Lu Zhengdong didn't want to get up when he returned to his residence and sat on the sofa, presumably Zhou Shuming was more tired than him, this exhaustion was not physical, but mental, half a day seemed to be a leisurely stroll, but in fact it was turbulent, in fact, it was a silent confrontation between the will and spirit of the two.

For Lu Zhengdong, his advantage is that his term of office has just begun, and there is still plenty of time, but the disadvantage is that the position of the second-in-command of the governor determines his natural weakness, while Zhou Shuming's term of office is not short, and he has a stronger sense of urgency about Beihu's affairs, but his position as the number one makes him much more comfortable in the face of him as the second-in-command.

Both of them try their best to maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses, trying to maximize their intentions, sometimes Lu Zhengdong feels like those hosts who wander around various nutrition recommendation meetings, lobbying with his tongue as much as possible, and sometimes he is like a businessman who wants to calculate every penny from the other party.

This sounds extremely inconsistent with the dignified status of the governor, but this is the case, and Lu Zhengdong can't help but think a little teasingly, sometimes in order to achieve a big goal of not taking detours and paying unnecessary costs for the long-term development of Beihu, the process and means may not necessarily be very glamorous, but also worthwhile.

Zhou Shuming is actually no better than him, and he is also calculating in many things, and this seemingly stable and conservative leader actually has the cunning of a small businessman.

Fortunately, the result is still good, whether it is Zhou Shuming or himself, they are all very open, although Zhou Shuming has a lot of things that he does not agree with too much, but he still has to admit that the other party's sensitivity and grasp of the general direction of politics are still quite in place, once he has figured out something. It's also very crisp.

Of course in many things. Zhou Shuming will definitely not give a very clear statement. For example, in terms of personnel, Zhou Shuming also put forward some of his own ideas very implicitly and euphemistically, of course, Lu Zhengdong for the development of Beihu, which is the biggest common denominator between the two, he thinks which candidates should be more suitable, of course, this is inseparable from some trade-offs.

Lu Zhengdong also knew very well that in addition to the cadres of his own system, Zhou Shuming also needed to appease deputy secretaries like Ma Xinzhong and Hong Zhilu and weighty standing committee members like Hong Zhilu and Qiu Zhonghao, so as to maintain his control over Beihu.

Lu Zhengdong originally wanted Ma Xinzhong and Hong Zhilu and Qiu Zhonghao to be biased towards him. But there is a big gap between such an idea and reality.

Ma Xinzhong is a very realistic and utilitarian character, such a character also determines that he cannot integrate into that system, it can only be said that he walks between all parties to see the seams, before Yang Lingfeng had no power to fight back in front of Zhou Shuming Ma Xinzhong has no chance and the market, now the environment has changed, the current pattern is a bit like the current world pattern, although it is still a superpower, but after all kinds of things, the strength has declined significantly, and other countries have risen up and want to monopolize power. When the world's police also seem to be inadequate, this also gives other countries more stage and space to show. The trend of multipolarization in the world is obvious, and Zhou Shuming is like the superpower of the moment, and the other deputy secretaries and members of the Standing Committee are all countries that are on the rise, and they are all showing their talents and seeking to occupy a favorable position in the changing pattern.

In addition to Ma Xinzhong, Qiu Zhonghao has also been active recently, and he has also been relatively close, but this kind of proximity is also measured, the accident of the public security system and the transfer of Yao Zhiming gave Qiu Zhonghao a chance, so that Qiu Zhonghao was finally able to turn over, Qiu Zhonghao stabilized his position, and Zhou Shuming also made some concessions, in such a situation, Qiu Zhonghao naturally did not want to offend Zhou Shuming.

As for Hong Zhilu, who has always been detached, he is also a human being rather than a god, and he also can't get out of the big frame of the system, even if he is iron-faced and selfless, if he can't maintain a certain right to speak and influence on personnel and other important issues, no one will really follow suit, then the work is also difficult to carry out, and Hong Zhilu's consistent impartial attitude makes it completely unrealistic to let him completely fall to himself......

Therefore, they only use all kinds of intertwined contradictions or gaps, or alliances or pressures and other means to achieve the desired result, which can only be a temporary loose alliance based on a certain situation.

This is also an important reason why Lu Zhengdong and Zhou Shuming can sit down and talk seriously.

Lu Zhengdong has always maintained a very sober mind on these issues, and does not expect to have a very big say in the province's heavy personnel at one time, but Zhou Shuming, as the secretary of the provincial party committee who has been deeply involved in Beihu for several years, although it has been weakened recently, he still firmly grasps the initiative in personnel, so such an idea is very unrealistic, and rushing too quickly can only make the achievements that have been obtained go to waste, and can only make things worse.

The reality obtained at the moment has exceeded Lu Zhengdong's expectations, and this kind of conversation actually means that the era of Zhou Shuming's one-word decision on the issue of heavy personnel is over, and he has opened a hole in this regard, so there is an opportunity to make this hole bigger and bigger.

