"This is a problem. If Chinese herbal medicines rely solely on sales, the risk is too great and affected by market price fluctuations. It is very easy to make medicine farmers with weak tolerance go bankrupt overnight. They need to hedge risks through other methods." Sha Zhengyang said bluntly: "There are two ways: one is to establish a medicinal materials trading market, and the other is to cooperate with pharmaceutical companies. But at present, Baoling is basically in a blank state. Even this situation exists in the entire Wuling area. The existing pharmaceutical factories cannot play such a hedge role at all, which also greatly restricts the Chinese medicinal materials industry, which may have a very good development prospect."

Xiong Xiangkui's eyes lit up, and Sha Zhengyang pointed out the problem as soon as he came. He also mentioned that five counties and one city in Wuling area are similar in the situation. If Luodu is added, and even the six counties are in many aspects, then if a solution can be found at this point, it will inevitably drive the development of the entire industrial chain.

"In this regard, it is mainly due to the issue of channels and funds,..." Xiong Xiangkui pondered: "To build a trading market, this involves road traffic issues. However, even Wuling City in Wuling has great obstacles. The transportation costs and conveniences have discouraged foreign merchants and investors..."

"Commissioner Xiong, County Magistrate Qiao, if there were no difficulty problems, these things would have been natural. There were difficulties and challenges. This is the time for us to exert subjective initiative." Sha Zhengyang laughed, "I know what Commissioner Xiong means. We need to find a way to solve the traffic problem, but Commissioner Xiong should also be clear that road traffic is actually a complementary relationship with local economic development. Transportation construction has a great impact on local economic development, but at the same time, economic prosperity must also have a rough indicator, so that the above will feel that it is more meaningful to invest huge amounts of money in your construction,..."

"At this point, we should be more aware of the fact that even if we can't do it for a while, at least you have to give our superiors a stance, so that they can immediately explode and receive immediate miracle effects, so that they will give you psychological points. You keep saying that we are poor here because of inconvenient transportation. People come to investigate and look around and see that you have nothing. The road is built, maybe it's just that it's convenient for everyone to travel. The weight and significance will be greatly reduced. If there are two options at the same time, people will naturally put you behind..."

Sha Zhengyang's words were heart-warming, and it was obvious that he considered the issue from the perspective of the Development Planning Commission, the Transportation and Finance Department, which also made Xiong Xiangkui and Qiao Zhiming nodded.

"And I don't say in a vague way that Wuling area needs to solve the traffic bottleneck. Putting aside the area, it will be difficult to achieve even if the province is gathered. It must be coordinated and deployed at the national level, and actively raised funds from multiple other channels to truly solve this problem. Therefore, the regions and municipal and county levels must do a good job in these aspects,..."

Sha Zhengyang's suspenseful words made Xiong Xiangkui and Qiao Zhiming unable to help but feel excited. "Director Sha, can you say it more specifically? If you put the words in mid-air like this, you really want Lao Qiao and I tonight don't want to fall asleep."

Xiong Xiangkui's eyes when he looked at Sha Zhengyang were already full of heat, and Sha Zhengyang felt chills.

Xiong Xiangkui was really moved.

According to his understanding, at this level, it can only be a highway, but the problem is how easy it is to build a highway?

Duyi Expressway does have this plan, but there are many highways planned in the province. According to the news revealed to him by a reliable friend of the Provincial Department of Transportation, it is still too early to put Duyi Expressway on the agenda, but there are several reasons.

First, the economic development along the route is too backward, and from the perspective of toll repayment, it is extremely unprofitable. The Provincial Department of Transportation has evaluated that it is expected that this highway will not have a more reasonable economic return rate until after 2008.

Second, the Duyi Expressway is basically mountainous areas, and many sections passed by are karst terrain. The cost is even more than twice as highways than other expressways. It is difficult to build and invest a lot. It is also a challenge in terms of technical issues, let alone cost.

The third is that the two regions along the route have very light status and weight in the province, let alone any right to speak. Almost none of the provincial leaders came out of the Puchi and Wuling areas, which may be a potential factor that is not enough to be mentioned on the table.

"Teacher Xiong, you actually understand what I said. The current development trend is that highways are being built in various places, and highways are indeed the best choice to solve traffic problems in the areas along the route. In addition to expressways, railways are also another option. However, I personally think that railways are basically unrealistic, and they are not realistic for at least ten to fifteen years. Even for highways, I am afraid that many people have never included Duyi Expressway in the option, so this is also a difficult problem. The main reason is that the conditions are not met. If the conditions are not met, you need to create conditions. At least you have to come up with some attractive conditions. Otherwise, why do you make others lean towards you in your heart?"

