In mid-April, the Huaihai Bay and Yanzhujiang regional development plan was approved by the State Council, and the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone, as a regional economic concept, officially surfaced.

The Huaihai Economic Zone Development Leading Group has also officially become a subordinate institution of the provincial party committee and government. Xu Pei, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the Xu City Party Committee, also serves as the group leader, and Ji Zhongping, deputy secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Planning Commission, and executive deputy director of the Planning Commission, serves as the deputy group leader and office director.

In addition to the Provincial Department of Construction, Department of Transportation, the top government leader within the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone, Li Gu as chairman of Huaihai Rongtou, and Wu Haifeng as chairman of Huaihai Government Construction Fund, Chen Huai became the only department-level official among the members of the leading group.

As a large central enterprise mainly developing in the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone, Huaien Group, its Party Secretary and General Manager Ye Xuanfeng, also entered the Development Work Leading Group.

The Meigang Group has deeply intervened in the main construction projects within the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone, and the leading group does not have a strict administrative level correspondence. Many people think that it is natural for Chen Huai to enter the leading group to be conducive to coordination, but more people have habitually interpreted more things. Some people say that Chen Huai will soon serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Donghua Municipal Party Committee, and there are also reports that he will be transferred directly to the province to hold important positions.

Chen Huai had no intention of telling whether these news was a random interpretation of the peripheral personnel or whether those who were interested were deliberately spreading it.

After he went to Xucheng to participate in the first coordination meeting of the Development Leadership Working Group, he rushed to Huaishan City with Hu Shuwei to inspect the preliminary preparations for the second large cascade power station in Huaishan Longshui, the upper reaches of Zhujiang.

Huaishan is located in the upper reaches of Zhujiang. It takes more than 400 kilometers to Huaishan City from Xucheng and passes through Huaixi.

The construction of the expressway from Xucheng to Huaixi has not been officially put on the agenda, and there is no hope of getting to Huaishan.

There is a military plane in Huaishan, but Chen Huai temporarily took Hu Shuwei to Huaishan to see the preparations for Long Hydropower Station. It would be troublesome to fly a small plane over.

Chen Huai and Hu Shuwei, as well as staff from Dongjiang Electric Power and Provincial Power Bureau, could only take a bus from Xucheng to take the provincial road, and drove slowly on the road for one day before they arrived in Huaishan City. Their butts were stiff in the car and their bodies were sore, not to mention the hard work of the driver.

The hospitality in Huaishan City was quite enthusiastic; Chen Huai and his team went to the outskirts of Huaishan City, and Zhou Yan, deputy secretary-general of the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, Yang Kai, and others were waiting on the roadside.

Zhou Yan, deputy secretary-general of the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, was previously responsible for the labor export work of Huaishan and often led the team to Donghua. Yang Kai was also the deputy mayor in charge of power and industry. The preparations for three cascade power stations in Huaishan were under the charge of local cooperation work. Everyone knew each other. They exchanged greetings on the roadside, and watched the dusk getting darker, so they rushed to Huaishan City at home.

After the convoys on both sides met, Chen Huai learned that Wei Fuming, secretary of the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, brought a group of officials from the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to prepare a banquet at the municipal government hospitality hotel, waiting for them to come and have a banquet.

The only one who was in Huaihaiwan Economic Zone was the secretary of Xiapu County Party Committee. When he entered the Huaihaiwan Economic Zone Development Leading Group, there was no so-called administrative level correspondence. If he was forced to go up, he could barely enjoy the treatment of a deputy department level.

Hu Shuwei is a regular deputy department-level deputy director-level. In addition to being in charge of Dongjiang Power, in order to ensure the state-owned nature of Dongjiang Power, he also joined the Party Group of the Provincial State-owned Enterprise Working Committee to ensure that Dongjiang Power's Party Building Working Committee is led by the Provincial State-owned Enterprise Working Committee.

But even so, Wei Fuming, Secretary of the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, personally led the team to receive the reception - after listening to Zhou Yan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, Wei Fuming turned down other official duties, and will accompany Chen Huai and his team to consider the preliminary preparations for the power station throughout the whole process - this is already considered to be a treatment that exceeds the specifications.

The preliminary preparations for the power station, especially the construction of highways and resettlement in the site, must rely on local cooperation; Huaishan City's positive attitude is naturally the case, and Hu Shuwei Institute hopes to see it.

Huaishan is a major agricultural city with a large population city in Huaihai, and its industrial development is relatively lagging behind. In 1998, local fiscal revenue, per capita GDP, per capita income, etc. are only comparable to the level of Donghua in 1992 and 1993.

