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Chapter 146: Drawing a Big Pie for the Mayor (Seeking Subscriptions)

"A deep-water port terminal with an annual throughput of 10 million containers?"

"Building it along the coast of Wen City?"

Upon hearing this, both the Mayor of Wen City and Secretary Lin revealed surprised expressions.

As the top leaders of Wen City, these two had a detailed and thorough understanding of the overall situation of the city.

They knew the city's population, the annual GDP of each district and county, the employment situation, and the important infrastructure such as universities, bus stations, train stations, airports, and docks. These were basic lessons that every local leader had to master before taking office.

The deep-water port terminal capable of loading and unloading containers that Chen Jue proposed was not absent from the planning map. Instead, it was composed of the Yueqing Bay Port Area, Zhuangyuan Ao, and Daxiaomen Island, forming a national-level important hub port, 'Wen City Port.'

Wenzhou Port has a total of 206 productive berths, with a cargo throughput of 70.52 million tons per year.

However, the majority of the goods transported by sea are mainly bulk cargoes such as iron ore and coal, which are essential raw materials for the Wen City area.

Container business truly involving commercial import and export only accounts for a small portion of the throughput.

Taking the Zhuangyuan Ao container terminal as an example, the original design intention was to reach an annual throughput of 5 million containers, but after years of layout, it has barely exceeded one million containers.

For a coastal city with a golden coastline and a developed light industry, this is simply an unqualified result.

Because the higher the ship transport business of a deep-water port terminal, that is, the higher the annual throughput data, the greater the economic promotion effect on the entire city.

Taking Yangshan Port in Shanghai as an example, as the world's largest port, its annual throughput has exceeded 25 million containers in 2023, creating an annual import and export volume of US$220 billion.

Every year, Yangshan Port contributes an annual GDP value of 36.251 billion yuan to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, relying on supporting logistics and transportation, industrial chain, supply chain, and special comprehensive bonded zone import and export business.

It should be known that this is only the result of Jiangsu and Zhejiang taking a small share by leasing the Yangshan Islands of Shengsi County to Shanghai for operation.

The GDP generated around Yangshan Port every year is estimated to reach 440 billion, with the majority being divided up by Shanghai.

This shows how terrifying the GDP benefits generated once the container business reaches a certain scale.

In comparison, the annual throughput of Wenzhou Port, which barely exceeds 1 million containers, can't even catch up with a small fraction of Yangshan Port!

At this time, if someone proposes to build a super-large container terminal with an annual throughput of 10 million containers in the coastal area of Wen City, then as the leading leader of the area, no one would be unmoved by this bright achievement.

"Mayor, what do you think if this port were located at the Feiyun River estuary in Rui County?" Seeing the expressions of the two leaders change from astonishment to a bit more interest, Chen Jue stood up and walked to the map, starting to draw a pie in the sky.

Of course, he had not only drawn this pie for the two leaders of Wen City, but even Deputy County Chief Wang of Rui County had almost had him draw one for himself.

After seeing the incredible prefabricated infrastructure technology of the Magic Cube Factory, Wang Delong had fantasized more than once about building a deep-water port terminal at the Feiyun River estuary.

"President Chen, you can't joke around like that! Can a super-large deep-water port be built just because you say so?"

"Your original intention of developing the economy for your hometown is good, but this level of infrastructure business is not something your Fangkuai Technology can touch." Secretary Lin shook his head and took the lead in stopping him.

He wanted to interrupt Chen Jue's fanciful idea of drawing a pie.

After all, as leaders of Wen City, Secretary Lin and the Mayor both have extremely limited time, and their schedules are very busy every day.

Not only do they have to handle official duties, but they also have to frequently go out for inspections.

It is already very rare to take some time to receive Chen Jue, this small business owner.

How could they deviate from the original theme and talk about this unrealistic deep-water port dream like now!

"It's okay, Xiao Lin, let the young people express their opinions more."

"Although our Wen City's economy is steadily improving, the construction of urban clusters is still slow, and new impetus and vitality are needed to stimulate it." The Mayor of Wen City laughed beside him. After witnessing the incredible typhoon resistance live broadcast of Fangkuai Technology, his attention and interest in Chen Jue were particularly strong.

Because he was also looking forward to seeing a rising unicorn company that could truly break out of Wen City grow in the area under his jurisdiction.

"Thank you, Mayor!"

Seeing that the leader had spoken, Chen Jue's showing off became even bolder.

He first circled the mudflat where the Magic Cube Factory was located on the planning map.

Then, he took out the 3D simulation video of laying the foundation for the mudflat, and with the modified super engineering ship as the entry point, he drew a technologically feasible pie for the two leaders to quickly build a deep-water port terminal.

"Wait a minute, President Chen!"

"You said that the construction of this deep-water port terminal can be completed in as little as one year?!" Upon hearing this incredible infrastructure speed, the Mayor couldn't sit still.

It should be known that Wen City is not lying flat and not wanting to engage in this large-scale container terminal.

Instead, it is restricted by geographical factors, industrial supporting facilities, and, most importantly, the advance layout planning of the higher authorities, making it impossible to massively invest in container terminals.

Taking the S1 and S2 light rail lines of Wen City mentioned earlier as an example, Wen City was clearly so rich so early, and had been calling for the construction of subways for decades.

As a result, it was dragged from the PC era of the budding domestic Internet to the current era of smartphones before it was barely approved to build two light rails laid on remote routes.

The new construction of a large deep-water port requires more investment than subways and has a slower payback speed.

This kind of national-level infrastructure project is often not something that a local leader can decide, but must be reported and approved at each level.

Taking Yangshan Port as an example, it had already carried out planning and layout in advance in 1995, and only began formal construction in four phases in 2002.

During this period, a total investment of 70 billion was successively invested, and it took more than 20 years to continuously improve it, before it created the Chinese miracle of becoming the world's largest port today.

If it were to be operated by the Wenzhou Port Authority, not to mention whether this project can be successfully promoted, whether there is this strong reserve fund to support it.

The 20 years alone would be enough to wear out all the leaders, big and small, present.

This unpredictable time cost factor has become the biggest obstacle in front of the port project!

So when hearing the pie drawn by Chen Jue, that this super-large container terminal could be completed in just one year, no leader in Wen City could be unmoved!

"If the funds and materials are sufficient, it may not even take a year," Chen Jue patted his chest and guaranteed.

It's just that he didn't expect that after hearing Chen Jue's confident speech, the Mayor couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water over him: "President Chen, your original intention is good. But to be honest, I am not optimistic about installing such a deep-water port project in Rui County."

Chen Jue's expression changed upon hearing this: "Why?"

The Mayor sighed faintly: "Because even if the super port you imagined is built, our Wen City does not have such a large import and export volume!"

After speaking, the Mayor took a PAD handed over by Secretary Lin showing the information and continued to explain: "Yangshan Port can rise by relying on containers because Shanghai has the most developed waterways, railways, and land transportation around it. It can deliver goods to the Yangtze River Delta region at the lowest cost."

"And Ningbo Zhoushan Port was able to develop in the early days by relying on the import and storage of bulk oil and natural gas. Including the Rizhao Port you mentioned, it relies on the import and export trade of bulk grain."

"And the developed Guangzhou Port in the south has been developed since ancient times by relying on the import and export of textiles and porcelain."

"So what about our Wen City? What industry will support the container business of tens of millions of containers?"

As soon as this question was thrown out, Chen Jue immediately grinned: "Mayor! Have you forgotten another name for our Wen City in the past? The Capital of Small Commodity Manufacturing!"

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