Chapter 205 Is Ye Ping going to reopen the concession?!
Mingzhu City's originally tight economic situation began to become easier after Pudong New Area began to promote the land leasing policy.
According to statistics from the city government, more than 1 billion US dollars of funds have been accounted for now, and the funds that will be received in three years will reach 10 billion US dollars, which is an astonishing number!
You know, the country’s foreign exchange earnings last year only just reached this figure.
Of course, this is just an introduction to the re-emergence of Mingzhu City. The launch of the land leasing policy not only provided funds for the reconstruction of Mingzhu City's old city, but also attracted a large number of overseas large companies to come to Mingzhu City and start to take root.
It is conceivable that in a few years, these large enterprises will bring a lot of production capacity, create more material wealth for Mingzhu City, and snowball the development funds of Mingzhu City to make it bigger and stronger.
When Mayor Wu Yuanshan came to see Ye Ziping, he brought some data reports.
Ziping invited him to drink coffee. Wu Yuanshan was a man who knew the goods. After drinking it, he was surprised and said, "Oh, authentic Blue Mountain coffee! This thing is rare to see!"
"My brother-in-law brought it back when he went abroad. It tastes pretty good." Ziping said with a smile.
Wu Yuanshan nodded. Zi Ping's sister Zi Rong is currently a director of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and her husband Li Yichen, who once served as ambassador to the United States and is currently the deputy minister of foreign affairs, often goes out.
It can be said that if people in China can taste some good things from outside, these people will definitely be the first to get it.
Ziping looked through the data reports and found that the contents were a summary of recent work, including fiscal revenue, income from land leasing policies, etc., as well as the budgets of some large projects planned by the municipal government.
It should be said that the cadres here in Mingzhu City still pay more attention to the effectiveness of their work. Although Mayor Wu Yuanshan was not promoted to Secretary as he wished, he did not bring his personal emotions into his work. On the contrary, he worked harder.
This is something that makes Ye Ziping admire. He is also looking forward to his term in Mingzhu City. He hopes that he can do his job well in these ten years and leave something worth remembering for the people of Mingzhu City.
benefit.
After reading the data report, Ye Ziping felt quite satisfied. The Mingzhu Municipal Government was a pragmatic and efficient government, and Mayor Wu Yuanshan contributed a lot to it.
"Actually, these are the foundations laid by the first two leaders. I am just sitting back and enjoying the success." Wu Yuanshan himself was relatively modest, waving his hands at Ye Ziping's praises and not daring to take credit for God's work for himself.
"When Comrade Hong Zheng took office in Mingzhu City, he was limited by the funding gap and was unable to carry out municipal construction, so he could only focus on infrastructure construction with foreign debts." Wu Yuanshan recalled what happened at the beginning. "Before the Nanpu Bridge, the municipal government borrowed money from the Asian Development Bank.
For small and medium-sized enterprises and the construction of the Suzhou River sewage system, I think it has basically had no effect on urban development. However, since the Nanpu Bridge, Mingzhu City has begun to use international loans for municipal construction, and the results have been much more obvious."
Ziping listened and nodded.
At that time, the total investment in Nanpu Bridge was more than 200 million US dollars, of which 70 million was an ADB loan.
Since this is the first infrastructure construction that Mingzhu City has applied for an ADB loan, the ADB's terms are very strictly enforced. In addition to the construction profession, there are also a large number of legal contracts. The time and project progress of each node are very strict.
There is an acceptance system, and funding will continue only if the quality standards are met on time, and each item is guaranteed by legal texts.
"The situation of the Mingzhu City Government at that time could be said to be that it was penniless and could not demolish residents on a large scale. There was no land to settle on the Puxi section of the approach bridge, so the approach bridge could only spiral down like butterfly wings." Wu Yuanshan recalled what happened that year.
"The shape of this bridge is a testament to that time. As the largest economic center in the country, it was so short of funds just to build a city-wide bridge across the river. The only thing missing was money."
"At that time, Comrade Hong Zheng said that when cooperating with the ADB, we must keep our word, do what we say, and repay what we borrow, and it will not be difficult to borrow again." Wu Yuanshan said, "The Nanpu Bridge was built in December 1988 and completed in 1991.
February happened to be the time of the Nanmen Incident. Comrade Hong Zheng’s passionate TV speech that year was seen by many people, but no one saw him on camera in order to retain the influential foreign business firm in Mingzhu City at that time.
He did it even harder. At that time, Mingzhu City itself was not developing much, and the municipal construction had just turned to external loans and had not yet achieved results. Probably, except for him, the head of the family, no one really understood the huge pressure he had to do this.
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"It is said that the construction of the Nanpu Bridge reached a certain point at that time, but the ADB has not come for a long time. Without the people, it cannot be inspected, and the money cannot come. Usually, the so-called contractual responsibility is more important than anything else is used to deal with us. They said they won't come if they don't come.
