When Hu Jiefang returned to his office, he happened to meet Director Zhu and Secretary Lu, who were discussing something on the business statistics of Dongfeng Express.

"Oh, Secretary Lu, look, the sales of electronic products in Xiucheng began to increase by more than 40% per year since 1988. In this way, you call Xiucheng Mansion and ask them about the growth of electricity consumption in residents over the past few years and the peak period of electricity consumption. I expect that if this continues, the Xiucheng Power Grid will face huge peak-shaving pressure as soon as next year."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll give it to Xiucheng Mansion..."

"Hello, two leaders!" Hu Shengli knocked on the door, then pushed the door and walked in. Seeing Secretary Lu was about to call, he said, "This leader, you don't need to call the phone. Our Dongfeng Express and the city government have a very close cooperative relationship. We have discovered this trend since the previous year. Last year, our Xiucheng Power Plant has begun upgrading and renovation, and has specially built two new supercritical units to ensure the peak of electricity consumption brought by the growth of electrical appliances."

Director Zhu raised his head and asked curiously: "Oh? So, your data will also be communicated with the city government?"

Hu Shengli nodded: "All our business data is actually shared with the city government in real time. These data are not just used to predict electricity for residents. Xiucheng has done a lot of work in mining these large-scale data."

Director Zhu seemed to have some interest when he heard this, his eyes flashed, and he nodded and said, "Oh? What other work have you done?"

Hu Shengli said without thinking, simply: "For example, last year, our data showed that the proportion of the entire state-owned supply and marketing system of Xiucheng in the retail industry had dropped to less than 5%, so the city government decided to sell Xiucheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative completely. But on the other hand, the data showed that the state-owned supply and marketing cooperative still had its long-standing brand value. Especially the department store on Central Street, where several reputation business projects, such as food, cultural and sports supplies, shoes and hats, and small furniture, were still trusted. Later, on this basis, the city government organized a new plan to package the department store separately into an independent brand, retained several traditional advantageous projects of the state-owned shopping mall, and introduced the concept of a leisure and entertainment center. The department store that was renovated this year not only turned losses into profits, but also made great profits."

Director Zhu's eyes were a little radiant when Hu Shengli said this, and there seemed to be a vague feeling of looking at flowers in the fog.

What does Dongfeng Express mean by collecting large amounts of data in the whole society? What extent can it do? What impact can it have on the country, society, economy and government governance?

Director Zhu feels that the answer to these questions will never be simple. However, for the time being, he still has too little knowledge of Dongfeng Express. He must conduct a more in-depth investigation, or even conduct a complete and thorough survey of the entire Xiucheng and Bohai Province in order to understand the risks and encounters hidden in this model.

Thinking of this, Director Zhu said with some urgency: "Manager Hu, I wonder what the business development level of Dongfeng Express is now? How large is your scale in Xiucheng? How high can the branches in other regions reach Xiucheng?"

"This, our company has the largest scale in Xiucheng, followed by Shengjing and Dagang. Among these three cities, the Xiucheng market's turnover last year was 480.33 million, and the sales of Shengjing and Dagang were 660 million and 510 million respectively. The most complete Dongfeng Express Network is still Xiucheng. Basically all retail industries are our customers, and the business growth rate is also the largest. Shengjing and Dagang networks are relatively complete, but the total market volume is large. As for other cities in Bohai Province, we are still in the stage of construction and market development, and we are basically operating with negative profits."

Director Zhu looked a little surprised and pondered: "Well, Comrade Hu Shengli, I have a request."

"Leader," Hu Shengli's attitude was very correct. Although he didn't know the origin of Director Zhu, with Hu Wenhai's relationship, he would of course do his best to help.

"I hope to conduct a survey on Dongfeng Express, including all the data you have collected over the years. You... I am very interested in the operating model of Dongfeng Express."

Hu Shengli looked left and right and hesitated: "Leader, our database is very large. If you want to investigate all the data, it is probably not something that two people can do."

"Well, it's okay." Director Zhu pointed to the phone on Hu Jiefang's desk: "I'll use your phone."

"Please."

Director Zhu picked up the phone on Hu Shengli’s desk and dialed a slightly longer phone number. Not long after, he heard him say to the microphone.

"Is Secretary of Xiucheng Wen? It's me, Zhu Jiancheng. Yes, I'm at Dongfeng Express Company in your Xiucheng, please help me. The elite soldiers from the Bureau of Statistics and Finance Bureau will take out a survey team, and I want to borrow it."

