Chapter 1783

Ling Anguo's finger pointed to a building under construction. This building had already been built to six or seven stories and was still going up. Looking at the scaffolding, it was estimated to be over ten stories high.

Luo Huansheng asked, "Why is everyone moving here?"

Ling Anguo said, "The office spaces of the administrative units in the county were originally too old. Secondly, some units' office spaces were old buildings with years of history and had cultural relic protection value. Using them as office spaces was not conducive to cultural relic protection. For example, the office spaces of several bureaus, such as the Archives Bureau, were the county's Confucian Temple during the Qing Dynasty."

Luo Huansheng nodded and asked again, "Then building so many buildings must require a lot of funds. How were these funds solved?"

Ling Anguo looked at Su Xinghui and said, "County Magistrate Su, you should explain this question to the Mayor."

Urban construction work was under Su Xinghui's charge, so it was indeed appropriate for him to answer this question. However, Shi Ronghuai, who was beside him, felt a bit uncomfortable. After all, he was the county magistrate. Today, the mayor came to inspect, and he had the idea of showing off in front of the mayor.

However, since Ling Anguo had said so and Luo Huansheng's eyes were also looking at Su Xinghui, Shi Ronghuai could only look at Su Xinghui with a smile.

Su Xinghui said, "As for the funding problem, the county solved it this way: a portion of the funds came from the county government's fiscal revenue, but this was only a small part. Most of the funds were solved by using the land in this area to offset the project payments with these construction companies."

Luo Huansheng said, "Using land to offset project payments? That's a good idea, but how is the value of the land evaluated?"

Su Xinghui said, "The value of the land is evaluated by a professional evaluation company from the province, and then determined by a collective resolution of the county government office meeting."

Ling Anguo said, "The land here rose sharply after the route of the Changyu Highway was determined, especially after the Hou family group built this hotel here and the county government built its office building here. The land price here has risen at least ten times compared to before. The land here, besides offsetting the project payments, has also brought a lot of fiscal revenue to the county government."

Luo Huansheng nodded and said, "This is a good model. I think it can be considered for promotion to other districts and counties in the city."

Su Xinghui was startled. Was this land-selling economy initiated by him? What kind of image would he have in history then?

Su Xinghui hurriedly said, "Mayor, I think promotion needs to be cautious. At least it needs to go through a certain amount of cultivation and management first, so that the value of the land is raised to a relatively cost-effective price. Only then is it more suitable for this model. Otherwise, it won't be cost-effective for the government, and developers won't want this land."

Luo Huansheng asked, "Then how should it be cultivated and managed?"

Su Xinghui said, "For example, our county's Changyu Highway being built here is a relatively large increase in land price. There is also the Hou family group's high-end hotel, the county government's office building, as well as Changshan County's increasingly prosperous tourism market and the enterprises introduced in Matou Town, all of which are factors that increase land prices."

Luo Huansheng said, "Well said. In the final analysis, it is because Changshan County's overall economy is rising that the land price here can rise so high. It seems that developing the economy is the fundamental thing. If other places blindly imitate it, it would be like Dong Shi imitating Xi Shi."

Su Xinghui said, "Mayor is right. That is the truth."

Luo Huansheng said, "Just now when we passed Matou Town, we saw that Matou Town also developed very well, not worse than here. It is not far from here, and I see it is about to be connected into one piece."

Su Xinghui said, "We do have this idea, wanting to connect Chengguan Town and Matou Town into one piece."

Luo Huansheng nodded and said, "If that can really be realized, that would be a spectacle—a new city built in the mountains."

If these two towns could really be connected into one piece, it would certainly be called a spectacle, but that probably wouldn't be a matter of one or two years.

Luo Huansheng looked around here again, then got into the car and followed the county leaders to the county town.

He was going to stay here for two days. Today, he would first look at the county town, then look at the Changwu Highway, as well as the construction sites of the highways from Changshan to Dashan, Muyang, and Shiyang counties. Tomorrow, he would go to see Matou Town, and after seeing Matou Town, he would go directly back to the city.

In Changshan County today, there were quite a lot of things to see.

