Chapter 1759 Big Construction Site

In Huajing in October, it is not customary to take a holiday during the National Day, but people feel that life is getting better and better.

Apart from anything else, the wet markets gradually formed a climate.

Although things like vegetable markets have long been a habit in the south, especially in Guangdong, in Huajing, a slightly conservative place, private farmers come to the city to set up stalls to sell vegetables, and they are planned into one by one. The small market initiative is still relatively new.

But this also greatly enriches people’s food basket.

Prices have increased steadily in the past two years, but wages have also increased a lot. Generally speaking, I still don’t feel how expensive it is to spend on food.

And the continuous opening up has brought about the emergence of various fresh materials, allowing people to buy more and more things, so they don't have enough money.

Needless to say, only a few people can buy the items in the Friendship Store.

However, there are more and more products on display in department stores, and there are also more and more stores opened by major state-owned manufacturers.

Electronic products including radio recorders and other electronic products produced by Kirin Electronics Factory have been very popular in recent years.

But the price is not cheap either. Usually you can save enough money to buy one without eating or drinking for two or three months.

Then there are bicycles, sewing machines, watches, refrigerators, televisions... and so on.

If people want to put all these things together, it would be impossible for an ordinary worker to even think about it without ten or eight years of salary.

In the words of farmers...

Forget it, some farmers in remote mountainous areas don’t have TV sets and refrigerators at home in 2020, let alone now.

But generally speaking, things should be changing all over the country, good changes.

In particular, Huajing is the core city of China, so it naturally enjoys different treatment.

For example, until 2015, the bus and subway fares were only one yuan, which is unmatched by other cities - it is not unusual for a bus ride in Shanghai to cost more than ten yuan.

Now in 1984, with the successful acquisition of the right to host the Asian Games in the past few months, the benefits that followed have come.

Xiangjiang businessmen contracted the construction of all roads and venues for this Asian Games.

People in Xiangjiang are very efficient.

After reaching an agreement in early August, hundreds of construction company managers drove from Xiangjiang to Huajing in late August.

There is nothing else to say, just use the money to do it.

The first thing to do is to find construction engineering companies in Huajing and surrounding cities.

But they didn't find it.

There are no private construction companies at all. There are a few people organized by the village to build houses for the villagers, but they don't even have excavators or tower cranes, so why are they here?

So they can only look for construction engineering companies that are state-owned enterprises.

For example, Huajian Company, Huatie Company, etc.

These companies have been doing engineering work on national highways, bridges, venues, etc., and naturally have a lot of experience.

The people of Xiangjiang are also generous. From the beginning, they hired more than 20 large and small engineering teams under Huajian and Huatie and let them drive in with their equipment.

Faced with orders worth hundreds of millions of yuan brought in by Xiangjiang managers, the bosses of these companies wish they could all be on the field, so how could they be reluctant to part with their workers?

The central bosses were also surprised by the efficiency of the Xiangjiang people, but they also couldn't laugh or cry because of it.

Because mobilization has not yet started on the project land around the Asian Games Village!

The engineering team can only do preliminary work in those open spaces and fields.

By the way, more than a dozen real estate companies in Xiangjiang had already exchanged the first batch of 2 billion yuan and placed it in the Bank of China as soon as the agreement was reached. They used U.S. dollars to exchange money with Xiangjiang. I exchanged it with the Huaguo Bank, and I suffered a lot from the exchange rate.

He is so sincere and motivated, so of course the central boss is also unequivocal.

On the one hand, they urged the people to move out of this place as soon as possible. On the other hand, they also assured the managers of Xiangjiang that any request for people or materials would be met.

The construction of a full 30 square kilometers is no small project.

Even if the remaining 15 square kilometers are the remuneration of Xiangjiang real estate developers, they will have to be slowly developed in a few years, but the dozens of venues, Asian Games Village apartments, road improvements, etc. that have been built now are all Very complex project.

China's projects are not like those of foreigners, where dozens or hundreds of people are busy in a slow and orderly manner.

We usually have thousands of workers working together.

Isn’t 3,000 people enough?

Okay, 5,000 people are coming, okay?

Not yet?

Then 10,000 people!

This group of elite construction project managers from Xiangjiang had never thought of such a big move, but when they looked at the prices of construction teams in the mainland, the prices of hired workers, and the prices of various materials, they felt that they were all at cabbage prices, less than half the price. It’s cheaper to get half the price!

