After Guo Longyun arrived in Shanghai, he first held a meeting with local officials, mainly to listen to the economic development of Shanghai this year; after all, Guo Longyun is now in charge of the economy, and he does not care about other matters, but only about the development of the economy, especially the industrial economy.

After a meeting, Guo Longyun also has a preliminary understanding of the current Shanghai, this year Shanghai still maintains a super high speed of development, especially after the merger of the business zone and Shanghai County, the lack of land that plagued the business zone in the past has been completely solved, Shanghai here uses local finance to develop its own 'North Shore Industrial Zone', that is, Suzhou North Shore Industrial Zone, with the textile industry as the core, supplemented by other supporting industries, the development is quite rapid.

During the meeting, Xiao Changzhong said in a very proud tone: "Today, a large number of enterprises have settled in the North Shore Industrial Zone, including three super-large enterprises with an investment of more than one million yuan, 28 large enterprises with an investment of more than 100,000 yuan, and the total number of large and small enterprises has reached as many as 78, and the major factories in the entire North Shore Industrial Zone are enough to provide more than 40,000 direct jobs."

Through a large number of enterprises settled in, it has also driven the development of the tertiary industry in Shanghai, the daily livelihood needs of clothing, food, housing and transportation and other industries are extremely active, providing financial, technical and other conditions for the support of the tertiary industry development more rapidly, the North Shore Industrial Zone is equivalent to Shanghai indirectly provides more than 50,000 tertiary industry jobs! ”

"Just one North Shore industrial zone can feed more than 100,000 families, with a population of at least 400,000!"

In the industrial age, there is nothing more direct indication of the scale of industry than the provision of more jobs!

"In the first three quarters of the third year of Xuanwu, the total industrial output value of enterprises in the North Shore Industrial Zone exceeded 100 million yuan. The export volume reached 40 million yuan, only in the North Shore Industrial Zone. This would provide the empire with more than four million yuan in tax revenue, and about three million in customs revenue indirectly. At least two million tax revenues are provided indirectly through the tertiary sector, etc.! ”

"The success of the North Shore Industrial Zone is enough to add at least ten million or even fifteen million more taxes to the empire!"

According to the normal ratio of output value and tax revenue, it is about 5 to 15 percent, and the specific amount varies from country to country, and light industry and heavy industry, agriculture and service-oriented business are also different.

However, Shanghai is a purely industrial city, and the proportion of agriculture is quite low. It mainly relies on the support of the industrial economy, so the ratio of its output value to taxation has the obvious characteristics of modern industrial countries, that is, it is maintained at about 10%.

Basically, if a company produces a product with a market value of 10 yuan, then the government can collect 1 yuan in taxes in various ways.

Of course, this is an average number, and the specific proportion of specific industries must be different, such as the raw silk industry, which is quite tax-positive in this violent industry. The business tax and export tariff of the enterprise add up, and the positive tax ratio of the entire raw silk industry has basically reached more than 20%.

However, some heavy industries that are strongly supported by the government, such as machinery manufacturing, ordnance and weapons, shipbuilding and other industries. The overall tax is very low, for example, Linde Machinery produces steam engines, and its tax rate is only one percent. It's basically a symbolic tax, and in the shipbuilding industry. In order to promote the large-scale use of steam ships, the tax levied on steam ships produced by shipyards is also quite low. Only about five percent or so.

Taken together, the ratio of Shanghai's GDP to tax revenue is about 10 percent.

However, this data refers to all taxes, which means that Shanghai's GDP can provide about 10% of the tax revenue for the empire, but in fact Shanghai itself does not collect that much tax.

Because a country's tax is collected in many ways, it does not mean that a certain enterprise produces a product with a market value of 10 yuan, and then the local finance can directly levy a tax on the enterprise, in fact, this round of tax is collected through the circulation channels of the product, including the business tax of the enterprise, the business tax of the transportation enterprise responsible for the transportation of products, the business tax of the wholesaler, and finally the business tax of the retailer.

Shanghai is a typical manufacturing base, and its products are either exported or sold in various parts of the country, so it is impossible to collect all the taxes of this tenth.

Therefore, although Shanghai's GDP is already quite large, and its GDP in 1859 is expected to exceed the 800 million yuan mark, the tax collected in Shanghai alone is actually quite small, including the customs, which directly belongs to the central government only about 30 million yuan, and Shanghai can still retain about 20 million yuan of local taxes.

The sum of the national and local taxes is about 50 million, accounting for about 6 percent of the industrial output value.

