Christmas Island has been directly upgraded from an overseas territory to a municipality directly under the central government, which is not a simple change of name and addition of departments, Xiao Baitu knows that this time Zhao Shijie should not come to read out his appointment letter, which also has about the development and positioning of the municipality in the future.

The economy of the municipality mainly relies on the transshipment and storage of import and export goods and the newly developed service industry, both in terms of geographical location and route, it is not very necessary for cargo ships to sail to Australia in the future, as the steam engine horsepower recovery technology is becoming more and more mature.

More and more powerful steam engines are being manufactured, and the endurance will naturally increase with the improvement of technology, so it is absolutely impossible to continue to develop storage and shipping trade here in the future.

With Australia's direct nautical charts from its home to the rest of the world two years later, the advantage will be gone.

Therefore, the future development of Christmas Island has become the focus of discussion among MPs, and the existing service industry is fundamentally driven by the shipping industry. If the local or other coastal cities develop better special service industries than here in the future, there will be no advantage at all.

In addition, the biggest pillar of the Christmas Island economy before the crossing was phosphate and tourism, and it was still difficult for the tourism industry to develop in the 17th century, so the future focus of economic development could only be placed on phosphate mines and service manufacturing.

After a morning of visits and specific investigations, Zhao Shijie and a group of central government officials also had a clearer and clearer idea of the island's industrial development. Knowing why the government sent them here.

Obviously, the central government's goal is not only to upgrade the city to a municipality, but also to develop it into an economic powerhouse, and to send them here is to put forward their own development and reform plans and proposals.

Reform and proposal are the plan they have to come up with, Christmas Island is not big, if the city block is in addition to a 100-meter-long main street is in the scattered specialty service shops.

In the past two days, the residents of the island and the crew members who have traveled to and from the island have obviously noticed that something is wrong with their anger, and although they have heard the news on the radio about the promotion of overseas consulates to municipalities directly under the central government, people still see Zhao Shijie and other officials constantly entering and leaving various service shops and several open spaces and ports on the island, and from time to time there will be staff members who take out pens to record what they say.

The common people don't know what to expect, for those immigrants who have experienced famine and war, this is paradise, not only to eat but also to live in, and if someone tells them one day that you will be deported, they will not want to.

The difference between municipalities and overseas territories is that one is a full citizen of Australia, the other is not, and less than half of the people on Christmas Island have official Australian resident status, and most of the rest are migrant workers.

Although the distance between the two is not large, and there is no obvious difference between the two in terms of life and work, this does not prevent everyone's imagination, and some local crew members have said that migrant workers who have worked for a certain number of years and have not become Australian nationality will be repatriated.

Originally, no one took this seriously, but now that the central government officials have arrived, rumors have gradually begun to spread, especially since the number of police and soldiers patrolling the city streets has increased recently, and a rumor of the repatriation of migrant workers has begun to spread.

The basis for this is the expressions of government officials who have inspected various service stores these days, and the expressions after entering and coming out have obviously not changed much, all with a thoughtful expression, and with the accusations of service industry practitioners, everyone's inferences are becoming more and more true.

For a while, the office of the Immigration Bureau in the government office building was overcrowded, and everyone lined up to ask for Australian citizenship, which made the staff puzzled how they all gathered together to ask for joining, what kind of stimulation was this.

Later, when I inquired, I found out that everyone had misunderstood, and the staff of the municipal government office told Xiao Baitu about this matter and asked him for his opinion, he just replied with a smile, since it is not a bad thing, so be it, and there is no need to deliberately explain.

This episode did not prevent the members of the central government delegation from continuing to investigate the geography and environment of the island as a whole, and they still left their accommodation early in the morning with bags and papers to record the expedition under the arrangement of the city government staff.

For five days in a row, the whole island was basically visited by the inspection team, and everyone summarized and summarized their opinions after some statistics and sorting, and also made a report on the future development of the municipality and the positioning of the street design.

The entire report is tens of thousands of words long, and it includes solutions to many problems such as urban construction, education and medical care. For a while, Xiao Baitu felt very high, when did these guys actually become experts, and they also theorized, it seems that Shibei should be impressed by each other for three days, this is not false at all, after the crossing, everyone is working hard to develop towards their own goal is no exception.

"Minister Zhao, on the whole, I am more in favor of your report, such as the plan to build a new primary school, middle school and high school on the island, as well as a hospital, which is a very good thing for all citizens, as well as the development of a deep-processed phosphate industry and a special canned products factory, which I am more optimistic about."

Xiao Baitu first praised these good views, which made the urban developers and economic experts secretly happy, muttering in their hearts that they still had some level, and they used to be in the forum water, but it was not whitewater!

Then he changed his words, so that everyone's hearts that were a little proud just now immediately couldn't be happy.

"I have no opinion on limiting the number of service industries and reducing the formalization of characteristic service industries, but this should be done slowly, if it is a one-size-fits-all approach, how to arrange the re-employment of the unemployed, and now other projects on the island have not yet started, how to arrange these problems, I would like to ask the experts to give an explanation."

For Xiao Baitu, the most proud thing about the entire Christmas Island is the special service industry, don't you want him to turn off part of it now and let him cut the meat, the island's large and small special service stores basically have his funds in the shares.

"Mayor Xiao's problem is very easy to solve, the rest of the population can be transported to the mainland, the development of the local area is inseparable from a large number of people, these people can just supplement the problem of manpower shortage." One expert explained with a relaxed smile.

After hearing this, Xiao Baitu even less did it, how could this Christmas Island be lacking in population, the government did not give a penny of immigration subsidies in the early stage of development, and now I still want to take advantage of this, but there is no door.

Zhao Shijie, who knows the truth in this, coughed lightly, this method is not appropriate, Expert Li, the population introduction of Christmas Island City is somewhat different from the local, so this method does not work, I don't think there is much problem in other aspects of this plan, Mayor Xiao just has some views on this whole and service industry problem, we can make appropriate modifications, divided into several steps, what does Mayor Xiao think.

"Well, I agree with Minister Zhao's words, implement it in several steps, and when the phosphate and other food processing industries develop, it is not too late for us to gradually control the quantity."

Xiao Baitu agreed with Zhao Shijie's words, and the two sides almost reached an agreement in the next conversation, and the report on the future development of the municipality was also signed by the personnel of both sides, and will be sent to the National Assembly for discussion by the parliamentarians, and the plan for modification or implementation was made.