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Arriving at the Jushui River behind Zhiwei Building, and hiding his tracks from the public eye, Hua Zhenxing took out the flying stool, held Manman's arm and flew away under the guidance of Mei Yeshi.

Umenoshi also stood on the small bench to join in the fun. Anyway, the small bench can be unfolded into a big stage.

If Pingjing and Shanghai are first-tier cities according to Dongguo standards, then prefecture-level cities like Wucheng are considered fourth-tier cities at best. What this kind of city lacks is not suburban land, but real-life projects that can bring development potential.

The branch campus of the University of Technology is located in the southern suburbs of Wucheng, with a planned total area of ​​more than 3,000 acres, or almost two square kilometers. Viewed from the air, it is obvious that there is still a large amount of reserved land within the completed campus.

The emergence of this campus changed the history of Wucheng without a comprehensive university.

The campus currently has departments and majors such as machinery, materials, computers and information, electrical and automation, energy and chemical engineering, urban construction, ecological environment, logistics management, economics and trade, and food science, all of which are from Chile and Huanxiang Tebang. urgently needed.

As for majors that are also urgently needed in the country, such as civil engineering, water conservancy, transportation, mining and metallurgy, this campus does not yet have them. They will either be solved through other cooperation methods, or they will be supplemented in the third phase of construction.

Huazhenxing cannot expect that cooperation with such a school district will solve all problems.

The reason why Huazhenxing chose such a university branch for cooperation was of course not because its location happened to be in Wucheng, but after comprehensive consideration of all aspects and sending people to investigate and compare the situation in advance.

But all he got was introduction information, and he had to ask Umenoshi, a local man with great powers, for advice on many things.

On the third day of the new year, the school was still on winter vacation. The campus was empty. A few people lowered their heights and walked through the campus. Hua Zhenxing had already built the heart of the entire campus in his soul while listening to Ume Yeshi's introduction.

Ume Yeshi's tone was somewhat emotional. In his opinion, this campus is the most important project in Wucheng in recent years. It is not the icing on the cake, nor is it quick success, but it can really help the city maintain its long-term vitality.

Hua Zhenxing did not grow up in Dongguo, so he did not feel deeply or was unaware of some situations.

The construction and development model of the New Kiri Kingdom established by the New Alliance draws on the experience of the Eastern Kingdom in many places, bringing a glimmer of hope and vigorous vitality to that once hopeless purgatory.

But in Umenoshi's view, although the development of the East Kingdom is commendable and a rare bright spot in today's world, there are also many lessons left over from history, and Kiri Kingdom cannot repeat the same mistakes.

The predecessors crossed the river by feeling the stones. You can follow the smooth path, but don't follow the pits you have stepped on.

Ume Yeshi was born in 1971 and grew up in a mountain village in the northern suburbs of Wucheng. He did not go to the city to study until he was in high school at the age of eighteen.

He has personally witnessed and experienced the changes of Dongguo in the past few decades. Dongguo has developed from the most mature agricultural country in human history to the largest industrial country.

In the village where he grew up, collective communes replaced the traditional clan social system. In addition to farming, the most laborious work of his father's generation was the construction of farmland and water conservancy.

It was an era when the population and economy continued to grow, but they were still relatively poor and backward.

After Ume Yeishi entered elementary school, the commune system disintegrated, and the household contract responsibility system began to be implemented in the countryside. The country began to bear risks and be responsible for profits and losses, and was cut into a state where the family is the social unit.

The continuous accumulation of the primary industry, the system layout of the secondary industry has been generally completed, and a large demographic dividend has been provided through social transformation. Coupled with the introduction of capital, the process of industrialization has begun.

With the emergence of a large number of township and village enterprises, the population gathered from villages to towns and entered a stage of production prosperity. In order to reduce pressure on resources and the environment, officials began to control population growth and implemented a very strict one-child policy.

This policy lasted for nearly two generations and ended only a few years ago, but it has become extremely difficult to restore the fertility rate.

Because thousands of years of marriage, family, social structures, ethical systems and even cognitive methods have been dissolved, this is a situation that has never happened before in human history.

