Chapter 1231 Pinglu Canal and Xianggui Canal

On the helicopter.

Liu Tao looked down at the entire 011 Air Base from a high place.

Now, the entire 011 Air Base has developed to a limit and cannot be expanded any further.

The area that was enclosed back then was still too small!

At that time, I thought it should be enough!

Facts have proved that in just ten years, the land is no longer enough.

It is already very difficult to change.

The surrounding development is already very complete, and the cost of land acquisition and demolition will be very high.

This is not cost-effective at all, it is better to build a production base somewhere else.

China's development speed is so fast that even Liu Tao was caught off guard, far exceeding the development speed of the previous life.

In just over twenty years, it seems like a different world.

Although there are still many problems now, the flaws do not outweigh the merits, and it is undeniable that the rapid development over the past twenty years has been achieved.

Without considering the real purchasing power, according to the exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar, China's GDP last year was equal to that of the United States, and the total economic volume has caught up with the United States.

If it is based on real purchasing power, that is, PPP, China has surpassed the United States, and the total PPP volume exceeds that of the United States by a large margin.

Moreover, China is still in a stage of rapid development and has great development potential.

Most of the money earned by China every year is converted into fixed assets.

In terms of the current gold reserves of various countries, China's national gold reserves have exceeded 7,000 tons, second only to the United States' 8,135 tons of gold reserves.

But Liu Tao doesn't really believe whether the US government has 8,135 tons of gold reserves.

Because of the nature of the old Americans, no one knows how much gold has been secretly sold in recent years.

In recent years, there have been countries that want to transport gold stored in the United States, but they have been rejected by the United States for various reasons.

The United States promised Germany to withdraw the US and British troops stationed in Germany and hand over the military bases to Germany. That was not because the Americans were kind, but because they had no choice, and it also made Germany make a lot of interest exchanges.

One of the conditions is that Germany will not mention transporting gold stored in the United States before 2030.

"It's coming soon. When China's GDP is twice that of the United States, many problems will be solved." Liu Tao whispered to himself.

If China's GDP is twice that of the United States, it means that its per capita GDP is about 66.67% of that of the United States.

If purchasing power is taken into account, then the two countries are almost at the same level, and life is almost as affluent.

Now China's per capita GDP is about 11,500 US dollars. According to some demarcation standards, it belongs to a high-income country.

Of course, according to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, China's per capita GDP is 3,000 US dollars, which is still far behind the United States.

China also constantly emphasizes that it is the world's largest developing country.

The helicopter flew towards Guangxi Province.

When we arrived in Guangxi Province, it was already evening.

I had a midnight snack with the leaders of Guangxi Province. The midnight snack was simple, just pork ribs porridge, but it was quite Guangxi flavor.

At the hotel, the secretary handed two floor plans to Liu Tao.

This time Liu Tao was commissioned to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Pinglu Canal.

Pinglu Canal is a major project listed in Guangxi Province's 11th Five-Year Plan. The starting point of Pinglu Canal is located at the mouth of Pingtang River in Xijin Reservoir Area, Hengzhou City, Nanning, Guangxi Province. It enters Beibu Gulf through Luwu Town, Lingshan County, Qinzhou, and along Qin River. It is 134.2 kilometers long and has a designed annual one-way capacity of 89 million tons. The project mainly includes waterways, shipping hubs, water conservancy facilities renovation and cross-river supporting projects along the route. The total estimated cost of the project is 30 billion yuan.

After completion, Pinglu Canal will not only support the development of Guangxi Province, but also become the shortest, most economical and most convenient sea-going channel in the southwest region, which will greatly promote the industrial development of the areas along the route.

Most of the canal is renovated in the existing Shaping River and Qin River. A section of the river 6 kilometers in the watershed is newly excavated. The entire canal has a drop of 60 meters and can accommodate 3,000-ton ocean-going ships.

Once completed, Nanning's sea mileage from Qinzhou Port via Pinglu Canal is only 291 kilometers, which is more than 560 kilometers shorter than going to sea via Guangdong Province.

Another drawing is the design plan of the Xianggui Canal in Guangxi Province, which Guangxi Province wants to promote in the 12th or 13th Five-Year Plan.

The Xianggui Canal, also called the modern version of the "Lingqu Canal" by Guangxi Province, connects Yongzhou in Hunan Province to Guilin in Guangxi Province by digging the East and West Lines of the Xianggui Canal, and opens up the waterway from the Xiangjiang River in Hunan Province to the Lijiang River in Guangxi Province. The West Line is to dredge the original Lingqu Canal, and the East Line is to build a new canal to Pingle, with a total length of 300 kilometers, including 212 kilometers in Hunan Province and 88 kilometers in Guangxi Province.

Since the Xiangjiang River directly connects to the Yangtze River, and the Lijiang River connects to the Xijiang River in the Pearl River Basin, even Jingchu Province can use this channel to reach the seaport in Guangdong Province in the future, greatly saving the logistics costs along the coast of Jingchu, Hunan Province and Guangxi Province.

These two canal projects are both major projects. For Guangxi Province, once these two canals are opened, the benefits to the development of Guangxi Province will be self-evident.

As the discussion of the Beibu Gulf national city cluster increases, coastal cities are developing rapidly, and there are even voices in Guangxi Province that the provincial capital should be moved to coastal cities.

This is naturally not suitable for support.

Because the development of Guangxi Province is not only about developing coastal areas, but also inland areas.

Liu Tao's attendance at the Pinglu Canal Project this time also expresses the country's attention to the Pinglu Canal Project.

As for the Hunan-Guangxi Grand Canal, Guangxi Province also hopes that Liu Tao will help. After all, the total planned investment of this project is about 80 billion yuan, which will be a relatively large investment for Guangxi Province and Hunan.

Of course, this is also the norm in local areas. If the country can invest, it will never be invested by the local government. If the province can invest, it will never be invested by the city or county.

Local governments are also constantly complaining about poverty.

And most of this kind of poverty is not really poor, but a kind of interest game.

Every year, they complain about hardship and poverty, but in fact, life is still the same, and even every place is prosperous.

For Liu Tao, who has been moving around in local areas for many years, he knows the local situation too well.

Personnel groups, financial power, etc. are always in the game.

This game has never stopped.

Just like the Hunan-Guangxi Grand Canal, do Hunan Province and Guangxi Province have enough financial resources to invest in construction?

Based on Liu Tao's understanding of Guangxi Province and Hunan Province, they are capable!

It's just that Guangxi Province and Hunan Province will have to live a hard life for two or three years.

But obviously no one wants to live a hard life, and Guangxi Province and Hunan Province are no exception.

They all hope that the project will be included in the national key projects, and then the state will invest in the construction, so that the local area can continue to live a good life, and the construction can also drive economic development.

Not only in the construction, but also in the tax sharing ratio, transfer payments, and land fiscal revenue distribution ratio, this kind of game has always existed.

Especially land finance, it was fine in the past, but in recent years, land has become more and more valuable, and land finance has increased, especially for big cities, but a large part of the land finance belongs to the state, which is undoubtedly equivalent to the local area cutting meat.

Local governments are always thinking that the proportion of land finance belonging to local areas can be increased. Even if it is increased by one point a year, it can be increased by ten points in ten years. The interests involved are huge. (End of this chapter)