At the same time, this also means that he already has the strength to make a strong voice in the province, there is an old saying that if you seek unity in the struggle, you will survive in unity, in fact, he is only now really meeting such a requirement, when a leader does not have a certain strength, under the current political ecology, the struggle is actually an egg hitting a stone, is a mantis arm that does not measure its strength.

In this sense, it seems like a small step for him and Zhou Shuming to be able to discuss these big things together alone, but it is actually a big step for him to steadily improve in Beihu.

Of course, Lu Zhengdong also has a lot to do, he wants good and rapid development, fast is the foundation, and it is necessary for the Beihu economy to maintain a relatively fast development rate, so as to seek "good" conditions for accumulation and creation.

Lu Zhengdong must judge the hour and size up the situation, seize the opportunity, and promptly realize the transformation of Beihu's economic development from "fast and good" to "good and fast", and make great efforts to remove all kinds of "roadblocks" that restrict economic development, so as to ensure that the train of Beihu's economy can move forward quickly and steadily.

This is also not an easy task, although this matter does not need to start a new set of things, but it still needs to be appropriately adjusted in the development thinking. Make some changes in the actual work focus. This means achieving the goals and tasks of next year's economic work. It is necessary to put the readjustment of the economic structure and the transformation of the growth pattern in a more prominent position, and put the conservation of resources, the protection of the environment, and the conservation of land in a more prominent strategic position.

It is necessary to strengthen the constraints of energy conservation and consumption reduction and pollution reduction indicators; It is necessary to strive to achieve the coordination of speed, quality, and efficiency, the coordination of consumption, investment, and export, and the coordination of population, resources, and environment; It is necessary to pay more attention to solving the vital interests of the masses of the people and let the masses enjoy the fruits and benefits of economic development.

For example, from 1993 to the present, only a few hundred kilometers of expressways have been completed and opened to traffic in Beihu Lake in more than ten years.

And that's it. The construction of the first highway can be said to be very difficult, the Beihu Mountains are crisscrossed, so that the land of Beihu is stacked with peaks and ravines, and more than 60% of the area is mountainous and hilly. For road construction, in addition to technical factors, funding is the biggest problem.

When the first expressway was built, the estimated investment for the expressway was 2.5 billion yuan, while the provincial revenue was only 6.5 billion yuan. There was a huge funding gap, and at one time the project could not be carried out smoothly after the foundation stone was laid.

Since '94, Beihu Province has mobilized the people of the province to donate money and materials. Raise $250 million in just a few months. Including this large donation, Behu Province eventually raised 1.5 billion yuan on its own. Coupled with the Ministry of Transportation's appropriation and bank loans, the funding problem was finally solved.

Under the planning system of concentrating on major tasks, tens of thousands of people worked hard to complete this highway "out of Bei Lake" in only three years.

The construction of such a road with the strength of the whole province is the original intention of a province with a large population of economically poor people to break through the shackles of transportation and build a highway economic belt.

After the people of the province tightened their belts and completed the construction of the first expressway, Beihu began to build another major artery of the province. The province hopes to build a highway network with the expressway as the axis. The governor of the province at the time ambitiously proposed to build a highway economic belt based on this road.

But such ambitions are vulnerable in the face of reality, at this time the province's highway fund historical arrears have reached 6 billion yuan, and the total investment of this artery highway is 6 billion yuan. The only family fund in the hands of Beihu Province is the first highway that has been passed, but it is impossible to raise a large amount of road repair funds in a short period of time by tolls alone, so the arrears of the highway fund are even worse, and thus the subsequent governments on this issue while in the historical arrears of the new investment of the longer high-speed to the new investment of the longer high-speed road, but the construction of some relatively small investment, the line is quite short high-speed, which is too far away from the construction of the province's high-speed network. But the province really can't come up with the money.

Lu Zhengdong wants to restart in this regard, but he is also facing the dilemma that financial funds will definitely not be able to invest in it.

How to raise sufficient funds without using financial funds is a major prerequisite.

In this regard, Lu Zhengdong already has a preliminary idea, that is, the BOT model.

The so-called sell-off is just a popular term, but it is actually the so-called BOT model, which is simply a build-operate-transfer, which is a way of infrastructure investment, construction and operation, on the premise of an agreement between the government and other institutions, and the government issues concessions to these institutions, allowing them to raise funds for a certain period of time to build a certain infrastructure and manage and operate the facilities and their corresponding products and services.

The government may impose restrictions on the quantity and price of public goods or services provided by the institution, but ensure that the institution's capital has the opportunity to make a profit, and the risk is shared by the government and the agency throughout the process. At the end of the concession period, the private sector transfers the facility to the government as agreed, and the facility is operated and managed by a government-designated department, which is specifically the infrastructure concession.

Under the BOT model, Lu Zhengdong is ready to adopt two methods, one is to "sell" the highways that have already been built, and the other is to use social funds to build the expressways.

