Panjiang City is a prefecture-level city with a population of more than 3 million, as an important port city in northern Liaoning Province, although the area under the jurisdiction of the three counties and two districts is not large, the economic development situation here is still relatively high in the whole Liaoning Province.

Compared with Haizhou, an economically strong city with a population or area far exceeding a lot, and a port city with light industry as the main focus and a relatively large scale, the similarity between the economies of Panjiang and Haizhou is still very high.

With the rapid economic development of northern Liaoning driven by the economic rise of Chuncheng, the export trade of Panjiang City, a coastal port city with strong seaport trade channels, has grown rapidly in the past two years.

Under the rising tide, a large number of Chuncheng industrial downstream industrial chains have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

As a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Chuncheng City Party Committee, Chen Youwei usually focuses most of his energy on the construction and development of Chuncheng, except for some major matters and personnel appointments that can obviously affect the overall situation in northern Liaoning.

On the first working day after the National Day holiday, Chen Youwei took the staff of relevant departments and drove to Panjiang City, a port city 200 kilometers away.

Last month, Panjiang City proposed to attract foreign investment and expand the Panjiang Port, which was built 10 years ago, and Chen Youwei immediately paid great attention to this important channel that is very conducive to Chuncheng's foreign trade.

In recent years, Liaobei Province, including Chuncheng, has attached great importance to transportation facilities, as always, and the calm Hongqi sedan is driving quickly on the highway leading to Panjiang City.

The fully enclosed highway was full of traffic, Chen Youwei observed with great interest for a while, and said to Pan Jianming, secretary general of the municipal party committee, the big housekeeper next to him: "The completion of the Chunpan Expressway opened to traffic last year has greatly improved the logistics speed between Chuncheng and Panjiang City, and the cost of a large number of materials will be reduced a lot if they are shipped out from Panjiang." The current capacity of Panjiang Port is limited, no wonder Panjiang is now anxious to expand Panjiang Port! ”

As the chief steward who comprehensively coordinates and assists the young secretary of the municipal party committee, the longer he stays by Chen Youwei's side, the more he can realize that the young municipal party secretary's far-sighted vision and outstanding ability are so different.

"From our point of view in Chuncheng, whether it is railway transportation or air transportation, the existing framework has reached its peak, and there will not be much improvement in the short term. Panjiang City can timely grasp the gap in external logistics and transportation that is strongly needed under the economic development of our Spring City, and they will have a good development trend compared to us for a long time in the future! ”

Pan Jianming shook his head and smiled: "To be honest, I'm afraid it's Haizhou that really feels some pressure!" ”

"Haizhou?"

Chen Youwei took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over, lit the fire and said with a smile: "I have naturally considered Haizhou, in fact, it is obviously impossible for our goods in Chuncheng to completely avoid there." It's just that in terms of distance and cost calculation, Panjiang, which is no less than Haizhou port conditions, really has a lot of advantages over Haizhou! ”

Pan Jianming's heart was dumbfounded.

He naturally understood that there were some things, whether the young boss admitted it or not, a certain competitive relationship with Haizhou, and even more inhumane reasons for the lack of humanity to outsiders, and that Spring City, the real outlet to the sea, would definitely not choose the direction of Haizhou.

Chen Youwei took two puffs of cigarette and said with a smile: "From a more macro point of view, the real economic highlights of northern Liaoning are now somewhat concentrated. ”

"Secretary, Panjiang's action this time is not small, and the seaport project with an estimated investment of 5 billion yuan is estimated to attract a lot of attention!"

Pan Jiangming shook his head and sighed: "In this regard, if there are not so many industrial enterprises in Chuncheng, if we are really on the same starting line as Panjiang City, we may not be able to run as fast as them!" ”

"Not necessarily, after all, Chuncheng is a provincial capital, especially the economic center of the vast northeast, and Chuncheng, which has strong political resources, is not comparable to a place like Panjiang in terms of development potential and resources that can be used."

Chen Youwei shook his head with a firm smile: "Of course, with a good deep-water port, in the current environment of increasing opening up, it is unlikely that Panjiang City will not develop." ”

Pan Jianming nodded silently, he naturally knew some things, but in some boring trips, chatting is better than sitting stupidly.

Ahead is Panjiang City, Chen Youwei, who gently opened the car window, closed his eyes slightly and took a deep breath, and said with a good smile: "Sure enough, it is a coastal city, and there is a strong smell of the sea in this air!" ”

Although Pan Jianming didn't know too much about the statement of the young secretary of the Municipal Party Committee in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee some time ago, he still secretly guessed that no matter how much of the investment project was five billion, Chuncheng would not easily let go of such a mouth-watering piece of fat.

Under the guidance of the leaders of the Panjiang Municipal Party Committee, who had been waiting for a long time, two cars carrying the red flag of the Chuncheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government smoothly drove into front of the magnificent Panjiang Municipal Party Committee Office Building.

