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After signing the contract with the Governor's Office, Su Cheng even sat in the Governor's Office's special car with Governor Izidy for a tour around the entire Haojiang.

They didn't get out of the car along the way. At each location, Su Cheng would discuss the planning map with Governor Izidy.

These were all preliminary plans that everyone knew about. It was just that this was the first time Su Cheng and Izidy were inspecting them together.

For example, near the Outer Harbor, Su Cheng decided to cooperate with the Haojiang government to expand the Outer Harbor's scale, allowing it to handle a larger passenger volume.

On the Haojiang Peninsula side, due to the lack of deep-water ports, neither the Inner Harbor nor the Outer Harbor were suitable for cargo terminals; they were only suitable for passenger ship terminals.

The entire St. Lawrence District was planned to concentrate Haojiang's gambling industry in this area. Being too dispersed was not conducive to the development of Haojiang's gambling industry. As the saying goes, 'trades gather, markets form'. Only by concentrating similar businesses together would the area's reputation grow.

The car followed the Macao-Taipa Bridge to Taipa Island. The population here was not small, with several new residential complexes built in the central northern area. As for the central and southern areas, the plains were filled with various fishing villages, makeshift houses, dilapidated factories, tin warehouses, etc., making the environment even worse than on the Haojiang Peninsula.

Apart from the northern area that had already been developed into residential complexes, the rest would basically be demolished.

After demolition, several science and technology industrial parks and industrial zones would be built here in the future, making this area Haojiang's economic development zone.

In the eastern sea, land reclamation would be suitable for constructing an airport in the future.

In the northeastern part of Coloane Island, a large deep-water cargo terminal could be expanded on the basis of the existing Ká-Hó Container Terminal.

With the development of manufacturing here, future export volumes would definitely continue to increase. Therefore, a large deep-water terminal was necessary; otherwise, how could manufacturing exports develop if goods couldn't be shipped out!

The current Ká-Hó Container Terminal was still too small.

Currently, Taipa Island and Coloane Island were not yet connected, with a stretch of sea separating them.

However, according to the plan, a new reclaimed land would be formed here in the future, greatly increasing the usable area.

Coloane Island did not have much flat land, mainly consisting of mountains, so the space for development on Coloane Island was limited, temporarily focusing on cargo terminals and cargo warehouses.

Once the land reclamation connects Taipa Island and Coloane Island, Coloane Island can be appropriately developed.

Before the two islands are connected by land, a causeway bridge can be built between the two islands. This can shorten the construction time and reduce construction costs.

Based on the distance between the two sides and the depth of the sea, this causeway bridge would take no more than half a year to build and open to traffic, and the cost would not be too high.

Haojiang was so small, the easiest way to obtain more usable land was to continuously reclaim land from the sea.

Once these two islands were connected in the future, the causeway bridge would naturally lose its function, completely merging into the two islands and becoming part of the land.

It could be said that this was just a simple cargo bridge.

Haojiang has a long history of land reclamation.

For example, in 1912, the actual total area of Haojiang was only 11.6 square kilometers.

By the beginning of the 21st century, this area had reached 30 square kilometers.

It can be seen that most of Haojiang's land was formed through land reclamation.

Su Cheng also discovered through his inspection that shallow beaches were widely distributed along the coast of Haojiang. These shallow beaches had become land resources for Haojiang to carry out land reclamation. Most importantly, in Haojiang, the cost of land reclamation was not too high.

Su Cheng had even previously proposed that he be responsible for the land reclamation project. He only had one request: the right to use the reclaimed land would belong to Su Cheng's companies. Of course, he would pay the land fees.

In response, Governor Izidy, on behalf of the Haojiang government, had agreed to Su Cheng's request. One of the six contracts signed was about land reclamation.

Land reclamation was a huge project, and the funds required for investment, although much smaller than in Hong Kong in Su Cheng's view, were still a considerable expenditure for the financially struggling Haojiang government.

Haojiang actually started land reclamation projects as early as 1863, when it first filled in the bay opposite the Governor's Office in Nam Van.

Subsequently, between 1866 and 1910, the Praia Grande Bay and the Pria da Areia Preta Bay on the west coast of the Haojiang Peninsula were successively filled in. In 1919-1924, the Inner Harbour on the west coast of the Haojiang Peninsula, and in 1923-1938, the Outer Harbour and Nam Van on the east coast of the Haojiang Peninsula, were successively subjected to land reclamation projects.

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These land reclamation projects have gradually formed the basic features of the current Qingzhou, Taishan, Heisha Ring, Youhan, Fai Chi Kei, Outer Harbour and Nam Van areas. At the same time, due to mining, the topography of Tap Seac and Lin Fung Temple Hill has been changed.

On the islands, the current Taipa Island was actually composed of three small islands: Taipa Grande, Taipa Pequena, and Ilha da Hac Sá.

In 1919, Taipa Grande and Taipa Pequena were filled into one island.

The land reclamation project on Coloane was carried out from the 1930s to the 1970s, mainly at the Ká-Hó Container Terminal and the Cement Factory in Ká-Hó.

The big mountains on Taipa Island and Coloane Island were actually also resources.

These mountains had abundant rock and soil resources, making them the best materials for land reclamation.

For example, the Haojiang International Airport that Su Cheng saw in his previous life was actually created by cutting down mountains and reclaiming land on Taipa Island.

As for Coloane Island, the famous Ká-Hó Industrial Park in later generations was also created by cutting down mountains and reclaiming land on Coloane Island.

The reclaimed land would all be used by them. For Su Cheng, this agreement meant that money might only flow out in the short term.

But from a long-term perspective, he could be said to have made a fortune.

In the future, the price of land in Haojiang would not be much lower than in the urban areas of Hong Kong. The housing prices in the two cities were among the highest in the world!

(End of this chapter)