Chapter 432 Young China (Subscribe for monthly tickets)

In midsummer July, the sun is hot.

At the entrance of Shuntian Kaisi Hotel, the atmosphere was somewhat silent and cold. Many things seemed to be in the past, but also seemed to be in the future.

Li Yufei stood and looked at Zhang Yunqi silently.

Zhang Yunqi nodded to her.

Li Yufei smiled faintly.

Zhang Yunqi also smiled. He had no right to ask you why you came here. He said, "I have to go to the city government now. I'm a bit pressed for time. Yufei, let's talk later when we have a chance."

Li Yufei smiled and said yes.

Yang Jin opened the door of the Mercedes-Benz, Zhang Yunqi sat in, and the rear window slid up.

Wang Guibing, who was driving, smiled and waved to Li Yufei, saying, "See you later."

Li Yufei didn't nod, but just said: "Brother Guibing, drive slower."

Wang Guibing nodded.

The Mercedes started and left Shuntian Case Hotel.

Yang Jin, who was sitting in the car, had clearly sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere. Just now, when Wang Guibing and President Wang went out, they were still talking with Zhang Yunqi about buying a house and renting an office building, but this time they kept silent and just drove the car.

As for her boss Zhang Yunqi, he usually doesn't show his emotions, and now he is no different from usual, except that he is staring out the window in a daze.

Yang Jin was very curious.

The girl whom her boss called "Yufei" was so pretty and beautiful, really very pretty. And as a girl herself, she could feel that this girl and her boss had some unexplainable stories and inexplicable emotions.

Just thinking about it, she inevitably thought of Chu Jian and Ji Ling...

As I was thinking, the car arrived in the city.

The three of them went directly to the city office building. With the warm hospitality of Deputy Secretary-General Liu Zheng, they went to the conference room on the third floor. Soon, the leaders attending the meeting arrived in twos and threes.

The specifications are quite high.

The meeting was led by Lu Feng, mayor of Lijin City.

Zhang Yunqi glanced over and saw that the heads of the investment promotion, industry and commerce, taxation, development and reform, economics and information technology, land, and housing and construction systems were all sitting there.

Since the reform and opening up, especially in the 90s when China was crossing the river by feeling the stones, the saying "economic development is the hard truth" has been put into practice in all walks of life in the vibrant Chinese society. Attracting investment is the core task of local governments centered on economic construction, and it is the core goal that local governments need to mobilize all resources and means to achieve.

Since the 90s, many places have adopted a "universal investment promotion" strategy, that is, almost all departments (including education and health departments) must be familiar with local investment promotion policies, and even pay attention to investment promotion opportunities at work and in daily social life.

If we want to explain this phenomenon in more depth, then in the process of economic development and promoting urbanization, the place can be compared to a shopping mall, and a shopping mall cannot be without shops.

In order to attract enough, large and famous shops to enter the market, the local government, as a shopping mall, will definitely use all the resources at its disposal, comprehensively consider taxes and land, balance tax revenue and land use rights transfer revenue, and fully meet the entry conditions for shops.

At this time, shops often only have to pay a low entry fee (similar to the industrial land transfer fee), but the operating income needs to be shared with the shopping mall (similar to value-added tax, regardless of whether the shop is profitable or not, as long as there is cash flow, it must be shared).

Shopping malls need to maximize overall revenue, so they must consider the balance between entry fees and rents, as well as the balance between different shops.

Some shops are well-known and can bring more customers and sales to the shopping mall, so the shopping mall has to think of ways to invite them in. The shops can not only waive their entry fees, but also reduce their share, or even give them money (similar to the various subsidies given by local governments to enterprises).

This is why Yang Jiarong tried every means to write various policy checks to Zhang Yunqi, and it is also the reason why Zhang Yunqi has been highly valued in Lijin City since he came to Lijin.

Lu Feng had heard about some of Zhang Yunqi's things a long time ago, otherwise he would not have taken the time to come and meet him in person. But when he saw his true face this time, he was still a little surprised, because he was really too young.

He smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, seeing you reminds me of a sentence in Mr. Liang Qichao's great article: The world is vast, and the future is bright. How beautiful is our young China! To create the young China of the future is the responsibility of the young Chinese."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Thank you very much. I still have a long way to go to achieve Mr. Liang Qichao's requirements for Chinese youth."

