When walking step by step to the Wanghaiyan viewing platform, Jiang Chaolin remembered Mayor Wen Chunming's words again: This is a farewell performance. Say goodbye to what? Say goodbye to power, goodbye to cheers, and goodbye to the responsibility of leadership as a city. Yes, he is no longer the secretary of the municipal party committee, he is still the director of the municipal people's congress, and theoretically the people's congress is the highest organ of power. However, the reality in China is that the Communist Party is in power, and the people's congresses at all levels must embody the will of the party. Then, after leaving the post of secretary of the municipal party committee and leaving the standing committee of the municipal party committee, he is not the Jiang Chaolin in the past.

The professional smile is still appropriately written on the face, and no one can expect to find the slightest trace of loss and frustration in the expression of this political strongman. Jiang Chaolin majestically followed Cheng Yizhi, member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee, and Wu Zhuguo, Executive Vice Governor, and waved to flowers, colorful flags, and the crowd gathered at the east end of the bridge.

It's an exciting sight. As soon as Jiang Chaolin took office that year, he publicly announced at the city's party and government cadres meeting that his favorite things were two things: the start of the foundation and the completion of the ribbon cutting, as long as possible, he would participate in the groundbreaking of any major project in Binh Duong; For the completion of any major project, he goes to cut the ribbon. In the past ten years, how many times should there be a prosperous foundation and ribbon cutting! I can't count them. It was also in these countless foundations and ribbon-cutting that Pingyang flew up and soared into the sky.

Let's just talk about the sea-crossing bridge in front of you, how spectacular, how brilliant! Like a soaring dragon, it crosses the Nam Van Strait, connecting the bustling central area with the international development zone and private industrial park located on the peninsula in one fell swoop. This has turned the peninsula area, which was originally a remote area, into an important part of the central area. Two years ago, as soon as the plan for the bridge was announced, housing prices and land prices in the peninsula area continued to rise rapidly, and according to Wen Chunming, the overall increase has reached 153 percent, and the transfer price of industrial land in the private industrial park has more than quadrupled.

This was completely expected by Jiang Chaolin, when he decided to cooperate with the public and private sectors and mobilize those private entrepreneurs to raise shares and invest, Jiang Chaolin said on behalf of the municipal party committee and the city: "In business, now I am not giving instructions to you as a secretary of the municipal party committee, but as a businessman representing the first class to talk about cooperation with you businessmen." You're going to make money, you're going to make money. I'm sure we'll both make money for the big deal. First, there are 15 years of bridge tolls to collect; Second, the appreciation of land prices and housing prices in the new area. ”

At that time, someone asked: "Secretary Jiang, why don't you let foreign-funded enterprises in the international development zone also participate in the investment?" Isn't the International Development Zone also on the peninsula? More than 400 enterprises in 27 countries and regions, how much capital can be raised! ”

Jiang Chaolin said: "Of course, we can let foreign capital take shares, but we don't want to do that. Why? Because it is necessary to protect and support national capital, although you are private enterprises, you are all national capital, and it is a good thing to have money to make, of course I have to consider you first, and all countries are doing this. ”

As a result, there is this bridge across the sea that has no precedent in the country's public-private partnership, and there is today's final farewell performance. Two years ago, when the private entrepreneurs association talked about cooperation with those private entrepreneurs, Jiang Chaolin never imagined that his farewell performance would be to cut the ribbon for the cross-sea bridge.

After standing on the viewing platform, Mayor Wen Chunming, who presided over the ceremony, began to introduce the leaders and guests who participated in the ribbon-cutting event, and then the leaders and guests spoke one by one. Cheng Yizhi, Deputy Minister of Transport and Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee, and Wu Zhuguo, Executive Vice Governor of Binh Duong, both said that the construction of the cross-sea bridge by the public and private partnership in Binh Duong is a pioneering initiative that has opened up a new path for deepening reform and accelerating the scale and speed of infrastructure construction. Facts have proved that infrastructure construction can fully mobilize social funds and social forces to participate in it, and this is a great thing that benefits the country and the people, and is beneficial to both public and private interests. Therefore, this sea-crossing bridge not only crossed the Nam Van Strait, but also crossed some backward stereotypes formed under the conditions of the planned economy, making Binh Duong's reform and opening up more convincing.

When the leaders and guests spoke, Jiang Chaolin was quite uneasy, thinking that no matter how well Cheng Yizhi and Wu Zhuguo spoke on behalf of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, the fact is that Liu Huabo, secretary of the provincial party committee, and Chen Honghe, the governor of the province, did not come. Liu Huabo, who is also the director of the Provincial People's Congress, wants to meet with the CIS ****, but he can't come, and Governor Chen Honghe won't meet the ****, but he didn't come. And it is said that tomorrow to send Gao Changhe to take office, these two leaders will come. This made Jiang Chaolin emotionally unacceptable in any case, and when he received Cheng Yizhi and Wu Zhuguo in the morning, Jiang Chaolin was displeased when he heard them.

But his face was not revealed, and he did not show it until now. Facing the cameras of TV reporters and photographers, Jiang Chaolin was still smiling as always, until Wen Chunming announced that he was invited to speak on behalf of the Pingyang Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal **, he restrained his smile and walked to the microphone.

This scene is too familiar, it is a sea of people, and it is a forest of colorful flags!

At this moment, a striking red cloth banner suddenly appeared in the crowd at Dongqiaotou - I don't know who typed it, and it was written in fifteen big characters: "Secretary Jiang Chaolin, nine million people of Pingyang thank you!" ”

Jiang Chaolin's eyes moistened suddenly, he threw off the manuscript prepared in advance, and began his last speech directly facing the citizens of Pingyang with emotion: "Citizens, comrades, it is I who want to thank you, it is the Pingyang Municipal Party Committee and the city ** to thank you, thank you deeply, without your support and bloody and sweaty struggle, there would be no cross-sea bridge in front of us, and there would be no Pingyang reform and opening up today......"