There was nothing we could do. In the end, Comrade Hong Zheng gritted his teeth and told Mingzhu City to advance the money itself but also guarantee the construction period." Wu Yuanshan said, "Later, ADB finally realized its conscience and finally gave a good word, saying that Mingzhu City has implemented the contract as a model, and it can be done in the future.
Inspection is exempted. When the Yangpu Bridge was refinanced for the second time, it was considered a safe project of ADB. In the end, ADB took pride in the Nanpu Bridge loan project as a successful example. Think about this, it is true that a man is poor but his ambition is short, and a horse is thin and hairy.
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"These are the limitations of the times. In fact, if Mingzhu City started leasing land at that time, it could also solve the financial problem." Ye Ziping said, "But because of the great pressure from all aspects, this matter was not completed."
"So I admire you Ye Shuji very much." Wu Yuanshan said with emotion, "Comrade Jiang Cheng and Comrade Hong Zheng have both considered this work, but neither of them has made a decision in the city. It can be seen that they are facing difficulties."
The resistance was so great that now Secretary Ye has just come to work in Mingzhu City, and despite the pressure, he resolutely decided to promote the land leasing policy, and the financial dilemma of the municipal government was solved in one fell swoop.”
Wu Yuanshan's admiration for Zi Ping should be said to be more sincere. After all, with the money in the city, first of all, his confidence as the mayor has become much stronger, and various tasks have become much easier to carry out. He has become the leader of the family.
Money, the people below are willing to obey.
Of course, not all cadres and the masses agree with the land leasing policy. In fact, most people are opposed to it.
It's just that this matter is something that Ye Ziping needs to consider, and it doesn't have much to do with him as the mayor.
It has just entered November, and a cold wave has hit, making the people of Mingzhu City feel that winter is approaching.
In the north, the forces opposed to the land leasing policy finally became one and strongly criticized Mingzhu City's practices.
Beijing [Harmony] city party newspaper invariably appeared a voice, that is, the land leasing policy implemented by the Mingzhu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government is a reversal of history. Some veteran cadres stood up and threatened Ye Ziping to implement the land leasing policy in Mingzhu City.
This practice was criticized as an act of reopening concessions and selling land to foreigners.
“Leasing land means selling land!”
"Zi Ziping is going to reverse the course of history!"
"Is Ziping planning to reopen the concession?!"
All kinds of big hats were put on Ye Ziping's head in an instant, so many that even he could not count them.
Ye Kai has been busy recently with East China Shen Yun, as well as buying land in Pudong and preparing for large-scale construction. But even so, it was impossible for him not to hear the voices of these veteran cadres, so he ran
Come back.
"How come the recent rumors have reversed so drastically?" Ye Kai expressed doubts about this.
Logically speaking, although the high-level officials did not express clear support for Mingzhu City's land leasing policy, they did not express any clear opposition either. So the attitude towards this policy is to wait, take a look, and then draw a conclusion.
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But less than two months after the work in Mingzhu City started, such fierce opposition suddenly appeared. What does this mean? Someone in Beijing [Harmony] City must be deliberately creating conflicts, thinking
He wants to arouse everyone's dissatisfaction with Ye Ziping, and then cause a major blow to the old Ye family!
Who is causing trouble behind the scenes? Ye Kai is not very clear in his heart, but he just feels that these big guys at the central level do not need to do this.
"A group of veteran cadres, Hou Laosan's ex-father-in-law may be the instigator behind this..." Ye Ziping's source of information is more powerful. After hearing his son's question, he said somewhat helplessly.
"Hey, this old man really doesn't want to calm down." Ye Kai scratched his head a little after hearing this.
There is really nothing we can do about this old man.
The key is that his qualifications are relatively old, and he is a decent person. He has never done anything illegal or disciplined, and he is also very honest. As the saying goes, he is strong without trouble. If he doesn't have any braids, you can't do anything to him.
Already.
Moreover, veteran cadres like him are actually a very large group in terms of numbers. They have nothing to do after they have enough to eat all day long. If they care about national [harmony] affairs and express their sense of existence, that is also
It is only natural that many cadres who have retired will always feel that this or that is not pleasing to their eyes, and there will definitely be a lot of complaints. Once someone instigates them, they can turn this resentment into a powerful force, and even influence
to the direction of the political situation.
This is exactly the situation today.
"The key point is that this trend is very troublesome. I am considering whether to go to Beijing [Harmony] City to explain the Pearl City's point of view on this issue." Ye Ziping was also a little confused at this time.
I haven't made up my mind, I just feel that I can't let the situation continue to develop like this.
After hearing this, Ye Kai thought about it for a while, shook his head to stop and said, "Don't be impatient until the opportunity arrives!"!