, large-scale, intensive, and modern. (To be continued......)

PS: Bian Que is a well-known miracle doctor, but many people don't know that Bian Que's two elder brothers also know a lot about medicine.

One day, King Wei Wen asked Bian Que: "The three brothers in your family are all good at medicine, which one is the best?"

Bian Que replied: "My eldest brother has the best medical skills, the second brother is the second, and I am the worst." ”

King Wen asked again: "Then why are you the most famous?"

Bian Que replied: "My eldest brother's treatment was before the onset of the disease, because most people did not know that he could eradicate the cause in advance, but felt that his treatment had no obvious effect, so his fame could not be spread, only our family knew about it." My second brother's treatment was at the beginning of the disease, and it seemed that he could only treat minor ailments, so his fame could only spread in our township. And I, Bian Que, treat the disease when the disease is already serious. When ordinary people see me threading needles and bloodletting in the meridians, applying medicine to the skin, using anesthetics to make people unconscious, and doing some incredible major surgeries, they naturally think that my medical skills are excellent, so my fame is resounding all over the country, far greater than my two elder brothers. King Wen sighed, "You said it very well. ”

After-the-fact control is not as good as in-process control, in-process control is not as good as ex-ante control, but unfortunately many people have failed to realize this, and wait until the wrong decision has caused significant losses to seek compensation, sometimes it is too late.