Chapter 259 New Planning for the City of Science and Technology
Bai Shuo invited Dong Wenkai to get in the car and immediately asked about Li Zhen.
It turned out that a few days ago, Dong Wenkai led a team to conduct exploration in the Nanshui Town area, and met Li Zhen alone on the beach. Li Zhen was curious about Dong Wenkai's work, so she took the initiative to chat with him. After that, they walked together for two days.
, until returning to Huai'an County.
Li Zhen learned that although Dong Wenkai is a native of Huai'an, he has been diligent and studious since he was a child. Not only was he admitted to the Architecture and Planning major of South China Institute of Technology with excellent results, he was also recommended to study abroad after graduation and received a master's degree in urban planning and design from MIT.
of doctoral degree.
Later, Dong Wenkai gave up the generous treatment abroad, resolutely returned to China and chose his hometown of Bagui Province. He wanted to show what he had learned in his life and plan and build a more beautiful city for his hometown. However, due to the weak economic foundation of Bagui
The government does not have so many resources to engage in urban construction. Even Yongcheng, the provincial capital, is far behind second- and third-tier cities in other developed provinces.
But Dong Wenkai was not willing to give in. He kept submitting his suggestions and plans to the superiors. In order to insist on his own opinions, he contradicted his superiors several times, and was eventually suppressed and excluded.
Dong Wenkai felt that he could not develop his talents in the provincial capital, so he applied to be transferred to a local area. However, Dong Wenkai was still not welcomed in the local city, and he was transferred to his hometown of Huai'an County.
Here, there is no place for Dong Wenkai to perform. Every day he deals with trivial matters. Building green belts and isolation fences on the roads in the county is the biggest thing.
In addition to telling his own experience, Dong Wenkai couldn't help but talk to Li Zhen about his thoughts on the planning of his hometown. Li Zhen had heard Bai Shuo mention these things in bits and pieces, but now he was on the ground and heard Dong Wenkai talk about it from another place.
Told from one angle, it gives a different feeling.
In the end, Li Zhen determined that Dong Wenkai was a rare talent and would be of great help to Bai Shuo's plan. He also convinced Dong Wenkai to stay here and wait for Bai Shuo and give Bai Shuo some help.
Only then did Bai Shuo fully understand what was going on behind Li Zhen's QQ updates.
The car had returned to the hotel. Bai Shuo looked at the gift given to him by Li Zhen in surprise, and invited Dong Wenkai to the hotel to continue the discussion in detail.
In addition to Bai Shuo, Cao An, Li Fei, Xiao Lin, and Anna all gathered together to examine the treasure discovered by Li Zhen from their own perspectives.
"Although I believe in Li Zhen's recommendation, I still trust my own judgment more. Generally speaking, arrogant people have some abilities. Let us see your arrogant capital today."
Bai Shuo threw the words away.
Dong Wenkai smiled slightly: "Wrong, I am not arrogant, I am just driven crazy by those people. It is a pity that I have nowhere to put what I have learned in my life, and I have many ideas in my heart but cannot be put into practice. Anyone will become
Getting more and more impatient..."
Bai Shuo nodded: "Indeed, I can understand your difficulties. I heard that you majored in urban planning and design. I have a big project here, so I can ask you for advice."
"You're talking about the 'Technology New City' plan you're planning to build in the Nanshui area, right?"
Li Fei was stunned and said: "Haha, this plan is still in the preliminary preparation stage. We haven't officially named it yet. We usually call it a new city plan. How do you know it is a new science and technology city?"
Dong Wenkai smiled and said: "This plan has made so much noise recently, who doesn't know! I have worked in the government for a long time, and I am very familiar with this business. Although you have not officially named it, I have heard that
They say that you plan to invest hundreds of billions in the first phase, acquire more than 300,000 acres of land, and there will be a second and third phase later... Why is this not to build a new city?"
Bai Shuo smiled and said nothing. Dong Wenkai continued: "I also heard that your initial plan is to build a pollution-free ecological project. In order to achieve this goal, some new technologies and new energy sources need to be used as support. Of course, ecological
Environmental protection is just a manifestation of a local environment, but not a specific function. I think the core that can really support this project is what else besides new technology? It is not an exaggeration to call it a city of science and technology."
"Okay, City of Science and Technology, yes. From today on, this plan will be called City of Science and Technology." Bai Shuo smiled again.
Then he looked at Cao An and others, and then said: "In fact, there are some things we don't understand internally about this plan. Everyone thinks it is very irrational for me to spend so much money on such a big project in such a barren land.
. Just like you, you have no knowledge, but insist on returning to this place where you can't stretch your ambitions. Even if you don't stay abroad, going to some economically developed cities in China will be a thousand times better than now."
