Resource Tycoon Reborn

To Yu Dongfeng's admiration, things developed exactly as Fang Mingyuan expected. On September 21st and 22nd, Albert Gore continuously proposed to the Clinton administration that during the cold winter

In the coming time, the domestically high fuel prices will undoubtedly directly affect the quality of life of the general public and induce social instability. President Clinton is requested to use strategic petroleum reserves to stabilize the soaring oil prices and help American citizens survive the winter safely.

Afterwards, the Clinton administration officially announced on September 23 that the U.S. government would use 30 million barrels of strategic oil reserves to stabilize domestic oil prices!

In addition, the Clinton administration also decided to implement a series of programs to ensure citizens' heating in winter, including allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize those citizens who cannot afford natural gas and diesel for heating due to high oil prices.

After the announcement of this news, although it triggered a series of controversies in the United States, the Republican Party even publicly accused the Clinton administration of using executive power to win the election for the Democratic Party and using U.S. national security as a political bargaining chip.

By sacrificing the country's long-term security interests in exchange for personal short-term political interests. OPEC member countries have clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with this behavior of the US government, believing that the US government is using administrative means to interfere in the market. And European countries,

But he greatly appreciated this action of the United States.

No matter how this behavior of the U.S. government is ultimately evaluated domestically and internationally, the price of crude oil in the international market immediately turned downward. By September 27, it had dropped from the highest price of US$36.15 per dollar.

The barrel has dropped to 30.23 US dollars per barrel, and the downward trend continues.

Every time you go in and out, the Fang family’s profit will be in the billions of dollars!

The Sydney Olympic Games are already halfway through. The medals won by Chinese athletes at the Olympic Games have inspired the patriotism of the Chinese people. The total number of medals has entered the top three ranks, which has made the whole country rejoice. In addition,

, to prepare for the upcoming National Day, the whole of China is immersed in a joyful atmosphere.

But in the northwest of China, in the central and northern part of Qinxi Province, the atmosphere in the Tongchuan City Government has been relatively depressed these days. The government staff have also changed their usual lazy appearance. Not only are those who arrive late and leave early

No more, everyone worked in an orderly manner and even spoke a little lower.

Everyone knows that on September 20, Rong Kewei, the deputy mayor of Tongyi in charge of water conservancy, came to Tongchuan to meet with the main leaders of the Tongchuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and the atmosphere in the municipal government suddenly became tense.

It is said that some city leaders even slammed the table for this.

The cause of the matter is very simple. At the meeting, Rong Kewei put forward several hopes for strengthening cooperation between the two places in the future. Among them, he hoped that the Tongchuan Municipal Government would strengthen the management of polluting enterprises along the Wuting River and ensure the water safety of Tongyi City. It was he who

The top priority of the conversation. And this undoubtedly touched the interests of Tongchuan and even some people.

Tongchuan is a resource-based city. It was originally founded on its rich underground coal resources. However, after decades of continuous mining since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tongchuan's underground coal resources have been close to exhaustion, and the coal industry is moving toward the Qin Dynasty.

Tongchuan, which is about to lose its coal industry as an important economic pillar, has not found a new economic growth point to replace it. Therefore, in recent years, when the economy of Qinxi Province is booming, Tongchuan has

However, Sichuan's economic growth rate has fallen into an embarrassing situation of slight growth or even stagnation. If the neighboring Pingchuan District had not absorbed a large number of Tongchuan's migrant workers and agricultural products, Tongchuan's economic situation would have been even more embarrassing.

Last year, Tongchuan lost another county under its jurisdiction. Although this county has the worst economy in the jurisdiction and has been lagging behind, no matter what, with more than 2,000 square kilometers and a population of hundreds of thousands, this is also a county.

loss.

What makes Tongchuan people angry is that this county with the worst economy under its jurisdiction has actually become the first special zone in the northwest region specially approved by the central government, a city under independent planning, and a future sub-provincial city.

!The status jumped up in one fell swoop and became the city in Qinxi Province, second only to the provincial capital Fengyuan, and it was overtaken by Tongchuan.

What makes Tongchuan people even more disappointed is that in just one year, today's Tongyi has changed drastically. It not only needs to build a new urban area, but also needs to build the tallest TV tower in the province, and also needs to build expressways and Pingchuan.

Connected, these three infrastructures alone instantly changed the face of Tongyi's city. Moreover, the famous Korean multinational Samsung Group and the famous provincial enterprise Deguang Electronics Group also successively settled in Tongyi. Not only did Tongyi's city look completely new,

The working-age population was wiped out, and a large number of Tongchuan's migrant population was absorbed.

It stands to reason that when the migrant workers in Tongchuan come to work in Tongyi, they are not only close to home, but they also don’t have the feeling of leaving their hometowns when they go to work in Fengyuan. But to be honest, looking at the changes in Tongyi, the people in Tongchuan feel that

What a taste.

