Chapter 280 Jiujiang
Yang Xing and the others were riding on a military transport plane specially sent. Although they were very grand, the comfort of riding was really poor. After landing, he felt his butt hurt a little, and he was even more determined to buy his private plane. He thought that he was worth billions of dollars now, so there was no need to abuse himself. Even if the domestic route was controlled, he could still be used abroad. Moreover, with his relationship with the military and his current Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, he must be able to open two routes in China. Random personnel also felt very bad, only the new Jiao Bailing was calm and had no big impact. Wen Tian, who has always been confident in his makeup, enviously believed that Jiao Bailing must have been on business trips in the past. It was estimated that even if she flew from one end of the earth to the other end, she could maintain a perfect appearance after landing. This is the ability of a professional. You must learn more from her in the future.
They were still greeted by Cheng Canghai. After he arranged Yang Xing's entourage at the Jiujiang Municipal Party Committee Guesthouse, he took Yang Xing directly to the meeting site of Cheng Canghai and others. It was dark at this time, and he introduced the current tense situation to Yang Xing. Last time, Yang Xing wanted to say that Cheng Canghai helped him solve the credit guarantee of $10 billion, so he used the three major events of predicting the Indonesian crisis, the 98 flood and the Hong Kong dollar battle, and provided solutions to prove it. At that time, he talked about the biggest crisis of the flood in 1998, but not the natural disaster, and to give an example, the ground penetrating radar he imported from Sweden and installed on an air force aircraft to conduct a rough investigation of the embankment along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The conclusions drawn were very pessimistic. The surface of the Yangtze River embankment in many places was bright, but the interior was completely different. Some used bamboo bars instead of steel bars, and some did not even have steel bars!
Cheng Canghai got angry at that time. Afterwards, for the sake of safety, he also called the expert group of the Ministry of Water Resources, the military ground penetrating radar research institute and other units to conduct a survey of key areas that the aircraft felt, and the results were even more shocking! The national senior management was not determined to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the entire Yangtze River embankment. By early July, due to several heavy rainstorms in June, several major flood peaks appeared in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the National Meteorological Administration predicted that there would be continuous rainfall in July and August, and it was a prediction that there would be a once-in-a-century flood this year. The central government, who dared not slacken in this regard, decided to establish a joint command center, including the military, the National Meteorological Administration, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Flood Control and Drought Relief General Command, to fight the upcoming super flood peak of the Yangtze River.
Cheng Canghai, who was worried and rushed to Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other provinces in early July to mobilize and express condolences to cadres and military commanders and fighters who were fighting floods on the front line. However, when he inspected Jiujiang City, Jiangxi, Cheng Canghai's anger was ignited again. When he learned that the inside of the Jiujiang embankment was more than a month earlier than Yang Xing's memory, he shouted the famous "tofu" project! He strictly ordered a thorough investigation of the quality problems in the construction of the main embankment of the Yangtze River, and he stayed in Jiujiang and asked to get the results as soon as possible.
This 1998 flood was a severe test for the entire Yangtze River basin after the 1954 flood. According to Secretary Cheng Canghai, this time, it was already very unhappy after only surveying the flood control situation in the main waters of the Yangtze River. In addition to the fact that many embankments have been disrepaired and there were a lot of engineering problems during reconstruction, there were also many years of not paying attention to environmental protection, which led to frequent geological dangers in many areas. When floods come, it is easy to cause secondary geological disasters. In addition, the Yangtze River did not produce heavy floods for many years, which made many ordinary people lose their vigilance and compete for land with the Yangtze River lakes. Many planned flood passages in flood discharge areas have been occupied by man-made, forming a wonder of the middle of the river and the riverbanks. Once the flood comes, thousands of ordinary people in these civilians will be a catastrophe, artificially exacerbating the difficulty of flood prevention.
Cheng Canghai and his team inspected all the way, and after learning about these situations, they were burned inside. After the expert group of the Ministry of Water Resources took out the on-site research report of the Jiujiang Dike and pointed out that the Jiujiang Dike did not have the ability to resist floods at all, he slapped the table and scolded the project as "scratch" and "bastards", which became synonymous with the lowest-quality projects in the future. Because a new round of flood peaks in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has been formed, now is no longer the time to hold the responsible persons accountable, but to try our best to ensure the safety of the Jiujiang Dike and the safety of hundreds of thousands of people in Jiujiang City behind him!
In response, the local flood control command decided to temporarily build another embankment on the inside of the Jiujiang embankment, and build a temporary sub-dike on the original embankment, and send people to various low-lying points in the city to jointly inspect to prevent dangerous situations such as waterlogging and pipe surges. In addition to calling Yang Xing over urgently, in addition to calling a large amount of funds and materials he had prepared long ago, Cheng Canghai and his friends hoped that a batch of high-tech equipment developed by Xingdou Research Institute, such as rapid assembly of flood control sub-dikes and special equipment for flood control, can show their skills and reduce the pressure on flood control.
