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Volume Four, Empire of Arms, Chapter 41, Work Hard

The war broke out until the end of the large-scale ground battle, only 16 days before and after.

The US military performed on the battlefield, but the Republic is "burning its head to do things".

On May 12, Wang Yuanqing and Ye Zhisheng, director of the General Office of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Government, attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the "China Heavy Industry Corporation" at the Beihai headquarters. + Mu Hua announced that he would expand the business of "China Heavy Industry Corporation" to more than 20 countries in the next five years, and increase the annual turnover to more than 1c0 billion yuan by 2022. After the groundbreaking ceremony, + Mu Hua also donated 50 million scholarships to Guangxi national key universities in the name of "China Heavy Industry Corporation".

The next day, +Muhua signed a scientific research funding contract with 6 national key laboratories of Guangxi University in Nanning. In the name of "commissioned research", "China National Heavy Industry Corporation" provides 2.5 million to 7.5 million scientific research funds to the six laboratories each year to fund scientific research work in the fields of electronics, materials, mechanical and electrical engineering, chemicals, etc.

"China Resources Corporation" enters the scientific research field without any surprise, but its speed of action surprised many people.

As an arms trading company, "China Heavy Co., Ltd." has only two options to expand its business: one is to advance to the civilian field, and the other is to advance to the arms production field.

With the background of "Zhongsheng Company", the former is obviously not feasible. If it is necessary to expand the civilian field, whether it is +Mu Hua or +Yanbo from behind the scenes, Li Chengwen and others do not need to do it in the name of "Zhongsheng Company". The development direction of "Zhongsheng Company" is to get involved in arms production, and ultimately become an "arms group" integrating basic research, engineering development, manufacturing, promotion and sales.

Unlike ordinary industries, the threshold for the arms industry is very high.

If it were not for the support of the state, whether the "China Heavy Co., Ltd." can be born is a question. Transforming from sales to production requires deep technical accumulation. Compared with Western arms manufacturers, the "China Heavy Co., Ltd." has a very weak foundation. + Mu Hua first needs to master several key technologies and gain a voice in the field of arms development.

Before the state approved the "China-Heavy Co., Ltd." to participate in military technology development, it could only cooperate with state-owned scientific research institutions.

+Mu Hua moved the headquarters of "China Capital Corporation" to Guangxi, which has a lot to do with Wang Yuanqing's acting chairman. "China Capital Corporation" donated scholarships to Guangxi universities and cooperated with university research institutions. Basically, Wang Yuanqing was promoted by Wang Yuanqing. Doing so will not only promote Guangxi's economic development and make greater contributions in the fields of education and scientific research. It is also closely related to the country's view of Guangxi as a pilot area.

Zhao Rundong "delegated" Wang Yuanqing to Guangxi, hoping that Wang Yuanqing would create some "famous" in Guangxi.

As a favorite student of Ji Youguo, Wang Yuanqing burned the "three fires" after he arrived in Guangxi. First, he strictly enforced official discipline and widely appoint young and promising cadres. He eliminated some old cadres with rigid thoughts; second, he corrected the social atmosphere and organized a six-month anti-gang campaign. In just a month, he eliminated more than 5c0 gangs involved in gangs; third, he implemented the social welfare security system that had been issued by the central government. The focus was on solving basic problems related to medical care, pension, education, housing, etc. in people's livelihood.

After these three fires burned, Wang Yuanqing became the acting chairman of the autonomous region known to the whole country.

In the eyes of the general public, it is not enough that Wang Yuanqing has done this. Whether Guangxi's economy can develop and bring practical benefits to the people is the key.

Wang Yuanqing's "fourth fire" burning land is to focus on the construction of the Beihai Special Economic Zone.

As early as the beginning of this century, the central government determined that the Beihai was an economic demonstration zone for ASEAN countries. However, due to the impact of the financial crisis, the construction speed of Beihai has not been very fast. When Wang Yuanqing took office, many companies occupied land, plant land was covered with weeds, many half of the construction factories were turned into ruins, and many built factories became warehouses.

The problems facing Wang Yuanqing are very serious.

Wang Yuanqing personally ran back to the central government to ask Zhao Rundong for the privilege of working in the Beihai high-economic pilot.

Before returning to Guangxi, Wang Yuanqing "stopped" to visit + Yanbo and others and reached a lot of cooperation agreements with them. + Yanbo promised to invest tens of billions in Beihai Port and build Beihai Port into the most important commercial port in the Republic; Li Chengwen promised to invest tens of billions in Beihai, Guilin, Nanning, Liuzhou and other places to build high-end hotels, and tourism industries; Ye Yongji promised to invest tens of billions in Guangxi to build hydropower stations and wind power stations in Guangxi, build civil solar cell production bases, and invest in the construction of bioenergy systems in rural Guangxi; Long Yuteng and Shu Tao also promised to invest tens of billions in Guangxi to promote the economic development of Guangxi. Of course, these promises will not be fulfilled immediately, and it will take several years to show results.

Subsequently, Wang Yuanqing and + Muhua reached an agreement to let + Muhua set up the headquarters of "China Heavy Industry Corporation" in Guangxi.

