Reinventing the Millennium

Luzhou was the last stop of Fang Zhuo's first round of city inspection, and it was also a temporary stop.

He did not expect that what was supposed to be a polite inspection would be met with the most sincere reception.

Such a place, such leadership...

There are not many places that can interest Fang Zhuo in the semiconductor wafer fab project, and Luzhou is considered the fourth.

Yangcheng, Luzhou, Shencheng, Jingcheng, Lin'an.

Fang Zhuo's mental ranking is basically this.

The current conditions provided by Yangcheng are still the best combined with the city's future development. Although Beijing has not yet visited Beijing, Fang Zhuo is confident of getting good conditions because of the performance of Medical Group in Beijing in the first half of the year.

Luzhou should not have been on the list originally. Even if the project team decides to conduct a second round of city inspections, it will still be relatively weak.

A very simple comparison:

Yangcheng's fiscal revenue last year was 24.5 billion, and Luzhou's estimated revenue was 6 billion.

The GDP of Yangcheng last year was 322.4 billion, and that of Luzhou was 41.28 billion.

The secondary industry GDP of Yangcheng last year was 122.4 billion, and that of Luzhou was 20.7 billion.

All data indicators vary greatly.

This gap will also have an impact on enterprises. For example, the cost of attracting talents to Luzhou will inevitably increase.

Even though the leader took out the city card of University of Science and Technology of China...

However, although the University of Science and Technology of China is a very good and excellent school, in the field of microelectronics, it lags behind Xidian University in Chang'an, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Rongcheng, as well as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Dongda University, Postgraduate University and other schools.

If we really want to settle in Luzhou, then...

Fang Zhuo began to seriously consider this issue in his mind on the way to the Jie Feng Banquet with his leader.

Luzhou does have shortcomings and gaps, but it is not without its advantages. You can just name seven or eight, no, five or six, no, three or four...

Let’s talk about the most important thing.

The leadership team here can regard the project as its greatest treasure.

Fang Zhuo can feel the leader's red-eyed desire for development. Since Luzhou can provide funds comparable to those of Yangcheng, it can provide better preferential policies, and it can attach the greatest importance to projects initiated by a layman like himself...

It’s not a bad idea to settle here.

Funds are important, talent is important, and the future of the city is important, but there are various ways to deal with it. Projects like the wafer fab inherently require a long cycle, require concentration on work, and require long-term support. .

Once a city like Luzhou invests, it can be regarded as being trapped in it in disguise.

Fang Zhuo is a villain first and a gentleman later, and is more willing to view local support from a relatively long-term perspective.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the motorcade arrived at the hotel where Feng Yan was staying. Fang Zhuo met with the leaders of the province and city.

He almost had the illusion that he was the superior leader who came to Luzhou for inspection.

We met with all the leaders of Luzhou, big and small, from city to district, from finance to personnel.

How did you get this view?

It was Wang Shushan, the leader, who accompanied him through it all. The implication was clear. Once the project is launched, the young president must give the green light all the way and all departments must cooperate.

There was still no mention of hometown at the reception banquet. The entire conversation revolved around semiconductors. Occasionally, we talked about Yike's well-known player, and there were also some online registrations in Luzhou.

Fang Zhuo looked at some department leaders who were obviously suddenly learning about semiconductor knowledge and racking their brains to talk about this topic. He felt funny and... but also respectful.

We didn’t drink too much at the dinner, and the project team and local leaders were all sober.

At 9:30 in the evening, the reception banquet ended, the leaders left, and the top leaders said goodbye one by one.

Wang Shushan held Fang Zhuo's hand and said sincerely: "I hope Mr. Fang can see our ice-hearted heart and seriously consider Luzhou."

Fang Zhuo solemnly agreed.

The city leader of Luzhou also shook hands with Fang Zhuo: "Mr. Fang, we in Luzhou are not as rich as other places, but as long as Mr. Fang is willing to give Luzhou a chance, we will not let Mr. Fang down."

Fang Zhuo didn't want to smile at this time, so he still shook hands solemnly to avoid being frivolous.

After all the leaders left, the project team held a discussion meeting in the boss's suite.

Fang Zhuo explained the conditions one by one.

In fact, at the reception banquet, leaders of many departments directly discussed relevant plans, including water security for the wafer fab project, welfare subsidies for employees after they move in, and the use of high-quality teaching resources in the city...

The attitude shown in these plans is that Luzhou is pooling the city's efforts to retain the wafer fab project.

It is worth mentioning that this is the first time the project team has heard local cities talk about water security in fabs. Semiconductor manufacturing requires a large amount of stable water supply. For example, a 200mm wafer fab has a monthly production capacity of 40,000 pieces per day. The water consumption will be 8,000 to 10,000 tons.

Everyone really felt the sincerity of Anhui Province and Luzhou.

When Fang Zhuo said "1.3 billion, tax exemption for 10 years", the entire project team looked at each other.

This offer was even higher than that of Yangcheng, the most economically developed city in the country, and we had been talking about it for several days.

Everyone was stunned for a while, and associate professor Yu Jun gave a unanimous sigh: "The leaders of Anhui Province and Luzhou are so courageous!"

"If you are bold, you are indeed bold, but if you ask me, I still choose Yangcheng." Lecturer Zeng Xiaoyang shook his head and said, "The intangible conveniences and benefits brought by Yangcheng are much greater. Not to mention the same investment figure, even if Luzhou gives another 200 million , I feel..."

"The leadership team is very important. Now I think we can settle in Luzhou." Yu Jun, who had persuaded Fang Zhuo when he arrived, has changed his position. "Leadership support and leadership full support are completely different things."

"No, the leaders in Yangcheng are also very good."

"Just talking about leaders, the leaders of several cities have a good attitude towards our project. Luzhou's foundation is too poor. This is not something that can be solved in a short time."

"The relevant majors of the University of Science and Technology of China are not among the top ten in China. If you ask me, it is better to go to Chengdu and have a look. There are a large number of talents there, and their vision of industry may not be inferior to that of Luzhou."

The project team argued for a while, but most of them still disagreed with settling in Luzhou.

Finally, everyone turned their attention to the boss who was standing by the window smoking.

This project was started by Fang Zhuo. Although he was a layman and although he claimed to weigh the opinions of many parties, everyone in the team knew that he had to make the final decision.

Fang Zhuo smoked a cigarette leisurely and looked out the window at the night scene which was completely different from Shanghai.

The night view of Yangcheng is the same as that of Shanghai, with the lights and bustle of a big city.

Luzhou is much darker here. Looking around, there are only a few lights dotting the whole city in the quiet night.

After Fang Zhuo took the last puff of his cigarette, he glanced at the brighter full moon in the darkness and sighed leisurely.

"The moon is the brightness of my hometown."