Chapter 1410

Shao Dejin asked, "Can that Sino-French joint venture special steel plant also meet environmental protection standards? As far as I know, the pollution from steel enterprises has always been very serious."

Su Xinghui smiled: "Chairman Shao, actually, the work for this special steel plant is not the most difficult. The French Notte United Steel Co., Ltd. is one of the largest steel enterprises in Europe. Their concepts and technologies regarding environmental protection are quite advanced. Their own company standards are much higher than our national standards because they value the health of their employees very much. Their creed is that they absolutely must not let employees have health problems, so their work is very easy to do."

Shao Dejin had actually been abroad for inspections, and he knew quite a bit about foreign enterprises in this regard. The larger the company, the stricter the standards in this area. Otherwise, if environmental pollution caused health problems for employees and the surrounding common people, as long as others sued them, the compensation they would need to pay would definitely be an astronomical figure, which was not something they were willing to bear. Compared to this, they would rather invest more in environmental protection.

This is a conceptual disagreement with local governments in China. Local governments in China feel that for the sake of development, some environment and health can be appropriately sacrificed, and it will not be too late to govern after development is good.

It should be said that such thinking still has some truth, and therefore this thinking also has its market. However, the sacrifices made by those polluted places and common people are too great, and sometimes they are even irreversible.

Anyway, with Su Xinghui's character, he could not make such a sacrifice. Sacrificing others to achieve his own political achievements—he could not do it.

Shao Dejin nodded and said, "Secretary Su, to be honest, I am truly impressed by you. You are an official worthy of my respect."

Su Xinghui said, "Chairman Shao is too kind."

Shao Dejin nodded and said, "Fine, I agree to your condition."

Su Xinghui was overjoyed and said, "Really? That's great, thank you, Chairman Shao!"

Shao Dejin smiled and said, "Actually, you have also underestimated me a bit. The slaughtering bases I have built in the last few years have been doing quite well in terms of environmental protection."

Su Xinghui said, "Then I must say I'm sorry."

Shao Dejin smiled and said, "That's not necessary. It's just that if we enter into substantive negotiations, the preferential treatment you mentioned must still be given to me."

Su Xinghui nodded in agreement, and the two looked at each other and laughed.