Chapter 2556

After answering the various questions that everyone encountered today, Shi Diwen stood up and walked to the huge map hanging on the wall. While pointing to the area on the map, he said to everyone: "This is the current jurisdiction of the East China Sea Region.

As for the scope, you can see that the entire Zhejiang, central and southern Jiangsu, and central and eastern Anhui are all included in the jurisdiction of the Donghai Region. In order to facilitate the jurisdiction and implementation of the capital relocation plan, we will include Huzhou Prefecture and Jiaxing near Hangzhou Bay

These places, including Songjiang Prefecture, Shaoxing Prefecture, and Ningbo Prefecture, have also been temporarily brought under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Prefecture for unified management."

At this point, Shi Diwen turned to the crowd and said: "You should have seen that the area of ​​this area is much larger than Hainan Island, and the population is ten times that of Hainan Island. However, we can deploy to Hangzhou

The government officials and armed forces are far behind those of Hainan Island."

"Of course, after we begin to implement the capital relocation plan, a large number of officials will be transferred from the south to serve, thereby easing the employment gap in Hangzhou. However, there is a process for foreign officials to adapt to the local environment, just like you came to Hangzhou.

Even if you have the corresponding ability and motivation, you still need time to understand the local situation."

"What I want to say is that for a long time to come, we will still have to retain a large number of officials from the previous government and rely on the gentry class who have greater influence among the people in local governance."

Everyone listened attentively to Shi Diwen's introduction, each wondering in his mind what this special situation meant to Haihan.

Except for Wang Anguo, who has been overseas for many years and has only recently returned to East Asia, Tao Hongfang and others have been staying in the central area of ​​the country for a long time and have access to more information. Naturally, it is not difficult to understand what Shi Diwen described.

This situation.

However, before they came here, they did not really realize that the current jurisdiction of Hangzhou was so large, and the area even exceeded that of Hainan Island. After such a specific comparison, they could understand the intentions of Shi Diwen's ruling party.

Here's the difficulty.

In Sanya alone on Hainan Island, there are thousands of people working in various official agencies. The yamen where Tao Hongfang and others work each have hundreds of people. However, the yamen here in Hangzhou, regardless of

Whether it is the Ministry of Commerce or the Culture and Education Department, there is obviously a huge gap in staffing. Of course, it is difficult to operate efficiently according to Haihan's model. It even has to set up temporary institutions such as the Township Examination Office to handle important matters such as the imperial examination.

The administrative shortcomings caused by the shortage of personnel are probably far more than what Tao Hongfang and others have encountered today. They are far less knowledgeable than Shi Diwen about the various problems that the government is currently facing in the process of governance.

, indeed it cannot be solved by a few young foreign officials with their enthusiasm.

Seeing that everyone's expressions were thoughtful, Shi Diwen continued: "You may have heard about the capital relocation plan before coming here, but you may not have a detailed understanding of the planning of this area. Are you interested?

Would you like me to briefly explain the situation in this regard?"

Tao Hongfang responded quickly: "Juniors would like to hear the details."

Several other people also nodded, expressing the hope that Shi Diwen could elaborate on the plan to move the capital. After all, for the country of Haihan, which is currently on the rise, this is a major event that can affect the country's future development. There are pros and cons.

, the Executive Committee has been debating for several years, and finally decided to settle Hangzhou as the capital, and Shi Diwen played a decisive role in promoting it. There are probably few people in the world who know more about the specific arrangements of this capital relocation plan than him.

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Shi Diwen took a sip of hot tea to moisten his throat, then put down the teacup and began to explain his planned capital relocation plan to these young people.

Shi Diwen's plan is not just to build a new city near the existing city of Hangzhou. In addition to moving various administrative agencies in Sanya to make Hangzhou the administrative center of the country, he also hopes to build a new city in the city.

Supporting industrial, agricultural, and commercial areas have been built throughout Hangzhou Bay, driving the development of the entire region and making it the core area of ​​the entire East Asia region in the future.

Shi Diwen proposed to everyone the concept of a "Bay Area", which no longer targets a single city, but uses a capital relocation plan to drive the development of the entire region. This is indeed a relatively novel idea for young officials.

idea.

Tao Hongfang raised a question at this time: "With the current financial situation of our country, can we afford such a large-scale regional construction plan?"

"Good question!" Shi Diwen affirmed the question raised by Tao Hongfang: "According to our country's financial situation in the past three years, although the balance of payments is good, the annual fiscal revenue can even maintain stable growth.

But if we want to build the Bay Area exactly according to the plan I just mentioned, there will still be a huge funding gap. Schneider has already made a clear conclusion on this point."

"But we can also think of other ways to solve the funding problem, such as raising funds from the private sector through investment or bond issuance. This approach has been tried and tested over the past two decades and has accumulated a wealth of experience.

Operational experience.”

Shi Diwen was obviously very excited about this topic, and his face turned rosy when he said this: "For example, for some large-scale infrastructure projects that cost a lot of money, we can actually consider introducing private capital to participate in the construction, and then form long-term returns through operations.

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As he spoke, Shi Diwen raised his hand and pointed to Hangzhou, and traced his finger on the map all the way to Ningbo in the east: "For example, the currently planned railway line between Hangzhou and Ningbo is more than 300 miles long. If it is built entirely with funds allocated from the national treasury, then

It will probably take another three to five years to start construction, and the construction period will be very long. But if we introduce private capital, the financial pressure will be reduced a lot, and construction can start simultaneously with the implementation of the capital relocation plan. After completion, it will be carried out by the Ministry of Transport

Management and operation, and the profits generated will be distributed according to the proportion of investment."

Tao Hongfang asked with some worry: "Will private capital be interested in this kind of business with huge investment and slow return of capital?"

Shi Diwen nodded firmly and said: "Yes, of course! As long as the executive committee makes a decision, railway construction bonds can be issued in the Donghai Region immediately to allow private capital to participate."

Ning Zijing also asked: "Uncle Shi, it stands to reason that rich people are very smart. Is it possible that the return on this railway bond is higher than what they can earn from ordinary trading?"
Chapter completed!