After leaving County No. 1 High School, Qi Tongwei returned directly to his office. He summoned Jiang Bao, the Director of the Health Bureau, and Yumao De, the President of the County Hospital, to discuss the construction of a new building for the hospital. He instructed them to file a formal application, noting that the county now had the funds to approve and immediately initiate the project.
The plan was to build a 3,000-square-meter facility with a total budget of 1.8 million yuan, based on a standard of 600 yuan per square meter.
With education and healthcare arrangements in order, Dongshan County was still lacking a signature pillar industry. As the saying goes, "Food is the first necessity of the people." The 1980s were a period of rapid economic development. In Handong specifically, as living standards improved in cities, people's demand for vegetables grew—not just in quantity, but in quality and variety. In particular, off-season produce like winter cucumbers and tomatoes could fetch prices several times higher than those in summer.
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