"Oh, Secretary Wen, don't get me wrong. Dongfeng Express Company has no problem. I just conducted an inspection of it and was a little interested in its model."

"Okay, that's it."

Hu Shengli was a little stunned when Director Zhu called. Although Director Zhu spoke politely, the superior momentum could not be ignored.

Who is the person on the phone? Wen Secretary, who has been promoted to Secretary of the Xiucheng Municipal Committee for four years, is now a member of the Standing Committee of the Bohai Provincial Committee and a serious vice-provincial.

But for Director Zhu, it was just a matter of phone calls. These two people seem to be quite a bit from the background.

Director Zhu slapped the table and said, "Okay, let your people bring the information over. I'll look at some general situation first."

Hu Shengli nodded, but did not act immediately. Instead, he walked to his desk and turned the computer monitor over: "If the leader wants to see all our data, there is one here. All our data has been stored in the computer and can be viewed by any authorized terminal. I will open a maximum permission account for you, so..."

"Well, this is good." Director Zhu looked at Hu Shengli's operation with great enthusiasm and nodded: "I have seen electronic offices, but your system seems to be more interesting."

Director Zhu feels that the highlights seen in Dongfeng Express today have exceeded the threshold and are developing in a common direction.

When Hu Shengli finished explaining the basic functions, Director Meng will be able to watch it on the computer with great pleasure.

This economic expert has been dealing with numbers for a lifetime. To the castle built with data like Dongfeng Express, it is like a science fiction fan seeing "The Three-Body Problem".

Seeing that Director Zhu had "indulged" into the world of numbers, Secretary Lu pretended to cough and patted Hu Shengli on the shoulder.

Unlike Director Zhu's focus, one of them is to find a model to solve the current economic problems of China, while the other is to observe Hu Shengli on behalf of the leaders who serve him.

After all, he is the candidate recommended by Hu Wenhai. If Hu Shengli is really reused, Secretary Lu's leader must know whether this person is worth training.

"Well, Manager Hu. If you have time, I want to visit your Dongfeng Express environment. Can you please take me around and see how you do your job?"

"Oh, of course it's no problem! But..."

Among these two leaders, one can mobilize Secretary Wen, but the other one is probably not a small source. Hu Shengli nodded repeatedly, then glanced at Director Zhu, and was a little hesitant.

Director Zhu couldn't help but waved his hand when he heard their conversation: "You guys go, don't worry about me."

Hu Shengli nodded after hearing this, turned around and signaled to Secretary Lu: "Then, this leader, come with me."

...

To be honest, Secretary Lu is no stranger to the express delivery industry.

FedEx, the United States, is well-known all over the world. Before coming, Secretary Lu had already done his homework. Not only did he read the introduction text related to the express industry, but he also watched the video materials introducing the FedEx Logistics Center.

From the outside perspective alone, FedEx Miami's super airport is more advanced than Dongfeng Express.

With 700 freight aircraft, 40,000 freight vehicles, more than 140,000 employees, and FedEx, a business network that covers the world, is definitely more advanced than Dongfeng Express.

It only looks at how FedEx uses airplanes to transport goods, and every day they enter and exit are planes flying from the sky. However, Dongfeng Express is a clumsy and slow train on the ground. The difference between the two can be imagined.

Perhaps the model of Dongfeng Express is a bit novel, but Secretary Lu thinks that the more important thing is to develop Dongfeng Express, that is, Hu Shengli.

He proposed to visit the logistics center of Dongfeng Express, but in fact he just wanted to observe Hu Shengli himself up close and feel whether he meets the leaders' expectations for him.

The regular sound of track collisions during the train operation came faintly, and the jingling sounds were connected. At this time, it was a train conducting unloading, but the unloading area of ​​Xiucheng Railway Station was somewhat different from other railway stations in China.

On the north side of the loading and unloading area, a row of cranes that can be seen frequently in the port stands beside the tracks. A train ready to unload is pulled over. It is not ordinary train freight cars, but standardized containers.

When they run to a predetermined position, the crane will transport the containers and place them on a freight flat truck next to it that is perpendicular to the unloading track.

The freight flat truck pulled by electricity will drive along the track after the container is placed firmly into the Dongfeng Logistics Center. Compared with the usual bulk trucks, the efficiency and speed are incomparable.

In this busy working atmosphere, Hu Shengli drove an electric car and drove into the huge logistics center of Dongfeng Express with Secretary Lu.
Chapter completed!