The conditions offered by Wang Yuanqing are also very attractive. In addition to allowing "China Metal Corporation" to fund poor college students and cooperate with university laboratories, he also promised to try to convince the central government to allow "China Metal Corporation" to enter the fields of military scientific research and arms production, and reserve land for China Metal Corporation to build arms production bases.

The maximum discount will be given to "China Medium-sized Company" in terms of policy.

Wang Yuanqingdi's idea is also very simple. If the "China Heavy Co., Ltd." develops into an "arms group", it can at least provide tens of thousands of jobs to Guangxi, allow tens of thousands of families to enter high-income groups, and provide more scientific research funds to universities and universities in Guangxi, allowing Guangxi to achieve breakthrough achievements in the field of scientific research. The most important thing is that arms are absolutely profitable transactions, and profits rank first among all kinds of industries. As long as the "China Heavy Co., Ltd." grows, it can provide Guangxi with billions or even tens of billions of tax revenue every year, greatly strengthening Guangxi's financial strength.

According to outsiders, Wang Yuanqing introduced the "China Resources Company" into the Beihai Economic Development Zone and wanted to build Beihai into Seattle of the Republic!

Although in the eyes of the outside world, Wang Yuanqing's achievements are more or less related to Ji Youguo's "political heritage", one thing is undeniable that in promoting reform, Wang Yuanqing completely "inherited" Ji Youguo's courage, even far exceeding Ji Youguo.

In early May, when the outside world was still paying attention to the US-Iran war, Wang Yuanqing did something "not big or small".

At that time, the Guangxi government and the Nanning government had differences in the future development direction of Nanning. Wang Yuanqing hoped to build Nanning into a political center suitable for living, rather than a "big and complete" regional central city. In Wang Yuanqing's development plan, Nanning's positioning is a political center with a comfortable environment and living environment. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce industry and focus on the development of tourism and services. The Nanning Municipal Government hopes to build Nanning into a leading economic city in Guangxi and put industrial development first.

If it were in the past, the chairman of the autonomous region would definitely overwhelm the mayor.

Wang Yuanqing did not do this, but personally came forward to have a live debate with the mayor of Nanning City on Guangxi local TV station. Both sides expressed their opinions and saw whose views were more reasonable.

After the debate, Wang Yuanqing commissioned a polling agency run by returning students to conduct polling in Nanning City; set up a feedback platform on the government's official website, Sohu, Tencent and other portal websites, inviting people from all walks of life in Nanning, as well as people from all walks of life in Guangxi and all walks of life in the country to express their opinions and criticize them; conduct online questionnaires and voting surveys on several key issues in Nanning's future development.

This enlightened and democratic decision-making aroused strong response from social and national boundaries.

On the development issue of Nanning, the people not only put forward relevant opinions such as "protecting the environment", "benefiting the living and industry", "developing tourism and service industries", but also put forward minor opinions such as "slowing housing prices" and "assisting poverty".

Provincial governments publicly consulted and solicited opinions from the public on the development of provincial capital cities, which also caused a sensation in the central government.

Zhao Rundong didn't say much about Wang Yuanqing's behavior, after all, Guangxi is a pilot area.

Seizing this opportunity, Wang Yuanqing, in accordance with Ye Zhisheng's proposal, expanded the "Nanning's future development direction" to "Guangxi's future development direction". Not only did he solicit opinions from the people on the future development of the Guangxi Autonomous Region, but he also solicited opinions from the society on the future development of major cities in Guangxi.

The effect can be imagined. In less than a month, Guangxi became a star and Wang Yuanqing also became a star.

At the end of May, the Guangxi Autonomous Region Government issued the "Development Plan for the Next Ten Years", and the "Automatic Region Development Planning Committee" was formed by the reduced autonomous region government and representatives from all walks of life from the Autonomous Region Congress, of which the representatives of the Congress accounted for 60% of the total number of people in the Planning Committee.

At this point, many people think that Wang Yuanqing had a very exciting "stage performance".

However, no one thinks so again five years later. Wang Yuanqing not only solicited opinions from people from all walks of life, but also effectively implemented the development plan.

In 2018, when the Guangxi Autonomous Region Congress was re-elected, Wang Yuanqing first implemented the "Representative Election Law", and then submitted the "Automatic Region Future Development Plan" to the Autonomous Region Congress for voting in the form of local laws, which ultimately made it a local law that no successive governments could easily modify.

In addition, Guangxi took the lead in implementing the "Four Acts" and relevant administrative regulations of the central government, Wang Yuanqing's identity as a "reformist" has been confirmed and consolidated.

Zhao Rundong has never interfered with Wang Yuanqing's series of measures in Guangxi.

In the eyes of the outside world, Zhao Rundong's actions were mostly due to Ji Youguo's face. In fact, Zhao Rundong also hopes that Wang Yuanqing can carry out large-scale reforms. In the words of Zhao Rundong to Pan Yunsheng, the more thorough the reform pilot in Guangxi is, the smoother the central government will implement reforms in other provinces.

Of course, the key to whether the reform can be successful does not depend on whether the central government supports it.

After the "Four Acts" were implemented all over the country, the only measure of whether the reform was successful or not was whether the people benefited from it and whether they supported the reform.

Ji Youguo has laid a foundation for the reform. Whether he can build a better future for the Republic on this basis depends on the performance of Ji Youguo's successors such as Zhao Rundong and Wang Yuanqing. (To be continued,)

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