This is like a little brother who has been following behind and has always been taken care of by himself. Suddenly one day he does better than his big brother. This psychological gap is not something that everyone can quickly balance mentally.

But now, the Tongyi Municipal Government actually sent people here to request joint management of the Wuting River with the Tongchuan Municipal Government, and to strictly control the pollution discharged by enterprises in Tongyi and Tongchuan. It is said that the two parties jointly manage it, but once it comes, Tongchuan City

The level of Tongyi is higher than that of Tongchuan. Secondly, Tongyi did not have any decent industries in the first place. Almost all the current industries were established after it was upgraded to a city, and most of them have not been officially put into production. And it is said that Tongyi City has

There is a sewage treatment plant with an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan, which can harmlessly treat all Tongyi's current industrial production wastewater and residents' domestic wastewater. Although Rong Kewei sounds good, in essence, he does not want to intervene in Tongchuan.

Management rights of Wuting River!

If Tongyi is really allowed to intervene in the management of Wuting River in Tongchuan, then the paper mills, aluminum factories, cement factories, chemical plants, knitting factories and other large wastewater dischargers in Tongchuan will have a difficult life.

Installing sewage treatment equipment will definitely increase production costs. At present, due to various reasons, most of these factories are operating at low profits, which will undoubtedly put them in operating difficulties. And these factories are related to tens of thousands of people in Tongchuan.

Worker's life!

Therefore, even the people of Tongchuan themselves love and hate the Wuting River, which is now covered with dirt and black and smelly. When there is no reservoir to release water, it is a big smelly ditch that cannot be approached at all in summer.

!You know, in the 1970s and 1980s, Wuting River was still a place where men, women, old and young in Tongchuan used to wash, bathe and play in the water. At that time, the river water was not only abundant, flowing continuously all year round, but also very clear.

Standing by the river, you can directly see the pebbles and swimming fish on the bottom of the river. Willow trees line both sides of the river, and cicadas chirp in the trees in summer. Both sides of the river are covered with weeds and small trees, and some weeds can even

More than one meter high, dragonflies, butterflies and unknown flying insects are flying in the grass. Children often play in the river. This was once a childhood memory of the elderly and middle-aged people in Tongchuan. But today,

These are no longer visible at all, replaced by dry rivers and "streams" that are as black as ink and carry a strong stench.

The office of Ming Shixuan, the top leader in Tongchuan, is now filled with smoke, and a "hill" has been piled high in the ashtray placed on the coffee table.

"Secretary Ming, Rong Kewei's request is really too much!" Lin Zhifeng, the deputy mayor in charge of industry and commerce in Tongchuan, said angrily, "What qualifications do they have to interfere in the management of local affairs in our Tongchuan?"

Ming Shixuan took a deep drag on his cigarette and said without raising his head: "What qualifications do you have? Then ask Pengcheng what qualifications he has to ask the water conservancy department of Guangdong Province to cooperate with their work!"

The vision of an official parachuted from the province to Tongchuan is not comparable to that of local officials like Lin Zhifeng who have worked in Tongchuan all their lives. At the beginning, Pengcheng was just a small village by the sea.

In order to ensure Pengcheng's industrial and domestic water supply, Guangdong Province strictly controlled the upstream counties and cities of several rivers flowing through Pengcheng. Although Tongyi is not as good as Pengcheng, Tongchuan is not as good as Guangdong Province.

counties and cities!

Moreover, the establishment of Tongyi was driven by the Fang family and the Su family. One is a prominent business family in the country, and the other is a political family that is about to reach the top. The combined energy of the two is not a simple plus.

1! Moreover, Tongyi's economic growth rate over the past year has also proved that in a few years, Tongyi will become the second economic center in Qinxi Province after Fengyuan. A Tongyi

The annual gross national product may be more than ten times to dozens of times that of Tongchuan. Is it better to protect Tongchuan or to protect Tongchuan? For the province, does this still need to be considered?

If it weren't for the fact that these polluting companies were inextricably linked to the local officials in Tongchuan, and he had just landed shortly after, he still couldn't fully grasp the situation in Tongchuan. Before Lin Zhifeng and the others came, he would have used

Do you deserve to smoke so much?

Lin Zhifeng choked up at Ming Shixuan's words and couldn't help but cast his eyes for help to the mayor Wu Yi who was standing aside. Wu Yi thought for a moment and then winked at Lu Jingyang, the director of the Environmental Protection Bureau.

