"These credits are all due to the executives of these companies. I am the one who contributes money, and I usually act as a hands-off shopkeeper. I am also very satisfied that they can run these companies so well." Zhao Yi said modestly.
"You are being too self-effacing. As the saying goes, 'If you want a train to run fast, it all depends on the headband.'" The director said with a smile.
"I'm just stating the facts, but the director is ridiculous. This is a plan I wrote before I came here. Please take a look at it." After Zhao Yi finished speaking, he handed the director a proposal.
I didn't know when I could get down to business with these government veterans, so I simply handed him the proposal and asked him to understand his specific ideas first.
The director took the document handed over by Zhao Yi, titled "Proposal for Building my country's Highway Skeleton Network", turned to the homepage, and started with a clear statement: "Social and economic development depends on an efficient transportation network. At present, my country's major economically active areas are all It is a coastal city, while the economic development of inland cities lags behind due to inconvenient transportation.
As time goes by, this economic gap will become wider and wider, resulting in extremely uneven economic development.
The pursuit of a happy life is everyone's basic right. However, this economic gap will cause a large number of people, especially those in poor areas, to move rapidly to developed coastal areas.
The population density in coastal areas has increased rapidly, and resource allocation has been concentrated in the eastern coastal areas.
Once this siphon effect is formed, its trend is difficult to reverse, and associated social problems will arise in large numbers, such as housing shortages in big cities, rapid growth in housing prices, agglomeration of educational resources, educational inequity, serious environmental pollution, and increased environmental governance. Issues such as cost and impact on people's health.
And although big cities can allocate resources more efficiently, big city diseases are inevitable, and the space for people's basic living needs will be greatly reduced.
However, due to the huge economic gap and the reluctance to leave big cities, big cities are generally bloated.
In order to solve this problem, I think that in the early stage of reform and opening up, when the economy has not yet formed a clear gap and the siphon effect has not really formed, large-scale construction of highway networks and high-speed railway networks is imperative. "
The director looked slightly surprised when he saw this. In the early stage of my country's development, it mainly developed a foreign trade economy, and coastal cities have natural advantages for the foreign trade economy.
Due to traffic problems in inland cities, products produced in inland cities cannot be transported. Even if they are transported, they are expensive and not very competitive.
Even in later generations, when the price of workers in the interior was much lower than that of workers on the coast, many factories were still unwilling to move their factories inland.
The economic base determines the superstructure. Coastal cities have a developed economy and invest more money in education. Whether it is basic education or higher education, they have an absolute advantage over inland areas.
In later generations, no matter how hard students from mainland provinces study, the number of places will always be limited, which has caused many problems of educational fairness and has been criticized by the people.
The so-called "poor mountains and bad waters bring out unruly people", this sentence fully explains the degree of economic development, determines the openness of people's thinking, and even affects the mental outlook of the local people.
The more economically underdeveloped areas are, the more obvious the corruption phenomenon is. Everything can be done only through connections. Administrative differential treatment is obvious, resulting in many unfair phenomena.
This phenomenon has intensified the flight of local people. "You can't afford to offend, but you can afford to hide." This sentence has become a true portrayal.
In particular, talented people are unwilling to stay in their hometowns to build their hometowns. Such a vicious cycle has caused areas with poor economies in the mainland to have neither talent available nor business contacts.
The director raised his head and glanced at Zhao Yi, and saw that Zhao Yi was drinking tea by himself, with a calm expression, as if he didn't take the suggestions seriously. The director felt calm and calm.
Continuing to read, it said: "my country's current main economic model is a foreign trade economic model. Building production bases in coastal cities is a correct path. It can reduce the cost of goods circulation and make it more convenient and faster to connect with overseas markets. But I think This single-form development model is unsustainable.
I predict that in the next 10 to 20 years or so, my country's economic size will be similar to that of the United States. This single development model will lead to increased international dependence.
Once international relations deteriorate, especially relations with the United States, it will have a huge economic impact on our country. Our ancestors always remind us that 'precaution will lead to failure, and failure to preempt will lead to failure.' These obviously foreseeable results require Start planning from the beginning.
I think the solution is to develop the domestic demand market, which means walking on two legs, one is a foreign trade economy and the other is a domestic demand economy. But a domestic demand economy requires people to have money in their pockets, and how to make it so that people have money in their pockets? Have money
To increase people's income, we need to allocate reasonable industries to the local areas. In areas with developed agriculture, we will provide high-quality crop seeds. Currently, my Qingnong Biological Laboratory is doing relevant research in this area. I believe there will be some good results soon.
