Chapter 319: Dark Horse

In the final analysis, this is a "grassroots era." Regardless of what industry one comes from or what background one has, for those who are bold, in this era, the opportunities to make a fortune will always be a bit greater!

A few years ago, when real estate in Yazhou was hot, it could attract thousands of troops to Yazhou, no less than those who went to the special zone of Pengcheng.

Although Yazhou real estate had already cooled down, countless people still made their first bucket of gold in Yazhou!

With the examples of Pengcheng and Yazhou in front, now naturally countless people wanted to come to Pingyang to find the next opportunity to make a fortune.

To put it bluntly, in this era, the family background of those who wanted to make a fortune was about the same, and the capital in their hands couldn't be too much. Everyone was relying on "recklessness," relying on a "hard head," gritting their teeth and climbing forward. If luck came, they might turn over and become "ten-thousand-yuan households" or "hundred-thousand-yuan households" in one go. If luck was bad... basically, they would disappear.

The "local snakes" who really had relationships and backgrounds wouldn't run to Pengcheng, Yazhou, or Pingyang to try their luck. They had too many means to get huge benefits in their local area relying on various relationships and connections, so there was no need to take risks.

Pingyang had too many big projects this year. Huge investments were poured in, making Pingyang's economy hot to the point of scalding, and opportunities naturally followed, attracting countless people from within and outside the province to come.

Of course, not only Pingyang, in fact, major cities across the country were like this now. When state-owned enterprises were clearly unable to hold on, they naturally began to increase investment in private enterprises and other industries. After all, there were so many people, and there must be a place to eat.

National debt, bonds, futures, etc., all began to open up this year. In the stock market, there even appeared a scene of "thousands of horses rolling on the flat hill, ten thousand stocks rising to the sky." The daily turnover of the A-share market exceeded 10 billion, which made those who played stocks eat a wave of meat this year, and also made those who didn't play stocks or futures stunned, not expecting that it could be played like this.

But in the situation where various places in the country were continuously investing in industrial parks and industrial zones and launching various projects this year, Pingyang's economy this year was still unique.

Especially in the latest list of the top 100 domestic economic cities in the first half of this year, compiled by the Economic Daily, Pingyang strongly made the list as a "dark horse." This was the first time Pingyang had made the list in so many years, reaching the 98th position on the list!

In the first half of this year, Pingyang's economy rushed to a scale of 15.8 billion. This was calculated in the first half of the year. At that time, Dongling Gao Ke hadn't launched new products like Little Smart, the second generation of Silver Mink, and the Shenzhou USB flash drive.

And Little Smart, how popular it was in the country this year, and how many orders it had received overseas, everyone could inquire about it.

Just in the second half of this year, the opening of the Pingyang Freight Airport, the opening of the Oriental Times Square, plus the Torch Group that had begun to operate at full capacity, and Dongling Gao Ke's new products—how much revenue could this bring to Pingyang? What ranking Pingyang could rush to in this list in the second half of this year, no one dared to guarantee!

Some media even predicted that in the second half of this year, Pingyang might rush into the top 50 of the top 100 domestic economic cities, and some even speculated that it could rush into the top 30 or even top 20. But regardless of the ranking, it was enough to show how strong Pingyang's economy was this year, and the relationship between this and Dongling Gao Ke and Feiyan Technology could only be said to be "benevolent sees benevolence, wise sees wisdom."

Now the "Daewoo model" of Korea hadn't collapsed yet. Some media with good intentions had turned the relationship between Dongling Gao Ke and Pingyang into a domestic version of the Daewoo model.

Regarding this statement, Dongling Gao Ke directly denied it. Li Dongling even passed a message through the Public Relations Department to the media, saying that any media that dared to say Dongling Gao Ke was Daewoo would be sued by Dongling Gao Ke until they went bankrupt.

To be honest, even scolding people wasn't scolded so dirty. Who the hell wanted to be Daewoo? Dongling Gao Ke had no grudges with the other party. How could they curse Dongling Gao Ke like this!

Dongling Gao Ke's move made the media somewhat confused, not knowing why Dongling Gao Ke reacted so fiercely to the Daewoo model, but finally, no media dared to report the dog-fart relationship between Dongling Gao Ke and Daewoo.

But that list indeed stimulated the nerves of countless places in the country. Pingyang, a place that had been unknown in the economic industry in the past, had caused such a big movement this time, which was completely beyond the expectations of countless people.

Many places had the idea of "raising" a local Daewoo company. For a time, in many places across the country, they began to "feed" a company, putting many local companies, industries, and resources under the name of one company, wanting to quickly feed and catalyze this company, and then feed back to the local area.