And this is also the reason why Xiao Changzhong did not say how much tax revenue the North Shore Industrial Zone provided to Shanghai, but how much tax revenue was provided to the empire, because Shanghai alone could not collect more than 10 million taxes.

Xiao Changzhong wanted Guo Longyun to realize that the North Shore Industrial Zone was a success, and this success was not established in the original business zone, but was built by him in the past three years.

When he heard that Xiao Changzhong and the officials of the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Finance and other economic related officials in Shanghai opened their mouths to say how many billions of dollars, and casually said that the data was tens of millions and millions, this made Guo Longyun even more lamented the backwardness and development difficulties in other parts of the country.

Before he came to Shanghai, basically has been along the Yangtze River has the potential to run industrial cities have gone aside, the current Yangtze River basin, the most potential for industrial development is the southern Anhui Dangtu, after all, relying on a Ma'anshan iron mine has a natural advantage, in addition to the three towns of Wuhan in Hubei, deep inland, at the same time is currently the largest large city along the Yangtze River can be the deepest large city in the Yangtze River, and then through the Xiangjiang River, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to further distribute the products, the geographical location is quite good, It's a pity that the industrial base is too weak.

When I went to Wuchang to inspect, Hubei was quite important, the governor of Hubei led the Wuchang Taoist, the prefect of Wuchang Prefecture and a large number of local plateaus to work together, and planned a development plan for Wuchang Industrial Zone that they thought was extremely large in their hearts at the report meeting.

But the goal they offer is to make the industrial zone reach more than 10 million in five years, and the expected industrial output value in the first year is only a pitiful 500,000!

The reason why Hubei attaches so much importance to Guo Longyun's inspection is because Guo Longyun holds an extremely important power in his hands, that is, to select a place for the next large-scale industrial base of the empire, and now Wuchang in Hubei, Tianjin in Zhili, Guangzhou in Guangdong, Hangzhou in Zhejiang, and even Changsha and Wuchang, as well as Suzhou, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and other cities are all competing for it.

With the current financial situation of the empire, the first two years were at most to support the large-scale development of industry in one place, and only a symbolic amount of money could be allocated elsewhere.

However, not every place is the same as Shanghai, has a perfect self-hematopoietic function, not only can provide tens of millions of national taxes to the central government, but also Shanghai's local tax has more than 10 million every year, so Shanghai can build a north shore industrial zone on its own, but other places in the country simply do not have this ability, they want to develop industry, especially for large-scale development, they must get strong support from the central finance, relying on their own local finance can not play at all.

Guo Longyun has come all the way, these local officials are trying their best to leave a good impression on Guo Longyun, and then to their city to get the support of the central government, as long as they can make an industrial zone in their own office, even if the scale is not as good as the industrial zone in Dangtu, let alone compared with Shanghai, but as long as they can get it, it is a great political achievement, and political achievements represent promotion and wealth.

This has a fatal attraction for countless officials!

However, when Guo Longyun was a little disappointed, the vision and pattern of these people were still slightly smaller, except for his old subordinate Bi Xuanxi, the governor of Anhui, who proposed to expand the scale of the Dangtu Industrial Zone tenfold in the future and strive for the goal of breaking 100 million yuan in industrial output value, the scale of the other people's eyes was only hundreds of thousands and millions.

They think that this 100,000, 1 million scale industrial zone is big enough.

Alas, if they come to Shanghai and see the North Shore Industrial Zone, which is almost much larger than the entire city of Beijing, I don't know how they would feel!

It is difficult for those officials who have never seen what industry is to imagine that a spinning mill with an investment of millions can be used for thousands of workers, and that a factory alone is about the same as a small city, and that the scale of dozens or even hundreds of factories gathered in one place is so huge that the economic benefits brought about are far from being represented by the industrial output value of these factories themselves.

To build an industrial zone is to create a new industrial city, not just to build a factory.

After listening to Xiao Chang's report meeting, Guo Longyun didn't stay in Shanghai for long, anyway, he didn't need to worry about the development of Shanghai, now Shanghai has Lin Zhe personally staring at the top, Xiao Changzhong is in charge below, and there is a nondescript 'municipal management committee' next to it to supervise, as long as God doesn't split a divine thunder, it is basically difficult to stop the rise of Shanghai.

Now Guo Longyun has to worry about other places!

After leaving Shanghai, he took a steam carrier that carried mail and supplies from the navy, and then traveled north along the coastline, where he was bound for Tianjin. (To be continued.) )