Chapter 337 336 Official Highest Rating! Zhetong Power is Promoting Economic Development!

Driving his own car, Boss Wang quickly arrived at the village below from the town.

So many people came to the store to buy things before, so Boss Wang found out the location after asking.

After arriving at the village, Boss Wang’s brows were already furrowed. The houses were too sparsely populated and the distances between them were too large. It was much sparser than in their town. For such a place, he really couldn’t understand why the power company would invest here.

Driving the car forward along the road, Boss Wang soon saw a group of people gathered together. He stopped the car and walked in front of the crowd. Boss Wang saw several young men from Zhetong busying themselves.

The vehicles delivering supplies have arrived one after another. At this moment, Team Leader Liu and his team are operating a forklift-like vehicle to erect electric poles.

“Holy crap, is it really electrified?”

I originally thought that the village had electricity, but even if it was real, it would be a “make-do” model, such as just putting a few lines on some wooden poles.

But they have put up the cement poles, and everyone is wearing work clothes and looks very professional.

It’s clear from the first glance that we need to work seriously. This is really smart!
……

Boss Wang moved forward and came to the front of the crowd. He then watched Team Leader Liu and the others do their homework for a while, and then found an opportunity when they didn’t look too busy to start asking questions.

“Hello comrade, I want to ask if you are providing electricity to the village?”

Hearing this, Team Leader Liu and his men thought it was a local villager asking a question, so they just smiled and answered.

“Look at our situation. What else could it be but electricity? Water? Haha.”

As soon as these words were spoken, several people around laughed.

Although he was played a little joke, Boss Wang didn’t get angry, but smiled instead.

“No, no, I just want to ask what your purpose is? To provide electricity? There are no minerals or factories in this village. No power company has ever invested in it before, not to mention in this village, not even in the town. Why did you ask Zhetong Power to provide electricity? I don’t understand.”

Faced with this question, Squad Leader Liu thought for a while and then gave his answer.

“Why? For everyone. Our goal at Zhetong is to make every corner of the country lit up and everyone can enjoy the convenience brought by electricity. This is our goal.”

“Yes, our boss is a good man. To tell you something you may not believe, he provided electricity to the village not for money, but to achieve the group’s goals.”

After hearing this, the people around were obviously moved. In fact, everyone can figure out the answer with a little thought.

What’s more, they don’t know about Zhetong’s low cost, and everyone is still accustomed to taking previous costs into account.

There are only about 200 households in this village, but the place is very large. The number of electric poles required to connect electricity here is several times that of some inland villages.

The amount of cables and wires used is several times that of other places. This is the real cost.

But after the expensive and time-consuming construction of the circuit, it does not bring much profit to the power company every year. After all, there are not many people in the village and no industry. How much electricity can be used? Not as much as a small factory uses in a year.

This power company is making a pure loss by coming to a place like this, and there is no profit at all.

If we don’t talk about how much profit this can make, just to maintain a balance between income and expenditure, then I’m afraid the county’s power company would have come to the village with the help of official matchmakers, and regarded it as charity.

But it is because traditional power companies invest in such places without making any profit, and they have to invest a lot of money every year just to provide electricity.

But Zhetong came and started to build circuits to provide them with electricity, and the price of electricity was the same as other places. What else can that mean? It means that they wanted to do it this way.

Zhetong has indeed brought benefits to their local area.

Boss Wang was moved by these words, but he did not forget his purpose and continued to ask questions.

“What about the other villages? Including our town? Do these places have electricity? Or is it just this one place?”

Faced with this question, Squad Leader Liu gave his answer directly and decisively.

“Our goal in Zhetong is to reach all of them! Naturally, this includes other villages and towns, but we don’t have enough manpower right now. However, in two days, two teams will come to support us. They will go to other villages to set up circuits, and all villages will have electricity.”

As soon as these words were spoken, Boss Wang gave a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart.

