Chapter 3378

After several of the Fuqiang Group's projects were auctioned off, Hongtu Real Estate and Mi's Real Estate each bought two projects. However, what surprised Su Xinghui a little was that Daye Real Estate Company also bought one project, spending tens of millions.

Daye Real Estate was the company where Cui Wenbin served as general manager. This time they had also been penalized, and the fines they paid were not small. He had not expected them to still have the strength to buy a project; this was something Su Xinghui had not anticipated.

It seemed that Daye Real Estate Company's operations over these years had given them considerable strength. Their purchase of one of Fuqiang Company's projects this time also allowed them to take advantage of the situation. Although the auction price this time was considered fair, it was still quite a bit lower than the normal market price, so it was no wonder they would go and buy such a project.

However, Su Xinghui did not mind; as long as they continued construction after buying the project, that was fine. Su Xinghui did not wish to see any unfinished buildings in Baozhou City.

After these projects were bought by them, construction resumed quickly. It looked like they could all be completed within the first half of this year, which was very gratifying to Su Xinghui.

Su Xinghui attached great importance to the supply of commercial housing in Baozhou City because, with the implementation of various talent-attraction policies in Baozhou, the city's migrant population was growing, and the urbanization process was accelerating. A large number of farmers whose land had been requisitioned were being transformed into industrial workers and also needed to buy homes in Baozhou City to live in.

Up to now, the supply of commercial housing in Baozhou City was still slightly lower than the demand; therefore, Su Xinghui needed these real estate enterprises to further accelerate the construction and supply of housing projects.

Of course, due to the rise in demand, housing prices were also rising, but this was a natural law of the market. Su Xinghui would not forcibly suppress such price increases, as long as housing prices remained within a controllable range.

In fact, after a round of speculation last year, the national housing market had now cooled down. The rate of housing price increases in Baozhou City was still relatively high nationwide, so the return on investment for real estate developers building homes in Baozhou was still quite considerable.

In order to keep the rise in Baozhou's housing prices from spiraling out of control, Su Xinghui also formulated a series of policies to stabilize prices, such as increasing efforts to build affordable housing and low-rent housing. This would allow low-income groups to have suitable places to live, without having to exhaust all their efforts to buy commercial housing.

Su Xinghui attached great importance to the construction of affordable housing and low-rent housing, paying close attention to every link, especially the quality of the housing and the application process for it.

Affordable housing and low-rent housing did not mean they should be of poor quality. Su Xinghui had always demanded high standards for quality, and his attitude on this point had always been firm. He required regulatory departments to apply high standards and strict requirements to affordable and low-rent housing as well.

As for the qualifications for applying for affordable and low-rent housing, Su Xinghui also attached great importance to them. He required real estate management departments to strictly control the qualifications of applicants, and under no circumstances should they allow unqualified people to apply for such housing.

He had seen too much of this in his past life; many affordable and low-rent homes were claimed by people with power, influence, and money. Luxury cars parked in the open spaces in front of low-rent housing were everywhere—it was simply a joke.

People who truly needed this type of guaranteed housing could not apply for it, while those who might already have several homes in their families could claim it. Su Xinghui did not want to see such things happen in Baozhou under his governance.

The goal for Baozhou City in 2004 was to provide over one million square meters of guaranteed housing for the city's low-income population. Having set this goal, Su Xinghui naturally had to strive to achieve it.

Only by allowing all low-income people to have homes could a harmonious society be built.

After the Lantern Festival, foreign investors continuously came to Baozhou City to inspect the investment environment, wanting to invest in Baozhou.

This situation occurred mainly because Baozhou City was rich in mineral resources. With all kinds of minerals, it was a "Treasure" City in name and reality, so raw materials for many industries were very abundant, making it a good place for investment from the start.

And now, Baozhou City's investment environment was excellent. The provincial government had provided all kinds of policies to support the city's development, especially for high-tech industries, which enjoyed many preferential policies. Therefore, many high-tech enterprises were willing to come here to invest and build factories.

