"We'll probably set up a headquarters there, but not a factory. As for the other cities, it depends on who gives us the funding. What suggestions does the city have?" Xing Baohua said.
Director Lin sighed and said, "No, isn't this another time you've asked me to bring people here to cooperate with you? How do you expect the city to cooperate with you in taking down the motorcycles?"
"Can private enterprises establish new factories with foreign companies?" Xing Baohua asked.
“There’s no precedent for this! They’re all joint ventures with state-owned enterprises. State-owned enterprises must hold 50-51% or more of the shares,” Director Lin said.
"Look, the city government, the motorcycle company, and I will form a joint venture. But I must own 30% of the shares. How will the other two companies split the rest?" Xing Baohua said arrogantly.
"Dream on! 30%? The city only has the right to make suggestions; the final decision rests with the higher-ups," Director Lin said.
"I need at least 20%, otherwise I won't make any profit! Actually, neither I nor the motorcycles like you guys getting involved."
"But I can't leave you out of the game. You'll get most of the profits. We'll test the waters when the motorcycle guys arrive, and then I'll have a good talk with the people who come to negotiate," Xing Baohua said.
“I will report your suggestion. I will have the preparatory team compile a list of land plots, and you can help with a preliminary selection,” Director Lin said.
"I won't look at it. Let them choose for themselves. Don't make decisions for them so easily. Whether it will end up with us is another matter." Xing Baohua was very disgusted by the other party's over-the-top approach. It seemed like they were cooperating and providing services, but in reality, they had already drawn a framework for you. It was unpleasant to hear and see.
His own supporting facilities are not yet complete, and he still has to help motorcyclists choose places to improve them. Is Xing Baohua just bored and has nothing better to do?
Needless to say, motorcycles take up a lot of space, and with motorcycles joining the high-tech zone, it's estimated that it won't be long before the highest levels of government officially grant the high-tech zone its full name.
Xing Baohua didn't know about other places, but in the development zone in eastern Shandong, which is led by high technology, this was the first one.
Once established, it will receive the most favorable treatment from government authorities. The villages and farmland within the entire development zone will be urbanized.
Those who have farmed their whole lives will move to towns and cities. In those days, having a town or city household registration was a great honor.
This would mean eating rationed food, enjoying the benefits of a planned economy, and having the next generation of children wait for the government to arrange jobs for them and enjoy worker benefits.
As soon as there is a call to action, none of these people are holdouts; they all eagerly rush to the city.
Try living there for thirty or forty years and you'll see a frightening number of holdouts. They all want to farm, live in bungalows, and get even more compensation.
What does this show? It shows that ordinary people are no longer easily fooled.
When apartments in the city were in high demand, many ordinary people couldn't afford them. But when there was a slight oversupply of apartments, people no longer wanted to buy them.
Because fertile farmland cannot be requisitioned; this is a red line. Only farmers' residential areas, that is, villages, can be requisitioned.
Some developers have even offered incentives such as trading corn or watermelons for apartments to encourage farmers to buy homes in the city.
Some experts are even fanning the flames, saying that if all the farmers move to the city, how will they farm the land?
Experts say you can drive your car to farm!
This expert, I don't know where he came from, just spouts nonsense.
The problem with ordinary people's good life today is not a lack of cars, but whether they know how to drive them.
Later, the expert added unnecessarily, saying, "What I mean is that farmers nowadays can easily afford a car, after all, it's only a few tens of thousands of yuan. It's not that you have to buy a sedan to have a car; you can buy a farm vehicle."
Basically, agricultural vehicles are all diesel tricycles.
Can I enter the town? Who will be responsible for the ticket?
In upscale residential areas, the kind of buildings that are twenty or thirty stories high, both the underground garage and the surface parking spaces are filled with rows of farm tricycles.
Let's give this place a very stylish name, like "High-end Specialty Agricultural Residential Community"?
Every era is different, which inevitably brings many different issues.
Xing Baohua is also worried about his employees and the residential areas in Shangguzhuang and several other villages.
I discussed this with the town government a while ago. We decided to find a few sites in the town and build high-rise apartment complexes there!
The plan is good, but the town has no money. We haven't received a reply to the application or anything, and we haven't been given a definite answer as to whether it will be successful.
In fact, they were all holding back, waiting until after 1985 to withhold a portion of Xing Baohua's local tax revenue.
Nobody dares touch the government's taxes! Local taxes are handled by the local authorities. Whether it's a village or a town, there's a percentage of the revenue that will be retained.
This year, Xing Baohua's profits were so high that the town was able to retain more than ten million yuan.
They probably want to wait until this money arrives before talking about building a high-end residential area.
Xing Baohua has been trying to trick people into letting him settle in central Shandong and become his neighbor.
There's a reason for that; foreign companies offer too many advantages. And Motorola sent engineers and employees to work there.
Xing Baohua's first thought was not to poach talent, but to his two schools: one a combined primary, junior high, and senior high school, and the other a technical college.
We can hire foreigners part-time to teach at the primary, middle, and high school levels. They can teach foreign languages and basic academic subjects.
As for technical colleges, they need to hire professional technicians or engineers to serve as part-time foreign teachers.
Xing Baohua is severely lacking in talent; he needs to find a way to accelerate development. Once the motorcycle project is launched, his plan will be much easier to complete.
There are plenty of places to choose from for motorcycles. The current issue is choosing a location. It's not that just because someone has a connection with Xing Baohua, they'll come and become neighbors. This isn't something that one or two people can decide.
They can only compare the data comprehensively to determine which aspects are advantageous for them to build a factory, and then they will decide where to settle.
Xing Baohua doesn't have time to work on anything related to motorcycles anymore. Even if he did come up with something, it would be useless if his skills weren't up to par.
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