"Secretary Ming, we all understand that the pollution problem of Wuting River has indeed reached the point where it has to be rectified! Secretary Ming's idea is also for the good of the people on both sides of the Wuting River." Lu Jingyang said with a bitter smile, "But,

The Wuting River is polluted. Domestic sewage pollution from citizens is also a very important source of pollution. However, our city only allocates so much funding to the Environmental Protection Bureau every year. Apart from paying wages for daily work, there is simply no way to deal with Wuting.

We have invested in the reconstruction of Tinghe River. Our city still does not have a sewage treatment plant, and there is nothing we can do to treat domestic sewage!"

"Secretary Ming, as Director Lu said, there is no sewage treatment plant in our city now. The wastewater generated by industrial production must be purchased by these manufacturers themselves with environmental protection equipment for treatment. However, due to the small scale, it will naturally

The cost is high. If we ask them to increase their investment in this area, I am afraid that these manufacturers will immediately fall into losses! These manufacturers not only provide tens of thousands of jobs for Tongchuan, they are also large tax collectors of Tongchuan!" Industry and Commerce

Zhang Jimin, the director of the bureau, also complained bitterly.

Ming Shixuan stubbed out the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, raised his head and said coldly: "These problems have not existed for a day and a half, and solving them cannot be done in a moment. However, you can get it

Can we come up with a practical plan? We can’t just keep putting it off like this, right?”

Wu Yi coughed slightly and said: "Secretary Ming, we have already discussed this issue before we came here. Our idea is to see if we can get a loan from a bank, and it is best to obtain national support projects to raise funds.

Build a modern sewage treatment plant to treat the domestic and industrial sewage generated in our city. Preliminary estimates indicate that it will require an investment of about 120 million yuan and will take three to five years to complete. By then, it will be guaranteed that there will be no more

Sewage enters the Wuting River!"

Ming Shixuan raised his eyebrows slightly, but he still endured it and said calmly: "One hundred and twenty million yuan? It will put a lot of pressure on the city's finances, right? Can the city's finances guarantee future operating expenses?" Sewage treatment

, that is a costly business. Otherwise, counties and cities across the country would have already taken the initiative to build sewage treatment plants, and there would be no need for repeated orders from the state!

"We plan to charge sewage treatment fees. We believe that for those companies, the cost of centralized treatment by sewage treatment plants will always be lower than that of their individual treatment." Wu Yi said, "As for domestic sewage, it can be handled by citizens.

If you pay part of it, the government can subsidize part of it.”

Although Ming Shixuan didn't say anything, he secretly curled his lips in his heart. With Tongchuan's current financial situation, it would be a huge struggle just to repay the bank loan. Where would there be any money left to subsidize the citizens? What's more?

The sewage treatment plant will not be put into use until years later. It is hard to say whether Wu Yi will still be in Tongchuan by then. Moreover, can Tongyi give him another three to five years? But after all, he has not yet established a stable foothold in Tongchuan, and some

You understand the matter psychologically, but you can't talk about it openly.

"But can Tongyi wait so long?" Ming Shixuan leaned on the back of the sofa and said with a tired expression.

Wu Yi couldn't help but feel embarrassed. When Rong Kewei talked with them, although his tone was not tough, it was a needle in the cotton wool. There was a threat inside and outside his words. If Tongchuan did not deal with Wu Ting well,

To solve the problem of river pollution, we must at least come up with a feasible plan. Then Tongyi will restrict the entry of certain industrial products from Tongchuan. Tongyi cannot allow these polluting enterprises to pollute the Wuting River water.

, threatening Tongyiren’s water safety and health, while also making money from Tongyi!

Ronkewei's threat is not without purpose. Today, the largest customers of Tongchuan's cement plants, aluminum plants, chemical plants and other major polluters are also the Tongyi market where geotechnical construction is booming. In the past year, Tongyi's demand has been very large.

It is considerable, and Tongyi has convenient transportation and very few delays in payment. These manufacturers have given up part of their original market and mainly put their products in Tongyi. If Tongyi really wants to do this,

They have all been driven out of Tongyi's market, which is a disaster for these factories! And it is very likely to be a disaster!

"Secretary Ming, what they are doing is engaging in local protection...localism! What qualifications do they have to block our city's state-owned enterprises from the Tongyi market?" Lin Zhifeng said angrily, "We can go to the province to sue them!"

Ming Shixuan sneered: "Did Mayor Rong say that our products will be banned? As long as people don't buy our products, it will be fine. Are the products we provide Tongyi unique in the country? Is Tongyi from other products?"

Is it something that cannot be bought in brother provinces and cities? Is it not defective at all? Whose products are the manufacturers in Tongyi willing to buy? Can you also specify that they must use products from Tongchuan? "This Lin Zhifeng, if he didn't have a good

Dad, there is no way he can sit in the position of deputy mayor! Look at what he said, it is all nonsense from beginning to end, and it is of no use at all in solving the problem! (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature,

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