If the family and social structure are alienated, then the industrialization, marketization, and capitalization reforms implemented on this basis will also be alienated. It is based on a society where a family has only one child and lasts for two generations.

Due to the reduction in the number of children raised, a large number of people can continue to be released to participate in social labor in the short term.

From production prosperity to market prosperity, in the subsequent wave of marketization, a large number of scattered small enterprises were eliminated or annexed, entering the stage of capital concentration. The population has also further concentrated in county towns, and a large number of farmers have left the countryside to work in cities.

Once this trend begins, it becomes irreversible.

Some people go further, because areas with the largest investment in coastal resources also have the fastest economic development, providing more job opportunities. At first, they moved back and forth like migratory birds, with their roots still in their hometown.

Many people work and save money, then return to the village to build beautiful buildings, which has become a way of comparison among neighbors. But gradually, more and more people choose to settle in distant cities where they have already taken root.

Those who can really gain a foothold in the prosperous cities far away are basically the group of people with the strongest social competitiveness. Those who eventually have to return to their hometowns are mostly the losers in this first wave of social competition.

After the new century, this process accelerated suddenly. If we only look at it from a local perspective, the population flows from villages to county towns, and then from county towns to regional central cities, such as prefecture-level cities.

As industrialization matures, there is indeed no need for so many agricultural people. But with the crazy advancement of marketization and the huge profit drive, the real estate industry began to explode.

New urban areas in every city are expanding at an extremely rapid rate, and it takes more than ten years to complete the urbanization process that many countries took hundreds of years to complete.

The sustained and rapid development of the economy has improved people's living standards and focused on the efficiency of resource use. It has also changed the social structure and changed people's identities and situations.

However, the expansion of any one-way model has its peak. Urbanized population agglomeration also has an inflection point in improving the efficiency of resource use. Beyond a certain scale, it will lead to increased consumption and waste of resources.

At first, the population of the county began to lose, and the central city continued to absorb the population and resources of the surrounding counties. Since nearly ten years ago, even many cities themselves have begun to lose their population and capital to more developed first- and second-tier cities.

The village where Ume Yeishi was born is now very depleted, with only the elderly and children living there.

Young people have gone out to work, or bought houses and settled in the county or city. The elderly and children are left behind because their children or parents are not yet able to take them away.

Whether such a village is still necessary is another question.

Wucheng City has also entered a stage of blood loss, with talents and capital constantly leaving. In a state of complete market competition, many local production companies closed down and died.

The transfer of production means the transfer of job opportunities, the employed population will inevitably move with it, and the service industry will also shrink.

There are two states: continuous overflow during the population growth process and continuous outflow after the population reaches its peak. The real estate industry is one of the last floundering in the process, sucking away decades of accumulated wealth from a large number of families.

This has gradually become a zero-sum game. The countryside has become the opponent of the county, the county has become the opponent of the urban area, and the peripheral cities have become the opponent of the central city... Even the relationship between provinces has developed into rivals.

In the context of a completely liberalized market, dominated by the will of capital, it is inevitable that capital, labor, and various social resources will be increasingly concentrated.

Dongguo is very large, so there can be multiple centers and sub-centers coexisting. Another extreme example is Bangli State, also in Dongzhou. Its capital, Biaocheng, has gathered one-fifth of the country's population and nearly half of its economic resources.

The problems between cities are still within the scope of the same country. At least there is still the central government's transfer payment adjustment, which can somewhat buffer the problem of imbalanced development.

However, when extended to the world, this trend also appears among countries. Countries on the edge have suffered a net loss, with almost no possibility of recovery.

The country's position in today's world political and economic system is definitely at the bottom. Therefore, whether domestically or internationally, Huazhenxing must consider these issues in advance.

The high school that Ume Yeshi attended was the best high school in Wucheng. He later studied at the best university of science and technology in the East. At that time, it was no less than Chunhua and Pingjing, and it is still one of the top universities in the East.

Today, not many of Ume Yeshi's high school classmates are still in Wucheng. Most of them are officials from government departments, leaders of banks, hospitals, schools, and real estate developers.

