Chapter 931

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "Of course."

Su Xinghui opened his bag, took out a feasibility study report and project plan for the Shangjun Changjiangdaqiao, and handed it to Hou Guangbi. Hou Guangbi put on his reading glasses and began to read by the light in the courtyard.

Hou Guangbi read very carefully, taking about half an hour to finish the report. After finishing, he nodded and said: "Not bad, the prospects for this project are good. I personally feel that the Hou Group can take on this BOT project, but it still requires some market research and needs to be voted on by the Hou Group's board of directors."

Su Xinghui was very happy, but Hou Guangbi agreeing to intervene in this project was also within Su Xinghui's expectations; this was a matter with benefits and no drawbacks for the Hou Group.

Hou Guangbi added: "If your county government needs loans, I can help you contact relevant officials at the World Bank."

"The World Bank?" Su Xinghui said.

Hou Guangbi nodded and said: "Yes, the World Bank mainly provides infrastructure loans to developing countries. They have very rich experience in the construction supervision of large-scale infrastructure. If you can apply for their loans, they can send the best supervision experts to conduct the strictest supervision on the project's cost and engineering quality, which can absolutely guarantee quality and cost."

Hearing Hou Guangbi's words, Su Xinghui fell into deep thought.

In his previous life, he naturally had some understanding of the World Bank, knowing it was a bank dedicated to providing low-interest infrastructure loans to developing countries, as well as an international organization. Its capital was subscribed by various countries, and China was also one of the World Bank's shareholders. In recent years, some of China's key projects had obtained low-interest loans from the World Bank.

For example, the Chengyu Expressway was a key project supported by World Bank loans. Due to the complex terrain, the construction of the Chengyu Expressway was extremely difficult, and at that time, China lacked experience in expressway construction. The successful completion of the Chengyu Expressway on schedule was inseparable from the support and help of a large number of experts from the World Bank.

The terrain for the Chengyu Expressway construction was complex, with unexpected situations such as sinkholes, land subsidence, landslides, and toxic gases emerging one after another; it could be called a museum of complex terrain in road construction. If it weren't for the World Bank experts, with the capabilities of the still-immature Chinese construction teams at that time, completing it on schedule would have been quite difficult.

The World Bank's supervision experts also played a huge role. During such a difficult construction process, they actually managed to control the cost to about 16 million yuan per kilometer—an incredibly low level—while the quality of this expressway was very high.

Thinking of this, Su Xinghui understood that this wasn't Hou Guangbi wanting to invest less and thus making the Shangjun county government take out loans from the World Bank; it was truly for the good of Shangjun County. Having World Bank experts in transportation construction and supervision would be very beneficial for this Changjiangdaqiao.

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "Then I'll trouble you to help us make contact."

Hou Guangbi said: "I know officials at the World Bank headquarters; I don't know the officials at their office in China. I will first contact the headquarters officials and have them tell me the contact information for the officials at the China office, then I will give the contact information to you, and you can go find them."

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "That's good, thank you, Grandpa Hou. However, can you be quick? I'm going to Jingcheng in about two or three days. If you tell me sooner, I can stop by the World Bank's office in China while I'm there."

Hou Guangbi laughed: "Sure, then I'll give you the contact information tomorrow."

Su Xinghui nodded happily: "That's great."

Hou Guangbi added: "By the way, there is one more thing: Ruoqiang came to see me today."

"Ruoqiang?" Su Xinghui said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Grandpa Hou, I have failed your good intentions!"

Hou Guangbi said: "There is nothing to be sorry about, Xinghui. You are too smart, and your character is too noble. This matter was actually a bit inconsiderate on my part. I should be the one saying sorry! It was I who underestimated you!"

Su Xinghui quickly said: "Grandpa Hou, please don't say that. I know you also had good intentions!"

Hou Guangbi shook his head and said: "Actually, it was I who was narrow-minded. I was always thinking of giving you some personal benefits as a way to repay you. Now that I think about it, there are many ways to repay someone, such as contributing to the development of Shangjun County."

Su Xinghui said: "Grandpa Hou, please never speak of repaying me again in the future. Not to mention that everything I did was what I should have done, even if I did have a favor to you, since you came to Shangjun County, the things you have done for the county are already too many and have long since been more than enough to repay it. By the way, I also hope you won't buy my paintings from Ruoqiang in the future. If you really like my paintings, I will give you one in a while."

Hou Guangbi nodded and said: "That's great. Don't worry, I will never buy your paintings from Ruoqiang again. I believe that even if I don't buy your paintings, with your level, there will still be people who like your paintings!"

Su Xinghui said: "Then thank you, Grandpa Hou!"

The old man and the young man looked at each other and laughed together.