The city size of Huaishan City is even far less than that of Donghua seven or eight years ago. When you take a bus to enter the city, Chen Huai can’t find high-rise buildings with more than ten floors along the street, narrow streets and many damaged areas, so it should be because it lacks sufficient maintenance funds, let alone financial resources to build new highways.

The government hospitality hotels in various places are mostly similar in style. No matter how dilapidated Huaishan City is, there are also neighborhoods that are so neat that they can decorate their faces.

The Huaishan Hotel in the city center looks like a secluded garden from the outside. The convoy drove in through the corridor on the asphalt road. The sky above the head covered the dense branches and leaves on both sides, making it even darker in the evening, giving people a unique feeling of heaven. When the convoy drove inside, you could see several small buildings scattered in a scattered manner, and a river surrounded the entire garden of the hospitality hotel.

The car parked in a small building, with a small river rippling in the north. The other side of the river looked like a citizen park, and the surrounding environment looked very pleasant.

However, Chen Huai and Hu Shuwei got out of the car and had no time to enjoy the quiet scenery here in the evening. Wei Fuming, Secretary of the Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, brought a group of people to welcome him from the small building.

Wei Fuming looked just over 50 years old and was not tall, so he gained a lot of weight.

In mid-April, the weather in Huaishan was about twenty degrees. Wei Fuming was wearing a light blue plaid shirt, with a big belly, a cowhide belt almost unsupported under his belly, and his thick cheeks were also bulging out.

Chen Huai saw Wei Fuming's face flushed, as if he had drunk a drink before they came. He didn't know who he was rushing to entertain before, and shook hands with him with a smile: "I came with Hu Shuwei, but I didn't expect that it would disturb you, Secretary Wei..."

Chen Huai was also at the level of entering the Huaihai officialdom, two levels away from Wei Fuming. However, he had the opportunity to meet in the province for meetings before - Wei Fuming knew the situation of Mei Gang and Donghua City, and he also relied on his identity in front of Shen Huai. He had nodded in friendship before, but it was only limited to nodding.

"Secretary Chen, you are kind words," Wei Fumingren looked at the vulgarity, but his voice was cheerful. "The people of Longshui, Yanxiang, Panxi three power stations, and Huaishan City have been waiting for 30 years. Seeing that there is hope for starting construction this year, can you not know that it was Secretary Chen's contribution to your promotion?"

Wei Fuming smiled heartily and introduced the Huaishan officials around him to Chen Huai's understanding, mostly middle-level officials in the Huaishan City Construction and Power Department.

Their attitude of treating Chen Huai was not very enthusiastic. After all, Chen Huai was far from them. Even if they knew some of the situations of the Meigang system, they were not very detailed. However, they did not dare to be a little negligent about Wei Fuming, who could determine their future and career. Seeing Wei Fuming looking at Chen Huai so seriously, Hu Shuwei's trip was naturally eager to squeeze out his smile.

"It's been thirty years. In the late 1960s, I had just participated in the work for a few years. At that time, the province proposed to have a large reservoir. Thirty years have passed in a flash," Wei Fuming recalled the past with emotion and said, "We have low abilities in Huaishan, and we can only do our best to cooperate. How can we say it is a disturbance? I'm just afraid that you and Mr. Hu will not come here to travel twice this year..."

"Secretary Wei, you are humble. If you hadn't done so much work before, many things would have made such smooth progress." Chen Huai said with a smile.

In the late 1960s, the province clearly proposed to build a large cascade power station in the upper reaches of the Zhujiang River. In 1982, the Provincial Water Resources Department, Geological Survey and Design Institute, and the Electric Power Bureau took the lead in compiling the planning draft of the cascade power station. After several surveys and revisions, the current plan for the four cascades of the hydropower resources in the upper reaches of the Zhujiang River was formed in 1990s. Then, in 1992, the construction of the first large cascade power station was officially launched in Huaixi City. By the time this year, it has been more than 30 years.

Three of the four cascade power stations in the upper reaches of Zhujiang were planned to be built in Huaishan City, but before last year, these three cascade power stations were completely invisible to start construction.

This cannot be blamed on the slow movement of the province. The industrial development level in the western part of Huaihai Province is lagging behind, limiting the demand for electricity; while Huaixi Qingfeng and other places have extremely cheap and abundant coal resources to develop thermal power. No matter how rich the hydropower resources in the upper reaches of Zhujiang River are, there is no opportunity to develop.