There are also some people who have returned to Wucheng to work or start businesses. They did pretty well for a while, but then almost all left again. People who do well move their businesses to better locations, while entrepreneurs who fail look for opportunities elsewhere.

As for Umenoshi's college classmates, not many of them are still in the country. We must take into account the era that Umenoshi lived in and that his college classmates were also the top intellectual elites of the Eastern Kingdom at that time.

Many people say that improving education levels is a prerequisite for social development, but in this case another paradox appears.

The better the basic education in marginal areas is, the more serious the brain drain will be. The greater the social and family investment in education, the faster the local blood loss will be.

Because money is spent on children, people's abilities and qualities are equivalent to the condensation of wealth. The more competitive the children are when they grow up, the greater the proportion of them leaving the local area.

So why did Ume Yeshi come back and stay in Wucheng? Not because of his status as the leader of the Kunlun Alliance, he also represents the inheritance of the Mei family in Wucheng.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty of the Eastern Kingdom, Mei Zhiyan, a righteous man in Wucheng, raised his troops to revolt. Mei Xiaolang, Mei Zhiyan's son, returned to the Tang Dynasty and was granted the title of Bo. Mei Zhenyi, the son of Mei Xiaolang, is the founder of Zhengyi.

Ume Yeshi once set up the "Kunlun League Liaison Center" in Feishui, where he studied in university, and later moved it back to Zhiwei Building in Wucheng. It can be seen that university is also a very important factor when people choose employment and settlement.

The local government's construction of the Wucheng campus of Feishui University of Technology is also a self-rescue measure in a state of constant blood loss. What does it mean for a city to have no universities?

This means that almost all the young generation in this city will leave here during the most critical period of maturity and growth in life, the college period. The better people will go further and the less likely they will come back.

This distance is not only a geographical distance, but also a psychological distance.

The impact of universities on a city in modern society is huge. It means a constant inflow of young talents. If there is no such thing, there will only be a constant outflow.

It takes at least four years to study at university. Whether the graduates will stay in the local area is another matter. First, we must solve the problem of how people come.

Many people have feelings for the city where the university is located, where they spent their entire lives from adolescence to young adulthood. If the local area can provide suitable employment opportunities, it will become the first choice for employment for many graduating students.

After all, if you change to another city, you will inevitably be unfamiliar with the place. Familiarity can provide a psychological sense of security.

Therefore, the establishment of the Wucheng campus is also an important local effort to restore the brain drain. For such a project to be implemented, it requires approval from the Ministry of Education of the East and West, and Wucheng Local Government seized an important opportunity.

Wucheng accepted a group of immigrants from the Wuxia Reservoir and designated a new area on the outskirts of the city for centralized resettlement. This was a rare large-scale population addition with a very healthy and reasonable structure in recent years, and it also increased the demand for education.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wucheng won this project.

After the project was implemented, college students from all over the country came to Wucheng every year, and there were also a group of local students in Wucheng who no longer had to go to other places to study at universities. But in the next step, how can we retain these graduates?

This requires that the local economic level can keep up, provide enough jobs, have good salary conditions and development opportunities, which is much more difficult than building a university...

A few people descended from the clouds and walked on the campus during the winter vacation. Hua Zhenxing and Manman didn't say much, and followed Mei Yeshi to listen to the Kunlun leader's introduction or complaints.

Hua Zhenxing was a little unsure of Alliance Leader Mei's intentions. Was he lamenting the current development of the city, or was he reminding him of something?

Leng Buding saw Alliance Leader Mei stop and say, "Xiaohua, not only do you want to send people to study abroad, but you also want to recruit graduates from this campus to go to several countries?"

Hua Zhenxing answered honestly: "Yes, I send people from several countries to study abroad, and there are only a hundred people at most every year. There is no need to build any international student apartments here, they live in the dormitory with their classmates, each class Only insert one person.

But this campus currently has two to three thousand graduates every year. My plan is to poach a thousand people every year. If they don’t have a suitable place to find a job after graduation, I can even cover them all. "

Mei Yeshi smiled, shook his head and said: "Not many people are willing to go to Jili Country right now."

Hua Zhenxing: "I know, so I want to come here to study in person, understand their situation and ideas, and do various publicity and promotions to dispel their concerns.

