Chapter 3661

Su Xinghui said to Gu Shanmin, "Uncle Gu, this is indeed my idea. I think China's current real estate market is overheated, and the treatment of scientific research personnel is too low. Going on like this will lead to many evil consequences in the future. If China wants to truly become strong, it should follow the path of Hanhai Technology."

Gu Shanmin nodded and said, "This article is deafening! Many central leaders have read this article and think it is very good. Yes, no matter how well real estate develops and how valuable houses are, what is the use? If others want to choke your neck, what can so many houses do?"

Su Xinghui nodded silently.

Gu Shanmin said, "Xinghui, you did the right thing, and your idea is also very correct. At the beginning, if the old man hadn't built an atomic bomb in that arduous environment, what would China be like now? We don't even dare to think about it. If others really choked your neck, what could we do? I find it funny when I think about global economic integration. If someone really chokes your neck, who can you complain to? Do you fight a war for this?"

Gu Shanmin looked at the problem very accurately and hit the nail on the head. However, no matter how high his status is, it is not so easy to curb the price-rising trend of the real estate market now.

The upcoming 2006 is another year of high housing prices. The rise in housing prices across the country this year has exceeded 10 percent again.

So, this struggle against housing prices still has a long way to go!

Seeing Gu Shanmin a bit excited, Su Xinghui hurriedly said, "Uncle Gu, don't be too excited. I believe our country will get better and better and stronger and stronger, and our technology will eventually catch up with those powerful countries."

Gu Shanmin looked at Su Xinghui deeply and said, "Our generation may not be able to do it, and I may not be able to see that day. This matter, in the end, still depends on your generation. Xinghui, you must work hard, and I will fully support you in the future!"

Su Xinghui hurriedly said, "Uncle Gu, don't say that. You will definitely be able to see that day."

Gu Shanmin laughed and said, "Don't comfort me. The technical gap between China and those powerful countries is too large. I know that even if the country starts to attach importance to technology and talents now, it will not be a matter of ten or twenty years to catch up with them. However, with you here, I am very confident in catching up with them."

Su Xinghui was silent. He didn't know what to say, so he could only nod silently.

Gu Shanmin said, "You did a good job in Linshan. However, Linshan is too far, and it seems that transportation is not very convenient, right? When do you plan to let Xiaoya transfer there?"

Su Xinghui said, "Maybe next year. After the New Year, let her transfer there. At that time, Linshan won't be so cold."

Gu Shanmin said, "At that time, before you were transferred to Linshan, Comrade Jianbai sought my opinion. I was very hesitant at the time. I broke into a cold sweat for you. The situation in Linshan at that time was really too bad. But in the end, I agreed to Comrade Jianbai's suggestion and let you go to Linshan. I didn't expect you to do so outstandingly there. I am really happy for you!"

Su Xinghui didn't know that Wu Jianbai had sought Gu Shanmin's opinion at the time. He only knew that Wu Jianbai had communicated with Lu Zhenghong. But it was normal. Gu Shanmin had always been concerned about Su Xinghui's growth, and he could be considered Su Xinghui's elder. Wu Jianbai wanted to transfer him to such a remote place as Linshan, so naturally, he had to tell Gu Shanmin.

At that time, Gu Shanmin was worried about Su Xinghui, which was also normal. Although Su Xinghui's performance had always been good, taking charge of a city alone, and this city had just had a major mining disaster, and several main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee had resigned for their mistakes, it could really be considered "taking office in a crisis."

Su Xinghui said, "Thank you for your concern, Uncle Gu!"

Gu Shanmin said, "It's nothing. In short, you work hard in the future. No matter what happens, I will support you."

That night, Su Xinghui chatted with Gu Shanmin for a long time until nearly ten o'clock before Su Xinghui stood up to leave. At this time, the Yu Ruoqiu family had already returned, and Yu Ruizhi's wife and children had also returned first, leaving only Yu Ruizhi waiting for Su Xinghui.

Su Xinghui left the Gu family with Yu Ruizhi. On the way, Yu Ruizhi said, "Xinghui, how is the situation with your two big projects now? Do you still need my help?"

Su Xinghui said, "It's going quite smoothly now. If there is anything I need your help with, I won't be polite to you."

