Chapter 1014

The vegetable wholesale market was not far from the town government, and the group walked there, which only took a few minutes.

Arriving at the construction site of the vegetable wholesale market, they saw that the site was very busy, construction machinery was roaring, and workers were working busily.

The project manager here was Xu Xiaoguang. Seeing a group of people walking over from afar, he hurriedly ran out to meet them.

Qi Jian introduced to Tian Xiaopeng, "This is the project manager of the vegetable wholesale market project, Comrade Xu Xiaoguang."

After the introduction, Qi Jian introduced to Xu Xiaoguang, "Comrade Xu Xiaoguang, this is the newly appointed County Magistrate of our Shangjun County, Comrade Tian Xiaopeng. He is here to inspect our Pengjiawanzhen, and the first place he came to was your construction site."

Tian Xiaopeng smiled and extended his hand to Xu Xiaoguang, "Hello, Comrade Xu Xiaoguang, thank you! It is precisely because of you hardworking laborers that our country can develop vigorously. We people should all thank you!"

Xu Xiaoguang certainly knew that a new County Magistrate was coming, and he knew that this new County Magistrate was Governor Tian's son. He also knew that Su Xinghui didn't get along with Governor Tian's other son, so he knew that Su Xinghui might not get along with this County Magistrate Tian either.

However, Tian Xiaopeng shook his hand so kindly, so he certainly couldn't be rude. He took off his gloves and shook hands with Tian Xiaopeng, "County Magistrate Tian, welcome to inspect here."

Tian Xiaopeng nodded, "Manager Xu seems very young."

Xu Xiaoguang said, "I am twenty-five this year."

Tong Yuejin said on the side, "Manager Xu is Town Mayor Su's classmate."

Tong Yuejin's words made several people look at him sideways. What did he mean by this?

However, Tian Xiaopeng's face didn't change at all. He nodded, "So he is Comrade Xinghui's classmate. That's a good thing. Comrade Xinghui works very outstandingly, and his classmate also works very outstandingly. Manager Xu, can you take us to the construction site to have a look?"

Xu Xiaoguang looked troubled, "County Magistrate Tian, it's not that I don't want to take you in to see, but to go to the construction site to see, you must wear a safety helmet. But there are so many people here today, and we don't have so many extra safety helmets on our construction site."

Indeed, there were about ten people who came with Tian Xiaopeng today, plus these accompanying cadres from the town government, there must be thirty or forty people? How could a construction site prepare so many extra safety helmets?

Qi Jian said, "County Magistrate, why don't we just walk around outside the construction site and take a look?"

Tian Xiaopeng hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "That's fine too."

Therefore, Xu Xiaoguang took them for a walk outside the construction site. He introduced to Tian Xiaopeng: this is the trading area, this is the storage area, this is the parking lot, introducing all kinds of functional areas to Tian Xiaopeng.

Tian Xiaopeng kept a smile on his face, listening to Xu Xiaoguang's introduction, and occasionally asked a few questions. After walking around, he nodded to Xu Xiaoguang, "Manager Xu, then we won't disturb you anymore, you continue to work."

Qi Jian then took Tian Xiaopeng to a vegetable field on the east side of the town government, where vegetable vendors happened to be collecting vegetables. Tian Xiaopeng asked the vegetable farmers and vegetable vendors some questions with great interest.

Next, Tian Xiaopeng followed the cadres of Pengjiawanzhen to the construction site of the Hou Group's electrical appliance factory, and the river beach land where they had asked the exploration team to explore before applying for the Changjiangdaqiao project.

Looking at these places, Tian Xiaopeng raised some questions. The questions he raised were still relatively professional and could hit the point. It could be seen that he had real stuff in his stomach. After all, he was a top student who graduated from the Economics and Management Department of Jingcheng University and had worked at the State Planning Commission for many years.

Yang Huakai, Tong Yuejin, and several others were full of praise for Tian Xiaopeng, but their flattery could not be considered too outrageous. Tian Xiaopeng was indeed a cadre who understood economics very well and had a high level.

Even Su Xinghui sighed in his heart: if Tian Xiaopeng was not Tian Chengzu's son, or if he was consistent in his words and deeds, perhaps he and Tian Xiaopeng could become friends, and perhaps Tian Xiaopeng would become a pillar of the country.

After seeing these places, it was time for lunch. Lunch was eaten in the town canteen. The reception standards of the Pengjiawanzhen canteen were very strict. This meal had no delicacies, just some relatively ordinary home-cooked dishes. Because it was lunch, no alcohol was served.

Many people thought Tian Xiaopeng would be dissatisfied with such reception standards and were waiting to see Su Xinghui's joke. Unexpectedly, Tian Xiaopeng picked up a bowl of rice and ate it, eating two big bowls of rice in a row, looking very satisfied. This made them drop their jaws. The Governor's son didn't look very extravagant, but very frugal.

After lunch, Tian Xiaopeng held a meeting with the cadres of Pengjiawanzhen in the conference room of the town government. He said, "I saw several places in Pengjiawanzhen this morning. After seeing these places, I am very excited!"

