Chapter 395

Mayor Wang worked efficiently; only two days after reaching a verbal agreement, he invited Chen Yang and Shen Anna to inspect the site of the vegetable greenhouse base in Jiangmen Town.

When Chen Yang and Shen Anna arrived at the site, they found that the scale of the base had already been planned. To demonstrate their ambition, the base covers a total of one thousand mu.

Near the base, a lot of steel frame materials had already been transported in. Seeing this, they are determined to carry out this project long-term.

To be honest, Chen Yang is not very optimistic about this plan.

The main reason is that Jiangmen Town is too close to Xingcheng's urban area. Once the town is abolished and merged into the city in the future, it will become a darling of the real estate industry.

At that time, the government will surely demolish these greenhouses, change the land's nature from basic farmland to commercial use, and then swish swish swish build commercial buildings and residential communities.

The reason is simple: the revenue the real estate industry brings to the government far exceeds that from agricultural planting.

However, since Yuan Wei and Mayor Wang are willing to put effort into greenhouse planting, Chen Yang also supports it. Because they are good officials who serve the people, they are genuinely helping local farmers increase income.

After touring the vegetable greenhouse base, Chen Yang and Shen Anna prepared to return to the company. Unexpectedly, Yuan Wei asked them to wait a moment, saying that Mayor of Xingcheng Sun Changqing would come to inspect the vegetable greenhouse base in Jiangmen Town.

Since the leadership is coming for an inspection, Chen Yang, as a participant in the vegetable greenhouse plan, certainly cannot be absent.

About ten minutes later, Sun Changqing arrived at Yuan Wei's office accompanied by his secretary.

Yuan Wei, Mayor Wang, Chen Yang, and Shen Anna shook hands and greeted each other in turn.

"Mayor, welcome to Jiangmen Town to guide work!"

"Lao Yuan, Jiangmen Town has such a great location, yet you keep Chen Yang, this golden phoenix, unused and instead run a vegetable greenhouse base—what a pity!" Sun Changqing deeply regretted the short-sightedness of Yuan Wei and Mayor Wang.

Yuan Wei and Mayor Wang glanced at each other, and the former said: "Mayor, Jiangmen Town has always been an agricultural stronghold and the granary of Xingcheng. Cooperating with Director Chen to build the vegetable greenhouse base can maximize our town's advantages. I think it's great. If there are any shortcomings, please feel free to point them out."

Sun Changqing waved his hand and said: "Lao Yuan, I'm not here this time to oppose your project. I'm reminding you to make better use of Director Chen's resources to elevate Jiangmen Town's economy to the next level."

Yuan Shuai glanced at Chen Yang and gave an embarrassed smile. He merely wanted to use the vegetable greenhouse base project to gradually build a good relationship with Chen Yang, then seek more project collaborations. Yet Sun Changqing bluntly stated his opinion in front of them, which was too embarrassing.

"Mayor, if Director Chen is willing to invest and build a factory in Jiangmen Town, we would naturally welcome it. We just fear he might not think highly of this small place."

This was Chen Yang's first meeting with Sun Changqing, but he knew that Sun Changqing's relationship with Lin Wei's grandfather was not ordinary. During the Spring Festival, he had spoken with Lao Hu on the phone and even had his secretary personally deliver gifts.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Sun Changqing also counts as his elder. If Sun Changqing were to make demands to his face, it would indeed be hard to refuse.

However, he already has many enterprises in his hands and temporarily has no intention to expand new business. Thus he said to Sun Changqing, 'Mayor, our company has recently invested a lot of funds in e-commerce and vegetable greenhouse base construction; we are temporarily unable to expand our business. Even cooperating with Secretary Yuan and Town Chief Wang to develop the vegetable greenhouse base is actually beyond our planned business.'

Sun Changqing laughed and said, 'Chen Yang, you have proposed many good ideas for our province's state-owned enterprises in the provincial state-owned enterprise reform group; Deputy Provincial Governor Liu praises you endlessly. Even if you don't invest, being able to offer some good ideas for Jiangmen Town's economic development is also acceptable, right?'

Chen Yang thought to himself, 'As a private entrepreneur, giving economic development pointers to a government department—isn't that just asking for trouble?' He immediately politely declined. 'Mayor, I believe developing agriculture in Jiangmen Town in the short term is the correct choice. Only by making the vegetable greenhouse base thrive can other enterprises see the development potential here.'

Sun Changqing did not agree with Chen Yang's view, and he said, 'Jiangmen Town's greatest advantage is its land resources. Since we have already developed such a good high-end residential project on Jiangmen Dao, we should continue to develop the mid-to-low-end real estate industry on this basis.'

As a Reborn Person, Chen Yang naturally knows how crazy the future real estate of Jiangmen Town will be. But it is precisely because of uncontrolled, frenzied development that housing prices have remained stagnant. Developers, due to slow capital turnover, many choose to flee, leaving behind a heap of unfinished buildings. In the end, batch after batch of innocent ordinary people are harmed.

Therefore, Chen Yang also dared not agree with Sun Changqing's view.

'Mayor, developing real estate can indeed quickly boost Jiangmen Town's economy. But this place is, after all, a half-hour drive from the urban area. Ordinary people are busy with work every day; who has time to take a bus for more than half an hour to come to Jiangmen Town to buy property?'

Sun Changqing said, 'Xingcheng is undertaking large-scale urban construction this year; it will soon spread to Jiangmen Town. Only by preparing the real estate project in advance can we better promote the town's economic development.'

Chen Yang could see that Sun Changqing was determined to pursue real estate. In that case, he saw no need to keep talking. Besides, she wouldn't have to spend money; if any mishap occurred in the future, the government would foot the bill, and it would have nothing to do with him.

'Mayor, since you believe real estate is Jiangmen Town's ultimate destination, I can only wish Secretary Yuan and Town Chief Wang good luck in advance.'

Sun Changqing gave Chen Yang a meaningful look and said, 'I've heard you like investing in real estate the most; why aren't you interested in investing some in Jiangmen Dao?'

Chen Yang replied truthfully, 'Mayor, the properties I invest in are all promising shops; I am not very interested in commercial housing.'

Sun Changqing said to Chen Yang, 'Your partner's Xinghui Financial Investment Company also has real estate business. Why not give Jiangmen Town a chance?'

Chen Yang knew Yexin's character; such a labor-intensive, unappreciated investment, she would unhesitatingly refuse. Moreover, the company had just purchased Plot No. 8 of International New City. She could not possibly leave that prime location undeveloped and come to this remote Jiangmen Town to waste time and money.

'Mayor, I cannot call the shots for Xinghui Financial Investment Company over there. As far as I know, their current focus is developing that plot of International New City; they temporarily cannot divert attention to other projects.'

Sun Changqing furrowed his brows slightly and said, 'With Xinghui Financial Investment Company's strength, couldn't they handle one more project?'

Chen Yang did not understand why Sun Changqing was so enthusiastic about developing real estate, especially in Jiangmen Town. He could only try to placate the other party for now.

'Mayor, why don't I first go consult the shareholders? If they have no objections, we can proceed with a project here. If they oppose it, then I am powerless.'