Apart from anything else, Zhetong is really doing a great thing, and it also has a direct economic impact on himself.

At the very least, I will be able to have a few more items for sale in my hardware store on a long-term basis, and I can also buy some electrical appliances and other things. Besides, I can now purchase goods with confidence.

If you buy more power strips and plugs and other things, you won’t have to worry about selling them later.

As long as every village in this town is gradually connected to electricity, there will be no problem selling these things.

“Oh, thank you so much, thank you Zhetong Electric Power Group, you are doing a great thing for the people here!”

After saying this, Boss Wang left and drove quickly to the county town.

My car is a business car, which looks like a big bread. I bought it because I wanted to make it convenient to carry some goods from time to time.

We will go to the county town tonight to restock the stock! Then we can wait for people from the surrounding villages to come and buy things!
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Boss Wang drove very fast along the way, but it was still night when he arrived at the county town. After all, the town was far away from the county town.

After arriving in the county town, Boss Wang went directly to the place where he had purchased goods before, and then called a boss.

After waiting for a while at the market entrance, a man came out in thick pajamas, yawning.

“Old Wang, what are you in such a hurry for? Can’t you come tomorrow? I just went to bed and you’re rushing me up.”

Hearing this, Boss Wang embarrassedly took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the man, then spoke embarrassedly.

“Sorry, sorry, I was in a hurry and drove up here on impulse. If I come here tonight and come back tonight, I won’t save money on the hotel. It’s over a hundred dollars.”

After hearing this, the man lowered his head, lit a cigarette, exhaled a puff of smoke, and nodded.

“Yeah, let’s go, we are old acquaintances.”

……

He took Boss Wang to his wholesale store, then the man opened the door and spoke to Boss Wang.

“What do you want?”

His place also sells a lot of groceries, with a lot of stuff, basically everything. Boss Wang buys basically everything from here.

“Power strips! Bring me some of them, both good and bad quality. Also, light bulbs, a few boxes of various wattages. Wires and other small appliances, like electric kettles.” Boss Wang spoke, and the man’s eyes widened, as if he had heard something impossible.

“I say, Lao Wang, you are not taking the wrong medicine, are you? The last time you came to me to buy power strips and light bulbs was two years ago, right? You complained to me a while ago that you couldn’t sell them at all and had to lose money. Now you come to buy these things again? Are you sure?”

Seeing the man’s shocked expression, Boss Wang just chuckled and nodded in confirmation.

“What medicine did you take wrong? I’m sure. If I wasn’t sure, why would I call you here in the middle of the night to tease you?”

Then Boss Wang said that there was a company called Zhetong Electric Power Group that was providing large-scale electricity to their town. If all the villages were powered, wouldn’t there be many people who could use these things? He could also make a fortune from it.

If everyone uses this thing and suddenly the situation becomes tense, then if you hoard goods and raise prices, that would be taking advantage of the situation.

But Boss Wang’s behavior is purely due to good luck. He doesn’t raise the price himself. He just makes the profit from normal sales. That’s all.

After hearing what he said, the man looked as if he understood what was going on, and then he expressed his feelings, just like Boss Wang at the beginning of today.

“Zhetong Electric Power is really good. If I can support it in the future, I will definitely support it. If nothing else, at least it will allow me to sell more goods and make more money.”

“That’s right. Later on, my store will be able to have a TV or something like the one in your city. Otherwise, it would be boring enough to stay in the store all day.”

While chatting and preparing the goods, Boss Wang selected some varieties, and then the two of them filled Boss Wang’s car with large and small cartons.

For this purpose, he even put down all the seats, so that he could fit a lot more.

“Okay, twelve thousand in total. I’ll transfer it to you via WeChat.”

“Okay, I’ll get some of this stuff back later. If this really happens, I think Zhetong will be able to provide electricity to other towns, and our power strips will be in short supply again.”