However, there is no more opportunity for development, and the survey, site selection and planning and design work are being followed by relevant departments in Huaishan City and the province, so they can come up with mature plans in such a short time.

What is more superior to "Huaihei Electric Power Transmission East" than "Huaihei Coal Transmission East" is that "Huaihei Coal Transmission East" only transports coal resources from Huaixi area; "Huaihei Electric Power Transmission East" not only builds Kengkou power plant nearby and converts local coal into electricity to transport it, but also fully develops hydropower resources in the upper reaches of Zhujiang River - and in the western part of Huaihai, thermal power and hydropower resources are fully developed. In addition to transporting to East China coastal areas where electricity is short, it can also support local industrial and agricultural development...

The three large cascade power stations planned to be in Huaishan City. The installed capacity of the Long Hydropower Station alone will reach a scale of one million kilowatts, and the investment will be more than 3 billion yuan. It is worth mentioning how much significance this will be for Huaishan City, which has only 600 million to 700 million local fiscal revenue.

Everyone stood politely in front of the small building, and then Wei Fuming pushed him left and right, leading Chen Huai and Hu Shuwei to the banquet hall of the small building. Among the people, Du Jian, who accompanied Chen Huai, was of a very low level, and was invited to sit at the main table as a VIP.

While the waiter was delivering the dishes, Chen Huai, Wei Fuming, Yang Kai and others sat next to each other. Although there had been a preliminary understanding of many situations before coming, the people in Huaishan were enthusiastic, and Chen Huai was naturally very patient to listen to them again to introduce the cooperation work done in Huaishan City in the early stage.

The Long Hydropower Station is built in Longshui Township, southwest of Huaishan City. After leaving Huaishan City, and after entering the mountainous area, winding through the 30-kilometer winding mountain highway to reach the project site. There is only a sand and gravel road leading to Longshui Township, but it is still a distance from the site selection of the power station. Therefore, Dongjiang Power must pay to build the provincial road and directly connect to Jiangxia, the entry road that is nearly 40 kilometers long.

When will the construction of the Long Hydropower Station be officially started depends on when the ultra-high voltage backbone power grid responsible for Jiangdong Electric Power Group will be started. However, this entry road alone can greatly improve the traffic conditions in the southwest mountainous area of ​​Huaishan City.

The relevant work began last fall, and Huaishan City was also specially in charge of the relevant work by Deputy Mayor Yang Kai. The progress is very fast. It is expected that by late July, the road entering the site will be completed and opened to traffic.

In addition, an important task that local governments need to be responsible for is immigration resettlement.

After the dam of Longshui Power Station is completed, the heading range will reach up to 120 meters. A large reservoir extending more than ten kilometers will be formed in the upper reaches and tributary rivers. Almost half of the residents of Longshui Township and Wucha Township in the upper reaches will be moved out to resettle.

To this end, Dongjiang Power will cooperate with Huaishan City to build a new immigrant town in the south of Huaishan City that can accommodate 30,000 people; if the second and third cascade power stations in Huaishan City will also be started in the near future, and the immigrant town will eventually expand the living scale of 60,000 or 70,000 people.

Huaishan City has already divided the construction land for the early stage of the new town, and even wanted to build an industrial park based on the immigrant new town. However, when this supporting project will be officially started, it depends on when the ultra-high voltage backbone power grid between Jiangning and Huaixi will start construction.

Shen Huai brought Hu Shuwei this time to see the preliminary preparations for the project here. However, based on the preparations for the Qingfeng Kengkou Power Plant, we will promote the construction of ultra-high voltage transmission backbone power grids accordingly. Huai Power Transmission is a large system project, and Dongjiang Power only undertakes part of the project construction, and there are many areas that need coordination.

Except for Huaihai Province and Jiangdong Province Power Group, there is no particularly strong department to lead the organization of this matter; Shen Huai couldn't take a break even, and he and his younger sister-in-law Song Wenhui could only run away and lobby for this matter everywhere.

After Zhongxin opened the shareholding restrictions, the Sun family's family fund, Changqing Group and BNP Paribas, directly injected 200 million US dollars in exchange for 25% of Zhongxin's equity; in addition, as a condition for holding shares, BNP Paribas and Changqing Group's investment department will also inject 200 million US dollars into Zhongxin's industrial funds - this alone can solve the construction funding needs of many Meigang projects this year; there is no need to rush to withdraw funds from the profits of Xinpu Steel and Xinpu Refining Chemical.

