Liang Hongying brought tea and cigarettes, then closed the door of the private room.
Wan Feng lit a cigarette for Liang Guoyong and Zhang Hai, and poured himself a cup of hot tea.
"Uncle Liang, I thought you would come in the afternoon, but I didn't expect you to come so early in the morning."
"Zhang Hai called me early this morning and told me that you had prepared two big deals for Hongya County, so I came here immediately."
"You are so impatient."
"I have to be impatient. They say a new official starts with three major changes. How can I face the people of Jiangdong if I don't make some achievements during my term?"
No one else can describe the pursuit of political achievements in such a refreshing and refined way.
"Uncle Liang! You took time out of your busy schedule to come and listen to my nonsense. If you are not satisfied with my suggestions, then your visit would have been in vain."
"Just stop talking nonsense to me, okay kid, now it's time to talk about your project."
"No rush, good things come late. Before we talk about the project, I want to know how big a plan Hongya is planning to launch and how much funding it will have. My two projects won't be able to be launched with just 18 million."
"In the next few years, a number of counties in the province will be upgraded to cities. This requires reaching a certain level of production to qualify. Therefore, the county's goal for the next few years is to make Hongya one of the first counties in Beiliao Province to be upgraded to a city. Therefore, the county will strongly support economic development. Funding is not a problem. The secretary said that as long as the project is good, we will invest everything we have."
Abolish the county and turn it into a city?
Wan Feng vaguely remembered that Hongya County was upgraded from a county to a city in 1992, and it was the first city in Beiliao Province to be upgraded from a county to a city.
To ordinary people, abolishing a county and turning it into a city seems to be just a change of name with a nicer sound.
The facts seem to be true. When a county is abolished and a city is established, no matter what it is literally called, the jurisdiction area has not changed, the administrative level has not changed, and the government departments, institutions and personnel composition have not changed much except for the change of a character in the name.
Most people understand that it is just a name change, but everything else is the same as before.
In fact, the difference between a county and a city is huge, but ordinary people just don’t understand it.
The first is the division of responsibilities and powers.
Counties are directly managed by prefecture-level cities, while county-level cities are directly managed by provincial governments, with prefecture-level cities only acting as agents.
Different levels of affiliation mean greater administrative authority and more preferential policies.
The second is positioning.
Counties are generally based on agriculture, and the main responsibilities of county leaders are to develop agriculture and rural areas. They are based on agriculture, and due to the restrictions of the Basic Farmland Protection Law, there are many restrictions on land use.
Cities, on the other hand, focus on non-agricultural industries such as industry, commerce, or services, supplemented by agriculture. The emphasis is on industrial development, and land use is much more tolerant than in counties.
An important point is the difference in financial power.
There is a gap between counties and cities in terms of transfer payments or special support funds from higher-level governments.
Counties can generally only be used in agriculture-related fields, while cities can be used in urban-related fields.
Finally, cities can levy and use urban maintenance and construction taxes, but counties cannot.
Precisely because of so many benefits, counties across the country hope to be able to be upgraded to cities, with more rights, autonomy and policy benefits.
If Hongya County becomes Hongya City in the future, it will be much more convenient to obtain land for building factories than it is now.
It’s not like now, where you have to get this approval and that approval to build a factory.
"Then I would also like to ask, if these enterprises are established, will they exist as individual contractors or as collectives?"
This is related to some of Wan Feng's personal interests, so Wan Feng wants to know the attributes of these companies.
"These enterprises will not be contracted out in the future. They will exist as collective enterprises in the county. Why are you asking this?"
"Just asking."
If the enterprise is contracted individually, Wan Feng plans to share in the dividends by investing personally.
But if it is a collective situation, he is not prepared to wade into the muddy water.
The waters in collective enterprises are quite complicated, and who is in charge of these enterprises is very important. Something messy might happen in the future, and he doesn't want to get involved.
Don't get into trouble without making any money.
"Since the county is so determined, let's talk about projects. I have two projects on hand. I originally planned to give them to Wulu Township, but then I thought Wulu Township's appetite was too small to handle them, so I left them alone."
"Tell me what the project is?"
“The first project is fertilizer.”
"fertilizer?"
"Yes."
"Fertilizer is a good business, but we've only just built one fertilizer plant in Hongya County. Wouldn't building a second one be a duplication of projects?"
Hongya did build a fertilizer plant, but what kind of fertilizer plant was it?
Can a factory that produces ammonium bicarbonate at six or seven yuan a bag also be called a fertilizer factory?
If Wan Feng remembered correctly, ammonium bicarbonate was only around for about ten years before it was eliminated.
I don’t know whether other parts of China use Wanfeng, but in the north, ammonium bicarbonate is almost no longer used after a few years, and urea is used instead.
The biggest advantage of ammonium bicarbonate is that it is cheap and can have an immediate effect on short-term crops.
But its disadvantages are also very obvious, such as low nitrogen content, short shelf life, and not easy to preserve.
A bag of ammonium bicarbonate will become as hard as stone if it is not used for a few days, and you have to hit it with a hammer when you need to use it.
As a nitrogen fertilizer, urea does not have these disadvantages. It has a high nitrogen content, a long shelf life, and is easy to store.
This is why ammonium bicarbonate is replaced by urea.
"I know our county has built an ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer plant. The fertilizer I'm talking about is not ammonium bicarbonate, but urea."
"Aren't urea and ammonium bicarbonate the same type of fertilizer?" Although Liang Guoyong was in charge of industry after arriving in the county, he had also dealt with agriculture when he was in the Yongshi Commune, the predecessor of Wulu Township, and he knew some knowledge about agriculture.
"They are of the same type, but fundamentally different. Let me make an appropriate analogy: if ammonium bicarbonate is a bicycle, then urea is a motorcycle. A bicycle is slow and not suitable for long-distance riding. Its only advantage is that it doesn't require refueling, which is its most economical feature. Motorcycles, however, don't have these disadvantages. They are fast and can be ridden for long periods of time and distances, but the disadvantage is that you have to spend money on fuel."
"Your metaphor is quite interesting and appropriate."
"I can confidently say that within a few years, ammonium bicarbonate will be completely replaced by urea. If Hongya builds a urea plant, it will be enough to achieve great success just by capturing the market in Beiliao alone. Beiliao alone requires hundreds of thousands of tons of fertilizer annually. Fertilizer is the foundation of agriculture and no one can live without it. If we can capture the market in the three northeastern provinces, we'll be huge. What if we can also enter the interior of China?"
Wan Feng painted a beautiful blueprint for Liang Guoyong.
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