After hearing what Zhao Yi said, the government personnel on the scene immediately started talking. They really didn't expect that Zhao Yi would propose such a solution, which was completely beyond their expectations.
First of all, the current inland water transport is declining, and the rise of many new types of transportation has basically replaced the status of inland water transportation and become a new transportation artery.
Secondly, if we want to really realize this idea, the scale of investment is very huge. It is not just about building a few ship locks. The waterways along the route need to be dredged and dredged. The amount of work is very large.
If you want to take advantage of this water transportation channel, you must make the tonnage of the ships passing through reach a certain standard. After all, the speed of water transportation is relatively slow. The advantage is that the transportation volume is large and the freight is cheap.
Only by increasing the tonnage of ships can we reduce costs and improve shipping efficiency, so dredging and widening of key river sections are inevitable.
All of these require the investment of large sums of money, and currently it is difficult for Jiangxi Province to obtain this money. The only way to operate this money is through national coordination. You can imagine the difficulty.
Thirdly, there is the issue of ecological environment protection. Jiangxi’s water system is relatively closed. Compared with those inter-provincial water systems, the protection of this kind of water system is easier to do. The green mountains and green waters of Jiangxi have laid a good foundation.
This keeps Jiangxi's water system in a relatively healthy state for a long time, with less pollution and higher water quality. Otherwise, Hong Kong would not draw water from the Three Rivers Source in Jiangxi for urban water supply.
Therefore, when carrying out such large-scale water conservancy and transportation projects, ecological and environmental protection must be taken into consideration. This will inevitably be opposed by some people and will be very difficult to implement.
After all, these water systems previously flowed into Poyang Lake. If it were really connected from north to south and connected to the Pearl River, would it cause water levels in the province's water systems to decrease, or even some rivers to dry up.
Before this project is carried out, this is a step that has to be evaluated. As for the dam at the entrance of Poyang Lake, whether it will cause ecological problems and flood control problems in Poyang Lake, these need to be considered.
Finally, if we want to give full play to the advantageous position of this waterway, it is not only necessary for Jiangxi to do it on its own, but also for Guangdong to cooperate. Otherwise, it will have no effect if it is hot.
If you want to connect the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, you also need to build a channel to the Qiantang River in Hangzhou. Only in this way can the two major canals in the north and south be fully connected and play their most important role.
Therefore, the stakeholders involved are not only Jiangxi, but also Guangdong and Zhejiang. They need to communicate and reach a consensus before proceeding.
The above are all difficulties faced. Of course, the benefits are also very obvious, at least for Jiujiang. This means that Jiujiang has become a key node connecting the two major canals in the north and south, and is also an important node for the canal transport of goods upstream and downstream of the Yangtze River.
It can be seen from here that after the construction of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong Grand Canal, Jiujiang's geographical location has a clear advantage and will play an important role in driving the economic development of Jiujiang City.
Those sitting here are people from the Jiujiang Municipal Government. After thinking about it carefully, they certainly hope to open this canal, because this will have the most obvious impact on the development of Jiujiang.
As for Zhao Yi, although the proposed plan is highly operational, he is not as enthusiastic as government officials because it is unlikely that the plan will be passed in the short term.
However, if Jiangxi really wants to mobilize the entire province to promote this matter, it is not impossible. Then it will depend on their determination and intensity in promoting this matter.
Anyway, Zhao Yi himself is not too anxious, because the industries he invests here are information technology, military equipment, and electronic product production factories, etc., with high added value and are not very sensitive to freight costs.
If it can really be passed and implemented as soon as possible, it will of course be better. Then other relatively low value-added industries can also settle here, and there will be a broader market.
“Mr. Zhao’s vision is really great. He not only focuses on the economic development issues of Jiujiang itself, but also provides a good development idea for the entire Jiangxi Province.
It will take a long time to complete this feat, and the funds required cannot be raised at present unless the project is designated as a national key construction project. "Mayor Cheng said.
The meaning of his words is very obvious. This kind of planning project is a long-term project and cannot solve Jiujiang's economic development problems in a short period of time. Therefore, I hope Zhao Yi can provide measures with faster results.
However, Zhao Yi feels that cultivating an industry and developing a city cannot be achieved overnight. There is no quick way. If there is a quick way, other provinces and cities are not fools, and so many think tanks in the country are not freeloaders. .
“What Mayor Cheng said is that if you want to achieve a high-quality and stable economic development model, you must focus on the overall layout to create a good investment environment.
The biggest problem in Jiangxi is actually transportation, so I still want to say that if we want to develop Jiangxi's economy, we not only need a Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong Grand Canal, but also need to open up transportation arteries connecting surrounding provinces and cities.
Of course, these are long-term plans. As for what will promote the development of Jiujiang in the short term, it is the information technology industry that Jiujiang currently has comparative advantages. " Zhao Yi said.
Regarding this rhetoric, everyone here is actually quite disappointed, because Zhao Yi did not say that some industries will be moved here, but repeatedly emphasized that the information industry is enough to achieve substantial development of Jiujiang's economy.