"The development situation of Pengjiawanzhen is too good. It is said that in the future, the vegetable industry alone will be able to bring tens of millions of yuan in output value to the town every year. There is also the electrical appliance factory invested by the Hou Group, with an investment of ten million US dollars. The annual output value in the future will also be tens of millions. Plus the Changjiangdaqiao and the expressway, the future prospects of Pengjiawanzhen are incredible!"

"Especially the two projects of Changjiangdaqiao and the expressway, which can be said to have laid the foundation for the development of Pengjiawanzhen for the next few decades or even hundreds of years. It can be called a project of vital and lasting importance. Moreover, Pengjiawanzhen is close to the Changjiang, this section of the Changjiang river surface is wide, the water flow is gentle, it can be said to be a golden waterway, and this is the most suitable place to develop industry."

"However, I think that Pengjiawanzhen has unique advantages, but it has not fully utilized these advantages. There are too few factories in Pengjiawanzhen, and they are too small. It seems that except for this newly built electrical appliance factory which is a large-scale enterprise, the original town-run factories are not very large enterprises, right?"

Qi Jian interjected, "County Magistrate Tian, the town-run winery we are going to visit this afternoon can also reach an annual output value of 40 to 50 million yuan. It should be considered a large-scale enterprise, and its development speed is very fast. It has advertised on CCTV, and its potential is very great."

Tian Xiaopeng nodded, but he waved his hand again to strengthen his momentum, "Even if you count the winery, there are still too few factories in Pengjiawanzhen, right? This is an endless plain, and it is close to the Changjiang. The transportation in the future will also be very convenient. You should set up a few more large factories."

Speaking of this, Tian Xiaopeng picked up his teacup and took a sip, then put the teacup down and said, "I didn't come to Shangjun County empty-handed this time. When I worked at the State Planning Commission, I knew a private entrepreneur with great strength. He is from Mindong. He recently planned to set up a large-scale steel plant. I felt that Pengjiawanzhen in our Shangjun County is very suitable for setting up a steel plant, so I mobilized him to come here to set up a factory."

Speaking of this, Tian Xiaopeng paused, and Tong Yuejin asked interestingly, "County Magistrate, then did this boss agree?"

Tian Xiaopeng said, "Agreement certainly can't be so fast. After all, he hasn't been to this place yet. However, under my mobilization, he has a strong intention to invest here and plans to come to Pengjiawanzhen to inspect in the near future, so I told you about this in advance, hoping that you can prepare in advance to welcome this entrepreneur. You can be sloppy in entertaining me, but you can't be sloppy to him."

Yang Huakai asked, "County Magistrate, what scale of steel plant is he planning to invest in? How much money to invest?"

Tian Xiaopeng said with some restraint, "In the first phase, he plans to invest in a steel plant with an annual output of 400,000 tons of steel, with a total investment of 300 million yuan. If it goes well, he also plans to add an investment of 300 to 400 million yuan to expand this steel plant into a large-scale steel enterprise with an annual output of one million tons of steel."

"300 million yuan?" Tong Yuejin gasped, "And plans to add an investment of 300 to 400 million yuan? My goodness, how much money is this?"

The other town leaders were also pleasantly surprised. This couldn't be blamed on them for not having seen the world. The ten million US dollars invested by the Hou Group in Pengjiawanzhen was already an astronomical figure. The first phase of this steel plant reached 300 million yuan. What concept was this? Not to mention that he planned to add so much investment.

Whether the foreign investment attracted by Shangjun County over the years added up to 300 million was a question.

The people in the conference room began to whisper to each other. Tian Xiaopeng was very satisfied with this effect. His usually low-key expression finally showed a trace of complacency. He picked up the teacup again, opened the lid, blew the tea foam, and then took a sip.

Among the Pengjiawan cadres present, the only one who didn't show a shocked expression was Su Xinghui. Instead, he frowned.

Su Xinghui was definitely not a narrow-minded person. Tian Xiaopeng was willing to help Pengjiawanzhen introduce investment. Regardless of his intentions, Su Xinghui would only feel it was a good thing. The problem was that introducing a steel plant, Su Xinghui felt it was a bit inappropriate.

Other problems of the steel plant were easy to solve. The most critical problem was environmental pollution. In the steel industry of this era, it was almost impossible to solve. And in Su Xinghui's vision, a pillar industry of Pengjiawanzhen and Shangjun County in the future was the vegetable industry. If a steel plant was built on this land, could these vegetables still be grown?

In this era, even state-owned enterprises found it difficult to invest too much in environmental protection, let alone the private entrepreneur Tian Xiaopeng knew, which was even more impossible to invest in environmental protection. It was estimated that by then, the pollutants such as waste slag, wastewater, and waste gas produced by the steel plant would be discharged at will. In that case, the blue water and blue sky of Pengjiawanzhen would probably be hard to see. ===== CHAPTER 1016 =====