At 2:00 PM, a group of four people arrived at the secretary's office of Vice Governor Liang's office. After waiting for about 40 minutes, the secretary said to them:
"Vice Governor Liang is waiting for you. There's a meeting in half an hour."
After entering Vice Governor Liang's office, the secretary poured a cup of black tea for each of the four people.
Director Tan Chenggui gave a brief report on the situation in Honghua Township, Anyang County, Ganhe District.
After listening to this, Vice Governor Liang asked:
"Old Li, why does Honghua Township sound so familiar to me?"
"Governor, didn't we have a steel base project in the early stages? The boss behind it is Sun Zongyuan from Honghua Township. He's now the township head. If you don't abolish the township and make it a town, they won't hold a People's Congress!"
"This kid has his wits about him, but I like him. Old Li, you should take over the large petrochemical project during the Spring Festival. You said he was the one who proposed this project, right?"
"Yes, it was he who came up with the idea and invested in the large steel project in our Ganhe area."
"I remember he was a little over 24 years old this year. Alas, when I was my age, I had just graduated from college and was looking for a partner. Look, he has become a township head. It's not easy for him." Vice Governor Liang said with emotion.
"Old Li, a 1 million ton petrochemical project requires an investment of over 8 billion yuan, and the province doesn't have that much money. How about having this guy invest half and we form a joint venture?"
"I think it's possible. I heard this guy is investing in the Japanese real estate and stock markets. 8 billion won't be invested in one year, it will take at least three years. Let him invest 100 million or 200 million dollars first, and I think the start-up capital for the large petrochemical project will be secured."
“I don’t know how the national plan for the large petrochemical project is progressing.”
"Initially, the State Planning Commission disagreed. The provincial government found several veteran revolutionaries who had fought and worked in our province and finally persuaded the Commission. The deputy premier in charge has already signed off on the plan. Land acquisition and demolition will begin after the Spring Festival, and equipment research and development and manufacturing have already begun. Equipment will begin arriving and installation in the second half of this year. However, the manufacturing and installation of the equipment will take more than two years, involving hundreds of supporting factories, so there's still a lot of work to do."
In 1988, one US dollar could be exchanged for 3.72 RMB, and the black market price reached 8.2 RMB to exchange for one US dollar.
In any case, two hundred million US dollars is more than enough to start a large petrochemical project.
After Vice Governor Liang finished speaking, he picked up the report from the Civil Affairs Department, signed it, and said:
"Chen Gui, when you go to work in Ganhe District next, you must make good use of Sun Zongyuan. He not only has money and projects, but he also has a big vision and a broad perspective. His future achievements will be no less than ours!"
After leaving Vice Governor Liang's office and breaking up with Tan Chenggui, Li Chuanyu and Wang Peizhong went to the Civil Affairs Department again and got the approval. Then they came to Director Tan Chenggui's office. This time they talked about the situation in Ganhe area, and of course the focus was still on the situation in Anyang County.
Tan Chenggui knew that Anyang County had developed rapidly in the past two years and was showing signs of surpassing Ganhe City to become the leader.
When Tan Chenggui learned that the development of towns and villages in Anyang County was unbalanced, the fiscal revenue of good towns such as Honghua Township was almost over 8 million yuan, and it was certain to exceed 10 million yuan next year. The fiscal revenue of weak towns such as Hongshi Township was only more than 1.3 million yuan. There were eight towns in the county with less than 3 million yuan. Their basic conditions were not good, with a population of about 20,000. The smallest town had only more than 9,000 people.
"Can we merge the 21 townships, especially those with a population of 30,000? That way, there will be only about 11 townships in the county. The planned economy will gradually decrease, market forces will gradually strengthen, and there will be no need for so many townships. This will make management easier, save costs, and help strengthen the ability of townships to grow bigger and stronger."
"I totally agree. The county committee also discussed this topic when we merged Hongshi Township!" Wang Peizhong was very supportive and cooperative with the prefectural party committee secretary.
"There's been discussion about this at the top, and the central government has asked our province to conduct a pilot program. So, could you please come up with a plan as a pilot program for the province? I'll try to facilitate this within a month or so. Is that okay?"
"Director, Secretary, I'll go back tonight and start working on a plan. All the towns and villages in the county have been preparing for the People's Congress these days. I think we should put them on hold for now and hold it in early February after the Spring Festival."
"If you have time, go back and implement it. If you have any good ideas for the Ganhe area, you can also call me."
Wang Peizhong returned to Anyang County with the provincial approval.
While arranging for someone to send a reply to the Prefectural Party Committee, he also convened a meeting with several deputy secretaries, the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, the director of the Planning Commission and the director of the Agriculture Bureau.
After a whole day of closed-door meetings, they came up with a plan to merge the original 21 towns into 10 based on population, geographical location, transportation convenience and customs. In addition to merging Honghua Township and Hongshi Town into Fushan Town, Anyang Town merged two more towns, with an area of 410 square kilometers and a population of 98,000. It is the largest town in the Ganhe area except for the streets in the urban area of Ganhe.
The newly established Fushan Town is the largest township outside the towns of various counties and cities.
Then a symposium on merging townships was held. Several veteran comrades from the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference initially had different opinions. However, after repeated explanations by Secretary Wang Peizhong, everyone finally agreed to the plan. The remote villages in some townships were relocated to the nearest townships according to the principle of proximity.
Technical issues were handed over to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and the Land Planning Section of the Agricultural Bureau also played an important role. After the merger, a separate unit was set up to form the Land Management Service Center as a second-level unit of the County Agricultural Bureau. However, within two years, the Land Bureau grew into a constituent administrative bureau of the county.
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