As for Zhao Yi himself, if these current industries develop, they can indeed achieve such results and be worthy of his hometown.
As one of the top super rich people in the country, and a very rich person with ideals, he cannot just focus on one city or one place, but on the economic development needs of various regions across the country, so he has set expectations for the city government. Tai Chi.
After hearing what Zhao Yi said, the city government no longer struggled with this issue. If it continued to struggle, it would probably arouse his resentment and bring unnecessary trouble to subsequent cooperation.
"Does Mr. Zhao have any suggestions for the development of the information technology industry in our city?" Mayor Cheng asked.
“We only need to provide support in terms of policies and guarantees in terms of services. Don’t interfere too much with other things and let it develop naturally.
As for the shortcomings of Jiujiang's development in the field of information technology, I think it is higher education. Currently, there is no higher education institution in Jiujiang that can support the important task of future information technology development.
My own industries may relocate here for some reasons, but if we want to gather more information technology industries to settle in Jiujiang, we must solve the problem of lack of intellectual resources. " Zhao Yi said.
In the previous life, there was only one Jiujiang College in Jiujiang that could be regarded as higher education, and the others were basically non-existent. If you were just hanging around, that would be okay.
But now if we want to work hard to develop the information technology industry and make the information technology industry an important pillar of Jiujiang City's economic development, we must solve this problem.
As Zhao Yi said, for the sake of his hometown, he could still choose to develop here even though his economic interests were slightly damaged.
But other companies don't think so. There is no advantage in coming here, and it will also increase the cost of talent recruitment, which will actually increase their operating costs.
In this case, no Internet company will choose to develop here. Even after his Internet companies become giants, not many other Internet companies will come here.
More importantly, when his Internet companies show their prominence, managers in other cities will also realize the huge potential of Internet development and will compete for it. What will Jiujiang use to compete
“Of course, even if Jiujiang City begins to vigorously develop higher education now, it will not be able to become competitive with the established education strong cities in the short term.
Therefore, we must combine the city’s pillar industries and focus on creating several strong majors to form an absolute advantage over other colleges and universities.
For example, Jiujiang plans to build the information technology industry into a pillar industry in the future, so it must go all out in higher education such as information technology and software engineering.
Fortunately, the information technology and software majors in major domestic universities have just started, and information technology-related majors are basically in the exploratory stage.
If Jiujiang City strives to build these two professional fields at this time, it will easily stand out among universities across the country and provide strong basic support for Jiujiang to gather these industries in the future. " Zhao Yi said.
Zhao Yi's suggestion is very simple. Just concentrate on one or two majors and strive to make these majors the best in the country and even the world. Then there is no need to worry that other information technology companies will not gather here.
Information technology companies actually don't pay much attention to location. After all, they don't produce and sell physical products, so they care more about intellectual support and government support.
When I heard about the development of education earlier, everyone sitting here was a little confused. There are only a few vocational schools in the city, and none of them have anything to do with information technology. They all involve education, medical care, finance and other majors.
Even if the Jiujiang government merges these schools to form a larger college, it will not be able to provide strong technical support for the city's economic development.
But then Zhao Yi also emphasized the strategy of focusing on key points and tackling key problems individually. Only in this way can we provide intellectual support to the city's information technology industry in a short period of time.
“Mr. Zhao’s suggestion is very good. Developing higher education with information technology as a strong major will play an important role in developing our city’s information technology industry.
But even if we start to develop higher education in this area now, it will take 4 to 6 years before the results can be achieved. Isn’t it a bit behind in terms of time
Moreover, we have no foundation in this area before. If we want to improve the level of these majors, we must provide a team of teachers with strong knowledge and ability in this area. We are also weak in this area. "Mayor Chen said.
Although this is a bit depressing, it is true. If you want to develop education, you cannot achieve important results in a short period of time. What's more, you need to lead the country and even the world, which is even more difficult.
Even if Tianwen University has invested so much money, lost so much face, begged the second grandfather to sue grandma all over the world, and hired so many senior professors, it still dare not say that it is currently the number one institution of higher learning in the country.
"It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people" is not just a saying. If you want to develop a higher education institution, it will be difficult to reach the top in the world without decades of hard work. You must rely on time to accumulate foundation.
Of course, if everyone is willing to spend money and provide the best conditions in all aspects like Zhao Yi, this time can be shortened a lot.
However, if the Jiujiang Municipal Government promotes the establishment of this higher education institution and accelerates its development, Jiujiang City must invest huge financial funds.
At present, Jiujiang City does not have so much financial funds to invest in this area. Regardless of information technology-related majors, it seems that writing software only requires a laptop.
It would be a big mistake to think this way. Information technology actually covers a wide range of fields, from the research and development of semiconductor materials, chip design and manufacturing, software engineering to Internet big data, artificial intelligence, etc., all of which fall within the field of information technology.
If you want to make these fields top in the country and outstanding in the world, you have to spend billions of dollars every year, if not tens of billions. Otherwise, it will be difficult to improve in a short period of time, and you can only rely on time to slow down. Grind slowly.
