Chapter 100. 390 acres

     The traditional tourism industry chain consists of several major sectors: “food and lodging, transportation, travel, entertainment, and shopping”. Specifically, it is a “chain” formed by restaurants, hotels, homestays, transportation, tourism and entertainment projects, and the purchase of tourism-related products.

     Now many tourism companies are developing a “tourism + multi-industry” structure. For example, the “tourism + health care industry” proposed by Wenhua Group and Romantic Sea House Group is to develop real estate, medical, and shopping-related industries around tourist attractions to drive the popularity and economic development of the area.

     Li Yaolin has never been involved in the real estate industry, and she does not intend to spread the stall so big, so she took out 20 million, – maybe more funds are needed. – Just want to develop and improve the two sectors of “tourism services” and “tourism culture”.

     Since the semi-opening of the Cultural and Creative Park to allow tourists to enter and watch the production process of cultural and creative products, and even participate in it in person, it has gradually become popular. Although the number of tourists is not as much as one-fifth of that of Xingzhou Island due to the disadvantages of insufficient industry and insufficient publicity, it is also a good start.

     Li Yaolin wants to enrich the cultural industry here and set up some exhibition halls that are convenient for tourists to understand the relevant contents of Xingzhou Island and the marine environment, such as the exhibition hall of the protected area.

     Because the protected area is too small, many places are not open to the public, and tourists have few ways to learn about protected animals. If an exhibition hall is opened here, tourists can learn about turtles, dugongs and white dolphins at any time.

     For example, although Li Yaolin has planned a lancelet protection area on the APP, it has not yet been formally approved by the government. Once she has approved it, she can also set up a lancelet exhibition hall here.

     In addition to these exhibition halls, she also wants to arrange the offices of the sea fishing club, sailing and windsurfing base, and aquatic product sales department here.

     On the one hand, it is convenient for them to communicate and cooperate with the outside world, and on the other hand, Xingzhou Island can also free up a lot of space to focus on the development and construction of vacation, entertainment, and sightseeing related projects.

     In addition, she plans to add some commercial services and open a tourism and cultural commercial street. This street will mainly sell cultural and creative products of Xingzhou Island. Of course, it will not only sell cultural and creative products. Merchants can open food and beverage stores, convenience stores, clothing stores, fishing tackle, bait, etc.

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     Li Yaolin’s application was approved by the cultural and tourism departments and county and town leaders, because this is an important part of creating coastal rural tourism, especially under the sign of Xingzhou Island. I believe that within a few years, this place will be prosperous.

     However, after discussion, the relevant departments hope that she can also take over the beaches in that area. Anyway, those beaches have not been developed. If Xingzhou Island has the conditions, it will be taken over and developed into a scenic spot. In this way, it can also form a linkage with the cultural and creative park to attract more tourists to play and consume.

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     Including the beach, there are 390 acres of land to be taken. Romantic Sea House Group spent 115 million to shoot 200 acres of land. She only has 20 million yuan, which is not enough to buy so much land!

     The leader said with a smile: “If the financial pressure is too great, the land transfer fee can be paid every five years!”

     The land use nature of the plot of Romantic Sea House is mixed commercial and residential land. Because it involves the expropriation and demolition of the village, the cost is naturally high.

     The area that Li Yaolin is interested in is basically forest land, tidal flats and wasteland. The leader persuaded her to take the beach as well. These lands are relatively cheap, and the land transfer fee can be paid in installments, which can alleviate a lot of financial pressure.

     The Finance Department calculated this account, and the financial manager said: “In order to support the development of coastal rural tourism, the government will have some tax incentives, and also give away the right to use the 580-meter coastline and 5 hectares of sea area. In general, if it can be developed according to the plan, the economic benefits will be estimated to reach one million yuan per mu of land, and the annual total output value will be more than 400 million…”

     “Then let’s decide it!” Li Yaolin gave a reply after careful consideration.

     She decided to do this project herself, and she didn’t know whether the system would support it.

     If the system does not support it, there will be no system gold finger assistance, and the development process will definitely be difficult… But think optimistically, there will be no system tasks without system assistance. With sufficient funds, she can slowly plan and develop.

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     After learning that Xingzhou Island will develop this area, the villagers of the two villages involved are very happy – the villagers in Liantougang have made a lot of money by setting up stalls, but their village does not have such a “geographical advantage”, and there are many aquaculture ponds around the tidal flats, which are salty and fishy, and most tourists don’t like to come here. 

     If Xingzhou Island builds this place into a scenic spot integrating commercial services, tourism and leisure culture, their village is right next to it, and they will definitely benefit from it!

     Therefore, the villagers readily agreed to transfer the 300 acres of land, and even the staff of the county government could not believe that these villagers would cooperate so well. You know, in the past, it always took a year or two to deal with land acquisition, either asking for a sky-high price or really not wanting to give up the land.

     Li Yaolin suspected that the “Sea God Satisfaction” played a role. Sea God Satisfaction is linked to her luck value. The little mermaid said that the higher the Sea God Satisfaction, the richer the random rewards will be. The lower the Sea God Satisfaction, when it falls to a negative number, it will be very unlucky. ——Now her Sea God Satisfaction has reached 56 points, and her luck value is above average.

