Chapter 460

Two Mercedes-Benz cars set off from the Li family and drove towards the suburbs of Pingyang. The Li family's courtyard belongs to the original Shangguan Town, which is now the Shangguan Economic Development Zone.

Even Li Dongyue, who had only left for more than half a year, had already been surprised once when she returned and passed through the Shangguan District, but after seeing it again, she was still amazed at the great changes in the Shangguan Economic Development Zone.

Li Dongyue was like this, not to mention Miao Jiahui, who had left Pingyang for several years. Both of them looked through the car window, staring intently at the buildings in the Shangguan Economic Development Zone that had almost been demolished and were being rebuilt.

In the middle of the Shangguan Economic Development Zone, there stands a newly completed landmark building. Modeled after a torch, it is red and white, and the giant torch building is 25 meters high. This is the symbol of the Shangguan Economic Development Zone and also the most important industry.

On this torch reaching for the sky, there are also many lines of text engraved. National-level industrial demonstration zone, national lighter industrial cluster demonstration zone, key project of the Economic and Trade Commission, excellent demonstration industry of State Development and Investment, key project of Hanxi Province, etc., nearly a dozen titles are engraved on it, so that the project approval given by the Pingyang Municipal Government to the Torch Group can only be written on the last line.

On the night of important festivals, if you come here, you can also see the flames burning fiercely above the torch within the specified time.

In the Shangguan Economic Development Zone, the first thing you see is the Torch Group Industrial Park, which stretches for several kilometers. Hundreds of lighter supporting companies, as well as upstream and downstream industrial chains, are concentrated here.

In addition to the Torch Group Industrial Park, various supporting and living entertainment facilities are also being built around the Torch Group.

Where there is consumption power, living facilities and entertainment facilities will be born. Just like in the previous life, during the period when the domestic coal mine market was at its best, even if it was a coal mine in a mountain gully, as long as it was mined, various entertainment venues would emerge in the mountains.

Even the entire entertainment circle, because of the aesthetic of the coal bosses, when choosing actors, they all have their own characteristics, and it is absolutely impossible for a plastic surgeon to make them on an assembly line.

The Torch Group also has such ability. When the production lines of lighters are started, a steady stream of raw materials is sent to the Torch Industrial Park, and a steady stream of lighters produced by the production lines are sent to all parts of the country.

When the entire lighter industrial chain starts to operate, revenue begins to be generated, and the industrial park of tens of thousands of people also begins to continuously generate revenue and consumption.

The Shangguan Economic Development Zone also began to have shopping malls, large and small restaurants, hotels, cinemas, karaoke halls, etc. In addition, real estate companies also began to emerge, trying to build commercial housing in the Shangguan District.

The Shangguan Economic Development Zone and the Xicheng District where the Dongling Gao Ke Electronic Industrial Park is located are now the fastest-growing areas in the entire Pingyang.

Of course, if you compare the funds, it is definitely not as good as the Xicheng District. The Dongling Gao Ke Electronic Industrial Park and the Dongling Gao Ke parts industrial chain factory, as well as the second largest taxpayer in Pingyang, Chunlan Air Conditioning, and the Pingyang Cigarette Factory, are all in the Xicheng District.

This makes the funds in the Xicheng District very abundant. Nearly 70% to 80% of the tax revenue of the entire Pingyang comes from the Xicheng District. Of course, the land and houses in the Xicheng District are also rising in price year after year. Even if the Dongling Gao Ke Electronic Industrial Park wants to buy land in the Xicheng District, it feels a bit expensive, not to mention other companies.

However, the Shangguan Economic Development Zone, as a new urban area, is much less restricted, and land approval is easier, which is much easier than urban construction in the Xicheng District.

In addition, the Shangguan District, as the face of Pingyang and even the provincial capital, even has people transferred from the provincial capital, Yanjing, and Shanghai to gild in the Shangguan Economic Development Zone Management Committee, just hoping to get credit and promotion here, so that the resources obtained by the Shangguan Economic Development Zone are not much worse than those in the Xicheng District, and there are even resources from the provincial capital and Yanjing.

The logistics industrial park of Focus Media and Dongfang Times Mall, as well as the assembly and production plant established by Founder Computer in Pingyang, and the Hanxi Software Industrial Park, are all located in the Shangguan Economic Development Zone.

This is also the reason why those living and entertainment facilities, including real estate developers, are willing to run to the Shangguan Economic Development Zone to test the waters. In time, not to mention other things, just in terms of urban construction, city appearance, and supporting facilities, it will definitely surpass other areas of Pingyang!

When Li Dongling and their motorcade passed the traffic lights at the intersection, they could see that even though the New Year was about to come, there were still transport vehicles delivering lighters continuously driving out from here. It is conceivable how large the production capacity of the Torch Group is now.

Although there are other regions producing lighters now, in terms of scale and cost, they can no longer compete with the Torch Group at all.

Relying on the strategy of giving away lighters when buying cigarettes, alcohol, health supplements, meals, and even scrubbing in bathhouses, Torch lighters have completely opened up the situation in the country. A host of alcohol, cigarette factories, health supplements, large and small restaurants, and hotels have become loyal customers of the Torch Group.