Let’s not talk about other things, just to purchase a set of top-notch experimental equipment, you need to spend billions of dollars, and this is not a one-time thing, it also needs to be constantly updated and spent money.
Of course, you can do without these and just teach students some theoretical knowledge. However, after such students are trained, they cannot start research work immediately. They can only slowly climb up from the bottom and learn while doing it.
If this is the case, how can we talk about building a world-renowned information technology institution of higher learning? It will not be reduced to an ordinary role like other institutions of higher learning.
Even a school as rich as Tianwen University would not dare to spend so much money in one field. Their current training model is a school-enterprise co-construction model, which can save the school a lot of hardware investment.
Of course, only Tianwen University can implement this model, because Zhao Yi's companies themselves have a leading position in this aspect, and there are no obstacles to cooperation.
Even the information technology students at Tianwen University have already been booked by his companies when they enter the university. They will give students a certain amount of financial subsidies every month and directly work in these companies after graduation.
The information technology colleges and universities established by the Jiujiang Municipal Government do not have this condition. If they want to make a profit, they can only spend money.
Therefore, Zhao Yi felt that his idea just now was a bit taken for granted, and he could understand the concerns of the city government, because it was not just words, but the difficulties inside were actually very high.
"If the city government finds it difficult to achieve this level, and if you can fully support it, I can also invest in establishing a private university with information technology as its main professional course." Zhao Yi said.
Although Tianwen University also has information technology-related majors, the number of talents it trains every year is actually very limited. Even though Tianwen University has such a large campus and recruits so many students every year, the number of students divided among various professional disciplines is actually not that large. .
This number of people cannot keep up with my country's development needs in the field of information technology. Otherwise, his software company would not recruit high school students to train them.
Of course, this is not a big problem in the early stage. After all, there is not much advanced knowledge involved, and Zhao Yi also provides good technical support. As long as you are not stupid and are willing to learn, you can always gain something.
However, this model will also have shortcomings in the future. First, the knowledge level of information technology will become higher and higher. The employees trained through this model do not have a solid foundation. They will be just screws and cannot lead large-scale projects and become the backbone.
Second, we need to face more intense international competition in the future. Our current advantages in this area are mainly due to the technical support provided by Zhao Yi and our first-mover advantage in these fields.
When the whole world realizes the driving force of information technology for future economic development, it will be impossible not to get involved and get a share of the pie. If you are not prepared, it is not impossible to be surpassed by others.
Therefore, Zhao Yi felt that it was necessary to build an information technology university to provide outstanding students for the development of my country's information technology and provide lasting guarantee for the development of my country's information technology.
Coupled with relevant talents trained by other institutions of higher learning, a high-low talent mix is formed to provide sufficient talent demand for the market.
After hearing what Zhao Yi said, Mayor Cheng quickly said: "If Mr. Zhao really plans to build such an institution of higher learning in Jiujiang, we will provide free land supply and policy support.
If there are problems with the school opening procedures, we can also mediate and make sure the school runs smoothly. "
Of course, the city government cannot hesitate to do this kind of good thing. Although they don't know much about other things, they do know one thing, that is, if they have money, then this institution of higher learning will win half the battle.
"In addition to the free land supply provided by the city government, I can handle other matters myself. Maybe you don't know yet, but I actually invested in Tianwen University, and I still have some resources in this regard." Zhao One said.
Everyone here was shocked when they heard that Tianwen University was also invested by him. Although Tianwen University was founded only a short time ago, it has already ranked first in the province and has a certain influence in the country.
If this is really the case, then he should be the one to establish this information technology-based institution of higher learning. As for the issue of land, there is no need to worry about it. Besides, the current land in Jiujiang is not valuable at all.
Subsequently, the two parties held detailed discussions on land area, land location and policy support. According to Zhao Yi's request, the new information technology university was named Tianwen University of Information Technology, covering an area of 5,000 acres.
Since it only focuses on teaching and scientific research in the field of information technology, it does not need to be as big as Tianwen University. The reason why Tianwen University is so big is that the lake in the middle occupies a large area.
Moreover, this school will focus on cultivating high-end information technology talents in the future, and does not plan to expand indefinitely. It will adopt a small but refined model to cultivate high-end talents.
Zhao Yi is preparing to invest 10 billion yuan as the cost of building the school. He is also preparing to recruit the dean of the School of Information from Tianwen University to serve as the principal of this school.
Since the current top technologies and talents are in several of its own companies, it will mainly adopt the school-enterprise co-construction model in the early stage. At the same time, it will also actively poach top information technology scientists from all over the world to improve the school's teaching staff.
Since it is impossible to prepare well in all these aspects in the early stage, the school's first batch of students is planning to cooperate with Tianwen University and adopt a cooperative training model. Only when the foundation here is built and the teachers are in place can they become independent. Train students.
As for the subject setting, teaching basically revolves around information technology materials, semiconductor design and manufacturing, software engineering, Internet information technology and other subjects.
Since there is currently a shortage of talents in these fields, the employment issue will basically not be a big problem. As for the future, if it really becomes a famous school in this field, the employment issue will not be a problem. (End of chapter)