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Chapter 692: Chapter 596: Opportunity in Mengyu County (Seeking Subscription!)_1
In the evening.
Tang Qing also received the message from the fighters, saying that those two forces wanted to win Ling over. On hearing this, Tang Qing gave a disdainful smile. He wasn’t stupid. He didn’t see any great benefits of cooperating with these two factions.
Because they didn’t have what Tang Qing wanted.
But Lang Cai did.
Not only did he have it, he had a lot of it.
So Tang Qing directly ordered to closely monitor them, but not to overly offend them. The main task in their territory now is infrastructure construction and industrial layout, it is not suitable to generate any conflict with neighboring forces.
They would remain neutral for now.
And if needed in the future,
Use the two factions as bargaining chips to trade with Lang Cai. After all, neither of these two are good people. They are just local forces for their own selfish interests, and Tang Qing truly disdained the idea of joining forces with them.
After all,
Who can blame us, now that we are the ’regular army’?
Maybe they could even sell them at a good ’price’. Tang Qing discovered that he was becoming more crafty, more like a villain. But, so what? What he was doing was not exactly noble.
It’s enough to be good to his own people. As for foreigners? It depends on his mood.
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Two days later.
Yunnan Province.
Mengyu County.
Mengyu County, located in the southwestern part of Xishuangbanna, is known for its production of Pu’er Tea. It is a place where it is spring all year round, and rice ripens more than once a year. It is an important grain-producing area for Huaxia, with a rich history as a strategic area. Over ninety percent of the county’s land is mountainous. Due to its remote location and inconvenient transportation, agriculture forms the pillar industry here, and its industries are quite backward, except for those related to agricultural product processing.
The county committee building.
Though it is called a building,
It’s just an old two-storey building.
Today, they were receiving some important guests.
The county committee and county government took their guests very seriously, dutifully receiving those in their suits. Their leaders said these were distinguished guests from Myanmar, and there was even a deputy chief from the Myanmar Economic Zone, accompanied by leaders from the higher-ranking departments.
Although they were unsure of the rank of the deputy chief from Myanmar, they knew if he came from the economic special zone, he was definitely not a simple character.
When they received the phone call from the higher-ups yesterday,
They were hearing about this place for the first time.
They quickly looked it up and were surprised. While they didn’t care much about the other details, and whether it was a special zone of Myanmar or not, the key point was that there was money involved.
That was the place where that expensive fruit wine was produced. The wine had already become popular around the world. Not only was it delicious and soothing, it also had detoxifying properties, making it akin to a miracle drug. They must be making big money.
In the second-floor conference room of the county committee building,
A group of ’foreigners’ were being accompanied by diplomatic personnel, also joined by local provincial and municipal foreign affairs departments. There was also a vice mayor from the city. These were all bigwigs, and Mengyu County’s Party Secretary Qin Siming was a bit nervous.
When foreigners, especially foreign officials were involved, it wasn’t a minor matter no matter which country they came from.
After the welcoming speech was over,
Vice Mayor Liu Jian got down to business.
"...The situation is this: the country has approved Mengyu County as the fifth trade port for Myanmar. The customs department is preparing personnel, who will be in place soon. Now, the main issue is the road from your county to the port. As far as I know, there are still nearly thirty kilometers of gravel road. You need to organize a team to survey and plan the road, and build it as quickly as possible. They have said they can get it done in a month, so you need to hurry up and not keep them waiting."
"What about the money?" Qin Siming asked in doubt, as the county didn’t have a budget for this.
Liu Jian shook his head and smiled, "Siming, your county is really lucky. They are willing to pay half the costs and in US dollars. They plan to invest two million dollars to construct a high-standard highway. The rest will be paid by Beijing. And this amount of dollars will count towards your county’s foreign exchange earnings this year. Remember, ensure the speed and quality of the construction. Your priority is to get this road done as soon as possible. This is a task from the higher-ups, understood?"
This task was assigned from Beijing, a city with significant influence and power. So, they dare not neglect it.
Deputy Mayor Liu Jian looked at the smiling Vice Governor from Myanmar and found him even more likable. Mengyu County’s foreign exchange target was naturally also their city’s target. If the upcoming collaboration was successful, they wouldn’t have to worry about their annual foreign exchange target anymore.
Upon hearing that he wouldn’t have to spend a penny, Qin Siming was excited, saying, "Yes, we guarantee to complete the task. We already did a survey for this road over half a year ago. We asked for funds for the construction from the city and the province but you guys didn’t provide any. Now, as long as the money is in place, we can start the project immediately."
Talking about this made him a bit upset. Even though he had resources to tap into, it was still very hard to get funds to build a road from the higher-ups. Due to the low necessity for this road, it was rejected by both the city and the province.
Finally, all the county could afford was a small amount of money to cover the dirt road.
