Chapter 578 Support Project Selection
Zhou Tian said to Zhang Mingzhi that in fact, this was also what his leader told him when he went to report to his leader last time. According to the original plan, the higher-ups were planning to implement the policy of supporting the rural areas after the Fifth Five-Year Plan, which is twenty years later.
But no one expected that China's economy would develop so fast, especially in recent years, China's science and technology has shown a blowout development, and the influx of a large amount of foreign exchange has further intensified the prosperity of China's economy.
More importantly, since most of these scientific and technological achievements were independently developed by the institute, there was no need to spend a lot of foreign exchange to purchase them from abroad as in later generations. Invisibly, China's top leaders naturally hoped to concentrate on developing the rural areas, thus forming a virtuous circle of mutual assistance between workers and peasants, rather than walking on one leg.
Preliminary attempts have now begun in Liaodong, with food factories of all sizes having sprung up all over Liaodong. Their main export destination is Big Brother, and there are even plans to transfer sugar factories and beverage factories to Liaodong.
As for the southern cities, since they face Southeast Asia and have the port of Hong Kong, most food factories are trying to open up the Southeast Asian market.
In order to export these foods to Big Brother, the Second Elder even made a special trip to Big Brother and had a meeting and conversation with the other party's leader. It was precisely because of this conversation that the relationship between the two countries was improved somewhat.
It is no longer as tense as it was in previous years. In fact, with the increasing amount of food exports in the past two years, the relationship between the two countries has even recovered a lot.
Zhang Mingzhi thought for a moment before he said, "Dean, do you want us to help the entire Changping, or just a few surrounding villages?"
It would be easy to help a few surrounding villages, but if it involves the entire Changping District, it would be a bit difficult. After all, they are just a company, not a government.
"I would like to help Changping, but does this require approval from above?"
Zhou Tian glared at him unhappily. He had clearly made it very clear just now. Wasn't this guy just looking for trouble?
"Hey! Dean, didn't you make this clear?"
Zhang Mingzhi smiled first, then said seriously: "There are actually quite a few rural villages around our branch, including Zhoujia Village, Zhangjia Village, Qinjia Village, Wujia Village, Xiaohe Village, and Dalizhuang, which are about six villages. However, except for your hometown Zhoujia Village and Qinjia Village, which have been the assistance targets of our research institute in the past few years and are relatively wealthy in recent years, the other four villages are actually in the same situation!"
Zhoujia Village is Zhou Tian’s hometown, and Qinjia Village was also the target of patronage that Zhou Tian designated when he was the director of a machinery factory. In recent years, basically all agricultural machinery developed by the factory was tested in Zhoujia Village and Qinjia Village. Coupled with high-yield grain varieties, as a result, in recent years, every household in Qinjia Village and Zhoujia Village has already achieved surplus grain.
Even the whole village was covered with brick and tile houses. Even ordinary city workers did not live as well as the people in these two villages.
Especially after Zhou Tian allowed the two villages to engage in breeding in the name of a machinery factory, the two villages became well-known wealthy villages. Not only were the women from the surrounding villages proud to marry into the two villages, but even the women from the two villages were very popular.
"So if we are to help these six villages, how should we help them?"
Zhou Tianke didn't have time to listen to Zhang Mingzhi's nonsense, so he asked back.
In fact, it’s not that Zhou Tian can’t think of any projects to help, but he is not sure whether these projects are feasible now. After all, he knows what the villages were like in his previous life. Although many experts nominally say they want to revitalize the villages, in the end it’s just superficial.
He also had no experience to draw on.
"Dean, this depends on what our branches are lacking?"
Since they were talking about serious matters, Zhang Mingzhi stopped talking and spoke directly in a serious tone.
"What is missing?"
To be honest, Zhou Tian had never thought about this question before. Now that Zhang Mingzhi mentioned it, he couldn't think of it for a moment and couldn't help but look at Zhang Mingzhi.
Zhang Mingzhi saw the dean looking at him and instantly understood what he meant. He stopped talking nonsense and said directly, "Dean, it's actually very simple. What our branch factory lacks is meat, cloth, vegetables, and fruit!"
"You mean?"
When Zhou Tian heard this, something suddenly flashed through his mind and a hint of joy suddenly appeared on his face.
"That's right, Dean. In fact, farmers can provide whatever we lack. Our several branches have nearly 100,000 workers and their families. This is a huge market. As long as we complement what we lack with what farmers provide, isn't this a virtuous circle?"
In the past few years, Zhang Mingzhi has been managing the logistics of the entire institute. Thanks to the institute's frequent dealings with foreigners, he gradually developed his own views on the market. In his view, the market is about producing things that most people need.
Since the institute is required to help several surrounding villages, it will certainly give priority to meeting the urgent needs of the goods in the institute's branches. This will not only be convenient for the workers in the branches, but also prosper the rural economy. In his opinion, this is a win-win situation, so why not do it.
"Okay, let's do it! Lao Zhang, I'll leave this matter to you to communicate with these villages. Hasn't the Agricultural Research Institute recently developed a vegetable greenhouse? You can include this project in it, but it's best to separate and concentrate them, otherwise this good thing might turn into a bad thing!"
"Okay, Dean, I'll do it right away!"
Zhang Mingzhi's expression became serious, he nodded, turned around and left the dean's office. Obviously, he took the dean's reminder to heart.
Watching Zhang Mingzhi leave, Zhou Tian nodded secretly in satisfaction with Zhang Mingzhi's performance. To be honest, it's not that he couldn't think of some of Zhang Mingzhi's ideas, it's just that he had too many ideas and didn't know which project to choose.
Vegetables, fruits, meat and cloth are actually in short supply everywhere in this day and age. Although the domestic economy is developing rapidly, the time is still short after all. In a short period of time, many things cannot be supplied to the whole country.
Vegetables, fruits and meat are consumables both now and in the future. There is no shortage of people buying them, and they are also the largest consumable necessities in the country.
As long as these six villages can provide these things continuously, it will be a win-win situation for both the research institute and the rural areas, at least for the time being!