"The reputation of the western part is not as high as that of the eastern part. Besides, the salary of the Western Construction Union will not be much higher just by adding benefits. Today's young people are staring at their salary all day long. When you see that the salary in the big cities in the east is so much higher than that in the west, it must be I would rather go to the west."
After a group of people figured it out, they shook their heads for a while. Due to various objective environmental factors, the investment costs in the nine western provinces of the mainland were much higher than those in the east, so they could only be reduced to traditional resource extraction areas.
After all, except for Sichuan, Sichuan and Shancheng, which are known to be the most suitable places for retirement, other places in the west are not comparable to the eastern region in terms of livability, so they cannot attract people and there is a lack of high-quality talents willing to settle in the west.
Now, after the construction of the Western Construction Alliance, a large number of local young people who originally planned to develop in the developed eastern areas have been retained. After these years of construction, the basic supporting infrastructure construction has been improved, and the number of high-quality talents attracted every year is increasing. Come more and more.
But compared with the siphon effect in first-tier cities in the east, it is still not enough.
Because eastern cities are also frantically competing for all kinds of high-quality talents. These people can not only drive up housing prices, but more importantly, the effect of gathering a large number of high-quality talents can create countless enterprises. With enterprises, there will be more With more jobs, the economic and technological benefits will be huge.
For example, Chang'an, the ancient capital of ten dynasties, has abundant higher education resources and many colleges and universities. There are more than 200,000 graduates with bachelor's degrees or above every year. However, before the construction of the Western Alliance, it was impossible to retain them. How many people, most graduates’ first choice is to go to the first-tier big cities in the east for development.
Because if you want to develop in Chang'an, it is equivalent to opening up wasteland. The various resources and infrastructure are definitely not as good as those in first-tier cities. If you want to develop, you have to invest in making up classes. Only a small number of graduates think that opening up wasteland is an opportunity. As long as they endure When you get ahead, you must be the first to eat crabs.
After the Western Construction Alliance began to invest wildly, coupled with a series of policy inclinations in the nine western provinces, this group of graduates found that there seemed to be opportunities in the west and it was not as competitive as in the east, so more and more people stayed.
Now the population of the city of Chang'an has exceeded the 10 million mark and is still growing rapidly, but Chen Yi feels that it is already saturated for the time being, and if it continues to crowd in people like this, it will probably roll up.
So after he successfully developed the laser wake field particle accelerator two years ago, he opened a new Xingke instrument in Xianyang, just to open a new place to attract foreign people to open up wasteland and reduce the population pressure on Chang'an.
Now Xianyang has become an emerging high-tech industrial city. In two years, the population has soared from 3.5 million to more than 5 million. It continues to soar, and it has also joined the competition for high-quality talents. .
But this is only because Chang'an and Xianyang already have a certain foundation before. Most of the nine western provinces, especially Qinghai-Tibet, Xijiang and Inner Mongolia, are typically vast and sparsely populated.
Although the desertification control project has achieved initial results, the livable conditions are still not comparable to those in the east. Before the construction of infrastructure in the Western Construction Alliance started, it made people sad when they heard about it and shed tears when they saw it.
Now, the infrastructure of the entire nine western provinces has been basically improved. In more than five years, more than 10,000 kilometers of railways, 40,000 kilometers of tunnels, more than 2,500 underground communities, and various other highways and airports have been built. , telecommunications, water and electricity, and daily service facilities have been built.
Rebus thought for a while and said, "Don't you think about increasing your salary?"
Chen Yi shook his head and said: "It's not that I'm stingy. For those who choose to work in the west, I will never find it expensive to receive all the welfare subsidies such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and medical care.
But only wages cannot fluctuate with the market. All the benefits of West Jianlian are the basic needs of a person in daily life. Things such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are inherently low-threshold industries. Blue Star has been playing it since ancient times. There is nothing new to do if I go there.
Education and medical care are to stabilize people's hearts and give confidence and hope to all those who come to the west for development.
It’s not that I can’t afford to pay wages, but if we replace benefits with wages and pay them directly, in the nine western provinces, the costs required to meet these rigid daily needs will skyrocket with market changes.
The cost has not changed, it has become just the final price, and this is a market economy. "
Others nodded after listening. Chen Yi was right. It seems that wages have not increased much, but the quality of life of residents in the west has been improving rapidly, so now it seems that the west is not everyone's first choice. An ideal choice, but most people will most likely choose to develop here as long as they come to the west and stay for a while.
Welfare subsidies are not fixed benefits with uniform standards for everyone. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and medical care are all freely selectable. For example, for the staple food item in the meal subsidy, you can choose rice or noodles. , upload it directly after making your selection, and it will be distributed according to your choice next time.
With medical subsidies, when residents suddenly encounter a serious illness or disaster, they don’t need to worry about overwhelming the entire family.
Educational subsidies allow professionals who come to the west to work without worrying that their next generation will lag behind their peers in big cities in the east in terms of educational resources.
Doing so is equivalent to directly bypassing market transactions and directly distributing most of the economic activities of daily life's necessary consumption to the hands of employees in the west, which is a huge saving for the operation of the entire society.
Otherwise, free trading through the market will consume unnecessary funds, and allow some tertiary industry service industries that are at risk to be overwhelmed by technological innovation at any time to seize the human resources of the secondary industry.
Some service industries that occupy a large amount of human resources, such as express delivery, takeout, and entertainment and catering consumption venue services, are developing in full swing in the east, but they cannot develop in the west because Chen Yi did not give these industries the opportunity to develop vigorously from the beginning. .
After all, technology is always developing. Rather than letting these simple low-tech industries be impacted by technological innovation, it is better to suppress them from the beginning and directly allocate these human resources to other jobs that can be developed into high-tech jobs. .
It doesn’t matter if the theoretical level is low. You can learn slowly from scratch. After a few artificial intelligences, the cost threshold of vocational education has been greatly reduced. If you want to go deeper, you may need to be led by a master, but if you just get started and get on the right track, Xi and Gongshuzi will be fine. Sufficient for the job.
However, Chen Yi seems to be looking towards Shu now. He has fully exploited the potential of human resources in the nine western provinces, and now he is setting his sights on the east. After all, the best of China is concentrated in the east.
At this time, a pla boss asked doubtfully: "Mr. Chen, you should talk to me about this kind of thing. I think you must have some big project when you called us here today. Just tell us what it is." .”
Chen Yi nodded and acknowledged it. After scanning a circle of people, he said, "I have discussed it with the superiors and decided to launch a big project - the Silk Road."
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