Lu Feng said with a smile: "Big entrepreneurs are all modest, but young big entrepreneurs should still be more high-profile. By the way, I heard that Mr. Zhang just took the college entrance examination?"

Zhang Yunqi nodded: "Yes, I applied for Shonan University in Rijin in my college entrance examination."

Lu Feng became more interested: "That's great. It seems that you and our Lijin are destined to be together. The economic development of the city in the future will need young entrepreneurs like you who are brave, hardworking and have ideas to contribute more."

While the two sides were exchanging pleasantries and chatting, Yang Jin distributed relevant materials about several companies under United Times to the other party.

Deputy Mayor Zhao Xun briefly presided over the meeting.

This was the first time the two parties met.

There is currently no definite plan on how the two parties will cooperate and what the content of the cooperation will be. This is the stage of mutual understanding in the marriage.

The meeting process is simple.

After Zhao Xun presided over the meeting, he introduced the situation in Lijin City. After finishing his studies in his previous life, Zhang Yunqi had been working and settling in Lijin City for more than 20 years, and had lived there for half of his life. Lijin was his second hometown. He had a deep understanding of the people's livelihood, consumption, and important industries in this land, as well as the structural contradictions at the economic level, and the deep-seated problems of land operation and investment and financing linkage.

Of course, he could have a say in Jiangchuan City and give Yang Jiarong all kinds of suggestions on core issues such as the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and rural land reform in order to avoid or delay the ills of the development of the times, but that was only after great trust and achievements.

In Lizhen City, he is just a guest now.

After Zhao Xun finished speaking, Yang Jin introduced Liansheng Group, Lianzhong Company and Zhangji Catering under United Times. She focused on Aiwa Electronics Company, and especially gave a comprehensive and detailed introduction to Zhang Yunqi's planned large-scale VCD player production base project with a monthly output of 100,000 units.

As a newcomer, United Times will develop and grow in this territory in the future, so it is necessary to let the other party know how powerful United Times is.

Even if it's just bragging, it still has to be awesome.

After Yang Jin made the introduction, Lu Feng asked, "Mr. Zhang, what plans does Aihua Electronics have in Lijin at the moment?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "Aihua Electronics has been established for nearly half a year, and the prototype has been produced. It is now in the trial production stage. The next key tasks are mainly channel building, marketing promotion and other market operation work. This time we came to Lijin, we are mainly preparing to place Aihua Electronics' operation center in Lijin City."

Lu Feng nodded and asked, "Boss Zhang, your large-scale production base that produces 100,000 DVD players per month has not yet been established in Jiangchuan City, right?"

"Yes." Zhang Yunqi smiled. Lufeng had grasped the key point. Compared with any operation center, a large-scale production base was more attractive to him.

Because this type of large-scale industrial production has a significant driving effect on economic transformation and upgrading, it can bring in value-added tax and other taxes, and can also create a large number of jobs.

On the other hand, there is a large room for improving industrial productivity and a strong learning effect, which can not only help local modernization, but also drive the development of the service industry and drive up commercial and residential land prices.

Furthermore, the upstream and downstream chains of industrial production are long, and the effects of industrial agglomeration and economies of scale are significant. If we can develop characteristic industrial clusters, such as the large-scale food production and processing industrial park built by Jiangchuan Liansheng Group in Longwan Town, this will have long-term competitive advantages and a stable source of tax revenue.

Lu Feng was not shy at all and asked directly: "What conditions did Jiangchuan offer you?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and glanced at Yang Jin.

Yang Jin, who was standing beside him, understood what he meant and immediately said, "Mayor Lu, Jiangchuan will plan 600 mu of industrial land for Aihua Electronics. After the city collects the land transfer fee, it will fully subsidize Aihua Electronics in the form of an industrial fund. In terms of taxation, the conditions are three exemptions and three reductions. Of course, there is also a series of talent and financial support. In addition, Jiangchuan State Investment Corporation is very interested in investing in Aihua Electronics, and we are still considering it."

Lu Feng was somewhat moved after hearing this.

600 acres of industrial land will be given away for free, taxes will be exempted three times and reduced by half three times, and Jiangchuan City’s wholly-owned state-owned investment company will also invest in Aiwa Electronics. This is to completely tie Jiangchuan and a private enterprise that has been established for less than half a year and has not even launched its products on the market.

Yang Jiarong is too radical!

He really spared no expense to build a large production base for Aiwa Electronics.