Surprisingly, a twist occurred here.
A pie fell from the sky.
"Good, the money is in place, you can go to the city next Monday to go through the procedures, and it will be allocated. Get ready quickly," Liu Jian urged.
"Yes."
Qin Siming’s clear voice echoed through the conference room.
After the meeting.
The foreign guest visited several famous attractions in Mengyu County, then returned to the city with the Foreign Affairs personnel and took a plane back to Beijing, where there were many other things to do.
Liu Jian’s car didn’t directly follow, knowing he could catch up later.
The entrance to the county committee residence.
"Siming, this is like a pie falling from the sky, congratulations," Liu Jian laughed. He and Qin Siming’s father were old acquaintances, and he regarded Qin Siming as a junior.
There was no help for it, given that his father was a director in the province and his family had the backing of the significant Chai Family. Otherwise, how could Qin Siming, in his early thirties, have achieved this position?
Without outsiders, Qin Siming also relaxed. He was not modest and laughed, "Yes, we have completed two years’ worth of foreign exchange tasks in one go."
"More than two years, as long as the trade routes are connected, you don’t have to worry about the foreign exchange task for a long time," Liu Jian revealed some news. This was something he heard from the Foreign Affairs personnel. The formal documents had not been issued yet, and it was still just an intention.
"Oh? What do you mean?" Qin Siming was curious. In his mind, this port was just an export port. Their county’s specialties were also available at the other side, because they were adjacent.
The special sales weren’t going anywhere.
How else could they generate foreign exchange?
Liu Jian mysteriously laughed: "Let me give you a hint. They are currently preparing for major construction on the other side, they need a lot of cement, building materials, personnel, all of their imports and exports to Huaxia will have to go through you. You will have the market of millions of people, you think about the benefits, who has the competitiveness of our country’s products?"
"Then we will build a small commodity distribution center at the port, which can also be exported for foreign exchange." Qin Siming immediately understood.
Remembering yesterday’s investigation, he found that this port was different from the other four ports to Myanmar, which was that this special zone was under the management of the Myanmar government.
It was fundamentally different from the other four ports.
Their county’s port might even develop into the main commodity import and export channel to Myanmar in the future.
Liu Jian on the side could only say congratulations.
Qin Siming was assigned here because he was too young. Unexpectedly, a pie fell from the sky. The originally balanced job suddenly turned into a lucrative one. Fortunately, Qin Siming had a high-powered background, and no one could snatch this ’pie’ away.
"Yes, but this is not the main point, do you know why the higher-ups were so anxious to finish this road and to quickly approve the establishment of the port?" Liu Jian sold another clue.
All Qin Siming could do was shake his head, wondering why adults liked to keep other people in suspense. Why couldn’t they finish speaking at once?
Liu Jian laughed: "It’s because the other side has prepared a procurement order of not less than 500 million US dollars for Huaxia."
"500 million US dollars? What business?" the color on Qin Siming’s face changed.
That was a lot of money, several billion RMB, which was their county’s GDP for half a year—they wouldn’t get to keep all that money, but that didn’t stop him from fantasizing about it.
Liu Jian explained: "Didn’t I just tell you? The other side is doing infrastructure construction, promising to import a large amount of steel and cement, in addition to a construction project order for an airport, a railway network, and three hydropower stations. This foreign exchange is right at your doorstep, the higher-ups place great importance on it, an intention agreement has already been signed with the other side, so there absolutely cannot be any problems."
"I see, I will go back and initiate a project, by the way, isn’t there someone supervising this fund?" Qin Siming came up with another idea. Could he use it to build more roads?
The county’s annual tax revenue was just tens of millions, and miscellaneous expenses were not enough, money was needed everywhere.
"I know what you’re thinking, there isn’t, we are given full freedom to carry it out." Liu Jian was also surprised that the other party didn’t question anything, as long as the road was built, maybe they really were unconcerned with money.
"What about the highway project on their side..." Qin Siming began to notice other things.
Infrastructure projects.
Liu Jian shook his head and said: "Don’t think about that, their highway construction capability is said to be very good, internal personnel can complete it, it’s only that their production of steel and cement cannot keep up, and they also don’t have experience in airport and railway construction."
"But I heard that there are many high-rise buildings and general projects to be bid for, it hasn’t started yet, the higher-ups would really like to win them all, but their attitude is uncertain, they didn’t explicitly say anything, they only said they welcome us to bid."
"Okay, I’ll have someone pay close attention to their situation, our county’s construction company will also join the fun."
Qin Siming would not miss any opportunity to earn foreign exchange.
Even if the construction projects in the county stopped, it would not be as important as earning foreign exchange.
"Yes, construction companies in the city and the province also have intentions, you can go and have a look together at that time, even if you can’t win the big project, you can take the small one, strive to create foreign exchange for the province."
"Okay."