If the approval progress of the State Council is smooth, Jiangdong Power Group will start the construction of ultra-high voltage backbone power grid in the middle of the year, Long Hydropower Station and Qingfeng Kengkou Power Plant Phase I will almost start construction simultaneously this year as the autumn begins.

At the dinner table, Shen Huai informed Wei Fuming of Meigang and Dongjiang Electric Power, hoping that Huaishan City could cooperate more actively in the province to promote the progress of relevant work, which was obviously better than Meigang's unilateral efforts.

At the reception dinner, a brief discussion, Wei Fuming and other officials in Huaishan City left. Although it was not early, Shen Huai was still sleepy and smoked and talked to Hu Shuwei in the small living room.

"You entered the Huaihai Bay Economic Zone Development Leading Group, which caused a lot of speculation. You said you would be transferred directly to the province. When I heard this news, it seemed that it was from Donghua..." Hu Shuwei said.

Shen Huai dropped half of the ashes into the ashtray and smiled and said, "I don't know at all, but the news outside is spreading fiercely; there has been no shortage of people who hope that I can leave Donghua in recent years."

Hu Shuwei smiled knowingly and said, "Maybe the province does not have this consideration, but when the news spreads, if you don't have any response, the province may think that this may be an option."

"This is a headache," Chen Huai frowned and smiled bitterly, "It's just a rumor that there is no shadow. How can I respond to it? Let them do it. In the past few years, I have only hoped that several projects will be completed as scheduled. I don't have the energy to intervene in anything else. It's not impossible to leave Donghua and go to the province..."

Hu Shuwei thought Chen Huai's words were the same. Xinpu Steel, Xinpu Refining and Chemical Engineering and Hengyang Phase II projects were all completed as scheduled, which has supported the industrial structure of Xinpu Port. Once the Pengyue Modern City project in the west district of Lingang New City was launched, Xiapu's future urban layout will also take shape - the successor can only make small-scale mobilizations in the pattern laid by Shenhuai.

At present, we can't see who can forcibly interrupt the process of Xinpu Port's continued strong rise, nor can we see who can overturn the fundamental interests of the Meigang Group in Xinpu - Chen Huai does not need to always keep an eye on Xiapu and not leave.

The Xudong Railway Duplex Renovation Project and Huai Power Transmission will take several years to gradually build. Xinpu Steel and Xinpu Refining and Chemical also require time to accumulate, and there will be no radical expansion in a short period of time. However, everyone is used to Chen Huai's raising flag to charge forward, and never thought that Chen Huai would leave Donghua for a day.

However, Hu Shuwei would not be worried about such unreasonable rumors.

The development of the Meigang Group in the province's economic development has reached a point that cannot be ignored. The province's promotion and appointment of Chen Huai cannot be easily influenced by such rootless conspiracies. Under normal circumstances, even if the province suppresses Chen Huai to be promoted to a member of the Standing Committee of the Donghua Municipal Party Committee, he should not be easily transferred from Donghua. This has nothing to do with Chen Huai's personal willingness.

At this time, the wind was loud outside, and the glass windows were raking. The shadows of trees outside the window were shaking under the night lights, and leaves were scraping into the room.

Chen Huai looked out the window and said, "It was still fine in the evening. Look at the wind. If it rained heavily, the road to the mountain tomorrow will be difficult to walk." He turned off the cigarette butt in the ashtray, stood up and walked out the window, and closed the glass window that was rattled by the wind. He accidentally saw a few people walking in front of the small building where they lived. He was slightly stunned and said in surprise, "I'm still saying who is in Huaishan today..."

After they arrived in Huaishan, they met Wei Fuming. Wei Fuming had obviously drunk wine at that time - Du Jian, who came over to help Chen Huaiguan's window, was also wondering who Wei Fuming, secretary of Huaishan Municipal Party Committee, was entertaining before they rushed over, but Wei Fuming did not mention it, so it was not convenient for them to ask.

At this time, when Chen Huai was exclaiming this, Du Jian leaned over and saw Vice Governor Song Bingsheng looking up here surrounded by a group of people. He was also stunned.

If his father hadn't deliberately ordered, Chen Huai believed that Wei Fuming wouldn't have been deliberately hiding from them that his father was also in Huaishan. Chen Huai threw the glass window to Du Jian to close him. He walked back to the sofa and sat down, and said to Hu Shuwei who was unknown: "'Vice Governor Song' doesn't want us to know that he is in Huaishan..."

Hearing Chen Huai's words "Vice Governor Song" were particularly serious, Hu Shuwei could only smile. The grudge between Song Bingsheng and Chen Huai was really not something he could say.
Chapter completed!