Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 357 Report to the Mayor

"Only when companies have enough profits can they continue to invest in research and development and create technological barriers. Even if companies in other provinces want to imitate, they can only imitate old products from a few years ago.

As long as we continue to maintain technological leadership, we will continue to occupy market share.

Maintain high growth rates for a long time.”

Mayor Chen's expression had begun to become serious at this time. He had thought that the new industrial layout of the high-tech zone would bring about different changes to the situation in Dong'ou City, which was mostly dominated by traditional low-threshold industries.

But I didn't expect that the difference would be so big and bring so many surprises.

What Qi Tongwei didn't say was that in fact some state-owned enterprises in the north have better technical reserves and better foundations. Unfortunately, they are now in a period of pain and have no advantages at all in market competition.

As long as they have gained market share, the enterprises in Dong'ou will be able to continue to carry out next-generation research and development until they surpass the state-owned enterprises in the north. The enterprises here are little dolphins that are lightly equipped. Everyone works together and thinks in the same direction. Without any constraints, they can swim very fast.

But those large state-owned enterprises in the north are like big whales bleeding in fishing nets. No matter how strong they are, they can only struggle helplessly and watch themselves bleed while countless barnacles parasitize on the whales and suck their blood.

Qi Tongwei's conversation touched the hearts of Mayor Chen and Gao Yuliang.

Yes, there are so many blank markets in the country now. The reason why people in Dongou City took the lead is that they were too poor in the past, so poor that they had no food to eat, so they dared to start their own businesses.

Now the atmosphere of developing private economy in other provinces and cities has not yet emerged. By the time they react, what advantages will Dongou have? It has no advantage in transportation and no advantage in land. It is a hilly area with seven mountains, two rivers and one part of farmland, and very little flat land.

If only a large number of traditional light industries develop, after the bonus period, they will be unable to withstand competition and risks, and then the private enterprises here will have to face the pain period.

The real way to break the deadlock is to, as Qi Tongwei said, develop technology-intensive enterprises and create generation after generation of technological barriers. By the time outside companies start to get started, the market share here will have been taken up. It will take time and money to develop competition. By that time, the market's voice will have been firmly grasped by these companies in the high-tech zone.

“The two leaders, it may be said, have no intuitive concept.

Let me give you an example. The latest generation of CNC machine tools that Pengpai Equipment recently rolled off the production line is already two generations ahead of the market and is a third-generation product.

However, the popular products on the market, which cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, are their first generation products from a few years ago.

If someone enters their market and starts with the first generation, they will directly bring out the second generation product and at the same time dump the first generation machine tools in the warehouse at a reduced price.

Newcomers have spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to develop products, but the prices are directly reduced several times and they become industrial waste. Who would still invest in research and development then?

While the second-generation products are being sold, the fourth-generation products are also being developed simultaneously. A large part of the huge profits from the second-generation products will be invested in the research and development of the fourth generation.

For competitors, this will be a vicious circle.

Of course, I am only giving the example of equipment manufacturing. This is true for all other technology-intensive industries. Technological barriers are accumulated from generation to generation, making it difficult for competitors to get started.

This concept may sound very advanced, but in fact, Europe, America and Japan have been using this system for decades.”

Mayor Chen thought for a while and called his secretary.

"Xiao Zhang, inform the comrades that the 2 o'clock government department meeting will be postponed until tomorrow.

Please get everyone else out first. I have free time this afternoon."

After saying that, Mayor Chen took the initiative to stand up and refill the two people's cups with tea from the thermos.

"Comrade Yuliang, we haven't really had a deep conversation yet.

To be honest, I was a bit busy recently, or to put it bluntly, I was running for office."

As he spoke, Mayor Chen laughed at himself. Qi Tongwei recalled that it seemed that in about a month, Mayor Chen rarely stayed in the city and no one knew where he went. Secretary Black Bear Spirit personally attended several activities.

This sentence confirmed the speculations of many people. The mayor was also panicked and wanted to run for official positions. In order to get the position of secretary, he traveled to the province and flew to Beijing again and again.

No one is immune to this. Qi Tongwei thought that if he were in this situation, he would probably make the same choice.

However, the choices he made in recent years were relatively correct. Relying on his more than 20 years of political experience and insights, he firmly followed the path of economic development and achieved fruitful results. No matter which leader comes to power, they dare not gamble with others on the rapid development of Jiangbei New Area or High-tech Zone.

It would be better to let Qi Tongwei enjoy the results steadily. This is also the secret of Qi Tongwei's steady promotion despite not running for office much in recent years.

Leave your leaders with no choice but to choose you. Once they have a choice, they have to lose face and lick, beg, and run away. There is no other way.

But at this moment, perhaps Mayor Chen's situation has really taken a turn for the better, otherwise his expression would not be so relaxed. Faced with the situation of leaving, how could he still be interested in industrial layout? This is a long-term job and the results will not be seen for several years.

Qi Tongwei guessed that maybe Mayor Chen had gained the support of the bigwigs above him for the position of municipal party secretary and began to have enough confidence. Otherwise, if he had known that he would be transferred next year, he would have been in his shoes.

The next thing to do is to ask the districts and counties below to report GDP aggressively and to adjust upwards all aspects of work data, just to make the data look better before he leaves and to have more bargaining chips with his superiors.

It is clear that Jiangbei New District has underreported its GDP and predicted GDP data. If Mayor Chen knew that he had no hope, he would definitely make up for it directly, and might even increase it further, just like other districts and counties, by inflating a part of the data.

If the real data is 1 billion, we must force it to be reported as 1.2 billion, which is in line with personal interests.

But that’s not entirely true. Many things are hard to guess. Maybe Mayor Chen is thinking about standing guard for the last time.

"Comrade Yuliang, just as District Chief Xiaoqi said, an excellent industrial layout is the engine for maintaining long-term economic growth.

I wholeheartedly agree with what he said.

In this way, we can give your high-tech zone further support. How about you take charge of the Planning Commission?"

Qi Tongwei was also shocked. The Planning Commission is one of the core government departments. It is against the rules to give it to Gao Yuliang, the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, who is now in the party committee sequence, to be in charge.

Although internal work is divided into different responsibilities and does not require approval from higher authorities, the secretary and the mayor can make the decision after consultation.