Arriving at the county town, Luo Huansheng was very interested in those ancient buildings. Most of these buildings were from before the Republic of China, and the oldest could even be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. Although Changshan's isolation made its economy underdeveloped, it also provided relatively good conditions for the preservation of these old houses, allowing them to be retained.

Luo Huansheng saw an old wooden and stone structure house undergoing repairs and asked, "Where is this house?"

Ling Anguo said, "This is the Confucian Temple of the Qing Dynasty, which was later used as the office space for several bureaus such as the Archives Bureau and the Statistics Bureau. Now their newly built office buildings have been completed, so these bureaus have been relocated to the new area. This Confucian Temple is now undergoing protective repairs and will be protected as a cultural relic in the future."

Luo Huansheng nodded and said, "Your awareness of cultural relic protection is quite good."

Ling Anguo said, "In the future, we will try our best to relocate the units and residents in the old urban area to the new area, which can not only improve their work and living environment but also carry out protective repairs on the old houses they live in, so as to achieve the purpose of cultural relic protection. In the future, this place can also become a scenic area for Changshan tourism."

Luo Huansheng nodded and walked and looked around the old urban area of Changshan County with great interest. This was his first time coming to Changshan, and he felt that it was much better than he had imagined.

In the following two days, Luo Huansheng went to see several highways and visited several towns with relatively good economic development, especially Matou Town. The results of the economic construction here made him very amazed. Before coming to Changshan, he found it hard to imagine that Changshan County's GDP last year had more than doubled compared to the year before. Where exactly did it increase?

After seeing Matou Town, Luo Huansheng returned to Yulin City. Before leaving, he gave a high evaluation of Changshan County's work, calling Changshan County one of the perfect models of combining economic construction with the natural environment.

Luo Huansheng was transferred from the provincial government. In the past two years, the Hudong provincial government not only paid attention to economic development but also paid attention to environmental protection, which allowed Hudong Province to cultivate a group of cadres with environmental protection concepts. Luo Huansheng was naturally one of them.

Although Luo Huansheng paid attention to environmental protection, he also paid attention to economic construction. He was a pragmatic person who knew that neither could be neglected and that a balance point needed to be found between economic construction and environmental protection. This was the way to long-term stability.

However, finding a balance point between the two was easier said than done. At least Luo Huansheng hadn't seen any place in other cities that could perfectly find this balance point. Unexpectedly, he found it in Changshan County today.

Changshan County's economic development speed was so rapid, yet the environment was still kept so well, and it could even protect traditional culture and cultural relics. This was really not easy, which made him amazed.

What he didn't expect was that when he said this, Ling Anguo smiled and said to him, "Mayor, our county is not the best in this regard. The best one is the hometown of Comrade Su Xinghui, Shangjun County. There, the economic construction far exceeds our Changshan, and the environmental protection is not worse than ours."

Ling Anguo had visited Shangjun County last year, and the students of the Changshan School Youth Cadre Training Class had also visited Shangjun in batches. Ling Anguo sincerely admired Shangjun County's construction achievements.

Luo Huansheng was stunned and said, "Secretary Ling, what you said is true? Shangjun County's environmental protection is also done very well?"

Luo Huansheng did not doubt Shangjun County's economic construction. Shangjun County had a huge advantage last year, far ahead of other counties and districts, ranking first in the city's GDP. The achievements of economic construction were naturally beyond doubt. But the industry there was developed—could it be that it also did very well in environmental protection?

Ling Anguo nodded and said, "It is really done very well. This is mainly because it is also a place where Comrade Su Xinghui worked. He has always paid great attention to environmental protection, and he has mastered the balance point between economic construction and environmental protection the best."

Luo Huansheng looked at Su Xinghui, nodded with a smile, and said, "If that's the case, then I really want to go and take a look."

Ling Anguo said, "Mayor, you will definitely not be disappointed if you go to Shangjun County."

Luo Huansheng nodded, got into his car, waved to the county leaders, and said, "I'm leaving. You must work hard and strive to build Changshan County into a new town with a developed economy and a livable environment as soon as possible!"