People can hold double standards, but they shouldn't take it too far. If you ask someone to risk everything without offering them a single benefit, would you do it if you were in their shoes?
Qi Tongwei had a plan. The way to break the deadlock still lay in the 294-kilometer lifeline running through Dongshan County. By connecting the two regions, they could sit squarely between the two cities—not through the coercion of power, but through the temptation of profit. If shifting or downsizing wasn't feasible, then they would expand. Jingzhou, Dongshan, and Luzhou—spanning two cities and one county, they would make the cake bigger, and all those worries would simply vanish. Moreover, by doing this, Qi Tongwei could also profit from the venture. To say nothing of the long term, at the very least, the two hundred million required for the road construction would be secured. However, there were times when you had to play hard to get to achieve your goal.
"It still comes down to the costs not balancing the gains," Qi Tongwei said. "They are developing perfectly well in the provincial capital; why would they just move their headquarters? It would result in too much loss of assets. Businessmen don't make deals that lose money."
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