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On the other side, they worked until it was getting dark. Team Leader Liu and his team finally finished their work and returned to the courtyard of the branch secretary’s house. Just like yesterday, his sister-in-law had already cooked a pot of food.

While eating and chatting, Squad Leader Liu excitedly told the branch secretary the good news.

That means the lights in their yard will be on the day after tomorrow at the latest. As he said this, he took them to the roof to take a look at the location of the power station in the center of the village.

The lights there are already on. There are more than a dozen households using electricity today. Their homes have been connected to electrical wires and so on, so the lights are naturally on when it gets dark. It sounds quite lively over there.

I guess it was because the electricity was connected at home, so he was happy and called some relatives and friends over to drink some beer and have some fun.

It’s like a line, half of it is bright in the east.

Seeing this, the branch secretary understood in his heart that it would be the same no matter which side Zhetong passed the message to first, but he was doing him a favor and passed it to this side first.

“Great! Great! Our village finally has lights!”

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In the next few days, support from Team Leader Liu and his team arrived, and several power teams arrived in the town and started working.

On the other hand, the authorities received a report from the Xinjiang Provincial Economic Office.

It is clearly shown above that since Zhetong Electric Power settled in, their economic index has started to rise. It can be said that Zhetong Electric Power has directly driven the economic development of Xinjiang Province on its own.

Wherever Zhetong Electric Power’s electricity is supplied, the number of electronic-related products will grow exponentially, which has a lot of direct and indirect impacts.

How many jobs and GDP can the upstream and downstream industries of mobile phones, washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, etc. create? This is a huge contribution.

In order to stimulate consumption in this area, their government launched a lot of activities, such as subsidies for home appliances, etc., but they could only increase consumption within the city.

After all, we have everything we need, and it is impossible to buy the rest without electricity.

But once Zhetong was electrified, the economy immediately came back to life, and the entire country’s economy was boosted!

Zhetong Power is driving economic development!

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A day later, in the office of the president of Binhai Zhetong Electric Power Group, there was a newspaper on Lin Zhe’s desk. The newspaper was the most authoritative one in the country.

At that time, Lin Zhe was too embarrassed to even wipe his butt with this thing, but since the name of his group was clearly written on it, he naturally had to pay attention to it.

There is a special page for Zhetong, which is used to introduce the Zhetong Electric Power Group. It also talks about the economic development driven by the Zhetong Electric Power Group. In short, it gives a very high evaluation.

As an official newspaper, it represents the official attitude.

Therefore, Lin Zhe was also satisfied. It couldn’t be better to get official recognition. This meant that the official was optimistic about Zhetong and wanted to allocate some resources to such an enterprise.

But this was indeed what I fought for. If I was only interested in making money and didn’t lay power supply in the northwest region including some small islands along the coast from the beginning, I could have saved a huge amount of wealth.

But what’s the use of that? There’s not much difference between it and other companies, so the government will naturally not look at it with high regard.

Now that it’s in the newspaper, I’ll just give it a try.

The handover of work in Beihe is nearing completion. The old electricians who were recruited from the original place have completed “re-training” in Zhetong and have started to take up their posts one after another.

That would free up a lot of manpower.

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At Beihe Chenyu Airport, there were some very obvious people in the waiting hall. They were naturally the front-line power workers of Zhetong Power who were wearing work clothes and carrying backpacks.

While waiting for the plane, they gathered in groups of three or four to chat.

“Where are you from, buddy? I’m from the Mingpu factory.”

“I’m from the Binhai factory.”

“Wow, they’re from headquarters, awesome.”

“What’s so great about that? We are all the same. We were transferred to Beihe for support. Now that our mission in Beihe is over, we thought we could go back, but we were transferred directly to Xinjiang Province.”

“Oh, I want to go back too, but since the group needs us, we’ll just go with them. Besides, the subsidy for going to Xinjiang Province is a bit higher, an extra 120 yuan a day.”

“That’s right. The group has never treated us unfairly in this regard.”

(End of this chapter)