Yu Ruizhi said, "That's fine, then I won't be polite to you either."

The friendship between the two was already closer than that of biological brothers, so many things didn't need to be said much. They had a tacit understanding.

The next day, Su Xinghui met with Nelson. As soon as Nelson saw Su Xinghui, he smiled and said, "Mr. Su, my friend, I am very happy to see you, but I am also a little afraid to see you!"

Su Xinghui asked with a smile, "Mr. Nelson, why are you afraid to see me?"

Nelson spread his hands exaggeratedly and said, "This is easy to understand. Every time you see me, you are asking me for a loan. At least the loans the World Bank has made to you account for a large part of the loans in China. There is no official of the same level as you who has borrowed more from the World Bank than you."

Nelson was not wrong. Su Xinghui was indeed a regular customer of the World Bank. He started borrowing from the World Bank when he was a small section-level cadre, and the amount of each loan was not small, at least over 100 million. So far, he had borrowed at least a dozen loans from the World Bank, and the total amount was probably over 10 billion.

It could indeed be said that no city-level cadre could compare with Su Xinghui in borrowing from the World Bank, and no one maintained such a good relationship with the World Bank like Su Xinghui.

Su Xinghui laughed loudly and said, "Mr. Nelson, then you shouldn't feel afraid! A high-quality customer like me is not easy for you to find. This can bring you good performance. Isn't this a good thing?"

Su Xinghui was indeed a high-quality customer. The loans he made from the World Bank in every place were repaid very promptly because he always developed the local economy very well, and the finance had enough income to repay the loans. Therefore, for the World Bank, such a customer was hard to come by.

Nelson's predecessor, Mr. Hackett, was promoted because of his good performance in China, and Su Xinghui also contributed to this.

Nelson smiled and said, "Mr. Su, I know you are a high-quality customer, and we are old friends. But precisely because of this, I am worried that I cannot satisfy your requirements, which would be sorry to an old friend!"

Su Xinghui and Nelson looked at each other and laughed loudly together. The two sat down, and Nelson's assistant poured coffee for Su Xinghui. Only then did the two enter the main topic.

Nelson listened to Su Xinghui's intention and couldn't help but ponder. Su Xinghui was certainly a high-quality customer, but this time, Su Xinghui could be considered to have "opened his mouth like a lion." These two projects were too big, requiring hundreds of billions of funds in total. If they borrowed from the World Bank according to the upper limit, they would need to borrow 10 to 20 billion yuan.

This number was too big. Even Nelson couldn't agree to it all at once. He naturally had to consider it carefully.

Su Xinghui also understood this. He didn't urge Nelson. He drank coffee leisurely. Nelson naturally had excellent coffee here. Although Su Xinghui was not used to drinking coffee and didn't know much about coffee, he also felt that this cup of coffee was very fragrant and rich.

Su Xinghui borrowed from the World Bank, of course, because he valued the funds, but besides the funds, he also valued the World Bank's construction experts and supervision experts very much. The existence of these experts was enough to make the projects they borrowed for get the best control in quality and cost.

Su Xinghui's repeated cooperation with the World Bank before proved this very well.

Nelson's hesitation was mainly about the high-speed railway project. He was not worried about the expressway.

Expressways could build toll stations to collect fees, and the fees collected by toll stations were enough to repay their loan principal and interest. Many expressways borrowed by the World Bank before adopted this model and didn't need them to worry too much.

However, it was hard to say about high-speed railways. High-speed railways could not build toll stations, and the operation rights belonged to the Ministry of Railways, not the local government. Where the local government's source of repayment was, these were hard to say.

If this high-speed railway only involved Linshan City, Nelson wouldn't be so hesitant because Su Xinghui's credit had always been outstanding. However, this high-speed railway involved five or six cities in Yanbei Province. Whether the Yanbei Provincial Government could repay the loan in time was hard to say.

After hesitating for a long time, Nelson directly stated his concerns.

Su Xinghui said, "Mr. Nelson, you don't have to worry at all. How much promotion these two projects will have on Yanbei Province's economy after they are built, you know better than me. Moreover, these two projects don't need to borrow that much. According to my calculation, it should be enough without 10 billion yuan."