I can't poach everyone, but it's a good harvest to poach a few hundred people every year. And I didn’t directly poach people from Jili Country. To be honest with Leader Mei, I established a housing development group in Pingjing and could hire them to work in China first.

After joining the company, we will first conduct training to understand the development plans of the Kingdom of Kilili, especially Huanxiangte State, and then assign them to various projects, and then send them on business trips overseas...step by step. "

Ume Yeshi: "I've also heard about this. Director Hua will spend a lot of money. Just the initial investment must be tens of billions, right?"

Hua Zhenxing sighed: "This is also mutual trust."

What does mutual credit quality mean? Why should two people who have never interacted with each other trust each other?

First of all, you can examine the other party's character and deeds. This is very simple for Dongguo, because Dongguo has many aid projects in the Black Wasteland and has never heard of credit problems here.

But what about the country of several miles? In the past, it was a country that could not be said to be trustworthy at all. Even the political power was overthrown every day.

Taking hydropower stations as an example, Dongguo’s aid projects are divided into three types:

The first is to pay for it and invite construction companies from the East to build it. After completion, the project will belong to the Kingdom. Dongguo's construction aid units received project funds, related companies exported supporting equipment, and also had orders for follow-up maintenance.

This method should be the safest for Dongguo, as long as the construction unit and related companies can receive the money.

The second situation is similar to the above. In name, the country is still paying, but the source of funds is policy loans provided by the East, such as aid-type medium and long-term subsidized loans.

The biggest risk in this approach is whether the country can repay the loan on time. What if there is a debt default?

The third situation is Dongguk’s direct investment. After completion, Dongguk will own the hydropower station, either as a full-owner, a controlling shareholder, or as a shareholder, which is equivalent to Dongguk’s overseas assets.

The biggest risk in this situation is the safety of overseas assets.

Credit needs to be accumulated, so where does the initial credit come from? On the one hand, it is for Dongguo to send people to Kililiguo for inspection, but on the other hand, Kililiguo also needs to show its trust in Dongguo.

Fangguan Development's investment in Dongguo is actually a huge overseas asset of Kililiguo. Its security can only be guaranteed if the relationship between the two countries is good.

Hearing this, Ume Yeshi added: "It's too expensive to put the institution in Pingjing."

Hua Zhenxing: "You can't do it like this."

Ume Yeishi: "You do need such a headquarters base in Pingjing City, but for your educational cooperation with Wucheng Campus, you plan to hire hundreds or thousands of people every year, but you can have better choices."

Hua Zhenxing: "What does this mean, Leader Mei?"

Ume Yeshi waved his sleeves coolly: "Come with me!"

The three of them took off again and headed towards the city. Not far away, Umenoshi pointed down in the clouds and sent a spiritual thought.

The area below is adjacent to the new urban area that Wucheng has expanded in recent years and is known as the Economic Development Zone. Many cities have such projects, and everyone knows about them. For the purpose of attracting investment, there was a slogan called "Building a nest to attract phoenixes."

A cluster of office buildings and workshop-style buildings have been built here, and the planning is neat and beautiful, but many of them are still empty, and there are still many undeveloped wastelands on the periphery.

The focus of Wucheng’s work in recent years has been on implementing the “optimizing business environment” advocated by the state. For powerful enterprises, settling in the development zone can not only provide office buildings and workshops, but also enjoy various local discounts.

If Huazhenhang had to hire hundreds or even thousands of engineering college graduates every year and arrange them to work in Pingjing, the cost would be astronomical. If Fangguan Development establishes a large branch or subsidiary here, it can greatly save costs.

Preliminary training, project familiarization, counterpart contact and other work, with today's logistics, transportation, and information being so developed, where can't we do it? As for life, this is a prefecture-level city after all, and there is no shortage of everything.

If you get the same salary, you can live much more comfortably here than in Pingjing! There are almost all the entertainment and leisure items available in Pingjing here on weekdays. The pressure of life is not great and the scenery is good.

Hua Zhenxing was moved by Alliance Leader Mei's suggestion as soon as he heard it, and he finally understood why the other party had the sigh just now.