Areas with underdeveloped agriculture and little agricultural land need to adapt to local conditions and develop an economic model with local characteristics. For example, places with beautiful scenery can develop a moderate tourism economy; areas with a large population can develop a production-based economy.
In areas with large water areas, there can be plans to develop aquaculture on the premise of protecting the water ecology; in areas with relatively rich forestry resources, on the premise of ensuring ecological sustainability, forest planting, bamboo and wood processing industries can be developed. wait.
The above are some of the ideas I provided, but they all need to ensure that the local ecology will not be overly damaged and irrecoverable. Looking at the world, we find that most of them have experienced the economic development model of development first and governance later.
However, our country's foreign trade economy continues to develop at a rapid pace, and its foreign exchange reserves have increased significantly. The basic conditions are relatively strong, and we can follow a development path that requires both gold and silver and green waters and lush mountains.
Then there is the issue of central city planning in my country. Central cities generally occupy an important position in economic activities within provincial regions or nationwide, have comprehensive functions and multiple leading functions, and play a hub role in large cities, megacities and megacities. .
Our country has a large population. With the economic development in the future, cities with a population of one million or more will become sparse and common. However, rational planning of central cities now will play a role in preparing for a rainy day.
We cannot wait for the basic economic pattern to be formed before planning the central city. That will still not solve the problem of regional economic balance.
In advance, based on comprehensive factors such as transportation, population, geographical environment, educational resources, and mineral resources, a regional center is selected to become a national central city, and then a provincial central city is selected within the provincial scope.
The priority principle of the central city is that it needs to have radiating responses. If the central city can only make itself prosperous, but cannot drive the development of surrounding cities, and instead has an obvious siphon effect, then the central city has actually failed.
Our country is a socialist country, and the common prosperity of the people is our goal. Central cities that do not have a driving effect will instead absorb resources from surrounding cities on a large scale without feedback, causing the economic development of surrounding cities to become worse and people's lives more difficult. , which we should avoid.
The above are my own humble opinions on my country's economic development, but judging from the above situation, everything is based on an efficient and accessible transportation network. Only a developed transportation network can form resources nationwide. Effective allocation, improve the level of social division of labor, and increase the activity of economic development.
This is the original intention of the "Recommendation for Building my country's Highway Skeleton Network" that I put forward. As a member of the country, since we think about it, we should provide suggestions for the country.
The above explains the inevitability of developing highway networks from the perspective of regional economic development balance. Let's talk about the solutions to some current problems in constructing highway networks.
First of all, the level of industrial development in most areas of our country is still around the 1970s, and the number of jobs accommodated has basically remained at that era.
However, the urban population is increasing rapidly. The previous movement to the mountains and countryside temporarily alleviated this problem, but it did not completely solve it.
Because the rural economy is underdeveloped and the amount of farmland is limited, it is unable to provide a high-quality living environment and cannot truly accommodate the resettlement of large-scale people. It is only a stop-gap measure.
The level of industrial development cannot be achieved overnight, but requires a development process. It has both demand-side development constraints and its own technical level constraints. It is destined to be unable to solve the problem of a large amount of urban labor surplus in a short time.
As the population in rural areas continues to increase and farming efficiency improves, rural population overflow is inevitable. Rural farmland will not be able to meet the survival needs of so many people, and more jobs will be needed.
I believe that the only way to solve these problems is to start with infrastructure construction, which can increase people's income on a large scale.
As the people's income increases, the corresponding demand market for industrial products increases, and the demand for industrial products increases, then the number of people engaged in industrial production will increase.
From this perspective, infrastructure construction is a key to unlocking the cyclical chain of my country's economic development.
It can not only accelerate the development of industries within the industrial chain, but also cause benefit spillovers, form a rapid development of the service industry, and increase a large number of jobs, which plays an important role in the development of my country's domestic demand economy.
This is to explain the importance of infrastructure construction to my country's economic development from the perspective of solving my country's surplus labor force and the development of domestic demand market.
Of course, there are many types of infrastructure construction, including highway construction, high-speed railway construction, real estate construction, etc.
However, since our country is not currently wealthy and my personal abilities are limited, I can only choose a direction that has great influence and can solve the current problems for priority development.
Therefore, I believe that prioritizing the development of infrastructure is the top priority, and the development of transportation networks is the foundation of the foundation. "(End of chapter)