"Secretary Qian, there are many aspects that need to be thought deeply." Sha Zhengyang stroked his jaw, "This needs to be viewed in light of the international and domestic situation."

"On February 28, the National Bureau of Statistics released a statistical report. In 1994, the national GDP reached 4380 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 11.8%, of which the secondary industry grew by 17.4%. According to this data, the secondary industry is still the key to driving national economic growth. That is to say, for a long time, we still have to rely on industry to drive economic development. This also determines that our Economic and Technological Development Zone will spare no effort to attract investment within three to five years, and we cannot even have much room for industrial selection."

Sha Zhengyang didn't have much emotion in his tone, "Although we also want to optimize the industrial structure as we expected and choose some industries with long industrial chains, high added value and high added value, now it seems that this is not our turn to choose, and we can only adjust within a limited range."

"Zhengyang, what do you want to express?" Xi Chongshan didn't understand.

"The meaning is very simple. Our Wanzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have determined the electronic and electrical industry as the dominant industry. We hope that all districts and counties can build and drive around this industry. But I personally believe that there is no problem in establishing the dominant industry, but we cannot over-elevate our Wanzhou's industrial economic foundation. Or to put it bluntly, our Wanzhou's industrial economic foundation is still far from that, especially compared with coastal areas, which is even more out of reach."

Sha Zhengyang has also been thinking about this issue.

Wanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone seems to have achieved good results in investment promotion and industrial cultivation last year, but from the perspective of the whole city, it has not improved much.

Otherwise, with the development of Wanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone and Dongxia pharmaceutical industry, coupled with the huge dividends brought by the reform of several major state-owned enterprises in the city, Wanzhou still has not surpassed Fugang and Tonghe, and even about the same economic growth rate as Zhaoyang, which is really unreasonable.

Sha Zhengyang briefly learned about the ten counties and two districts of Wanzhou City. Except for Xiangcheng's economy that had some highlights last year, other districts and counties are all lacking in good terms, and they are still some conventional routines.

The years before yesterday, it is useless to bring these district and county leaders to broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge. At least the thinking and ideological concepts of these leading cadres have changed, but their inherent mentality still restricts them.

They are still confused about how to achieve all-round reform and opening up and don’t know how to do it.

In a word, there is no mismatch in abilities and strategies. Poverty limits their imagination. They still need a process to adapt and improve. Our industrial foundation is still too weak and we need to make great efforts to consolidate it.

"So for the time being, we cannot try to pick and choose like cities in coastal areas. We do not have the qualifications yet. As long as industries that do not violate laws, regulations and policies, we cannot refuse them. At most, we will have some guidance and emphasis on policies."

Xi Chongshan and Lu Jian were both thinking.

Sha Zhengyang actually made some subtle criticism of some current impetuous mentality.

There are some opinions in the city and even within the Economic and Technological Development Zone, believing that it is not cost-effective to still increase efforts to attract investment in some small and medium-sized food companies along the coast.

These views believe that we have recruited internationally renowned brands like Nestlé Food and large international brands like Kraft Food to settle down soon, so it would be inappropriate for small and medium-sized food companies with investments of only one hundred million and only two or three million to continue to pour into the Economic and Technological Development Zone.

Especially when the current situation is under huge pressure on infrastructure construction, huge investment, and even the progress is not up to date, should we consider retaining some high-quality land for the next step of the needs of some advantageous industries and large well-known enterprises? Should there be restrictions or guidance for enterprises with low quality or low investment amount and not much labor employment?

Sha Zhengyang believes that this view is very dangerous, or it is simply short-sighted, especially for the investment promotion atmosphere that has been finally created at present.

"Also, I don't know if you have noticed that on March 12, China and the United States reached an agreement to continue to negotiate on China's resumption of customs. This shows that the two countries' attitudes on China's resumption of customs are consistent. China hopes to join the future, and the United States needs China to join. In the future, China's manufacturing will be benchmarked against the world. This means that our market will continue to expand and capital liquidity will accelerate. This is also an opportunity for a region like Wanzhou with good basic conditions and abundant labor."

Including Qian Zhengner, the Party Working Committee of the Economic and Technological Development Zone was admired by Sha Zhengyang's broad vision and keen sense of smell in the economic field.

This guy can always interpret something you can't see before from different perspectives, and can always dig out many views from some unaware news content in newspapers and magazines that require deep refinement to draw conclusions. Even Qian Zheng feels guilty of this.

"Zhengyang, what do you mean is that in the future, foreign capital will flow into our inland areas?" Qian Zheng said in a deep thought.