Compared with the Chuncheng Municipal Party Committee Compound, which is still in use for decades, and the station is in the Panjiang Municipal Party Committee Compound, which is a large area, Chen Youwei subconsciously raised his eyebrows.

Pan Jianming next to him also had a strange expression, in his opinion, the overall economic level of Panjiang City is far inferior to that of Spring City, but it is more majestic and domineering than Spring City, and it is obviously a newly built brand new office facility, and there are a lot of things behind such a high-profile gesture.

Huang Zhiqiang, Secretary of the Panjiang Municipal Party Committee, and Li Mingchun, Mayor of Panjiang City, led all the members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee to personally welcome the arrival of the young members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.

Chen Youwei politely shook hands with the people present one by one, and simply said that the last two steps were to walk towards the office building.

Perhaps it is the temper of the young Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, and everyone in Panjiang City has long heard of it, and everyone is not too surprised by Chen Youwei's concise and concise style.

Under the guidance of Huang Zhiqiang, Chen Youwei and his entourage came to the small conference room of the Panjiang Municipal Party Committee Office Building to rest.

"Secretary Chen, this time you can come to Panjiang to cheer for us, our three million Panjiang citizens are excited, everyone said that with your personal departure, our Panjiang City is definitely the second spring city!"

Huang Zhiqiang, who is fifty-five years old this year, said with a smirk on his face and a sensible flattery, and that kind of flattering appearance made Lu Qing, who was sitting on the side, shake his head and laugh.

"Secretary Huang is polite, along the way, the economic construction of Panjiang City has developed very fast in recent years, which shows that the people of Panjiang City still attach great importance to the construction of their hometown."

Chen Youwei smiled faintly: "This also shows that Secretary Huang, you have also spent a lot of thought for the development of Panjiang, isn't this Panjiang Port expansion plan the most powerful example?" ”

For a long time in the past, Panjiang City was a member of the middle forces in Liaobei Province, including the Dong and Southern factions, and the forces here were not too strong, and this had something to do with the composition of the leading cadres in Panjiang City at the beginning of liberation.

Compared with Chuncheng and Haizhou, most of the earliest cadres in the past were cadres who changed jobs after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The early leadership of Panjiang City, a small coastal city with a relatively small position, was held by cadres who had crossed the sea from the Ludong Peninsula earlier before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Although all the leading cadres who came from the Ludong Peninsula were also placed under the jurisdiction of Siye, compared with other places, most of the people were scattered, and the vast majority of the members of Panjiang City were cadres from the Ludong Peninsula from the day they were in the territory of the ruling party, and they obviously had the imprint of a small hill.

With the development of the times, the situation of such a small hill in Panjiang City has not only not been scattered, but because of the changes in the general environment such as special years, this form of officialdom with a strong conservative attitude has become more obvious.

After all, Panjiang City is a small place, and they don't have too much say in Liaobei Province, so they naturally become a neutral minority.

Of course, with the changes in the overall environment after the reform and opening up, fundamental changes have also taken place in the personnel aspects of officialdom, which was originally very rigid and conservative.

Panjiang City, which rarely entered the high-level of the Liaobei Provincial Party Committee in the past, now gradually has its own factional leaders who can speak out, and similarly, officials from other factions outside Panjiang City, which were almost unsoaked in the eyes of Liaobei officialdom in the past, have also begun to increase.

In general, the current Panjiang City still regards itself as a relatively weak intermediate force in northern Liaoning Province.

Chen Youwei didn't pay much attention to Panjiang City before, and he also adopted an optimistic attitude towards those backbones in northern Liaoning Province who gradually had a convergence trend.

After all, the biggest backbone in Liaobei Province is a group of people represented by Governor Liu Yunlong, and these are relatively friendly partners with Chen Youwei who are now taking a relatively friendly attitude and even a hidden alliance, so he naturally will not ignore Huang Zhiqiang and others who are interested in currying favor in front of him.

Unlike many of the first and second leaders in other places, who are people of different factions, Chen Youwei clearly knows that both Huang Zhiqiang and Li Mingchun are local factions in Panjiang City.

Compared with Huang Zhiqiang, who is not young, the younger Li Mingchun is obviously the successor force deliberately arranged by Panjiang City.

If Chen Youwei said in the past, he did not take Panjiang City, which has a small economic aggregate and a limited population area, to heart.

With the release of the project with a large investment amount and obvious strategic layout in Panjiang City, Panjiang, a port city that was inconspicuous in the past, immediately has the possibility of becoming a very important outlet for Spring City.

Even if it is only for economic considerations, Chen Youwei is now full of interest in Panjiang City.

If Panjiang City is really made to become a satellite city that can directly go to sea in the spring city that is thriving, not to mention the immeasurable economic value, its eye-catching strategic value in the entire political system of northern Liaoning is also self-evident.