     Deputy General Manager Qi and others believe that the transfer fee given by Xingzhou Island is fair, and during the negotiation process, Li Yaolin promised that after the development of this place into a cultural and creative commercial street, the villagers of the two villages will have the priority to lease 30% of the shops.

     The villagers are superstitious about the legend of the Sea God’s blessing. Under the lobbying of Zhang Yaode and the village committee, it was not surprising the villagers easily sign the land transfer agreement.

     On the day when the contract was officially signed with the government, the Sea God Holiday APP suddenly moved-it was updated!

     Its interface showed the plots of land for the “Xingzhou Island Cultural and Creative Industrial Park” project that Li Yaolin had just obtained, and the island information also kept pace with the times and included these plots in the 【Area】:

   【Area】 142.82 square kilometers (14,282 hectares: 220 hectares of island land area/26 hectares of land area/14,036 hectares of sea area).

     Li Yaolin thought that the plots she bought outside on her own initiative would not be recognized by the system, but all this seemed to be expected. After all, after she rented the pier, she could find the location of the pier on the APP to plan and build a ticket hall.

     In this way, she could use the development funds to build here.

     However, she found that tourists visiting the Cultural and Creative Park were not counted in the “number of tourists” recognized by the system, because the system originally stipulated that only tourists who landed on the island through legal means would be counted.

     Even if the system recognized the plots of land in the Cultural and Creative Park, this piece of land is not an island after all.

     And the “number of tourists” involves the increase or decrease of development funds. In other words, Li Yaolin cannot increase development funds by opening the cultural and creative park for free to attract more tourists to visit the park.

     Fortunately, she is not greedy. With the current operation mode of Xingzhou Island, she is very satisfied with the income of 400,000 or 500,000 yuan in development funds every day.

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     Not long after signing the land transfer contract, Qiao Jin called Li Yaolin and asked, “Didn’t Mr. Li say that there is no plan to expand the coastline for the time being?”

     She was not here to ask for accountability, but was surprised why Li Yaolin chose that plot of land. Whether in terms of geographical location or development advantages, that plot of land is not as good as Liantou Port.

     Li Yaolin said helplessly, “I really have no plan to expand the coastline. This beach is incidental.”

     You should know that she was only planning to build a tourism and cultural industry chain for Xingzhou Island with the cultural and creative park as the center at the beginning. The beach over there is not only seriously polluted, but also has silt and is relatively narrow. Compared with the beach of Yuhai Park, the beach of Yuhai Park is wide and has a small slope. When the tide is high, the beach is still 50 meters wide, and when the tide is low, the width reaches more than 100 meters. The beach in Potou Village is only about 20 meters wide after the tide is high, and there are relatively few beach projects that can be developed.

     Besides, Xingzhou Island already has a white beach. If she develops so many beaches, wouldn’t she be stealing the customer base of Xingzhou Island?

     Qiao Jin asked again: “Then why not choose Liantou Port?”

     “Don’t you want to develop that piece? How dare I snatch food from the tiger’s mouth?”

     Qiao Jin thought, if you don’t participate in the development of Xingzhou Island, it would be a bit useless for Wenhua Group to get that piece of land.

     She asked again: “Do you have any plans to expand in addition to the land you have now? I mean to expand inland.”

     Li Yaolin was stunned and answered straightforwardly: “No. At present, our development focus is still on Xingzhou Island, and even the development and construction of the cultural and creative industrial park is secondary.”

     “That’s good.” Qiao Jin’s voice was a little brisk and seemed very happy.

     Until she hung up the phone, Li Yaolin didn’t know what the other party was thinking.

     Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration and vaguely understood the meaning of Qiao Jin’s questions.

     “No wonder they insisted on my participation in the development of the beach. I’m afraid their purpose is not the tourist attraction, but the multi-industry chain behind the tourist attraction!”

     When Li Yaolin planned the cultural and creative industrial park, she planned the tourism culture part and provided some commercial services, but the framework was still in the “food, shopping, and travel” aspect. She had no plans to build a water park, nor did she have plans to build hotels, holiday homes, and homestays. These are the most profitable projects. If she doesn’t do it, won’t it be cheap for others?

     As long as the cultural and creative industrial park develops, Wenhua Group can build a new town integrating residential areas, commercial streets, medical institutions, tourism finance, investment, culture and technology and many other sectors.

     Li Yaolin: “… Tsk, no wonder no one bid for this land except me when it was listed. It turns out that they all had this idea.”

     However, the Romantic Sea House Group did not come out to make trouble, which surprised her.

     In fact, the senior management of Romantic Sea House did not think about competing with Li Yaolin for this land. However, they still have a piece of land in their hands. Due to funding problems, they have not been able to start construction. What’s the benefit for them to take another piece of land? Just to interfere with the further development of Xingzhou Island, they spent tens of millions to take a useless piece of land? Even if they have money, they don’t spend it like this, let alone they don’t have money!

     As for other companies, this piece of land has no development value for them, and they don’t have the ability to develop it into a scenic spot like Xingzhou Island, so it’s better to do the same as Wenhua Group. After Li Yaolin builds this place and it becomes popular, they will take the surrounding land to take advantage of the popularity of Xingzhou Island.