"This is a foreseeable trend, but when the inland area is so large, capital flows in, we must find the area that can provide the fastest and best profits for it. So where is the area that meets this condition?" Sha Zhengyang asked back, looking at the few people in the conference room.

Lu Jian hesitated for a moment, "The infrastructure is good, such as transportation conditions, and good industrial foundation, such as having a certain industrial scale..."

"Well, the two things Lao Lu said are the ones, but there are still some." Sha Zhengyang pursed his lips.

"The government is efficient, has a good service attitude, and has a good investment promotion environment,..." This is supplemented by Xi Chongshan.

"Zhengyang, is it considered a high social credit rating? I think that areas with high social credit rating, or this system concept is relatively strong, can greatly reduce market transaction costs and help form a virtuous business environment."

He is worthy of being a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee. He still has to be superior to his problems. However, Qian Zheng also knew that this view had been mentioned by Sha Zhengyang. Now he was just a sudden idea and he made it his own.

Sha Zhengyang nodded: "Social integrity is extremely beneficial to commercial activities. It can greatly improve the efficiency of commercial activities and reduce the cost of commercial activities. Its effect is permanent and sustainable. The more mature the commercial society is, the more emphasis is placed on this point, which is particularly prominent in Western commercial society. In this regard, it should be said that we ignored it in the early stage of reform and opening up. The negative effects it brings will be several times or dozens of times in the future. Even efforts may not be able to make up for it."

Sha Zhengyang's view has been mentioned before, but no one cares. Today, Sha Zhengyang specifically emphasized that it also touched Lu Jian and Xi Chongshan, especially he pointed out some mistakes and neglects from the early stages of reform and opening up.

"Of course there is nothing to do about this. I just turned around from that era and didn't know anything. I was exploring and learning to adapt to modern society. It is inevitable that I would be negligent about making mistakes. But even now, our government still does not realize how harmful this is."

Sha Zhengyang continued: "And this integrity environment cannot be done well in one district, county, one prefecture and city, and even a province is difficult to survive alone, nor is it a problem at one field and one level. It needs to be promoted from the highest level without blind spots. This is too difficult, and this also requires a long-term process of perseverance."

"Zhengyang, what you mean is that there must always be a place to set an example. Can our Economic Development Zone set an example here?" Lu Jian could figure out what Sha Zhengyang meant.

"Secretary Qian, Lao Lu, Lao Xi, Lao Yan, the Municipal Party Committee has high requirements for our Economic and Technological Development Zone, but we have already made a good start last year. The expectations of the Municipal Party Committee this year will be higher, and we will increase our investment step by step next year. We all have to be mentally prepared."

Sha Zhengyang's words made everyone grin and smile bitterly, but they felt a little proud inside.

This shows that the municipal party committee’s trust and expectations for the Party Working Committee of the Economic and Technological Development Zone has reached a high level, and not any district or county can make the municipal party committee hold this expectation attitude.

"If our Economic and Technological Development Zone wants to maintain this continued high growth momentum, it is necessary to further increase infrastructure construction. If the basic hardware does not have it, how can you talk about development? But from the current situation, our Jianfa Department's operation is still quite smooth, basically ensuring demand and even having a little room for ease."

Sha Zhengyang has become more and more accustomed to the identity of executive deputy director, or he has even replaced Qian Zheng's identity as director.

Qian Zheng served as Secretary of the Party Working Committee as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, and grasped the direction with a high level. At the specific level, even some strategic decisions were left to Sha Zhengyang.

This is what Lin Chunming told Qian Zheng to give Sha Zhengyang more opportunities to take charge of the overall situation to polish and exercise.

Qian Zheng naturally knew it well, and Lin Chunming even told Qian Zheng openly that Sha Zhengyang would stay in the Economic Development Zone until at most June and July. Once he served as deputy director level for two years, he might have another appointment.

Qian Zheng also understood Lin Chunming's painstaking efforts, and at the same time understood some of the difficulties Lin Chunming is facing now.

The sudden acceleration of Wanzhou's economic growth last year was actually based on the development dividends released after the reform of several major state-owned enterprises. It is really not easy to maintain the growth rate of 16.9%, and even Lin Chunming wants to further improve it. It is really not easy to win the provincial economic growth championship.

Especially when Tonghe has ushered in a major explosion in resource development such as natural gas, coal mines, phosphate mines and other resources in the past two years, it is indeed difficult for you to surpass Tonghe.
Chapter completed!