In order to get Cheng Canghai to agree to bear a credit guarantee of US$10 billion, Yang Xing also tried his best to minimize the losses caused by floods to the people of the country. At the beginning of the founding of the Xingdou Research Institute, he established a department to study disaster prevention and mitigation equipment, which specialized research on natural disaster prevention and drought relief, disease transmission, fires and earthquakes, and developed a batch of professional disaster relief equipment. Since last year, Yang Xing has also allocated funds from tight funds to allow Xingchen Manufacturing to manufacture a batch of flood prevention equipment to be stored in many urban warehouses along the Yangtze River. It is publicized to be the inventory of Xinghai Trade.
In addition, relying on Xinghai Trading, he hoarded a large number of construction machinery, tents, sleeping bags and other disaster relief supplies in logistics network storage centers in major cities across the country. Now these preparations finally came in handy. Although Yang Xing insisted on not promoting the role of his company in flood control, many interested people knew the role of Zhongxing Group's enterprise through the trademarks printed on these materials. Municipal officials along the Yangtze River were very grateful for this. So when the officials from Jiujiang City and Jiangxi Province who were in the meeting saw Cheng Canghai's secretary suddenly appearing at the venue with a young man, they were surprised. When they heard that Yang Xing was the president of Zhongxing International, they all looked at him with admiration and cleverly understood that the Prime Minister had called his wallets. It seemed that Jiujiang's troubles were saved.
Jiujiang is located at the junction of the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake. It is a star city on the Yangtze River waterway and one of the earliest cities for foreign trade in China. The city's strength is firmly ranked second in Jiangxi. Jiujiang Yangtze River embankment is the main embankment on the Yangtze River main road. Yang Xing remembers that the only major danger of collapse in the Yangtze River main embankment was here. Therefore, the more effort he puts in here after he was reborn. At the beginning of this year, he struggled to overcome the opposition and built a central reserve warehouse of Xinghai Logistics under Xinghai Trading in the name of building a "hundred cities and thousands of stores" in Xinghai Trading. In addition, a distribution and transportation port for large items was set up here at the Yangtze River Wharf. The large construction machinery placed in the warehouse far exceeded the needs of the local construction market. At that time, many people in the group did not understand it and thought that this was just spending money randomly and throwing money into the water. It was not that Cha Guoqiang, the founder of the group and the director of Zhongxing International, came here to sit in the formation in person, and it was probably a big fuss.
Yang Xing knew the losses, but even though he knew that a great disaster was coming to his compatriots, he really could not take it indifferently. He believed that God gave him the opportunity to be reborn, which might have allowed him to use the wealth in his hands to do some practical things for society. Although he didn't speak much in the venue, the leaders of Jiangxi and Jiujiang City, who were quick to react, were all considering his water-saving charity funds. However, they also understood Yang Xing's special identity. He had close ties with Cheng Canghai and had close contacts with other senior officials in the country. The role he played in the Indonesian incident did not understand the mainland officials, but the news that he received a 10 billion US dollar investment from the Indonesian Chinese is well known. The title of "famous patriotic businessman" was called him in the news broadcast. This time, he donated 100 million Hong Kong dollars to the Yangtze River flood in his personal capacity!
In China, all those involved in religion, ethnicity and overseas relations are extremely sensitive political topics. Although these leaders are drooling at Yang Xing's property, they don't want to be flirted with mutton. Zhongxing Group companies donated money to the local area and they are warmly entertained and dare not make any unfair requests. But now that the Prime Minister has come forward to invite him, it is naturally a good opportunity for the lion to speak out. So Yang Xing, who attended the Jiujiang City flood prevention emergency meeting as a non-party businessman, was deliberately ignored by everyone, and everyone pretended that nothing had happened to continue the meeting.
Yang Xing knew that the crisis was imminent and there was no need to be pretentious. When Cheng Canghai and Vice Premier Wen Rengui asked him whether he could first allocate the disaster relief materials in his company's Jiujiang Warehouse to the Jiujiang Flood Control Command, he happily said that there was no problem at all and notified his subordinates directly on the spot to prepare for the transfer of materials. Contact the Jiujiang Municipal Government and ask for money and materials as long as you want!
He also took out a list of materials to the two prime ministers. Wen Rengui, who was in charge of the command of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Command, was shocked when he saw it. The materials stored by Zhongxing Group in many material warehouses along the Yangtze River were densely packed with, many of which were more perfect than the national emergency material storage warehouse. I thought to myself that everyone at the Politburo Standing Committee said that this "Shancai Boy" was Cheng Canghai's treasure pot. He had fully guaranteed to provide a guarantee of 10 billion US dollars for his Zhongxing International. Now it seems that Premier Cheng is far-sighted and has indeed received a generous return!
When he saw the list, he also listed the $1 billion donation raised by Yang Xing from overseas. Wen Rengui, who has always been steady, gave people the impression that he always spoke slowly. He held the list and his hands couldn't help but tremble slightly. This is not the era of 1 dollar for 6 dollars more than ten years later. Now the official price of 1 dollar is close to 9 yuan. At the time of the most violent Asian financial storm, overseas financial institutions almost unanimously believed that the RMB would follow the footsteps of Thai baht, Taiwan dollar, and Korean won and chose to depreciate significantly. At that time, 1 dollar could even be exchanged for 10 yuan or even a higher denomination RMB. 1 billion US dollars is equal to 10 billion yuan at this time, which is equivalent to half of the allocation of funds for the entire Yangtze River main embankment after this flood!
Chapter completed!