King of Industry

The Spring Festival in 1995 was not destined to be peaceful.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, when Zhao Guoyang's family was reuniting with his uncle's family, the phone in the house suddenly rang.

Hearing the sound of the phone, Uncle He Guoping, who was about to have a drink with Zhao Guoyang, hurriedly put down his glass and said, "Guoyang, go answer the phone first, and drink this glass later..."

Speaking of which, it goes without saying who this call is for, and everyone knows it.

The reason is simple, the phone in this house doesn't ring a few times throughout the year.

But as soon as Zhao Guoyang came back, people called him every few days.

Especially during the Chinese New Year period, the calls for New Year's greetings are one after another.

Therefore, Uncle He Guoping naturally guessed that the call was for his nephew.

After apologizing to his uncle and aunt, Zhao Guoyang hurried back to the house and picked up the phone.

"Hi, is this Guoyang? I'm Zhuo Qingfeng!"

On the phone, a deep voice rang.

Hearing this familiar voice, Zhao Guoyang let out an "ah", and immediately greeted him: "Leader Zhuo, hello, hello, happy new year..."

While talking auspicious words to the leader, Zhao Guoyang also murmured in his heart: Why did the leader Zhuo call him all of a sudden? Shouldn't he have any tasks for himself?

Last year, Leader Zhuo had joined the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and served as the executive deputy leader.

On the first day after taking office, Leader Zhuo called Zhao Guoyang and asked him to find a way to help "Jinling Automobile Group Company" with a new project.

The reason why Zhao Guoyang was given such a "death order" was also because Leader Zhuo had already learned how fast Zhao Guoyang's career was developing in SJ City.

In the eyes of this big shot, a talent like Zhao Guoyang was taken away by SJ City in this way, and his own Jiangnan Province was too bad.

But there is no way, this is a done deal, and it will definitely not work if you want to forcefully pull him back, you can only find a way from other places.

Zhao Guoyang's most capable thing is his technology. After careful consideration, Leader Zhuo gave him such a problem, asking him to make a new product for "Jinling Automobile Group Company".

Under Leader Zhuo's order, Zhao Guoyang dared not neglect, and rushed to Jinling the next day to pay a visit to the boss, and at the same time promised to produce a new product for "Jinling Automobile Group Company" as soon as possible.

For this matter, Zhao Guoyang has been busy in Jinling City for a whole week.

Fortunately, in the end, he was lucky enough to lead the technicians of "Jinling Automobile Group Company" to figure out the outline of a new product.

Leader Zhuo Qingfeng was of course very happy with Zhao Guoyang's face, and praised him afterwards.

But after Zhao Guoyang was messed up like this, he was a little nervous when he came into contact with this leader Zhuo, for fear that he would have some problems again.

Zhao Guoyang was a little nervous when he suddenly received a call from this boss today.

Leader Zhuo may also have sensed Zhao Guoyang's uneasiness. The boss smiled cheerfully and comforted him: "Got Guoyang, don't be nervous. I'm calling you, not begging you to do something!"

"I just want to tell you that I'm going to visit your Ninghai city tomorrow, so you can prepare yourself!"

Hearing Leader Zhuo's words, Zhao Guoyang was at a loss for a while: There are still two or three days before the official work, and Leader Zhuo suddenly came to Ninghai City for inspection. What is this for?

Just when Zhao Guoyang was secretly wondering, Zhuo Qingfeng explained: "This time I came to Ninghai City to inspect your city's economic development and the level of industrial and agricultural development..."

Speaking of this, Zhuo Qingfeng paused for a moment, and then continued: "Maybe you have heard of Guoyang. In the past two years, your Ninghai City has been upgraded to a prefecture-level city. There are very high voices."

"The province has always attached great importance to this matter, and has held several demonstration meetings."

"Speaking of which, Ninghai has historically been a political and economic center in the central part of Jiangnan Province. It is only due to the adjustment of administrative divisions that it is no longer a political center, but does it still exist as a regional economic center? Many People think it's a question worth exploring."

"Not long ago, our Provincial Academy of Social Sciences commissioned Professor Zhou Zhenkun from the Department of Political Science and Education of Jinling Normal University to conduct a survey on this topic... This time I led a team to investigate, and I brought Professor Zhou with me by the way. I hope he can Use this opportunity to complete this investigation!"

Hearing this, Zhao Guoyang immediately understood.

Needless to say, it must be the matter of Ninghai City's promotion to a prefecture-level city. Something happened and some obstacles were encountered.

In fact, Zhao Guoyang could guess what was going on almost without thinking. Needless to say, this must be caused by Guangling City.

Speaking of which, in Ninghai City, there has always been a rather difficult problem, that is, under the current system of city management and county administration, there are many incompatibility between administrative divisions and economic regions.

Specifically, Guangling City, the superior of Ninghai City, cannot support it economically.

