Chapter 1798

The applause was very warm, but not many people raised their hands. This was the first person to speak; who would dare to raise their hand without some preparation? If they made a big fool of themselves, they would lose all their face.

Su Xinghui looked at the few people who raised their hands under the stage. He pointed to Lai Bin. Although Lai Bin was relatively fat, his movements were not clumsy. He stepped onto the stage from the steps. Su Xinghui handed the microphone to him and then stood smiling behind his right side.

After Lai Bin took the microphone, he cleared his throat and said, "Respected guests, good afternoon everyone! I am the county magistrate of Dashan County. My name is Lai Bin. The 'Lai' is the same as the 'Lai' in guests, but the 'Bin' is different. My 'Bin' is the 'Bin' from 'polite and refined', so I will definitely be polite and refined to everyone."

Lai Bin had a lively personality. He made a joke about his own name, which made everyone laugh, but everyone's impression of him suddenly became profound.

"Regarding the matter of this Tianyue Mountain Range Economic Cooperation Zone, I think I still have a certain right to speak, because the economic cooperation between these few counties of ours has already begun. Last year, Changshan County built two inter-county roads, both according to the standards of secondary roads. One is the Changyu Highway, leading to Liulin District, and one is the Changwu Highway, leading to Wushui County. Everyone should know this, right?"

Everyone nodded to show they knew. In fact, this time, the county magistrates of several counties in Jiangyou Province all came to Changshan via the Changwu Highway. This highway made them very amazed. They never expected that Wushui County would actually build such a wide and straight highway among the steep mountains.

"Then, our three counties of Dashan, Muyang, and Shiyang signed a cooperation road construction agreement with Changshan County, preparing to build inter-county roads according to the standards of the Changyu Highway and the Changwu Highway. Our Changda Highway is expected to be completed by the end of this year. By then, old Lai here wants to come to Changshan, and it will be very fast."

"For us mountainous counties, if we want to develop the economy, the first thing is to build roads. 'If you want to get rich, build roads first.' This slogan must be known to all county magistrates. Your counties should also have this slogan painted. But how easy is it to build roads? Roads in the mountains are hard to build. Even if it's just a secondary road, the current cost might be over one million per kilometer."

Lai Bin's words resonated with many people again. They certainly knew that roads in the mountains were hard to build. Building a secondary road would cost tens of millions or hundreds of millions of funds. This was not something a poor mountainous county could bear. Therefore, they listened very seriously to Lai Bin's words. They also wanted to hear what kind of magic Changshan County had performed to be able to build so many highways.

Hearing Lai Bin say this, Changshan County had built highways with the five counties bordering them. This was an astronomical amount of funds. What's more, they had also heard that Changshan County was going to build an expressway.

"At that time, we didn't know where to get the money to build roads. This is my fault, old Lai, for being incompetent. But the main thing is the concept problem. We came to Changshan and heard the method of raising funds that County Magistrate Su told us. This was a sudden enlightenment, a sudden opening of the mind!"

Next, Lai Bin explained Su Xinghui's road construction method to everyone in detail. This made everyone who heard it have the same feeling as Lai Bin, which was a sudden enlightenment, a sudden opening of the mind. The BOT model, even in economically developed areas, is not used much now, let alone in the inland. It was normal that they hadn't heard of it before.

And now that they heard about this model, they knew what Changshan County relied on to build these roads.

After Lai Bin finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Today, many comrades are eager to come up and speak. Then old Lai here won't say much more. I'll tell a story about building roads, and that's about it. If you want to get rich, build roads first. Everyone must remember this sentence."

After finishing, Lai Bin returned the microphone to Su Xinghui and stepped down from the stage.

However, his words were remembered in everyone's hearts. Yes, if you want to get rich, build roads first. They didn't dare to think about building roads before, but Lai Bin explained Su Xinghui's road construction method so clearly, which was also actionable for them. How could they not want to build roads in their hearts?

This time, two more people raised their hands. After Su Xinghui looked at it, he pointed to Wan Ping. After Wan Ping stepped onto the stage, he took the microphone and said, "Respected guests, good afternoon! I am the county magistrate of Shiyang County, Wan Ping. County Magistrate Lai just talked about building roads, so I will talk about raising cattle and sheep."

"For us mountainous counties, did the common people have the habit of raising sheep before? But has everyone thought about turning raising sheep into a big industry with an annual output value of over one billion? Probably didn't dare to think about it, right? But I tell you, in another year or two, the industries related to raising sheep in Changshan County might have an output value of over one billion!"

Wan Ping's words shocked all the county magistrates and district heads. One billion, what kind of concept is that? Especially those counties that were relatively far from Changshan County and where the effect of the slaughter base hadn't radiated yet, they had no concept of this at all.

This couldn't be blamed on them. Although the straight-line distance between them and Changshan County wasn't very far, the mountains were high and the roads were dangerous, so it wasn't easy to come here. Now the information wasn't as explosive as it would be in more than a decade, so it was very normal that they didn't understand the situation in Changshan.

But this was too shocking. Currently, none of these counties had an output value of over one billion. Most were around four or five hundred million, and some counties even had an annual output value of only one or two hundred million. Now Wan Ping said that Changshan County could create an output value of one billion just by raising sheep. What kind of concept was this?

Therefore, there was an uproar under the stage.

Wan Ping was very satisfied with this effect: "Everyone must think that I am a bit exaggerated, right? In fact, I am not exaggerated at all. Changshan County began to expand the scale of animal husbandry on a large scale at the beginning of last year. By next year, it will be able to form an annual slaughter volume of 300,000 head of cattle and sheep. So, where are so many cattle and sheep sold?"

"Changshan County specifically introduced a slaughter base from Jiangcheng Meat Processing for this purpose. The current designed production capacity is to slaughter more than one million head of cattle and sheep every year. The first phase of the project has been completed, and the second phase is currently under construction. There is also a third phase, which is expected to be completed next year. Now everyone should understand where this one billion annual output value comes from, right?"

Everyone then understood, and they all nodded. A slaughter base with an annual slaughter volume of more than one million head could indeed generate so much output value.

"Changshan County can vigorously develop animal husbandry. Then, for us mountainous counties, the natural conditions are similar to Changshan County. Can we also develop animal husbandry? This is the benefit of the economic cooperation zone. We can immediately take the favorable experience gained by Changshan County and use it."

"Our Shiyang County also developed animal husbandry last year. The scale cannot be compared with Changshan County, but the annual slaughter volume of livestock last year also reached tens of thousands. We directly signed a sales agreement with the slaughter base, and the output value generated also reached twenty or thirty million. Moreover, the income of many farmers has increased a lot."

"As far as I know, the counties of Dashan, Muyang, and Wushui are also vigorously developing animal husbandry and have achieved good results. Everyone, after listening to this story of raising cattle and sheep, do you want to raise them too?"