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Su Cheng spoke from his own personal experience. From Peng City to Yang City, the distance itself wasn't far. If a highway were built, the time could even be shortened from over three hours to just over an hour.

To develop the economy, time is money. If the roads are too poor, the transportation time and cost will greatly increase. In that case, Yang City won't have any advantages.

"Mr. Su's words resonate deeply with me. Like Mr. Su, I also took a car from the center of Xiangjiang City to Peng City, and then from Peng City to Yang City. The two legs of the journey took us a full five hours. For just over a hundred kilometers, less than two hundred kilometers, we spent five hours. One can imagine how much time we waste due to the backwardness of the roads!" Bao Chuanwang also exclaimed at this time.

Such a long time, it would be better to come by boat. By boat, it would take at most three hours. A faster boat could even do it in two hours.

In this way, the highway has no advantage at all.

However, if we invest in building factories here and transport the products to Xiangjiang, and then ship them to the world, the distance from Yue Province to Xiangjiang will definitely be mainly by highway transportation.

Although ships can carry more cargo at once, they are not as convenient as trucks after all.

In this era, not to mention Yue Province, but the entire mainland, there is not a single highway yet.

The start of highways in mainland China was half a century later than developed countries. It was not until the mid-1980s that the mainland began exploring the predecessor of highways—motor vehicle-only roads.

Now, the economic development of the mainland is still relatively backward, and ordinary roads are temporarily sufficient.

However, Su Cheng knew that with the rapid development of the mainland's national economy, the volume of passenger and freight transportation on highways would increase sharply, and the consequences of the long-term lag in highway construction would be fully exposed.

Since he wanted to develop the Pearl River Delta, Su Cheng was considering whether to build a highway in the Pearl River Delta ahead of time.

Other places can do without it, but the road between Yang City and Peng City, and even between Peng City and the Xiangjiang port, should preferably have a highway.

After all, if he were to invest, the main areas of investment in the Pearl River Delta would still be the area from Yang City to Peng City.

Highways in other places can be built slower, but the highway from Yang City to Peng City must be built as soon as possible, so that he can lay out the Pearl River Delta more conveniently in the future.

Otherwise, if the transportation is inconvenient, no matter how he lays it out, it will affect his product production.

It wouldn't be a problem to build all the industries in Peng City, but Su Cheng knew that the future of Yang City and Peng City would develop almost synchronously.

Therefore, not only should he lay out Peng City, but Yang City should not be missed either.

What's more, this is still the political center of the entire Yue Province. The title of Yue Boss is not for nothing.

Su Cheng understood that the old man meant that they were short of money!

"To get rich, build roads first. As a basic infrastructure, highways can largely show the development prospects of this region. To be honest, you are so sincere in inviting us to invest. If I don't invest, it would definitely be unreasonable. After all, I am also a member of the Chinese nation. However, investment is investment. If there is no convenient transportation highway between Yang City and Peng City, I will definitely only focus on investing in Peng City, because it is next to Xiangjiang, which is convenient for finished product transportation, and Yang City, I am very sorry."

"Yang City's geographical location is still very good, with the natural high-quality inland river port of Huangpu Port, overlooking the entire Pearl River Estuary. Using wharf transportation is not impossible, but as Mr. Su said, to get rich, build roads first. This sentence is too good, and I very much agree with Mr. Su's idea that we can find ways to get money, and it is indeed necessary to build a dedicated road between Yang City and Peng City."

According to historical trends, this highway will not start construction until the mid-1980s, which is too slow for Su Cheng.

Therefore, he must push them a little.

If the construction period starts this year, the hundred-odd kilometers from Peng City to Yang City should be able to initially build the first truly meaningful motor vehicle expressway in about three years.

Because, this era is different from the era before Su Cheng's crossing. In this era, expropriation is much simpler, and most places have not yet been developed.

In other words, the construction cost will be very low, and there will be no worries about demolition and expropriation.

In the world before Su Cheng's crossing, he had seen a lot of news that sometimes a road could be extended from the original two or three years to even five or ten years due to the obstruction of one or two buildings. In the most serious cases, it could even lead to the road being abandoned.

And in this era, there is no such trouble at all.

"It doesn't hurt to let you know that we will definitely develop Peng City, and it will be the focus of our development in the future. You are willing to invest, and I thank you on behalf of the government. Yang City, after all, is the provincial capital, and we will definitely focus on developing it as well. I will try my best to find a way to improve transportation. Mr. Su, you are right. To get rich, build roads first. If the roads are not good enough, it is not realistic for us to want to get too much."

As someone who has been through it, Su Cheng naturally knew what was going on.

In fact, more than a month ago, Peng City had not been renamed and was just an ordinary county.

And now, Peng City, which was just renamed Peng City less than a month ago, will be upgraded to a prefecture-level city in November, nine months later.

All of this is being done in preparation for one thing.

On August 26, 1980, the Peng City Special Economic Zone was officially established!

At that time, Peng City's economic development officially began.

Investing now is considered ahead of time.

The old man was able to say these things, and he definitely hoped that Su Cheng and Bao Chuanwang, the two business tycoons, would play an important role in the Special Economic Zone and make important contributions to economic development.

Su Cheng was naturally very happy to do such a good thing.

In the early days of reform, there were opportunities for development everywhere! (End of this chapter)