"Director Sha, what you mean is that Duyi Expressway is starting construction in the near future is not hopeless?" Xiong Xiangkui is no better than others. He has his own information channels, and Sha Zhengyang's words immediately aroused his suspicion.

"Specialist Xiong, what do you think?" Sha Zhengyang asked back with a falsified shot.

"I personally think it is impossible because the objective reality conditions are there. Director Sha, you mentioned earlier that there are too many projects to be launched in the province, and to be honest, many project conditions are indeed more mature than this highway." Xiong Xiangkui did not deny this reality.

"But what?" Sha Zhengyang asked again with a smile.

"But if we should put people first, from the perspective of planning the overall situation and revitalizing the economy of poor areas, and from solving the basic food and clothing problems of the people in our poor areas, then I think Duyi Expressway is the most immediate project in Hanchuan Province at present." Xiong Xiangkui's words were sonorous.

"Well, so I just said, if the conditions are not met and immature, then how can you make it look more operational and mature? If you can't do it now, then it will take three to five years to build a road. Maybe when the road is repaired, our conditions will be almost met?" Sha Zhengyang's eyes and Xiong Xiangkui's eyes intersected in the air. Xiong Xiangkui seemed to understand Sha Zhengyang's meaning a little.

The investigation lasted for a day and a half. Sha Zhengyang visited four townships, focusing on high-mountain tea gardens and medicinal materials planting areas, including some vegetable planting bases. In addition, he also held a discussion with the county party committee and county government on the direction of industrial development, and then returned to the Wuling area.

In Sha Zhengyang, Wuling District, I met with Xu Lijun, a senior official from Wuling, and had another two-hour conversation.

Then Sha Zhengyang drove to Puchi and stayed in Puchi for three days, focusing on the adjustment of the industrial structure of the two counties.

When he returned to Handu, Sha Zhengyang felt that he had lost weight and had a layer of black.

Although it is October, the power of Qiu Laohu remains undiminished. Puchi and Wuling are both mountainous areas with an altitude of 600 to 1,200 meters. When the weather is clear, the ultraviolet rays almost catch up with the western plateau area. When he goes to the spot, he basically walks. After walking these days, people immediately become more healthy and skin tone.

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"How do you feel when you sit?" Kang Guangliang stood up and looked at Sha Zhengyang, "Or Zhengyang, you should rest for two days first. I see that you look dark and thin, and your conditions are too poor. Is it because the situation of Puchi and Wuling makes you sleep uneasy?"

"The poor conditions are expected, but there are indeed many things I see and hear, which make me restless. Not to mention two days of rest, I can't sit for an hour. I have to report many situations to you immediately."

Liang Jinbai, the relevant materials of Sha Zhengyang, played a big role. He basically sorted them out every day. After returning to Handu, he and Shi Wenlai worked overtime overnight with Sha Zhengyang, sorted out all kinds of information from provincial highways, cities and counties, and put forward some of his own strategies and suggestions.

Kang Guangliang nodded. In fact, he was mentally prepared. Although he had not been in Puchi and Wuling, he had been on duty in Bayuan for two years and served as the deputy mayor of Bayuan. He had a deep understanding of Bayuan's situation, and Bayuan's situation was much better than Wuling and Puchi. Although ten years have passed, he knew that these backward mountainous areas have not changed much in the past ten years.

"Okay, you know the purpose of going on this time. Focus on talking about the situation in the two counties and what countermeasures are prepared..." Kang Guangliang pushed aside a lot of documents in his hand and was ready to listen carefully to the situation.

He actually survived the relevant situation, but he was still worried. Many of them were discussed in general and did not have specific targeted countermeasures. This time, Sha Zhengyang believed that he could bring him a lot of substantive things, and these things were reported to him in front of two major leaders in the province.

As far as he knows, the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee and the General Office of the Provincial Government will soon have their research teams, and will come up with a set of strategies at that time. At that time, we will see who can more impress the leaders' thoughts and satisfy the leaders.

"No, Director, I think we can't just talk about the two counties alone, but should be in the same way as the surface,..." Sha Zhengyang pondered for a moment, "I think I still gained a lot from this investigation. The people in Puchi and Wuling have an urgent desire to change their lives, from cadres to the masses. If we ignore this and only talk about the situation in the two counties, the score may only be considered a passing grade. If we want to get a high score, I think we will rise from speciality to universality and come up with our opinions and countermeasures."
Chapter completed!