Dong Wenkai smiled disdainfully: "Barren land? I admit that my insistence on returning here is indeed due to a little hometown sentiment, but it is by no means blindly attributing all my ambitions to sentiment. This place we are in is by no means
What a barren land."
"oh?"
Dong Wenkai quickly took out a folded map from the briefcase he brought.
"A city cannot build a building without its overall planning, and a city's overall planning must combine its geographical location, economy, people's livelihood and other characteristics."
As he spoke, Dong Wenkai fully unfolded the map on a large table, pointed at Huai'an and said: "Our place is connected to Fujian and Guangdong in the east, the ocean in the south, the countries in South Asia in the west, and the four western provinces in the north. If we can build a
A modern large city will soon become China's economic center and logistics hub connecting South Asia. I estimate that in the future our country will gradually strengthen its development and construction of the western region, and its cooperation with South Asian countries will also become closer.
This is our opportunity. Being able to build such a city is not unrealistic, but it adapts to the situation and emerges as the times require.”
"Okay!" Bai Shuo slapped the table suddenly, and everyone in Cao An was startled.
"Finally I met someone who understands..." Bai Shuo happily pulled Dong Wenkai, as if he had met a close friend.
"Then what do you think should be done about this plan?"
Dong Wenkai thought for a while: "I think there is a problem with your thinking first."
Bai Shuo was surprised: "Why?"
"I can understand that such a big plan cannot be accomplished overnight and needs to be implemented gradually and in phases. However, the planning of the entire city must be considered holistically. If like you, 300,000 acres will be built in the first phase and 300,000 acres in the second phase.
I don’t know how many to build, so how to do the overall planning? In the end, the whole city can only be broken into pieces. On the surface, they seem to be connected together, but many functions and systems are difficult to form an organic whole.”
"It makes some sense, what do you think..." Bai Shuo nodded.
Dong Wenkai said seriously: "The construction of the project can be carried out piece by piece according to actual needs, but the overall plan needs to be drawn up first."
As he said that, Dong Wenkai pointed on the map again: "From Xiampang, Fangcheng, and Xiwan to the east, to Laliang, Bava Mountains to the west, and to Huai'an in the north, this area is all included in the overall plan."
Li Fei stared at the area painted by Dong Wenkai and said: "Such a large area, the total area is probably nearly 2 million acres."
Dong Wenkai sighed: "About 1,400 square kilometers, or 2.1 million acres."
"What?!" Cao An exclaimed: "More than 1,400 square kilometers? Isn't that much smaller than Shenzhen Port? Or...bigger than Hong Kong Island?!"
Bai Shuo was also a little surprised: "Mr. Dong, it might not be easy to do something so big from the beginning. We can plan according to this first, and the specific implementation will still be based on the original plan, and then gradually push in this direction.
…”
"Haha..." Dong Wenkai sneered: "After your 300,000 acres are built, do you think the rest of the land can be implemented according to your ideas so easily?"
Bai Shuo's eyes shrank. Indeed, if we don't take over the entire planned land now, things may not be the same in the second and third phases. If we can't get the land behind it as planned,
Then the whole project will be abandoned halfway.
"Hey...I am accompanying you to go crazy. Such a plan is not something that businessmen like you can do. Even if the country can approve it and provide policies, do you have the strength? I think you are just borrowing this project.
It's just a gimmick, but it actually has another purpose..."
Cao An said angrily: "Who are you looking down on? If we don't have the strength, who else can have this strength?"
Dong Wenkai asked disdainfully: "How much money can you provide? Do you know how much such a plan will cost?"
"How much money can we ask for? If 100 billion is not enough, we will invest another 100 billion. If it is not enough, we will invest another 100 billion. Things that can be solved with money are no longer problems." Cao An said dissatisfied.
"Haha, you are really a bumpkin. I don't even know my last name if I have a lot of money. To carry out such a project, the investment would be at least tens of trillions, or even hundreds of billions."
Cao An was frightened by this number and looked at Li Fei blankly: "He...is what he said true?"
Li Fei nodded: "Maybe it's more than that. You think building a city is as simple as that."
Cao An looked at everyone in shock and said nothing.
At this time, Bai Shuo stepped forward: "Mr. Dong, you are right. Our current strength is definitely not enough to complete such a large project. However... this large investment does not require all preparations at once.
, the completion of the entire plan may take three, five, or even ten years, or longer... and the application of capital is not what you think. It is not unusual to use tens of billions to leverage trillions of investments.
Anyway, I will definitely carry out this plan, no matter how difficult it is."
Dong Wenkai re-examined Bai Shuo: "Do you really want to implement this plan? Instead of just doing it as a gimmick, just come here and do it, make a fortune and leave?"
Bai Shuo nodded sincerely: "I am not just talking about this project on a whim, I will make it become a reality step by step, and I will make this place undergo earth-shaking changes from this moment on..."