Chapter 108: Long-term thinking, mountains and rivers return

"The development of Tongcheng requires a good positioning, which is very important." Zhao Guodong stood on the bridgehead of Tongcheng Wujiang Bridge and looked at the two sides of the river. "At this point, Tongcheng might as well learn from Ningling how to scientifically plan the development direction of the main urban area, how to guide industrial development in a targeted manner, especially industrial development that promotes the development of the entire city. I think the Tongcheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government should have a clear idea."

Wei Chongtai and Xu Bicheng stood on both sides of Zhao Guodong, with Luo Rui, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor Gui Quanyou all followed him.

"I don't hide my own views. I have some opinions on the idea of ​​planning the development of the chemical industry in the early stage. It is not entirely because there is something wrong with the cooperation project between Tongcheng Petrochemical and BASF. The key is that your municipal party committee and government must have long-term plans and cannot be achieved wherever you are. When it comes to wind, it will disrupt the entire layout."

"The terrain of Tongcheng is quite complex, especially the urban area is located along the river valley. If you plan to lay the petrochemical industrial zone along the river, of course, from the perspective of transportation and water supply, it has indeed reduced the cost pressure and improved the competitiveness of the enterprise. However, if you think that the pressure of safety and environmental protection will be greatly increased. If you want to make up for this, you must require enterprises to raise the fortification standards in safety assessment settings. This is the first. The environmental protection department of your city must be resolute, strict, conscientious and in place for environmental protection supervision of these chemical enterprises. This is not to make a difficult point for any enterprise, but to be responsible to the people of the entire Tongcheng city and the people in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River and even the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Otherwise, once an environmental accident occurs, it can be said that the Tongcheng Municipal Committee and even the Anyuan Provincial Committee cannot bear this responsibility!"

Everyone behind Zhao Guodong was speechless. The lessons of the major safety accident in Tongcheng Petrochemical were profound. Gu Yuanshan, director of the Provincial Safety Supervision Bureau, was dismissed. Xu Bicheng and Luo Rui were also implicated, especially Xu Bicheng was even more affected as mayor. Luo Rui saved his life because of the meeting minutes at the municipal government executive meeting. At that time, he did raise the issue of safety supervision and proposed that the safety supervision departments at the provincial and municipal levels must strengthen daily supervision and inspection to ensure that the enterprises must not violate regulations during the construction process. It was this meeting minutes that saved his political future and did not bear too much responsibility in the subsequent handling. In Lu Weihong's operation, he could further transform himself into a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee.

Of course, from a certain perspective, Luo Rui was also implicated. If there were no such accident, Luo Rui would probably have to play the role of Gui Quanyou. Now Gui Quanyou has taken this role, which makes Luo Rui feel a little sad. Fortunately, being a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee is a bad progress. As long as the opportunity is right, it may not be impossible to take a step further. Especially after Lu Weihong became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Municipal Party Committee, he was also very interested in transferring Luo Rui to Pennsylvania to work. However, the team has changed for the first time and we still have to wait for the opportunity.

"I am not against Tongcheng's determination of the petrochemical industry as a pillar industry. Each place has its own different characteristics and conditions. It is understandable that Tongcheng's determination of the petrochemical industry as a pillar industry. The key is that we, as decision makers, must have a clear mind, and the particularity of the petrochemical industry must fully consider this. The work of extending and penetrating the petrochemical industry to refined and downstream industrial chains must keep up. Don't be addicted to extensive management, but focus on how to develop horizontally and vertically in the entire industrial chain to form a large-scale systematic industrial cluster with the main trunk and side branches."

"Governor, our city is already considering this issue. The petrochemical industry has a certain foundation in our Tongcheng. As you said, we must strive to make the petrochemical industry bigger and more detailed, and develop in both horizontal and vertical directions. In addition, we have some considerations. As the Nanhua-Tongcheng Railway is about to start construction and even extend to Enshi, Hubei, this railway has been determined as a strategic railway for poverty alleviation construction and is expected to start construction next year. The Antong Expressway construction plan from Andu to Tongcheng has also been officially reported to the National Development and Reform Commission. Our Tongcheng plans to rely on railway and highway construction development to vigorously develop the logistics industry and agricultural and sideline product processing industry, and use Tongcheng's rich green agricultural and sideline product resources to build a modern logistics and modern agricultural industrial base." Wei Chongtai continued.

"Well, Lao Wei, this is the best way to do so. Don't stay at the achievements you have made. Tongcheng has rich natural resources. Once the traffic bottleneck is broken, it should gain its development prospects and status. At this point, the Tongcheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government must have enough courage and a far-reaching perspective to look at the development issues. The Tongning Highway First-Class Highway Renovation Project has been approved and will start construction next month. It is expected that the entire line will be completed in one year, which will also be of great benefit to the development of Tongcheng."