How this set of play was, no one knew. Only time could prove it. But Dongling Gao Ke's influence in the industry began to appear.

And under this economic top 100 city ranking list, Pingyang's project of building the Pingyang Animal Park didn't seem to be worth "making a fuss" about, although the investment scale of this animal park was larger than the scale of development zones built by some cities.

But when the Hanxi Provincial Daily and Pingyang Daily explained in the report that the Pingyang Animal Park project was jointly built with Dongling Gao Ke, and Dongling Gao Ke bore the main funding, the outside world had no doubts. As for whether there would be a shortage of funding or unfinished projects, no one worried.

Don't worry about unfinished projects, and funding could be obtained. Naturally, all kinds of construction companies, construction teams, and building material merchants rushed to it. If they didn't run to Pingyang overnight to grab some orders, they would have to wait for the Pingyang Animal Park to be built and buy tickets to go in and see pandas!

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"Pingyang Animal Park, after completion, is expected to become the largest animal and park project in Hanxi and even the country, becoming another business card for Hanxi to face tourists from all over the country and even overseas!"

"Pingyang announced the establishment of a tourism department. Pingyang Animal Park will be jointly developed by the Pingyang Tourism Department and Dongling Gao Ke. In addition, it is reported that the Hanxi Provincial Capital Animal Park will also join this project!"

"The first giant panda research center in the country was officially announced to be established and will be located in Pingyang Animal Park. Pingyang Animal Park will invest 5 million yuan to build the giant panda research center base!"

"Our station reports overseas news: Brazil's largest local telecom company, Brazil's OI Telecom, has officially announced the introduction of PHS communication technology into the Brazilian market. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, China Telecom, ZTE, and several other companies have reached cooperation with Brazil's OI Telecom."

"In addition, the PHS mobile phone Little Smart, independently developed by Dongling Gao Ke in our province, has received an order for over 2 million mobile phones from Brazil's OI Telecom!"

"Currently, what restricts Little Smart is mainly the production capacity problem. Little Smart has received over 5 million overseas orders, but due to the production capacity supply problem, the delivery of Little Smart's overseas orders has been delayed..."

Before the CCTV news broadcast, the news played by the Hanxi Provincial Station was basically some major events in Hanxi Province. Basically, people in officialdom in Hanxi Province would watch these news.

The reports on the news broadcast were too far away for many people in officialdom in Hanxi. Instead, the news from the Hanxi Provincial Station let them know the major events of more than a dozen cities in Hanxi Province, which also had a greater impact on them.

And I don't know when it started, but the frequency of news related to Pingyang appearing on the Hanxi Provincial Station news had become higher and higher, second only to the provincial capital.

Luo Junwu, the helmsman of the Pingyang municipal government who was dining at home, looked at the news on the provincial station, where Pingyang occupied five minutes of the ten-minute news. He held the rice bowl in mid-air for a long time before putting it down.

Looking at the news on TV, Luo Junwu's eyes carried a bit of relief and a bit of emotion. Even though he had been promoted and left Pingyang, Pingyang's current situation was absolutely something he could be proud of. He could even brag that he was the founder of Pingyang, and he estimated that no one could object, after all, it was when he was in office that Dongling Gao Ke settled in Pingyang.

But to say there was no emotion, that was absolutely nonsense. Look at the number of times Yao Zhengru appeared in the Hanxi Provincial Station news now, and even some important provincial meetings, Yao Zhengru was invited to participate. His status and influence in Hanxi could be imagined, and all of this was because he was the current helmsman of Pingyang.

To say that Luo Junwu had no unwillingness and no envy would be a bit of a lie. Luo Junwu sometimes thought, if he hadn't left Pingyang at the beginning, what would the scene be like now? Of course, these were just thoughts.

But for Luo Junwu, if there was a chance, he would definitely go back to Pingyang to see a few more times. For him, Pingyang was not his highest moment in his official career!

The Pingyang Animal Park project became a topic of conversation for countless people in Hanxi Province after dinner. But for the domestic tech industry, the most important things were still two things.

Little Smart took another city overseas, opening the Brazilian market. For a group of domestic manufacturers like UTStarcom, BBK, and Bird that had obtained Dongling Gao Ke's authorization and were producing Little Smart, this was no less than a sound of nature. The larger the Little Smart market, the more they earned.

It was only one step away from the listing of Little Smart produced by UTStarcom, Bird, BBK, and other companies. The first price war of domestic mobile phone manufacturers was probably about to break out. But Dongling Gao Ke only allowed UTStarcom, Bird, BBK, and them to sell Little Smart in the country, but didn't allow them to export overseas!

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