In Jiangnan Province, some scholars call this situation "a small horse-drawn cart".

In fact, after Ninghai City was placed under the jurisdiction of Guangling City as a county-level city, it had the same administrative status as the surrounding counties, such as Jianghai County and Xingtai County, which had earlier been its economic sphere of influence.

These several county-level areas with the same root and the same origin, the economic relationship between each other is more or less restricted by administrative divisions.

Therefore, not only can Ninghai City fail to fully play its central role in regional development, but its own economic development is also trapped in a cramped state with no rear and no room.

Historically, Guangling and Ninghai can be said to be a pair of twins adjacent to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

These two brothers each acted as a commodity circulation center in the areas under their influence.

After liberation, the two cities belonged to the Guangling area. In fact, although there was a close relationship between Yangtai and Taizhou, they belonged to the same level.

However, in 1982, after Jiangnan Province abolished the district-level administrative system, Ninghai City became a county-level city under the leadership of Guangling City.

In this way, the original relationship between the two regions at the same level suddenly became a relationship between the superior and the subordinate.

However, the economic connection between a city and its affected area is naturally formed in the long-term historical process and has certain regularity.

This kind of regularity cannot be cut off or interfered artificially, so there are many incongruous problems.

If Ninghai City wants to develop, it needs to change and get rid of the status quo under the jurisdiction of Guangling City.

But such a change is something that the Guangling government does not want to see.

As a result, conflicts naturally arise.

Of course, the upgrading of Ninghai City to a prefecture-level city is the general trend, and this has become the consensus of everyone.

This time, Leader Zhuo came to Ninghai City to investigate in person, obviously to calm down the discordant voices in Guangling City.

At the same time, it is also a good time to observe for yourself to see if Ninghai City has the conditions to be upgraded to a prefecture-level city.

For Zhao Guoyang, upgrading Ninghai to a prefecture-level city is naturally the best result.

Therefore, for Leader Zhuo's arrival, he must be in favor of it.

Seeing that Zhao Guoyang didn't speak for a long time, Zhuo Qingfeng said with a smile: "In recent years, there has been a lot of popular calls for Ninghai City to be upgraded to a prefecture-level city. This has already attracted the attention of the province and even the upper echelons."

"This time I came to Ninghai City for research, just to make a conclusion about this matter. Of course, it is not easy to 'make a conclusion'. So, when I come here this time, I still want someone who knows the basics and gives me Be a guide..."

Hearing this, Zhao Guoyang immediately understood what Leader Zhuo meant.

He responded repeatedly: "Leader Zhuo, I have recommended myself as a guide. When will you come over tomorrow, I will pick you up early in the morning!"

Finally hearing Zhao Guoyang's response, Zhuo Qingfeng felt a little relieved.

He smiled and said, "You don't need to pick me up. You go directly to the Ninghai City Hall at ten o'clock tomorrow morning and wait for me. Professor Zhou and I will go there directly."

"Success, then I'll be there tomorrow!" Zhao Guoyang hurriedly agreed after hearing the words.

"Okay, with you by my side, this survey should go smoothly. Okay, let's do this first, and see you tomorrow?"

"Okay, Leader Zhuo, see you tomorrow!"

Zhao Guoyang quickly agreed, and waited for Leader Zhuo to hang up the phone before he put the microphone back into the distance.

After standing there and thinking for a while, Zhao Guoyang gradually came back to his senses.

Originally, according to the memory of his previous life, the prefecture-level Ninghai City should have been established in 1996.

But after he was reborn, due to the rise of local enterprises in Ninghai City, such as "Hongda Machinery Factory", "Rongguang Co., Ltd.", "Xiangyang Machinery Factory" and "Xialan Group", the economic and industrial development level of Ninghai City was lower than The previous life was much stronger.

According to the statistics of the past 1994, the total economic volume of Ninghai City has approached that of Guangling City.

The per capita GDP has even surpassed the other party by a fraction.

Under such circumstances, it is understandable that the establishment of prefecture-level Ninghai City was put on the agenda earlier.

Tomorrow, leader Zhuo will come to Ninghai City for investigation. It is obvious that the province will have a final judgment on this matter.

If this investigation goes well, the prefecture-level Ninghai City will be established soon.

So, how can we show the advantages of Ninghai City in this investigation led by Zhuo?

Thinking of this, Zhao Guoyang's eyes gradually became firmer.

Back at the dinner table, mother He Huifen asked with a puzzled look: "Guoyang, who is calling? Why did you call for so long?"

Zhao Guoyang was thinking about something on his mind, so he said indifferently: "Uh, it's Leader Zhuo... He's coming to Ninghai City for research tomorrow, call for me to accompany him!"

"What? Zhuo...leader?"

He Huifen thought she had heard it wrong, so she couldn't help repeating a sentence.

The uncle He Guoping on the side opened his eyes even more, with an expression of disbelief.