However, Lu Feng also knew that, at least so far, Yang Jiarong's bet on the young man Zhang Yunqi had been successful, earning him great fame and achievements in the southern Hunan region.

Jiangchuan City has always been the best among the 13 prefecture-level cities and one autonomous prefecture in the province in terms of handling major issues such as the disposal of a large number of redundant employees and the disposal of non-performing rates in state-owned enterprises. The laid-off workers who had been a headache for the local government have been stabilized, and Jiangchuan's public security has been stable and the social outlook has been renewed.

On the other hand, Jiangchuan City State Investment Corporation controlled a large amount of high-quality industrial land in the city center. While its assets were rapidly expanding, it used various methods such as leasing, developing professional markets, and selling land that had been changed from industrial land to commercial and residential land through a new land transfer model of "bidding and auctioning" at high prices. It effectively prevented the loss of state-owned assets and made huge profits.

At a time when everything is being centered on economic development to promote China's modernization, when local state-owned enterprises are half-dying, financially troubled, and plagued by complicated triangular debts, Jiangchuan, with its "Jiangchuan model", is going upstream and its finances are gradually replenished.

With such achievements made by Yang Jiarong, it is hard not to attract attention.

For him, promotion from city to province is just around the corner!

Lu Feng had visited Jiangchuan for an on-site inspection and witnessed one brand new thing after another with his own eyes. It was impossible for him to say that he had no ideas in his mind, but at present he had only briefly learned about the VCD player industry from Yang Jin's explanation. He knew very little about the market prospects and it was not easy for him to express a clear opinion.

Lu Feng thought for a moment, and said to Zhang Yunqi who was sitting opposite him: "Mr. Zhang, have you considered planning a large-scale production base for DVD players in Lijin? After all, Lijin is our provincial capital. The conditions in terms of talent, market, business environment, etc. are better than those in Jiangchuan. Of course, we will also fully support the development of Aiwa Electronics."

“Of course, compared with Jiangchuan City, the advantages of Lijin City at all levels are obvious. This is why we want to move the operation center to Lijin. We will definitely consider comprehensively establishing a large-scale production base here.” Zhang Yunqi’s mind is not as 18 years old as his appearance.

To his ears, Lu Feng's words sounded like sugar-coated bullets, so he responded with a bunch of sugar-coated bullets.

Don't take anything seriously outside of this meeting room.

However, he believed that Lu Feng would pay attention to this matter. After Aiwa Electronics' DVD player products were launched on the market, he would pay much attention to it. After the market exploded in 96, he would pay urgent attention to it.

Zhang Yunqi actually really needed Lufeng to make the conditions clearer and more practical. In his initial plan, Lizhen would become the headquarters of Aiwa Electronics and the base for its market operations. This would not be possible without the support of the city, especially since Aiwa Electronics would need huge amounts of capital support in the future. This would inevitably involve a series of investment and financing issues in cooperation with the city, as well as the support of high-tech talents from scientific research institutes. But he was not in a hurry. He was waiting for that day. As for how Lufeng would talk to him then, that would be a matter for the time being.

Next, the topic of both sides shifted to the issue of in-depth cooperation between the city and Liansheng Group, such as piloting farmers' shareholding cooperatives and high-standard farmland, creating agricultural production bases, establishing large-scale food production and processing parks, building state-owned platform companies and urban-rural factor docking platforms, cooperating with Liansheng Group to revitalize small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, and developing rural finance and rural asset management.

In these aspects, Jiangchuan already has stable and mature models and experiences. Lufeng particularly wants to attract investment and introduce Liansheng Group to replicate the "Jiangchuan Model" and "Yunxi Experience" in Lijin City and create a new model with Lijin characteristics.

As the provincial capital city of southern Hunan, Ritsu cannot let Jiangchuan steal all the limelight!

At the meeting, Lufeng showed great sincerity to Zhang Yunqi in this regard, saying that a series of supporting policy supports such as taxation and land planning, talents from agricultural universities and scientific research institutions, etc. can fully meet the requirements of Liansheng Group.

Zhang Yunqi has limited energy.

Aiwa Electronics' products were about to be launched on the market, and he was so busy that he couldn't sleep well. He could no longer take care of the affairs of Liansheng Group, so he asked Yang Jin to make minutes of the meeting and left the specific matters of the cooperation between the two parties to Li Jilin to lead.

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