Chapter 803: Xie Siyang Has Arrived

Dong dong dong!

Su Yang's office door was knocked.

Come in.

Is that Bureau Chief Sun? Wait a moment, I'll finish what I'm holding and then we can talk; please sit first.

Su Yang was writing a work plan for the near future, the overall plan for investment promotion.

Hearing someone knock on the door, he spoke without looking up.

Bureau Chief Sun? This not only gave me a promotion but also changed my surname, yet the familiar female figure appearing before me is...

Su Yang looked up and immediately laughed: "It's you who came, you actually came this fast—wasn't it supposed to be within three days? This is..."

Xie Siyang said: "Yes, that's right, it's within three days—do I really have to wait until the third day within those three days?"

The Organization Department is processing my paperwork, but I couldn't wait, so I came in a private capacity to pay my respects to your dock.

By then you'll have to cover for me.

Su Yang laughed and said: "I had you come over precisely so you could cover for me; otherwise, why would I rush you over? Do you think it's because of your personal charm?"

Xie Siyang, speaking, also helped himself, taking a cup from Su Yang's desk, pulling out a packet of instant coffee from his small bag, pouring it in, then adding hot water, and began drinking from the side.

Instantly, the coffee's aroma spread throughout the office.

Su Yang said: "Coffee used to be a luxury in the countryside; is it still a luxury in the county now?"

But on you, it seems quite ordinary. To be honest, I envy your wealthy lifestyle.

Anyway, let's get back to the point; I had you come over mainly because our situation is quite serious—if we let the people in our county handle investment promotion, I'd worry myself gray, and they might not attract any projects.

So your time is tight, the task is heavy—within three months we need at least a ten-million-level project to be launched.

So I can give an account to my superiors and actually contribute to changing our county's economic development.

Of course, you shouldn't pour your own family's money into the investment promotion project just for the sake of it; that's unnecessary.

Moreover, investing in our place may not even break even, unlike Xiushui Xiang, where there's Xiushui Mountain to develop, and such scenic areas only require large upfront investment, after which it's basically just waiting to collect money.

Indeed, we have nothing here—no natural resources, and we can't rely on the mountains.

So I'm also quite troubled.

Xie Siyang chuckled and said: "A ten-million-level investment project is trivial for me."

Lieshan Xian, I've studied this place before—it indeed lacks any reliable natural resources, but fortunately the land is fairly flat.

You can completely plan an area for investment promotion, gathering all the attracted industries in the same region.

Or you could create an emerging industrial park, then introduce some preferential policies overall, like exempting land rent for the past few years.

After all, she's a miss from the richest family; she knows a lot about this. Su Yang hadn't previously considered forming a scaled industrial park.

He only thought about attracting investment, letting enterprises in, letting the people profit, letting the government profit, boosting the economy, but hadn't thought about any far-reaching layout.

However, he then said: "What you say sounds easy, but to build such a large centralized industrial park requires a lot of land, and all that land is privately owned."

As the government, we can't just seize land from others, right? Even buying land requires money.

There's another issue: if we're doing a centralized, large-scale industrial park, we can't just buy plots one by one, can we?

If we could do that, we could attract one enterprise and try to buy a plot, but that wouldn't really work either.

But I have an idea—what do you think? Find a capable boss and buy all the land for the planned park.

Then we start centralized investment promotion; afterward, any enterprises that come in, whether they pay rent here or buy outright, the government will no longer be involved.

Do you think this is feasible?

Xie Siyang tilted his head and said: "What do you mean? You're clearly hinting that I should have my family buy a large tract of land."

But this place doesn't have much future development or appreciation potential; although I've never gone into business with my family, I still know a bit about that.

Su Yang asked: "Then what conditions would make the land here appreciate?"

Xie Siyang said: "As the saying goes, to get rich, first build roads."

But this is no longer a township; ordinary third- or fourth-class roads won't suffice.

This is a county seat; to get rich, we need to build a highway.

As long as we can connect to a highway, the development space becomes another matter.

However, speaking of which, a highway isn't something you can just build; it should be uniformly planned at the provincial level, or even by the Ministry of Transport.

But no matter what, I will definitely complete my personal task; what I just said are just plans for the county—I'm speaking offhand, so don't take it seriously.

If it fails, I'll end up blamed by thousands; if it succeeds, the credit may not even be yours. Such things have happened many times.

Su Yang said: "What you said is all correct, and I actually do have this idea—I want to build a highway."

Actually, it's not necessarily a full highway, because our road doesn't need to be long—just enough to connect to the main trunk road.

But don't think our land has no appreciation potential.

Let me tell you this: the land isn't worth much now, but at most within three to five years the land price will skyrocket.

Why will land prices skyrocket? The fundamental reason is that housing prices will skyrocket, and the real estate market will have huge demand.

By then, whoever holds land will seize the opportunity.

This is a chance to grow big and strong—it just depends on whether you have that idea.

Xie Siyang pursed his lips and said: "Alright, stop trying to fool me; in other aspects I'm definitely not as good as you, and I wouldn't dare argue with you, but in business I still have some talent."

Trying to fool us into coming here to invest and buy land, also to realize the industrial park idea you just mentioned—don't even dream about it.

What can you do by buying this barren land? I'll put it bluntly: even as a dump, there isn't enough garbage to fill it.

Su Yang laughed heartily and said: "I'm just saying this; whether you believe it is up to you."

I'm a bit busy right now; after work I'll treat you to a meal.

He was saying that when the office door was knocked again; the comer was none other than the soon-to-be-assumed Finance Bureau Chief, Sun Kangyao.

Seeing this, Xie Siyang said: "Then I'll head to the hotel first—don't go back on your word tonight."