After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 716: Chapter 487: Completing the Effort with a Single Meal (Transitional Content, Skippable)

The two leaders stopped their game of ping-pong and fell into deep thought.

Mayor Liu seemed to have a deep understanding of this issue, and after a long pause, he said slowly,

"The transformation of shantytowns... is indeed a tough nut to crack."

Upon hearing this, a wry smile crossed Fang Huai’s face.

"Mayor Liu, we in the firefighting service are all too aware of that.

Frankly speaking, the reason I took notice of this issue was that the first police dispatch I led after becoming a commander was to a shantytown.

Continuous factories and homes, narrow and broken roads, outdated management, and hardly any trace of firefighting facilities to be found; it could be said that aside from its liveliness, it had nothing going for it.

At that time, we spent over half an hour just trying to make room for the vehicles to get in, barely managing to squeeze the special vehicles through."

And I even did some investigation of the surroundings.

After the investigation, I felt that we were pretty lucky, if the fire had been in the daily chemical factory behind it, we wouldn’t have been able to get in at all.

A chemical fire, we would have had to supply water from three hundred meters away, and I dare not even think what the fire could have become."

Shantytowns, do not just refer to makeshift houses, but also to those clusters of bungalows with high density, long use of construction, small per capita construction area, and incomplete supporting infrastructure.

That factory police dispatch was a classic example of a shantytown.

As he spoke, Fang Huai thought of something and chuckled again:

"Our Chief of Staff knew I couldn’t stand such sights and even comforted me saying that a joint inspection would definitely be organized.

But deep down, I knew very well, what good would an inspection do? Unless people are relocated and the area is redeveloped, it’s all pointless."

Mayor Liu suddenly laughed:

"At the end of the day, we’re still talking about firefighting issues, right? The city’s shackles will eventually be shed, but there must be a priority in economic investment."

Firefighting is not something that cannot be prioritized, but in his eyes, the overall development of the city is what matters most.

When Fang Huai heard this, the corners of his mouth curved into a smile.

Today, he intended to bring his efforts to fruition at this very meal, how could he possibly achieve the desired outcome without presenting some solid proposals?

"Mayor Liu, if I only talked about this, today’s topic would carry no substance and you wouldn’t have needed to make this trip personally."

Saying so, he walked over to the ping-pong table and took a stack of oil-paper from his pocket, unrolled it and spread it out on the table.

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"Oh?"

Both felt a sense of someone pulling out all the stops, and they approached with hands behind their backs.

On the table lay a large map of Guiyang, with a large circle drawn around an area roughly the size of two palms, with many lines extending out and annotations so densely packed they were almost muddled together.

"This area... is Nanming, right?" Leader Liu asked quickly.

Fang Huai nodded: "It’s the Nanming District, to be precise, called Huaguoyuan."

Hearing this name, the two leaders, who lived in Guiyang, were not unfamiliar, and they looked closely at the area marked with a circled map in ink.

"Wulichong, Pengjiawan, Maiganchong..."

Some they knew, some they didn’t.

But to them, this area undoubtedly belonged to the shantytowns.

Fang Huai also timely pointed inside the circle.

"After that dispatch, I began to pay attention to Guiyang’s shantytowns, even rode around many places and asked some of the residents. This place left a deep impression on me, not too far nor too close to the bustling commercial district of the main urban area, large in space, with residents generally having a strong willingness to rebuild.

Therefore, I conducted in-depth research here. Here, there are over twenty-thousand households, and more than a hundred thousand people living in urban villages and shantytowns, but the total land area reaches 10 square kilometers and is relatively concentrated."

Additionally, I investigated the current situation of entrepreneurs who came from outside Guiyang. Many, due to the high rent, poor policies, weak infrastructure, and scattered platforms, believe that Guiyang does not have the attractiveness for entrepreneurship, and they come and go hastily.

Now, with 10 square kilometers of urban area, if it’s redeveloped as a whole, focusing on this characteristic, what will happen?

I believe, taking advantage of the country’s four trillion yuan investment stimulus, if developed reasonably, this could become China’s largest community that siphons off hundreds of thousands of young entrepreneurs and migrant workers."

These words were not Fang Huai’s wild guesses; in the future, the Huaguoyuan community indeed became China’s, and even Asia’s, largest comprehensive community in terms of area, second only in population to Beijing’s Tiantongyuan. ƒrēewebnovel.com

This community’s economic drive sustained many years of economic growth for Guiyang.

Moreover, with the development of Huaguoyuan, the Guiyang government and property developers seemed to have found a new direction for growth, subsequently redeveloping the existing Century City, then creating the Future Ark, and thus, out of the country’s top ten communities, Guiyang occupied three.

Fang Huai’s steady voice continued to strike at Mayor Liu’s heart.

He then began to notice the markings on the map, many of which were uppercase English letters followed by numbers.

"What are these...?"

Fang Huai pointed at an "S1," and said with a somewhat sheepish smile: "The map is too small; there’s not enough space to write. The plain numbers represent the ideal population capacity for development, the uppercase ’S’ stands for subway lines, the lowercase ’s’ for streets, ’B’ for business districts, ’H’ for hospitals..."

His voice was as light as if explaining something simple, but in the ears of the two leaders, it sounded almost like a thunderclap.

Is this a community development draft?!

Such a comprehensive facility plan, could this be the work of one man?

Do you have any idea what a single "S1" represents for a subway, just planning and design personnel alone would require hundreds of people?!

Even Leader Hao was a bit flustered.

"You, you, you... Is this feasible? It seems to me you’re planning to demolish and rebuild the entire area?"