So the scale they made was a little bigger and a little grander.

But there is also one thing. The people of Xiangjiang hired these Huajian and Huatie engineering teams to make them obey orders uniformly. At most, the captain of the engineering team is there, and the officials above are not allowed to point fingers.

Originally, the people from Huajian and Huatie were a little unhappy, thinking that they had very rich experience and were much better than the people from Xiangjiang.

But this group of architectural elites in Xiangjiang is not simple. Many of them are professionals graduated from foreign universities. They also have very rich practical experience in Xiangjiang construction, and they are naturally willing to take the initiative in their own hands.

Such small frictions between the two sides did not lead to any conflicts in the end.

The Central Center coordinated with Zheng Yutong, the general responsible person, so that the leaders of Huatie and Huajian would not be involved in the specific process of the construction, but a group of senior experts from the University of Geosciences and construction joined in as consultants.

It's just that they only have the right to make suggestions, not decisions.

If there is really a big fuss, then the decision will be left to someone higher up.

Anyway, the final quality inspection of the project is done by the mainland, and they are not afraid of people from Xiangjiang doing whatever they want - if the Asian Games is delayed, it will not be a joke, and the dozen or so bosses behind it will definitely go crazy!

Xiangjiang had already made preparations, otherwise more than a hundred managers, large and small, would not have arrived.

Under their charge of classification in batches, these engineering teams entered into intense and busy work from the first day they came in.

With tens of thousands of people working more than 10 hours a day, it naturally brings a lot of consumption.

Not only do they purchase a large amount of vegetables, meat, fruits and vegetables from grain companies and vegetable companies, but they also buy various agricultural products that are hauled by many farmers on carts, so you will never be disappointed.

It is no exaggeration to say that farmers from hundreds of miles around have become more motivated to work because of this project, and they earn much more than carrying burdens for selling.

Nor are farmers the only ones benefiting.

Because large units like Huajian and Huatie have their own tasks, such as various infrastructure construction tasks, their manpower usually has somewhere to go.

Now they have urgently mobilized dozens of engineering teams, but they are only the core personnel, and those who do miscellaneous work are not enough.

Then there is no other way but to recruit temporary workers from the society and ask them to help and do some simple tasks.

Huajing has a population of several million, and there are hundreds of thousands of educated youth who have returned to the city in the past few years, which is not much less than that of Shanghai.

Just when there was such a job opportunity, the government organized a group of people who had been trained but were temporarily unemployed to come over.

On the one hand, it allows them to work and support their families, and on the other hand, it also reduces social pressure.

The managers from Xiangjiang had been warned before coming, knowing that this was part of the agreement reached by both parties, and they must accept more workers and let them work.

Therefore, due to such selection, more than 10,000 temporary workers were added.

Although he is a temporary worker, his salary is not much worse than that of an employee. The monthly salary of 100 yuan is higher than that of most factory workers.

These are all small aspects.

What is even bigger is the consumption of steel, cement, and river sand.

Several major steel plants around Huajing are operating 24 hours a day, and you can see billowing smoke from large chimneys day and night, covering the nearby sky.

These workers are also very motivated!

The prices offered by Xiangjiang people are good, and the quantity required is large. As long as the quality and specifications are up to standard, the bill will be settled every two weeks and there will never be any arrears.

With these payments in hand, the factory directors will naturally not treat workers who work overtime badly, so their overtime wages are higher than normal wages.

In less than two months, pork and labor protection supplies have been distributed several times in a row.

The same is true for the cement factories in several surrounding provinces and cities. Carloads of cement, together with the iron ore, are quickly transported from various places after production.

The best river sand was also packed into bags and transported to the construction site along railways and highways.

These raw materials have accounted for more than 30% of the shipments to Huajing in the past two months.

The entire northeastern and northern part of Huajing is like a huge construction site, continuously absorbing various nutrients to build various designed venues and other buildings.

From this, the big guys at the center finally got a real feel for it and knew what it means to stimulate the economy.

At present, in Huajing alone, there are more than 100,000 people working on the construction of the Asian Games, not to mention the factories, sand and gravel plants, mines, etc. in other provinces, which are working in full swing because of this.

There is no holiday or rest!

It’s so rare to encounter such a good opportunity, but everyone worked hard!

Pity.

This is the only way to build such a large-scale Asian Games.

If there were projects like this all over the country, the economy would really take off!

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