Lu Zhengdong has assessed that the total asset value of the first expressway in Beihu should be about 3.5 billion yuan, and the total asset value of the second expressway should be about 7.5 billion yuan, and the growth momentum of toll revenue is good.

This approach was inspired by Lu Zhengdong's mortgage loans. But Lu Zhengdong does not plan to find a bank to cooperate in this regard. Because the interest accrued by such a large amount of money is not a small amount. Lu Zhengdong felt that the interest rate of the bank was too high, and he aimed at some other funds.

For example, the social security fund, such as the insurance industry.

With the continuous improvement of the social security system, the overall level of the social insurance fund has been gradually improved, and the balance of the social insurance fund has continued to grow. This plays an important role in ensuring the basic livelihood of the insured and promoting the development of social insurance.

However, with the increase in the number of social security funds, the task of maintaining and increasing the value of the social security fund is becoming more and more heavy, but at present, most of the balance of the social security fund can only be deposited in the bank, and the interest rate of the bank is very low. How to broaden the channels of social security fund value preservation and appreciation, make good use of the live fund and achieve effective growth, in order to increase the ability to resist risks, how to achieve the value preservation and appreciation of the social security fund has also attracted great attention.

In recent years, with the development of the insurance industry, the funds of major insurance companies are also abundant, and similar to social security, due to the restrictions of policies, most of the insurance industry's funds are also lying in the bank.

Lu Zhengdong's idea is that the interest rate of these funds deposited in the bank is very low, and the interest rate of Beihu to borrow from the bank is high, if a suitable middle value is taken. Let these funds be used by me, and the Beihu side will get the much-needed construction funds. And these units also obtain a return on investment that is far higher than the bank interest, which is more conducive to their value preservation and appreciation, isn't it a win-win situation?

It is not very difficult to do the work of these units, because the directors of these units are people with economic expertise, and they can naturally see this, Lu Zhengdong does not plan to find the social security or insurance industry in the province to do this, which is easy to get into trouble, he still tends to find the national prefix, which is easier to standardize.

But this matter is not without a little difficulty, and the difficulty lies in the fact that the State Council must introduce some policies.

Lu Zhengdong has not been idle for more than a year, and he has done his work in both areas through his contacts in the capital, and has made substantial progress, and two funds in this area have submitted to the State Council for the establishment of a transportation and energy fund, and once approved by the State Council, it will enter the implementation stage, thus opening a precedent for using these funds to invest in the construction of transportation infrastructure.

In this way, about 10 billion yuan can be raised for the transfer of the existing expressway operating rights, plus the provincial highway fund, subsidies from the Ministry of Communications, and loans obtained from the Asian Development Bank and the China Development Bank, and it should be enough to build a major artery running through the province.

However, just building a highway is difficult to form a scale effect for Beihu, which is lagging behind in transportation development, and it is far from enough, and social funds must be introduced to build roads.

But Lu Zhengdong needs to think more about this.

In the BOT model, there is no hard and fast rule that the project owner must go through the bidding procedure, mainly for construction and government procurement and other fields, but the BOT model is the integration of investment, financing and construction, so in actual operation, the government often takes the procedure of attracting investment, rather than bidding.

This is easy to have problems, according to international practice, such a project, only need the owner to have a quarter to one-third of the capital, there is a big loophole in this, many of the hard to come to get the project for the purpose of subcontracting, this kind of people have two ways to make profits: one is to accept the project deposit from the construction unit, although the deposit expires to be returned, but can be used free of charge within the time limit; The second is to split the project into bidding sections, and subcontract a highway with a cost of billions or tens of billions of yuan according to the total cost of the project, and the profits will be considerable.

This is by no means what Lu Zhengdong wants to see, first of all, it is easy to have quality problems in such layers of subcontracting, and what is even more strict is that such subcontracting is prone to capital chain problems, as well as corruption and corruption.

No matter which link there is a problem, it is likely that his plan will be greatly pushed back, which will disrupt his entire overall consideration, and the problem of the capital chain is the most fatal, not only facing the risk of re-selecting a new unit, but also the danger of dying in the middle of the plan and project.

Politicians need to focus on the overall situation, but also start small, details determine success or failure, no matter how good the plan, if you do not do a good job in some key details, it is easy to let the plan abort.

Therefore, he must be cautious and cautious in how to determine the owner of the BOT franchise, whether it is from the procedure or the final confirmation, it must ensure that the selected owner is public or private, must be financially strong, have a good reputation, and preferably have a greater influence in the country.

From his point of view, his favorite are the powerful Hong Kong tycoons.

First of all, these rich people have abundant funds and are not bad for money, and secondly, they are well-known in China, and they also maintain a good relationship with high-level relations, and some also have the title of people's congress deputies or CPPCC members, which also makes some unscrupulous officials dare not mess around, and the most important point is that this is conducive to the approval of the project.

The approval of the project is an extremely headache for enterprises, entrepreneurs, local governments or government leaders and cadres who handle them...... (To be continued......)