Of course, Baozhou City now had an abundant supply of talent, and its talent-attraction policies were very effective, leading many university graduates to come to Baozhou to seek opportunities after graduation. Thus, investing and building factories here meant there was no worry about being unable to recruit people.

Su Xinghui had also been extremely busy these days, meeting with investors almost every day. In just half a month, three electronics factories and two computer assembly plants had signed investment intent agreements with the Baozhou municipal government. Once the timing was ripe, they would sign formal investment agreements with the government to build factories in Baozhou City.

These factories would also move into the Weiqi Electronic Information Industrial Park, making the industrial park increasingly prosperous.

Besides the Weiqi Industrial Park, the investment promotion work for the Angao Industrial Park and the Mabu Automotive Industrial Park was also doing quite well. More and more relevant enterprises were coming here to build factories, which meant the land in these industrial parks was no longer enough, and they had to requisition land again.

As time entered March, an explosive piece of news came from the Hanhai Technology Research Institute, the pillar enterprise of the Weiqi Electronic Information Industrial Park: after two years of dedicated research and tens of thousands of scientific experiments, their materials scientists had finally successfully developed a physical method for preparing polycrystalline silicon.

Polycrystalline silicon is a form of elemental silicon and is also the main raw material for manufacturing photovoltaic cells. The photovoltaic cell and other new energy industries were burgeoning worldwide. Currently, China's photovoltaic industry was also showing a trend of rapid development, with new factories being launched one after another. The production capacity to be realized in these two years would exceed the cumulative capacity of the past few years.

However, the international method for preparing polycrystalline silicon in the past had been the chemical method—that is, using hydrogen to reduce trichlorosilane. But this process consumed huge amounts of electricity and raw materials, and the products generated harmful substances, affecting the purity of the product and ultimately affecting the quality of the photovoltaic cells produced.

This method not only had high costs and poor results, but it was also prone to causing environmental pollution, and its production capacity was low. Therefore, the international supply of polycrystalline silicon at the time was in short supply, and the price was extremely high, almost reaching hundreds of thousands of yuan per ton. Thus, the price of photovoltaic solar cells at the time remained high.

The physical method for preparing polycrystalline silicon involves heating and melting naturally mined silica into silicon water, and then immediately cooling the silicon water to obtain industrial silicon with a purity of 99.9%. Then, the industrial silicon is "filtered" to remove phosphorus and boron elements, which mainly affect solar photovoltaic panels, thereby increasing the purity of the silicon to 99.999%.

Once the purity of polycrystalline silicon reaches this level, it can become a high-quality raw material for manufacturing photovoltaic cells. This method saves electricity and materials, is environmentally friendly, produces high-purity products, and has a production capacity several times higher than the chemical method.

Therefore, the advantages of using the physical method to prepare polycrystalline silicon compared to the chemical method were obvious. For the whole world, this was explosive news, and it was also one of the technologies in which China was leading the world at that time.

In Su Xinghui's past life, this technology was only developed several years later. Su Xinghui had read the article introducing the physical method for preparing polycrystalline silicon in his past life and had a rough impression of this method, so he provided this line of thought to Hou Wenchang, asking him to research it.

Of course, he only provided a line of thought; to truly develop this method still required a large number of experiments. However, the line of thought provided by Su Xinghui allowed the Hanhai Technology Research Institute to avoid many detours.

Hou Wenchang had secretly arranged for people to research this technology very early on. He never questioned the line of thought provided by Su Xinghui; he believed that as long as it was Su Xinghui's words, they would eventually be proven correct. This had almost become a kind of faith, because Su Xinghui had provided him with too many such lines of thought, which eventually led to his current achievements.

Sure enough, after more than two years of research and over ten thousand experiments, Hanhai Technology finally successfully developed this technology and it could be put into industrial production. This was a huge achievement.