In addition, large and small supermarkets, supply and marketing cooperatives in villages and towns, shops in train stations and bus stations, etc., have all been covered with Torch Group lighters. A market with a population of more than one billion is showing a terrifying demand for lighters, and the result is that the production capacity of the Torch Group is soaring!

After passing the Xicheng District, they drove all the way to the suburbs in the direction of the provincial capital. Originally, it was the suburbs, and it happened to be the New Year season, so there should be much fewer cars on this road leading to the suburbs.

But on the contrary, Li Dongyue and Miao Jiahui, who were sitting in the car, saw bicycles, motorcycles, buses, and cars intertwined on the road, and even traffic jams occurred.

"These are all heading to the Yuhe Leisure Resort!"

Li Dongshan, who was driving, said to Miao Jiahui. Which place is the most popular in Pingyang and even the surrounding urban areas now? Undoubtedly, it is the Yuhe Leisure Resort.

Before, the adults were working and had no time to go. Now that they are on vacation, they can naturally take their families there. The ticket price of twenty yuan is not cheap.

But after entering, you can take your wife and children to eat a hamburger and fried chicken meal, play with children's amusement facilities, take a group photo for your family that you usually can't bear to take, and the whole family can also watch a movie, play table tennis, badminton, roller skating, fishing, etc.

Compared with the ticket price, the cost-performance ratio is full. Including simple children's amusement facilities, roller skating rinks, and other facilities, they have not appeared in other places at all, so it naturally became a check-in place.

Not only Pingyang, but also the surrounding urban areas, and even people from the provincial capital have come through various transportation facilities, which led to the traffic jam scene in front of them.

But fortunately, there are not many cars now. Even if there is a traffic jam, the time is not long. The car walked and stopped. After passing that section of the Yuhe Leisure Resort, the speed increased again.

The asphalt road leading to the Pingyang Animal Park connects Pingyang, Shangzhong, Xiyuan in the provincial capital, and many other urban areas. This new road is still under construction and is expected to be completed at the same time as the Pingyang Animal Park.

Li Dongling and the others took an old road. One can imagine the condition of the old road in the suburbs. The car drove on it, and it was quite bumpy along the way.

Arriving at the construction site of the Pingyang Animal Park, there are many construction machines parked here. Because of sufficient funds, the construction period here has never stopped. Now the base has been completely built.

The car did not stop, but drove forward for several kilometers and arrived at another place with a sign of the Pingyang Giant Xiong Mao Research Center.

The area of the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center is actually not much smaller than the Pingyang Animal Park, and there is a large newly built bamboo forest behind it, which is used for the giant panda's rations.

In fact, in addition to the expenses of the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center, there is another large project with significant expenses, which is the other agreement signed earlier to place the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center in Pingyang. The investment funds for the giant panda habitat in Hanxi Province will probably be quite large in the future.

The best protection for giant pandas, allowing the entire panda population to thrive smoothly, is not how luxurious the zoo is built, but the protection of the panda habitat. Like humans, pandas have a territory before they have a chance to thrive smoothly.

In the previous life, there were various news reports about meeting pandas on the road and pandas breaking into vegetable gardens. In fact, it was because the habitat had problems.

After seeing Li Dongling and their car arrive, a group of people came out of the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center, obviously having been waiting for a long time.

"Mr. Li!"

Seeing the leader, Li Dongling also took a step forward and said to the person who spoke, "Chief Secretary Chen!"

The person who came was Yao Zhengru's secretary, Chen Linfeng, who was also his right-hand man. Yao Zhengru was at his busiest these few days and could not get away at all. He could only send Chen Linfeng to represent him and participate in the unveiling of the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center together with personnel from the Pingyang Municipal Government Civil Affairs and other departments.

"Manager Fang Peigang, the person in charge of the Pingyang Animal Park project!"

"Director Fu Lang of the Hanxi Animal Association!"

"This is Director He Zehai of the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center!"

"The specially hired technician of the Giant Xiong Mao Research Center, and also Professor Qian Zhicheng, the most authoritative person in domestic giant panda research!"

Chen Linfeng did the work of observation. For which place and which department's ins and outs, he could see the doorway in the shortest time, know the depth of all forces, these are essential homework, and then organize and report to Yao Zhengru.

Without this keen eye, he would have been unable to do it long ago. Today at the Pingyang Giant Xiong Mao Research Center, Chen Linfeng also quickly and calmly reminded Li Dongling of the few people with the most say here.

After hearing Chen Linfeng's words, Li Dongling nodded to him, looked at the group of people in front of him, and greeted them.

Facing Li Dongling, whether it was Fang Peigang representing the Pingyang Animal Park, or Fu Lang, He Zeping, and others, they were all very enthusiastic. They all knew that they would have to rely on Li Dongling, the big financier, in the future.

On the contrary, Qian Zhicheng, with the reserve of an academic, shook hands with Li Dongling. After all, he relied mainly on technology and academic research, not on official career things.