After thinking about it, Zhao Guodong considered his words and continued: "Ningling's economy has developed to this point. It should be no problem to break through 400 billion this year. Tongcheng's GDP is less than 40 billion, less than one tenth of Ningling. So with the further upgrading of Ningling's industrial economy, this means that some industrial structures need to be transferred. Tongcheng can be the best recipient of Ningling's industrial transfer. Compared with Yongliang, Tongcheng has advantages in railways and water and land transportation, especially as the road bottleneck is further broken, its advantages can be further highlighted. Tongcheng must firmly seize this opportunity and promote the further takeoff of Tongcheng's economy."

Zhao Guodong's words made Wei Chongtai and Xu Bicheng's eyes lit up. Ningling's economy ushered in another bumper year this year. Although it has declined slightly compared to the previous year, the huge base makes it equivalent to Tongcheng's output value even if it grows by one percentage point. Such a huge gap makes Tongcheng a little hard to see. Ningling's industry has entered a period of transformation, some power equipment and materials industries and some auto parts industries in Xijiang District and Ningling Economic and Technological Development Zone have also begun to transfer production bases outward, and Tongcheng is undoubtedly the most suitable place to go. Wang Lie once mentioned this to Zhao Guodong. Of course, as the Ningling Municipal Party Committee, it does not want these industries to be transferred outward, but considering the need for industrial structure upgrading, especially some industries with large pollution and noise and smaller scale transfers outward, it is also an inevitable trend. Therefore, Zhao Guodong also reminded Tongcheng to make preparations in advance.

The investigation of Tongcheng and Qianzhou made Zhao Guodong deeply realize that in Anyuan, a province with more than 70 million, there are also developed study books such as Andu, Ningling and Mianzhou, which are increasingly developing economic development, as well as declining cities such as Tongcheng, Qianzhou and Luhua. Although the situation of Tongcheng and Luhua has improved, and Qianzhou is also struggling to transform from agricultural economy to industrial economy, it is undeniable that the gap between backward areas and developed areas has reached an unimaginable situation.

Eight years ago, Ningling's GDP was only 15 times that of Tongcheng, but now it has widened to ten times. The obvious gap has been widened in the era of two party committees and governments. You cannot say that the Tongcheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government has not made any efforts in recent years, nor can you say that the Tongcheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government team has not had the ability, but it often lacks the ability and timing in terms of ideas and grasping the opportunity. Once this opportunity is lost and is seized by others, it may form a distance like an unfathomable gully.

Just as if you want to catch up with Ningling in Tongcheng now, it is almost impossible. If the team masters decision-making and execution well and can gradually narrow the gap with surrounding cities, it will be a very rare achievement. Under the huge pressure of competition, other cities will also find ways to compete.

As the economic development model is becoming more and more mature, it is no longer realistic to expect another one to go against the will of the sky alone.

How to narrow the gap between developed and poor areas has become a real problem that plagues Anyuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. Even Ling Zhengyue and Zhao Guodong are quite optimistic about Luhua. The best estimate is that they can strive to make Luhua reach the provincial average within five to ten years. This is based on the premise that the Luhua Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government can correctly implement economic development strategies and keenly capture development opportunities.

At present, there have been some new changes in the economic structure of Anyuan. Mianzhou has risen again with the help of the construction of the Pipaxi Science and Technology Corridor and the prosperity of the national defense industry. The economy has shown rapid growth for three consecutive years. It has surpassed Huaiqing again and entered the first echelon again. It has formed a three-way situation with Ningling and Andu. Although the gap between Mianzhou and Ningling and Andu is still far away, judging from the current development trend of Mianzhou, it is very likely that GDP will exceed 200 billion in two to three years. Huaiqing, Jianyang and Yongliang, the three former hope stars, are obviously lacking in development potential. After GDP exceeded 60 billion, it seems that they have fallen into a plateau state, with a significant decline in growth rate, and economic development cannot find a breakthrough point. If Yongliang can still be explained by the difficult adjustment of the industrial structure, then Huaiqing and Jianyang will be more like they cannot find a direction of development.

The development of Pennsylvania and Blue Mountain in recent years can only be said to be unsatisfactory, with neither obvious highlights nor do they form dominant industries. In a word, it is plain and gradually slipped to the third level, forming the third sector with Nanhua and Tang Jiang, who is rising from the sluggishness. Tang Jiang is trying to get rid of the shadow of the third sector through further development and strive to enter the second echelon.
Chapter completed!